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Friday, April 27, 2018
U.S. House votes
to block spill of
dam water
GOP PRIMARY
Cuff drops out
to make room
for Wooldridge
By MATTHEW DALY and
NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS
Associated Press
win this campaign and bring
the party together,” Cuff
said.
In an announcement from
Wooldridge’s
campaign,
Cuff also called on another
candidate, Sam Carpenter, to
drop out of the race.
Carpenter,
a
Bend
businessman, fired back
Thursday, touting a poll his
campaign
commissioned
showing him behind Buehler,
but with more support than
Wooldridge.
“They need to drop out
and endorse me,” Carpenter
said of Wooldridge and Cuff.
In a Facebook post
Wednesday
morning,
Carpenter made his case for
whittling the field of candi-
dates.
“Too many ‘grass roots’
candidates are splitting the
conservative vote,” he wrote.
He maintains he could
beat Buehler if other candi-
dates dropped out.
Wooldridge’s campaign
touted Cuff’s endorsement
in a press release late
Wednesday, less than three
weeks before the election.
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
SALEM — And then
there were nine.
Bruce Cuff, a real estate
broker from Mehama, Ore.,
dropped out of the crowded
Republican primary for
governor late Wednesday,
leaving nine other candidates
to jostle for the nomination.
Cuff endorsed fellow
candidate Greg Wooldridge,
a motivational speaker and
former U.S. Navy pilot, in
the contest.
The endorsement show-
cased the divisions among
the candidates, the more
conservative of whom are
urging others to drop out of
the race to mount a more
credible challenge against,
State Rep. Knute Buehler,
R-Bend, who is viewed as
the likely victor and as a
moderate.
Cuff, reached by phone
Thursday morning, said
he “didn’t really have the
numbers to move forward.”
“I think Greg Wooldridge
is the one that can actually
WASHINGTON — The
U.S. House approved a
bill Wednesday that would
effectively stop the spilling
of water from four Pacific
Northwest dams to help
migrating salmon reach the
Pacific Ocean.
The bill, approved
225-189, would prevent any
changes in dam operations
until 2022. It was spon-
sored by Republican Reps.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
and Dan Newhouse, both
of Washington state.
They say the four Snake
River dams provide hydro-
power, flood control and
other benefits while already
allowing record salmon
runs.
“We are recognizing the
role dams play in the North-
west and that dams and fish
can co-exist,” McMorris
Rodgers, the fourth-ranking
House Republican, said
after the vote.
Critics, however, blame
the giant dams, built in the
1960s and 1970s, for killing
wild salmon, an iconic
species in the Northwest.
Environmentalists
have
pushed to remove the dams
to aid salmon recovery.
The bill now goes to the
Senate.
“I urge my colleagues in
the Senate to come forward
and support our dams,”
Newhouse said.
Once one of the greatest
salmon fisheries in the
world, the Columbia-Snake
river system now has more
than a dozen endangered
salmon runs.
Democrats have argued
that on-going studies of the
dams, including whether
they should be removed,
must go forward.
The four dams — Ice
Harbor, Lower Monu-
EO Media Group
Bruce Cuff has dropped out of the GOP gubernatorial
primary. He has endorsed fellow candidate Greg Wool-
dridge, a motivational speaker and former U.S. Navy
pilot.
to come together in this race
and that’s important.”
The primary election is
May 15.
“Bruce’s
endorsement
means the world to me,”
Wooldridge said in a state-
ment. “We are really starting
House GOP candidate compares Democrats to Nazis
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Thomas
Donohue, a Pacific City
Republican seeking election
as state representative for
the Central Coast, is under
heat for sharing a Facebook
post comparing Democrats to
Nazis.
Rep. David Gomberg,
D-Otis, the incumbent in that
seat, is Jewish.
The post features a
graphic showing images of
the Nazi swastika and a blue
“D” and a chart comparing
Democrats to Nazis on a list
of seven issues, including
“socialism,” “no guns,” and
“abortion.”
The post originated
from the Facebook page of
Thomas Donohue
conservative blog “Direct to
the People.”
The Democratic Party
of Oregon in a news release
Thursday, April 26, called on
the Oregon GOP to stop “a
disturbing pattern of hateful
and intolerant speech” by
Republican candidates for
the Oregon House of Repre-
sentatives.
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troubling as a Democrat and
as a Jew,” he said.
Gomberg’s family immi-
grated to the United States
before World War II — when
the Nazis undertook a
systematic holocaust of Jews
in Europe.
“But I hope anybody
reading that (post) would
share my concern,” he said.
Donohue said the post
was a mistake and out of
character for him. He said
he plans to call Gomberg to
apologize.
“I had no idea he was
Jewish,” Donohue said.
“National socialists (the Nazi
Party) did not like Jewish
people. I don’t know that the
Democratic Party is so much
that way, but I think they
don’t like white people.”
“The image posted by
Mr. Donohue comparing
Democrats to Nazis is simply
disgusting and inappro-
priate,” said Jeanne Atkins,
chair of the Democratic Party
of Oregon.
Gomberg said Donohue’s
post surprised him.
“I know Mr. Donohue and
know him to be a person who
cares about his community,
and it didn’t look like the
kind of observations that I
would normally expect from
him,” he said.
Gomberg, who was
elected to the House in
November 2012, said the
post is not representative
of his constituents — even
Republicans — in House
District 10.
“I certainly find the post
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Moses
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Enterprise
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Burns
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Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
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La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
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Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Mostly cloudy today;
showers, except dry in the south. Showers
tonight.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Sun, then clouds
today; a shower and thunderstorm around in
central parts and near the Cascades.
Western Washington: Clouds and sun
today; a couple of showers; however, dry in
central parts.
Eastern Washington: Sun near the Idaho
border and in the mountains today; mostly
cloudy in the north and the Cascades.
Cascades: Mostly cloudy today. Showers;
arriving in the afternoon across the north.
Northern California: Clouds and sun today;
a couple of showers, but dry in the interior
mountains.
Today
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WSW 10-20
WSW 8-16
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mental, Little Goose and
Lower Granite — span the
Snake River between the
Washington cities of Pasco
and Pullman. Together they
produce about 4 percent of
the region’s electricity.
Proposals to remove the
dams have percolated in
the Northwest for decades,
and have devolved into a
largely partisan issue with
Democrats generally on the
side of fish and Republicans
for keeping the dams.
The government has
spent some $15 billion over
the decades to increase
salmon runs, with mixed
results.
In March 2017, U.S.
District Judge Michael
Simon of Portland ordered
the dams to increase
spillage beginning this
spring. Federal agencies
estimated that increasing
spill from early April to
mid-June would cost rate-
payers $40 million in lost
power revenues this year.
The 9th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals recently
upheld Simon’s order.
The dams operate under
a plan to protect salmon
created by a collaboration
of federal agencies, states
and Indian tribes during the
Obama administration.
Simon found the plan
does not do enough. He
ruled a new environmental
study is needed and it
must consider the option
of removing the dams. He
also wrote that wild salmon
were in a “precarious”
state.
McMorris
Rodgers
countered that the number
of salmon returning from
the ocean to spawn is high.
“We have been in
court now for 20 years,”
McMorris Rodgers said.
The House bill would
delay changes to the 2014
plan for dam operations
until 2022, she said.
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National Summary: Rain will spread northeastward from the mid-Atlantic states to New
England today. Showers and chilly air will spread over the Great Lakes and from Oregon to
Washington and Northern California.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 103° in Needles, Calif.
Low 14° in Lake George, Colo.
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Chicago
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Fairbanks
Fargo
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