WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
WEDNESDAY
TODAY
Partly sunny and
very warm
Mostly cloudy, a
shower; cooler
83° 55°
69° 48°
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Times of clouds
and sun
Warmer with
clouds and sun
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
64° 45°
76° 50°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
75° 51°
88° 59°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
78°
69°
88° (1992)
55°
44°
26° (1927)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
Trace
0.06"
0.25"
5.48"
8.25"
5.36"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
81°
71°
95° (1992)
0.03"
0.15"
0.28"
4.20"
5.95"
4.27"
SUN AND MOON
May 21
Bend
81/47
Burns
83/44
5:33 a.m.
8:11 p.m.
2:32 a.m.
12:45 p.m.
Full
Last
May 29
Caldwell
85/55
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
Hi
62
82
81
59
83
78
68
84
88
83
79
80
78
79
60
62
86
87
83
77
83
73
76
80
75
83
86
Lo
53
52
47
51
44
52
51
55
59
51
46
53
50
53
51
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55
59
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55
49
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59
55
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Wed.
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Hi
58
67
66
58
69
59
65
67
75
64
68
62
60
73
57
60
80
76
69
66
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60
64
70
75
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
79
84
68
78
70
74
81
70
72
76
61
Lo
51
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81
70
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75
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72
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WINDS
Medford
79/53
PRECIPITATION
May 15
John Day
83/51
Ontario
86/55
59°
44°
30° (2003)
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
Albany
71/52
Eugene
68/51
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
82° 50°
Spokane
Wenatchee
76/55
80/58
Tacoma
Moses
76/52
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 83/58
75/55
67/52
75/51
86/55
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
73/54
83/59 Lewiston
87/60
Astoria
81/59
62/53
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
77/55
Pendleton 78/52
The Dalles 88/59
83/55
84/56
La Grande
Salem
80/53
73/53
Corvallis
70/52
HIGH
71° 48°
Seattle
75/54
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
71° 45°
Today
SATURDAY
Intervals of clouds
and sunshine
66° 42°
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Klamath Falls
79/46
(in mph)
Today
Wednesday
Boardman
Pendleton
NE 4-8
NE 6-12
WSW 10-20
W 7-14
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Mostly cloudy today with
showers around in the afternoon.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Partly sunny
and warm today; a shower and thunder-
storm around near the Cascades.
Western Washington: Times of sun and
clouds today; a passing shower at the coast.
Eastern Washington: Partly sunny today.
Mostly cloudy tonight with a couple of
showers.
Cascades: Warm today with clouds limiting
sun.
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Northern California: Sun and some clouds
today.
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Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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0s
showers t-storms
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rain
20s
flurries
30s
40s
snow
ice
50s
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cold front
70s
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warm front stationary front
110s
high
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National Summary: Showers will dot the central and southern Appalachians, the North
Carolina coast and South Florida today. Showers and locally severe thunderstorms will
affect the central and northern Plains.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 104° in Needles, Calif.
Low 20° in Bodie State Park, Calif.
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Hi
89
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63
75
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64
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92
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Wed.
Hi
89
82
64
78
73
87
79
68
84
83
75
79
89
81
78
99
69
68
82
89
79
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Today
Hi
Louisville
79
Memphis
85
Miami
85
Milwaukee
78
Minneapolis
73
Nashville
80
New Orleans
90
New York City
72
Oklahoma City
85
Omaha
82
Philadelphia
75
Phoenix
102
Portland, ME
64
Providence
71
Raleigh
75
Rapid City
71
Reno
89
Sacramento
84
St. Louis
81
Salt Lake City
80
San Diego
71
San Francisco
69
Seattle
75
Tucson
100
Washington, DC 76
Wichita
89
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Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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GOP gubernatorial candidates on abortion, taxes, PERS
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Oregon
Republicans have three dis-
tinct choices for their guber-
natorial nominee on May 15.
Rep. Knute Buehler, a
Bend orthopedic surgeon,
has been laying the ground-
work for this election for the
past two years. He announced
his plan to run well ahead of
his opponents, retired Naval
aviator Greg Wooldridge of
Portland and Bend business-
man Sam Carpenter.
But Buehler’s moder-
ate social platform prompted
some members of his party to
seek a candidate who would
take a stronger stance against
abortion rights and other
social issues.
Wooldridge and Carpenter
launched surprisingly effec-
tive challenges to the then-pre-
sumed frontrunner, said Jim
Moore, political science pro-
fessor at Pacific University.
The Pamplin/EO Capital
Bureau asked the candidates
questions about issues that are
important to many Republi-
cans. We have included their
verbatim responses.
Each candidate was asked
identical questions and pro-
vided a limit of 50 words for
each answer.
The winner of the pri-
mary will face off with Gov.
Kate Brown, a Democrat, in
November.
Q: Do you support a con-
stitutional change clarifying
that passing fees and eliminat-
ing tax deductions and exemp-
tions requires a three-fifths
majority vote in the Legisla-
ture? Why or why not?
Knute Buehler: Yes, the
Oregon Constitution is clear:
fees and taxes are revenue
despite what Kate Brown
and Salem Democrats want
you to think. I’ve opposed
$14 billion in new taxes and
fees the governor has sup-
ported. I’ll balance the bud-
get without increasing taxes
and repeal the $1 billion tax
on small businesses.
Contributed photos
Knute Buehler, Sam Carpenter and Greg Wooldridge are the three frontrunners for
the Republican nomination for Oregon governor.
Sam Carpenter: Yes. We
have this requirement for “tax
increases.” Anything that
takes more money from the
people should fall into this
same category.
Greg Wooldridge: The
Constitution is clear that rais-
ing taxes required a super-
majority vote, and Demo-
crats have circumvented this
by claiming bills don’t raise
taxes, when, in fact, they do.
We have a tax and spending
problem in Salem that must
be stopped.
Q: Should all abortions
be legal? Why or why not? If
only certain abortions should
be legal, which kinds should
be allowed?
Buehler: The issue of
abortion is between a woman
and a doctor — not govern-
ment and politicians — and it
should be safe, legal and rare.
That’s why I wrote and suc-
cessfully passed first-in-the-
nation legislation providing
women in Oregon access to
over-the-counter contracep-
tion without a prescription.
This has significantly reduced
unintended pregnancies.
Carpenter: No. Abor-
tion ends a human life, and all
humans deserve equal protec-
tion of law. Abortion should
only be allowed for the health
of the mother or in cases of
rape or incest — and even
then, adoption should be the
first option.
Wooldridge: I am pro-life.
Period. Gov. Kate Brown’s
extreme position that late-
term and gender-based abor-
Corrections
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the paper, please call 541-966-0818.
tions must be provided by
taxpayers is wrong. We need
to have a conversation about
putting limits on these types
of abortions, and I’m confi-
dent that the majority of Ore-
gonians agree.
Q: What is your opinion on
man-made climate change? Is
it real? On what evidence is
your opinion based?
Buehler: I believe cli-
mate change is real, and
human activity is part of the
problem. As governor, I’ll
drive us toward a balanced
approach that transitions us
to renewable sources with-
out excessive, heavy-handed
regulation that rewards cro-
nyism, costs small businesses
jobs and drives up the cost
of living for hardworking
Oregonians.
Carpenter: The climate is
always changing. Is it caused
by man? There is insufficient
data, and regardless, we must
balance the very real eco-
nomic impact against hypo-
thetical environmental impact.
Wooldridge:
Climate
change is happening, but the
Democrats have exploited
natural climate change to
punish businesses and raise
taxes on workers and every-
day Oregonians. We can pro-
tect our environment through
well-thought-out public pol-
icy and by addressing our for-
est management and wildfire
mitigation practices.
Q: How would you pro-
pose reducing gun violence
in the state?
Buehler: Better sui-
cide-prevention
measures
and mental health support
could dramatically reduce
gun violence, which is why I
introduced legislation to sup-
ply vital information to every
gun buyer at time of pur-
chase. I also voted to close
the “boyfriend loophole” to
expand protection for sur-
vivors of domestic violence
from convicted abusers.
Carpenter: The prob-
lem isn’t “gun” violence.
The problem is simply vio-
lence, and the solution is to
change society from the cur-
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rent culture of violence, stem-
ming from the lost respect for
human life. This will take a
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now.
Wooldridge: We need to
better protect our schools and
families and increase security
measures that do not violate
the Second Amendment, and
we must address our state’s
lack of mental health care
services.
Q: Given the Supreme
Court’s limitations on reform
of the Public Employees
Retirement System, what
specific proposal would you
advance to avoid increasing
the state’s unfunded liability?
Buehler: As governor,
I won’t sign a single new
spending bill until the leg-
islature passes meaningful,
substantive PERS reform.
To start, I’d cap the benefits
at $150,000 per year, require
public employees to contrib-
ute to their retirement and
transition employees into a
more traditional 401(k)-type
plan while protecting current
retiree benefits.
Carpenter: First thing
is to convert all new hires to
a 401(k) defined contribu-
tion retirement plan to halt
increasing the debt and obli-
gation. With this done, shor-
ing up the existing liability
can be achieved. A boom-
ing economy from lowered
taxes and decreased taxation
will bring new revenue to
keep Oregon solvent.
Wooldridge: I would
move our state’s taxpay-
er-subsidized benefits to a
private-sector style 401(k)
style benefit. The state
would match the contri-
butions made to employee
retirement plans, and work-
ers would rest assured their
retirements were safe; right
now, they’re in jeopardy
because of a lack of politi-
cal will.
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