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CTUIR gift to Oregon Senate GOP
leader created ethical quandary
BRIEFLY
Oregon senator wants making threats
against schools a felony
SALEM (AP) — Amid a spate of threats of attacks
at schools following a Feb. 14 massacre in a Florida
high school, a lawmaker in Oregon has introduced an
amendment making it a felony to make such a threat in
the state, even if it’s not carried out.
Sen. Tim Knopp, a Republican from the Central
Oregon town of Bend where a 16-year-old was
arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct for allegedly
threatening to shoot students at a high school, introduced
the amendment Monday.
Knopp said Oregon’s district attorneys are constrained
by current law that allows misdemeanor charges and
that fails to take into account the unique nature of threats
against schools and other public gathering places.
By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
SALEM — Ted Ferrioli,
the Senate Republican leader
in Oregon until he stepped
down in January, was
presented with a beautiful
wool blanket by leaders of
Indian tribes as a parting gift,
throwing him into an ethical
quandary.
The issue confronting
Ferrioli, who represented a
huge swath of eastern Oregon
covering
canyonlands,
mountains and high desert
with cowboys, loggers and
Native Americans among his
constituents, is detailed in an
Oregon Government Ethics
Commission report.
It’s buried under a
129-page investigation of a
case against former Oregon
Gov. John Kitzhaber in which
his girlfriend was paid tens of
thousands of dollars for work
she allegedly leveraged when
she was Oregon’s first lady.
Struggling over what to
do with a blanket with a price
tag of $249 is small beans
in comparison, but it shows
how — as political scandals
emerge with dismaying
regularity in Washington and
around the country — many
public servants try to walk
a fine line. And it illustrates
the scope of issues the seven-
member ethics commission
— established in 1974 by
a statewide referendum —
and its staff are tasked with
dealing with.
“We don’t just do state
employees, we do all levels
of government in Oregon,
so that’s every city council,
every special district out
there, fire board, whatever,”
commission
Executive
Director Ron Bersin told The
Associated Press during a
break in a recent meeting.
Ferrioli left the state
Senate at the turn of the year
after being appointed by Gov.
Kate Brown to a regional
organization that develops
and maintains a regional
conservation and electric
power plan and a program to
protect fish and wildlife.
In recognition of bills he
had sponsored on behalf of
Indians, the board of direc-
tors of Confederated Tribes
Judge keeps five charges against
FBI agent accused of lying
AP Photo/Andrew Selsky
In this Feb. 15 photo, former Oregon Sen. Republican leader Ted Ferrioli examines
a Pendleton blanket in the state Capitol that had been sent to him by the board
of directors of Confederated Tribes of Umatilla Indian Reservation. After asking the
state ethics commission if he could accept the blanket, given in recognition of work
Ferrioli had done on behalf of Indian tribes, and considering various options, he
decided to present it for display in a room in the Capitol.
of Umatilla Reservation
sent Ferrioli a plush wool
Pendleton blanket with a
Native-American-inspired
design. Among the bills: One
which prohibits individuals
from possessing Native
American artifacts looted
from burials or archaeological
sites, Ferrioli said. Another
bill he sponsored recognized
tribal police as Oregon law
enforcement officers with all
the accompanying rights and
responsibilities.
But the blanket exceeded
the $50 limit on gifts a public
official can receive from
someone during a calendar
year, plunging Ferrioli into
an ethical dilemma. As a
former member of the Senate
rules committee, he knows
the rules better than most
people, Bersin noted.
Two days after receiving
the blanket, he emailed
Bersin on Jan. 2, asking
advice on how to proceed,
saying “receipt of this item
puts me in a potentially
awkward position.”
Accepting it, he wrote,
might violate ethics regula-
tions, but returning it “might
constitute an insult.”
“As you know, the
bestowing of gifts is a deeply
rooted part of Native Amer-
ican Culture, in meaning,
far greater than the material
value of the item given,”
Ferrioli wrote.
He noted, though, that if
he divided $29 by nine, the
value of the gift, per giver,
would be only $27.67. What,
Ferrioli asked, should he do:
Return the gift, accept it on a
per-giver basis, accept it on
behalf of a third party, or take
some other action?
Bersin wrote back that
if tribal funds bought the
blanket, then there is just one
giver and Ferrioli couldn’t
accept it if the tribes might
have an economic interest in
Ferrioli’s decision-making
as a public official. But if
the nine members used their
personal funds, he could
keep it. Noting that returning
the blanket could be prob-
lematic, Bersin suggested
donating it.
Ferrioli decided to donate
it to the Senate, where it will
be hung on a wall in a room
dedicated to historical items.
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Mar 9
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PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
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Tacoma
Moses
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Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 47/29
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Enterprise
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The Dalles 49/33
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Albany
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47/36
John Day
37/24
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
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Caldwell
Burns
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Corrections
Barb Gibbs is a licensed practical nurse. An incorrect
accreditation was used in the article “Save a life by ques-
tioning, persuading and referring” on Page 1A, Feb. 23.
A meeting between Columbia Development Authority
representative and the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla
Indian Reservation Board of Trustees was Wednesday, Feb.
21. An incorrect date was used in the article “Tribal board
to look at cultural sites on former depot land” on Page 8A,
Feb. 24.
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Eastern Washington: Cloudy today; a snow
shower near the Idaho border and in the
mountains.
Cascades: Cloudy today. A bit of snow
across the north; a fl urry in central parts.
Northern California: Partly sunny today;
frigid in the interior mountains.
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touch of rain. Plenty of clouds tonight. Rain
tomorrow.
SALEM (AP) — Oregon legislators have sent a
proposal to Governor Kate Brown that would allow the
state’s largest city to coordinate with the Department of
Transportation to remove homeless encampments.
After the House approved the bill last week, the Senate
approved it unanimously Monday, sending it to the
governor for her signature.
Under the measure, Portland and the state Department
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removing homeless encampments. Proponents said
removing the encampments is complicated when they
spread across city and state lands, which are often
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WEDNESDAY
On Feb. 15, Ferrioli trav-
eled back to the Capitol to
receive accolades alongside
another recently departed
lawmaker on the Senate
floor. Ferrioli has a concealed
weapons permit and says he
carried a pistol in the Capitol
for more than 20 years, but
this time he left it behind
because a new law prohibits
it. As senators spoke fondly
of Ferrioli, the blanket was
close by, ready to be formally
handed over to Senate Secre-
tary Lori Brocker.
After the speeches, and
back-slapping and hand-
shakes as lawmakers ate cake
and drank punch outside the
Senate chamber, a man with
an erect posture and hair
streaming down his back
walked up to Ferrioli and
handed him a box.
In it was another Pend-
leton blanket. This one was
from the Confederated Tribes
of Siletz Indians. Ferrioli
graciously accepted it. But he
isn’t keeping this one either.
On advice of ethics
commission, it will be
retained permanently by the
Senate, Ferrioli said.
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PORTLAND (AP) — A federal judge declined to
dismiss any charges against an FBI agent accused of lying
about firing two shots at a key figure in the takeover of a
national wildlife refuge in Oregon.
The Oregonian/OregonLive reports U.S. District
Judge Robert Jones said Monday that the defense motion
to dismiss four of the five counts against FBI agent W.
Joseph Astarita was premature.
Investigators said Astarita failed to disclose that he
fired errant shots at Robert “Lavoy” Finicum, spokesman
for a group that occupied the refuge in early 2016. Oregon
State Police fatally shot Finicum at the same roadblock.
Astarita’s lawyers said there is one alleged lie, so there
should only be one count.
Prosecutor Gary Sussman countered that five counts
are appropriate because Astarita lied to three supervisory
FBI agents and in two interviews with Oregon State
Police detectives. Astarita has pleaded not guilty.
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National Summary: Rain and storms will gather over the South Central states today.
Rain and mountain snow will fall in Southern California and Nevada, as well as western
Washington. Showers will dot the Florida Peninsula.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 90° in Immokalee, Fla.
Low -21° in Crested Butte, Colo.
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