PRIMARY ELECTION COVERAGE
East Oregonian
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Wednesday, May 16, 2018
OREGON GOVERNOR
U.S. HOUSE DISTRICT 2
McLeod-Skinner GOP’s Buehler earns race with Brown
to take on Walden
By JEFF MAPES
Oregon Public
Broadcasting
Democrat
Jaime
McLeod-Skinner
tri-
umphed over six rivals to
win the party’s nomination
to take on GOP Rep. Greg
Walden in Oregon’s vast —
and conservative — Sec-
ond Congressional District.
Walden, a Republi-
can from Hood River, eas-
ily won his GOP primary
contest against two others.
The congressman chairs
the House Energy & Com-
merce Committee and has
handily been re-elected
ever since he first won Ore-
gon’s Second Congressio-
nal District in 1998.
The district, which cov-
ers all of Eastern Oregon
and a chunk of southern
Oregon, is by far the most
conservative of the state’s
five congressional districts.
In years past, Democratic
strategists have generally
conceded the district. The
party’s nomination could
often be had for the asking.
Not this year.
Large and angry crowds
besieged Walden at a series
of town halls he held
around his district in the
spring. They criticized
him for helping write a bill
to repeal and replace the
Affordable Care Act.
Activists began regu-
larly protesting at Walden’s
district offices. And no
fewer than seven Demo-
crats signed up to run for
his seat.
McLeod-Skinner was
one of the first to get in
the race and said she has
logged more than 30,000
miles traversing the dis-
trict, which is larger than
any state east of the Mis-
sissippi River. She’s had
a varied career, working
overseas on reconstruc-
tion in war-torn Bosnia and
as a planner in California,
where she served on the
Santa Clara City Council.
Back
in
Oregon,
McLeod-Skinner was the
Phoenix city manager for
just four months before
being fired in 2017. She
blamed it on a dysfunc-
tional city council.
Physician
Jenni
Neahring came in behind
McLeod-Skinner,
while
Jim Crary — a retired law-
yer who has challenged
Walden before and lost in
2016 — came in third.
The other candidates
were: retired Chrysler exec-
utive Tim White, teacher
Raz Mason, retired mari-
time official Eric Burnette
and stonemason Michael
Byrne.
The seven held a series
of joint candidate forums
around the district. They
focused their criticism on
Walden and spoke posi-
tively of each other.
The district is still con-
sidered safely Republican
by national handicappers.
The Democratic Congres-
sional Campaign Commit-
tee has released an ambi-
tious list of 101 Republican
seats it is targeting. Ore-
gon’s Second Congressio-
nal seat is not among them.
But Democrats are hop-
ing they can give Walden a
tougher race this time. The
Oregon Democratic Party
has set up a website —
titled “repeal Walden” —
to collect contributions for
the primary victor.
“The political winds
are shifting and Republi-
cans like Greg Walden will
face serious challenges to
their re-election in Novem-
ber,” said state Democratic
chairwoman Jeanne Atkins
in announcing the website.
SALEM — A prominent
Republican in the Oregon
Legislature beat two main
rivals in the party’s guber-
natorial primary on Tuesday,
setting up a November show-
down against Democratic
Gov. Kate Brown, who hand-
ily won her party’s primary.
State Rep. Knute Buehler,
who emerged the GOP win-
ner with a strong lead, was the
most centrist of the Republi-
can front-runners. The con-
test was the most-watched
in this predominantly Dem-
ocratic state, widely seen
as a referendum on which
candidates are appealing to
Republicans.
In an interview, Buehler
said he planned to challenge
Brown on public school
improvements and affordable
housing.
“It sets the stage for a
wonderful general election,”
Buehler said.
Buehler told support-
ers at a rally in Wilsonville,
south of Portland: “I will suc-
ceed where Kate Brown has
failed.”
In U.S. House District
4, incumbent Rep. Peter
DeFazio won the Demo-
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EUGENE — Former
state legislator and Dem-
ocratic caucus leader Val
Hoyle appeared to clinch the
contest for labor commis-
sioner Tuesday evening with
51.66 percent of the votes
shortly after 10 p.m. Tues-
day, May 15.
Hoyle’s main challenger
was Lou Ogden, the long-
time mayor of Tualatin, a
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Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
First
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May 29
Last
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83° 57°
Seattle
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of 777,774 ballots cast.
Ogden made a strong
showing by winning 19
counties in Eastern and
Southern Oregon, but Hoyle
won the nearly two dozen
most populous counties in
the Willamette Valley and
the Interstate 5 corridor.
The state’s labor commis-
sioner, who serves a four-
year term, leads the Bureau
of Labor and Industries,
which enforces civil rights
and labor laws and promotes
Spokane
Wenatchee
75/53
82/59
Tacoma
Moses
68/50
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 82/55
68/51
59/52
67/49
86/55
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
64/51
75/57 Lewiston
81/57
Astoria
74/55
59/52
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
69/54
Pendleton 65/49
The Dalles 81/57
76/55
76/56
La Grande
Salem
68/51
67/51
Albany
Corvallis 64/50
65/50
John Day
65/50
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
77/54
64/49
68/43
Caldwell
Burns
76/52
65/43
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
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Medford
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Klamath Falls
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Boardman
Pendleton
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8:21 p.m.
6:41 a.m.
9:56 p.m.
New
Coastal Oregon: A passing shower today;
in the morning in central parts, any time in
the south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Partly sunny
today with a thunderstorm in the area.
Eastern Washington: Partly sunny today
with a thunderstorm in spots, but dry in
the north.
Cascades: Rain and drizzle in central parts
today; a thunderstorm in spots elsewhere.
June 13
Western Washington: Partly sunny today,
but more clouds across the south. Partly
cloudy tonight.
Northern California: Periods of sun today;
a couple of showers and a thunderstorm;
however, dry at the coast.
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workforce development in
the state.
“I’m honored that the
people of this state had
such faith in the message
that I had,” Hoyle said,
which was that she would
stand up for both labor
and business. Hoyle’s sup-
porters gathered in Eugene
Tuesday night at the head-
quarters of the Carpenters
Local Union 271, cheering
when the election returns
came in.
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A t-storm in spots;
not as warm
Republican who received 35
percent of the vote.
A third candidate in the
contest, Jack Howard, a
Union County commis-
sioner, showed 13 percent
of the vote after a minimal
campaign. Although he filed
to run, he did not file the req-
uisite fee and paperwork to
be included in the statewide
Voters’ Pamphlet.
At 10 p.m., the unofficial
vote tally showed 469,721
votes counted in the race out
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he is open to increased taxes
on electronic and regular cig-
arettes to pay for budget items
like health care, and also to a
carbon tax.
At one Salem polling
place, voters described per-
sonal reactions to President
Donald Trump and a renewed
sense of civic obligation as
motivating them to vote.
Doug Crook, a Repub-
lican, said he felt caught
between the stances taken by
politicians on both ends of the
political spectrum.
“I’m stuck,” Crook said,
adding that he sympathized
with some of the broader
goals of the political left, like
protecting workers, but that
Hoyle holds edge in race for labor commissioner
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cratic primary to face old
rival Art Robinson, a Repub-
lican. Robinson was one of
the first U.S. politicians to
use Cambridge Analytica,
the firm that this year became
embroiled in the Facebook
data scandal, as a consultant
in his unsuccessful 2014 run
against DeFazio.
With
partial
results
announced by the Oregon
secretary of state’s office after
polls closed at 8 p.m., Bue-
hler had more votes than his
two main challengers com-
bined: Retired Navy pilot
Greg Wooldridge and busi-
nessman Sam Carpenter.
While skeptical of major
new spending, Buehler says
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he thought many proposals
floated by Democrats around
the state were too extreme,
including rent regulation and
gun control.
But Crook said he also
hesitates over some of the
proposals from his own party,
including extreme deregula-
tion - and that he was put off
by hearing some candidates
embrace Trump.
“I want to see more Repub-
lican values supported in this
state, but not necessarily for
Trump,” Crook said. “I can’t
vote for anyone that supports
the Trump approach.”
Carpenter fully embraced
Trump, even adopting a
“make Oregon great again”
campaign slogan.
Buehler repeatedly dis-
tanced himself from the
president.
Wooldridge had sought
something of a middle
ground, distancing him-
self from Trump’s attacks on
prominent veterans but say-
ing he’s open to some of his
ideas.
The three also differed
on policy, with Buehler giv-
ing mixed support to abor-
tion and Wooldridge tak-
ing an opposite stance. Both
Carpenter and Wooldridge
opposed a pair of gun-re-
lated initiatives.
By TOM JAMES AND
ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
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High 106° in Midland, Texas
Low 20° in Bodie State Park, Calif.
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