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Wednesday, April 25, 2018
State Bar statement
on ‘white nationalism’
criticized as political
PORTLAND (AP) —
Two signed statements in
the latest Oregon State Bar
bulletin — one by the bar
condemning speech that
incites violence and the
other by non-bar specialty
groups decrying the rise
of the white nationalist
movement during President
Donald Trump’s time
in office — have been
criticized by some lawyers
who say the bar should not
and can not allow political
statements.
The Oregonian/
OregonLive reports the bar
has received requests from
six lawyers who wanted
refunds of their dues, and
has granted one partial
refund so far.
Spokeswoman Kateri
Walsh said the bar stands
by its own statement, but
the refund will respond to
the second statement that
wasn’t approved by state
bar leadership.
Leaders of the Oregon
Asian Pacific American
Bar Association, Oregon
Filipino American Lawyers
Association, Oregon
chapter of the National
Bar Association, Oregon
Hispanic Bar Association,
Oregon Women Lawyers,
OGALLA-The LGBT Bar
Association of Oregon and
Oregon Minority Lawyers
Association signed the
supporting statement about
white nationalists.
West Linn lawyer
Diane Gruber slammed the
statements as “blatantly
partisan” and in clear
violation of a 1990 U.S.
Supreme Court ruling
in Keller v. State Bar of
California, which held
that attorneys required to
be members of a state bar
association have a First
Amendment right to refrain
from subsidizing the
organization’s political or
ideological activities.
The Oregon State Bar
is a government agency
that regulates the legal
profession in the state.
It publishes a bulletin, a
magazine that is mailed to
members 10 times a year.
Several lawyers
demanded that the bar print
a retraction.
The Multnomah County
Republican Party also sent
the bar a letter, demanding
that it “cease its partisan
attacks” against Trump.
“The bar has no business
taking its members’ dues
money to publish false
claims that fringe racist
groups constitute the ‘base’
of the president’s support,”
wrote lawyer James
Buchal, a member of the
bar and chairman of the
county GOP.
Other bar members
supported the statements.
Portland attorney Eric
E. Meyer, for example,
applauded the bulletin
for publishing a “strong
statement against white
nationalism” and said that
it is crucial for all Oregon
attorneys as “guardians of
justice” never to be “silent
in the face of racism and
hatred.”
They’re back!
Pyrosome population growing again off of Oregon Coast
Laurie Weitkamp/NOAA Fisheries
Pyrosomes that marine scientists pulled out of the Pacific Ocean off the coasts of Oregon and Washington state
sit in a tray.
Creatures thrive
in warmer waters
By STEVE BENHAM
KATU
They’re back. A lot of
them. And they’re repro-
ducing.
The invasion of the
pyrosomes, gelatinous, trans-
lucent tube-like creatures
ranging in size from less than
an inch to a foot or more,
continues in force off the
coast of Oregon for a second
year, baffling scientists.
The creatures, made up of
individual zooids — small,
multicellular organisms —
normally reside in warmer
waters, like the tropics, and
usually don’t travel farther
north than the waters off
Southern California.
But last spring, scientists
pulled pyrosomes out of the
Pacific Ocean off the coasts
of Oregon and Washington
state by the tens of thou-
sands. The pyrosomes also
wreaked havoc with the nets
of commercial anglers, and
they washed ashore by the
millions, littering beaches.
Scientists just finished
two research cruises aboard
a National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration
fisheries survey vessel, Bell
M. Shimada. Oregon State
University research assistant
Jennifer Fisher was aboard
a cruise in early March. She
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FRIDAY
Whatever caused these
“pyrosome blooms” has so
far stumped researchers, but
“something happened,” said
Weitkamp. “We’re all kind of
scratching our heads trying
to figure out what it was that
happened.”
Even though scientists
haven’t confirmed it, they
suspect that warmer water
brought the creatures here.
Ric Brodeur, also a NOAA
research fisheries biologist
based in Oregon, raised two
possibilities.
“(They) may have arrived
during the unusual warm
blob we had in 2015 or
came north with the large El
Niño in 2016 and seem to be
sticking around even though
the conditions appear to be
close to normal,” he said.
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said in the seven or eight
years she’s been sampling
the seas off Oregon and
California, she’s maybe seen
the creatures twice. But the
last two years have been
different.
“We saw a range of sizes,
which to me indicates they
are reproducing,” she said
about last month’s sampling
runs. “To me that indicates
whatever conditions they
need, they’re doing well and
they’re surviving, clearly,
and they’re flourishing.”
NOAA research fisheries
biologist Laurie Weitkamp,
who went on a separate
Shimada cruise about a week
later, said researchers were
pulling enough pyrosomes
out of the sea to fill up
buckets 5 gallons each.
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Laurie Weitkamp/NOAA Fisheries
Pyrosomes litter the deck of NOAA’s Bell M. Shimada
research vessel during a cruise off the coasts of Oregon
and Washington state in March.
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Partly sunny in central
parts today; sunny elsewhere. Partly cloudy
tonight.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly
sunny and very warm today; pleasant. Clear
tonight.
Western Washington: Mostly sunny today.
Clear tonight.
Brodeur, as well as several
other scientists, wrote a paper
this winter on the pyrosome
invasion that was published
by the North Pacific Marine
Science Organization.
In it the scientists said the
pyrosome bloom of 2016-17
was expected to last into this
year but noted that future
climate change may also
determine the presence of
pyrosomes in the Northwest.
“Projected climate change
in the coming decades may
lead to anomalous events
such as the pyrosome bloom
becoming more common
in the future, requiring
continuing monitoring to
assess its impacts,” they
wrote.
Besides being a nuisance
to commercial anglers, scien-
tists are concerned about the
impact the pyrosomes will
have on the oceanic food
web.
“They are so numerous
and can consume a lot of
plankton, so we are concerned
about them competing with
things like krill and copepods
that are the normal base of
the food web,” said Brodeur.
Tiny crustaceans like
copepods, which are also
high consumers of phyto-
plankton, can make good
meals for forage fish, which
are then eaten by fish like
salmon. The copepods that
live off the coast of Oregon
are good sources of fat in the
food web.
Eastern Washington: Sunny today. Clear
tonight. Plenty of sunshine tomorrow.
Cascades: Mostly sunny and warmer today;
pleasant across the north. Clear tonight.
Northern California: Low clouds followed
by sunshine at the coast today; mostly
sunny elsewhere.
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