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TODAY
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Partly sunny
An afternoon
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50° 39°
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1.97"
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Spokane
Wenatchee
35/28
43/29
Tacoma
Moses
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Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 44/33
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46/38
50/29
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
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44/37 Lewiston
49/37
Astoria
43/31
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Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
50/39
Pendleton 37/26
The Dalles 48/37
44/36
51/37
La Grande
Salem
40/30
51/37
Corvallis
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Seattle
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Baker City
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Eugene
Heppner
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John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
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colder
Overcast, a little
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51° 35°
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Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
44/20
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Coastal Oregon: Sun and some clouds
today; a couple of showers across the north.
Eastern Washington: Sun and some clouds
today.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Partly sunny
today; a couple of morning fl urries in central
parts.
Western Washington: Some sunshine giv-
ing way to clouds today; a shower in spots.
Cascades: Partial sunshine today; a couple
of fl urries, but dry in the south.
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SALEM — Legislative
leaders want to improve
the Legislature’s process
for addressing harassment
complaints in the wake of
Sen. Jeff Kruse’s resignation.
Kruse, R-Roseburg, will
depart the Senate March 15
in the aftermath of an outside
investigation, released last
week, determining the senator
had repeatedly touched
women, including fellow
lawmakers, without their
consent or in ways that made
them feel uncomfortable. The
report found he continued
even after being told to stop
by human resources officials.
Speaker of the House
Tina Kotek, D-Portland, told
reporters Monday that she
and Senate President Peter
Courtney, D-Salem, will
announce how they plan to
move forward on the issue in
the next week or so.
The Kruse investigation is
the first time that the policies
got a “full workout,” and
outside assessment of the
Legislature’s process is still a
distinct possibility, Kotek said.
The state capitol is a
unique workplace that not
only houses employees of the
legislative branch, but also
elected officials, lobbyists and
constituents under its roof.
While interns are considered
employees and are covered
AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, file
Sen. Jeff Kruse, R-Roseburg, makes remarks before a
vote at the state Capitol, in Salem.
by legislative personnel rules
on harassment, lobbyists and
members of the public are not.
The presiding officers of
the House and Senate have
limited powers when it comes
to disciplining members
under the state’s constitution,
Kotek said.
Lawmakers are inde-
pendently elected, and their
chamber can vote to expel
them, but only after a lengthy
process including an outside
investigation and convening of
a special committee on conduct.
“We have limited tools,
short of expelling someone
from a floor vote, to have a
member leave, and I don’t
think we’ll be able to fix that,
to be very honest,” Kotek said.
“That’s a constitutional issue
... but what are the things you
can do up to that point?”
In late October, Courtney,
the senate president, had
Kruse’s door removed and
removed him from policy
committees as punishment for
continued unwanted touching
of women and failure to stop
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Bounds resigns from
bar diversity committee
PORTLAND (AP) — A
federal prosecutor nominated
to be a federal judge has
resigned as chair of the Mult-
nomah Bar Association’s
equity, diversity and inclu-
sion committee after opinion
pieces he wrote critical of
multiculturalism and sexual
assault victims surfaced.
Board members pres-
sured Ryan Bounds to step
down after news of his
past works, The Oregonian
reported.
Bounds submitted his
resignation on Tuesday,
four days after he sent
committee members an
email apologizing for his
“misguided sentiments.”
Attorney
Andrew
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dent, has accepted Bounds’
resignation, he said.
In his resignation letter,
Bounds writes that he
wished the board would
judge him based on the
work has done with them,
instead of writing from
decades ago.
“The board dangerously
undermines the proposition
by insisting that I resign my
chair because of regrettable
words I used as a college
student a quarter-century
ago but have since repudi-
ated,” he wrote.
The progressive judicial
advocacy group Alliance for
Justice criticized Bounds’
writing pieces published
in the Stanford Review, a
Stanford University student
newspaper, in a report
shortly after the Trump
administration nominated
him to fill a judicial vacancy
in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals.
His articles were racially
hostile and belittled campus
sexual assault victims, the
advocacy group said.
On Monday, Oregon
U.S. Senators Ron Wyden
and Jeff Merkley called the
pieces inflammatory and
alarming and said Bounds
wasn’t fit to serve as judge.
They were unaware of
the writings before they
recommended Bounds for
the vacancy, they said in a
joint statement.
Wyden and Merkley
plan to address their
concerns over Bounds’
nomination to the Senate
Judiciary Committee.
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“You would think that taking
someone’s door off and taking
them off their committees
would have had the intended
impact,” Kotek said.
But Kotek said she thinks
it’s possible to make everyone
working in the building more
comfortable reporting harass-
ment.
One idea to facilitate that:
an anonymous tipline for
complaints.
Currently, reports go to
legislative employee services
or legislative counsel. As it
stands, Kotek described the
process as “clunky” and it can
be hard on people who make
complaints.
“Given the political nature
of this building, we have to
ensure trust and confidenti-
ality as best we can,” Kotek
said, “and I think that was
why this took as long as it
did, because until the sena-
tors came forward, I don’t
think we all recognized how
difficult it was out there.”
Sens.
Sara
Gelser,
D-Corvallis,
and
Sen.
Elizabeth Steiner Hayward,
D-Beaverton, made formal
complaints about Kruse’s
behavior last fall. The
investigator, attorney Dian
Rubanoff, made note of the
fact that other women who
told her they were harassed
by Kruse only felt comfort-
able coming forward after
seeing Gelser do so publicly.
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