WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
THURSDAY
TODAY
Sunshine mixing
with some clouds
Sunshine
67° 44°
60° 37°
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
Sunshine
Today
SUNDAY
Plenty of sunshine
Plenty of sunshine
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
59° 37°
61° 38°
63° 40°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
62° 36°
70° 42°
PENDLETON
TEMPERATURE
LOW
61°
60°
82° (1933)
35°
38°
19° (1919)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.00"
1.41"
0.79"
13.70"
9.53"
9.73"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
Eugene
66/47
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
61°
62°
78° (1937)
7:25 a.m.
5:52 p.m.
12:45 p.m.
10:10 p.m.
Last
New
Nov 10
Nov 18
Caldwell
63/41
Hi
58
66
71
71
67
65
66
66
70
69
72
67
66
74
60
64
62
68
67
63
71
67
57
67
61
68
68
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
Lo
41
37
42
53
28
42
47
44
42
46
34
43
41
43
46
48
40
42
44
46
42
46
37
40
43
45
39
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Thu.
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66
64
62
69
62
58
67
57
62
62
70
59
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76
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67
66
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60
68
64
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42
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Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Hi
61
82
74
65
65
33
69
73
67
81
61
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
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WINDS
Medford
74/43
0.00"
0.79"
0.49"
7.80"
6.65"
7.05"
SUN AND MOON
Nov 3
Bend
71/42
Burns
67/28
PRECIPITATION
Oct 27
John Day
69/46
Ontario
62/40
34°
37°
20° (2002)
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
First
Full
Albany
67/46
Corvallis
67/46
HIGH
62° 39°
Spokane
Wenatchee
57/37
62/40
Tacoma
Moses
60/41
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 66/39
62/40
57/43
59/41
68/39
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
59/41
68/45 Lewiston
70/42
Astoria
66/44
58/41
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
63/46
Pendleton 65/42
The Dalles 70/42
67/44
67/46
La Grande
Salem
67/43
67/46
through 3 p.m. yesterday
HIGH
60° 36°
Seattle
59/47
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
61° 35°
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Today
Thursday
WSW 7-14
WSW 7-14
NNE 4-8
NNW 4-8
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
72/34
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Times of clouds and sun
today; cooler across the north with a shower
in spots.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Sunshine
mixing with some clouds today; sunny and
pleasant in the south.
Western Washington: A passing shower to-
day; any time at the coast, in the afternoon
in central parts.
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-0s
0s
showers t-storms
10s
rain
20s
flurries
30s
40s
snow
ice
50s
60s
cold front
70s
80s
90s
100s
warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: Eastern New England will remain stormy today, while showers and
spotty snowflakes occur from the central Appalachians to the Great Lakes. Much of the rest
of the nation will be dry. Rain will dot Washington.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 107° in Miramar MCAS, Calif.
Low 12° in Bodie State Park, Calif.
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Hi
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74
62
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80
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Thur.
Hi
74
68
62
60
44
72
65
63
68
56
55
55
86
46
53
86
39
47
82
83
58
73
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Today
Louisville
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Tucson
Washington, DC
Wichita
Hi
52
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70
68
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Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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Senator subject of second probe for ‘inappropriate touching’
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
and PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Legislative
counsel has opened a second
informal probe against a state
senator for “inappropriate,”
nonsexual
touching
of
women.
Sen. Jeff Kruse, R-Rose-
burg, last week was stripped
of his committee assignments
by Senate President Peter
Courtney.
A letter from Senate
President Peter Courtney to
Kruse released to the media
Tuesday confirmed other
accounts that Kruse’s alleged
unwanted touching of women
and smoking in his office had
become a chronic problem
at the Capitol. Courtney
ordered the door to Kruse’s
Capitol office removed.
Kruse was previously
reported for similar behavior
in early 2016 and was
directed to stop, according
to legislative counsel Dexter
Johnson.
Courtney described his
action as an “unprecedented
step.”
“I have never taken this
kind of action before but I
am left with no other options
at this time to protect our
employees, members of the
legislature and the public,”
Courtney wrote in the letter.
Legislative counsel is
now performing its second
Capital Bureau
Senate President Peter Courtney has stripped state Sen.
Jeff Kruse, R-Roseburg, of his committee assignments
and ordered the door of his office removed. Kruse is un-
der investigation for alleged “inappropriate,” nonsexual
touching of women and smoking in his office.
informal
inquiry
into
Kruse, who is accused of
“inappropriate touching in a
non-sexual way,” legislative
counsel Dexter Johnson said
Monday.
In the letter to Kruse
Courtney said “two new
incidents were brought to my
attention,” and he reported
them to Employee Services
and Legislative Counsel.
When a reporter pressed
Courtney in a phone inter-
view Tuesday as to why
action was not taken until last
week, his spokesman, Robin
Maxey, intervened.
“We are going to fall
back on the statement issued
previously,” Maxey said. “I
know you have a copy of the
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Maxey referred to a letter
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tees and that the door to his
office was to be removed.
Asked again whether he
had any explanation of why
this was happening now,
Maxey said, “Again we are
going to have to fall back to
the letter.”
Courtney did report the
previous complaint to legis-
lative counsel and Employee
Services but did not sanction
the senator at that time,
Maxey explained later.
According to legislative
counsel, in March 2016,
Kruse was told to stop
touching women at work.
At that time Sen. Sara
Gelser, D-Corvallis, had
made an informal report
about Kruse’s conduct.
Gelser confirmed to The
Oregonian Monday that
Kruse had touched her inap-
propriately but declined to
discuss with the newspaper
what specifically Kruse had
done.
“I hope that what comes
of this discussion is that it’s
not about a set of experiences
that I had, but about a culture
that needs to change,” Gelser
told Oregon Public Broad-
casting on Monday.
Courtney said Kruse was
already warned about his
behavior when it came to
treatment of women.
“Continuing to touch
women at work is inappro-
priate workplace conduct
of which you have already
been warned,” Courtney
wrote. “Let me be very
clear. Women in the Capitol
do NOT want you to touch
them.”
Neither
Kruse
nor
Gelser could be reached
for comment Monday or
Tuesday.
Senate Majority Leader
Ginny Burdick, D-Portland,
declined an interview request
from the EO / Pamplin
Capital Bureau Monday, but
confirmed an account she
provided to The Oregonian
in which she recalled seeing
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Capitol in response to a tweet
from a Republican staffer.
On Tuesday, Senate
Minority Leader Ted Ferr-
ioli, R-John Day said that
his office was aware of the
allegations against Kruse.
“Currently, there is an
ongoing investigation into
these allegations, which we
take seriously,” Ferrioli said
in a prepared statement just
before noon on Tuesday. “To
our knowledge, there has
been no formal complaint
filed. Upon the conclusion
of the investigation we will
work within our process
to resolve these issues in
cooperation with human
resources,
legislative
counsel, caucus leadership,
and the Senate president.
To respect the privacy of all
parties, we will not comment
further on the allegations.”
The legislature’s policy
for lawmakers accused of
harassment is intended to
provide both informal and
formal “options to correct
harassing conduct before it
rises to the level of severe
or pervasive harassment or
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Kruse wrap his arms around
Gelser on the floor of the
Senate.
Burdick told The Orego-
nian she told Kruse to stop.
Lore Christopher, the head
of Employee Services, did
not return a phone message
or email seeking comment
Monday.
Johnson said Monday
evening that his office was
conducting a new fact-
finding inquiry to determine
whether the more recent
alleged conduct toward
women occurred.
The news about the
alleged harassment and the
actions by Courtney did not
emerge until this past week,
as sexual assault allegations
against Hollywood producer
Harvey Weinstein prompted
women all over the world
to come forward with their
experiences of sexual assault
and harassment.
The issue came to light
after Gelser, who has served
in the legislature since 2005
and in the Senate since
2015, indicated on Twitter
Thursday that she had been
subject to harassment in the
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