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Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Oregon Republicans downplay Trump,
tout issues as they aim for state offices
mediary.”
Stone, who on Saturday
dismissed what he called
“the Russian collusion delu-
sion,” told the magazine he
provided the full exchange
to the House Intelligence
Committee, which is inves-
tigating whether the Trump
campaign coordinated with
Russia to undermine Trump’s
Democratic
opponent,
Hillary Clinton.
The main speaker Friday,
Fox News commentator,
author and radio host Kevin
Jackson, likewise praised
the president and lambasted
“leftists.”
“What a world you people
created on Nov. 8, 2016,”
Jackson said, referring to
the day Trump was elected
president, to applause. “I’ll
never forget the look on those
sissies’ faces.”
He disparaged feminists,
prioritized the rights of Amer-
ican citizens first and “human
beings second,” and criticized
the study of the humanities
and social justice in the
nation’s colleges.
“I’m done with feminists,”
he said.
The chairwoman of the
Democratic Party of Oregon,
Jeanne Atkins, said earlier
this week that the choice of
speakers at the conference
was “appalling.”
“Republicans are increas-
ingly out of touch with
voters and their promotion of
speakers who are known for
hate speech and public deceit
is frightening,” Atkins said.
Greg Astley, president
of the conference, defended
the choice of speakers such
Jackson and Stone and said
that the Dorchester Confer-
ence was a “big tent.”
The value of the confer-
ence, he said, was that
Oregonians from across the
state could interact face-to-
face with prominent figures,
recalling how, attending the
conference at 14, he met
former Gov. Vic Atiyeh.
If attendees disagreed with
a speaker’s views, they could
go talk to them directly or ask
questions, Astley said.
“If we shut down all that
kind of conversation, I don’t
think we’ll be any better
than the progressive far left,”
Astley said.
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Republican
gubernatorial
candidate
Jeff Smith claims he’s got
a winning strategy, one that
he’s willing to share with his
competitors: Don’t talk about
Trump.
“I am working hard to
convince them that the issue
is not Donald Trump,” Smith
said, standing in front of
his booth at the 54th annual
Dorchester Conference, the
annual gathering of Oregon
Republicans, in Salem on
Saturday. “The issue is
winning.”
Although Smith is less-
er-known among the broad
bench of Republicans seeking
the GOP nomination for
governor he was confident at
the conference.
Smith’s is one of a spectrum
of opinions about the role of
partisanship and the president
at the conference, about eight
months ahead of the 2018
election, when state legislative
races, congressional seats and
the governor’s seat will be up
for grabs.
Meanwhile, the top Repub-
lican in statewide office urged
attendees to identify as Orego-
nians before they identified as
Republicans.
Oregon Secretary of State
Dennis Richardson told
conference attendees in a
speech Saturday morning that
their identity as Oregonians
should come before their
identity as Republicans if they
wanted their party to win.
Richardson speaks from
experience: In 2016, Rich-
ardson was the first Repub-
lican to win statewide office
since 2002, besting Democrat
Brad Avakian, the state’s labor
commissioner.
“I would not be here unless
I got Democratic votes, Green
Party votes, Independent party
of Oregon votes, Working
Family Party votes and votes
from non-affiliated Orego-
nians,” Richardson said. “And
why? Because they wanted to
elect somebody who would
keep his promise to do that
which was best for our state.
I said when I was elected you
wouldn’t be able to tell if there
was an ‘R’ or a ‘D’ behind my
name, and I hope that you can
Claire Withycombe/Capital Bureau
Former Trump campaign adviser and self-styled
“provocateur” Roger Stone was the headline speaker
at Saturday’s Dorchester Conference in Salem. He is
shown with a conference attendee.
see that I’ve tried to live up to
that.”
Smith, the gubernatorial
candidate, also argues that
Republicans can win by
homing on issues that voters
in Portland care about, such
as health care, education and
homelessness.
State Rep. Knute Buehler,
R-Bend, who is also jostling
for the governor’s mansion,
also criticized focusing too
much on the White House.
He claimed in a speech that
while he was solving local
problems in the Legislature,
Democratic Gov. Kate
Brown was “fixated on divi-
sive national politics.”
The
Saturday-night
headliner was former Trump
campaign adviser and self-
styled “provocateur” Roger
Stone, who gave a speech
touting what he believes to
be the accomplishments of
the president and condemning
Democrats.
He is a controversial
figure who remains in the
national limelight for his ties
to Trump.
A former adviser to the
campaign, which he parted
ways with in August 2015,
Stone has also lobbied on
Trump’s behalf on Capitol
Hill and says he urged the
New York real estate tycoon
to run for president first in
1988. Stone got his start in
national politics working on
Richard Nixon’s Committee
To Re-Elect The President
(CREEP).
Stone claimed the presi-
dent brought African-Amer-
ican unemployment to the
lowest level on record, said
the president is committed to
free trade, and celebrated the
contributions of alternative
right-wing media outlets
and social media to Trump’s
campaign.
“The rise of a vibrant,
robust alternative media, the
rise of social media, Twitter,
“I said when I
was elected you
wouldn’t be able to
tell if there was an
‘R’ or a ‘D’ behind
my name.”
— Dennis Richardson (R),
Secretary of State
Facebook and so on, is what
allowed for the election of an
outsider candidate who the
mainstream media sought to
destroy,” Stone said.
Stone also warned of what
he described as a “tech left”
that he believes seeks to censor
right-wing perspectives on
social media platforms.
The Atlantic reported last
week that Stone had corre-
sponded directly with radi-
cal-transparency organization
WikiLeaks, which is suspected
to have ties to Russia, before
the 2016 election.
The magazine reported
Stone said under oath that
he had corresponded with
Wikileaks through an “inter-
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Clouds and
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52° 38°
THURSDAY
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showers around
FRIDAY
Mostly cloudy, a
shower; breezy
SATURDAY
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PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
55° 40°
51° 30°
55° 36°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
53° 36°
55° 29°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
49°
52°
74° (1972)
35°
33°
10° (1955)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
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Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
Trace
0.49"
0.17"
2.82"
4.26"
2.68"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
54°
54°
70° (1987)
37°
32°
8° (1955)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
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Trace
0.12"
0.17"
1.75"
3.60"
2.41"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Last
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Mar 9
Mar 17
6:25 a.m.
5:49 p.m.
11:18 p.m.
9:06 a.m.
First
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Mar 24
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Seattle
50/35
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55° 41°
Mar 31
Today
Spokane
Wenatchee
43/25
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Tacoma
Moses
50/31
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 50/28
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53/27
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
53/32
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55/30
Astoria
52/32
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Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
57/37
Pendleton 43/25
The Dalles 55/29
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La Grande
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Albany
Corvallis 56/34
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John Day
49/27
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
52/26
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Caldwell
Burns
51/26
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Baker City
Bend
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Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
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Pendleton
Portland
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Salem
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WORLD CITIES
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WINDS
Medford
61/34
Klamath Falls
51/24
(in mph)
Today
Wednesday
Boardman
Pendleton
NE 4-8
NNE 4-8
NE 4-8
NE 4-8
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Mostly sunny today. Partly
cloudy tonight. Periods of rain tomorrow.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly sunny
today. Mainly clear tonight. Sun followed by
some clouds tomorrow.
Western Washington: Sunshine and patchy
clouds today. Clear to partly cloudy tonight.
Eastern Washington: Partial sunshine
today; a bit of snow with little or no ac-
cumulation in the mountains.
Cascades: Mostly sunny today; milder in
central parts. Mainly clear tonight.
Northern California: Partly sunny today.
Partly cloudy tonight. Periods of rain
tomorrow.
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Monitor shows virtually
all of central and Eastern
Oregon in some type
of drought designation,
from “abnormally dry”
to “moderate drought.”
Koeberle said she would
not be surprised to see
more drought declarations
as summer nears.
“In a perfect world, we
will continue to get snow,
but we can’t count on
that,” she said.
According
to
the
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administra-
tion’s Climate Prediction
Center, the next three
months
should
bring
colder weather to northern
Oregon and an equal
chance of normal precipi-
tation throughout the state.
The lower temperatures
should at least bode well
for sustaining the current
snowpack, Koeberle said,
which in turn will help
sustain streams longer into
the season.
The NRCS will soon
release its monthly stream-
flow forecast for March,
which Koeberle said will
reflect the latest gains in
snowpack.
“Luckily, we’ve had
some improvement in
snow. Hopefully that
continues,” she said. “We
still do have time for some
improvement, but we just
don’t know how much
we’re going to get.”
A silver lining for
farmers and ranchers
continues to be reservoir
levels, which continue
to hover around normal,
Koeberle said. But for
those without access to
reservoir rights, she said it
would be wise to plan for
lower water supplies this
summer.
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rate for dogs vaccinated. The protection rate for dogs vacci-
nated is 95 percent.
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
WEDNESDAY
February was a tale of
two seasons for Oregon’s
snow-starved mountains
and river basins.
The first half of the
month saw warm and dry
weather carry over from
December and January,
with
total
snowpack
languishing around 40
percent of normal levels
statewide. But winter has
come roaring back over the
last few weeks, doubling
the amount of snow on the
ground across some areas,
especially in the northern
Oregon Cascades.
Julie Koeberle, snow
survey hydrologist for the
USDA Natural Resources
Conservation Service in
Portland, said the amount
of snow at Mount Hood
rose from 53 inches on Feb.
11 to 118 inches, showing
an impressive turnaround.
“It’s been really inter-
esting,” Koeberle said.
“What we waited all season
to get, we pretty much got
in the last two weeks.”
While conditions are
much improved, Koeberle
cautions snowfall is still
lagging behind on average.
“We still need quite a
bit more if we’re going to
catch up to normal,” she
said.
Portions of southern
Oregon are in particularly
dire straits, with the
Klamath and Owyhee
basins still registering
below 50 percent of normal
snowpack.
Klamath
County
commissioners
have already declared a
drought emergency, and
farmers are bracing for a
painful year.
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Snowpack fills in,
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National Summary: Areas of drenching rain and locally gusty thunderstorms will extend
from southern Ohio to Delaware, southward to the Gulf Coast today. Snow of varying inten-
sity will affect the North Central states.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 91° in McAllen, Texas
Low -12° in Bridgeport, Calif.
NATIONAL CITIES
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Boise
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Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
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