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Democrats say Knute Buehler
is ineligible for his House seat
Randy L. Rasmussen/The Oregonian via AP
Republican gubernatorial candidate Knute Buehler
gathered with supporters in Wilsonville on May 15.
Buehler, a doctor and state representative from Bend
(or is it Tualatin?), will face Kate Brown in November.
the term of office of the per-
son as a Senator or Repre-
sentative is not an inhabitant
of the district from which
the Senator or Representa-
tive may be chosen or which
the Senator or Representa-
tive has been appointed to
represent.”
Atkins said the constitu-
ents of the district no longer
had someone to represent
them, and that the Demo-
cratic Party of Oregon wants
the Secretary of State, which
houses the state elections
division, to investigate.
“Bottom line, political
ambition has trumped his
commitment to his current
constituents,” Atkins said.
The Secretary of State’s
Office is processing the
complaint, according to the
secretary’s Chief of Staff
Deb Royal.
The Buehler campaign
says the Republican nom-
inee has an apartment in
Tualatin, but says his pri-
mary residence remains in
Bend and that’s where his
wife, Patty, spends most of
her time.
It is also where the Bue-
hlers are registered to vote,
their cars are registered and
where they pay property
taxes, the campaign says.
They say the Tualatin
residence is a place for Bue-
hler to “sleep, shower and
snack while he is campaign-
ing vigorously nearly every
week in the Portland-area
and Willamette Valley.”
Asked how many days
per week or month Buehler
spends in Tualatin instead of
Bend, spokeswoman Mon-
ica Wroblewski said “he
spends as much time as he
can in Bend.”
“We were just there all
last week,” Wroblewski
wrote in an email to the EO/
Pamplin Capital Bureau.
“Bend is his home.”
Buehler unveiled his
health care plan during a
press conference in Bend
on Wednesday, July 18 and
attended the convention of
the Oregon Newspaper Pub-
lishers’ Association on Fri-
day, July 20.
Advocating for the state’s
rural communities and
industries is a key part of his
platform, Buehler said at the
ONPA event last week.
Asked why, then, his
campaign headquarters are
in the Portland suburbs,
Wroblewski said it allows
the campaign to have a pres-
ence both east and west of
the Cascades.
“The location for the
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Forecast
TODAY
THURSDAY
Mostly sunny and
hot
Hot with plenty
of sun
98° 64°
99° 65°
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
Hot with plenty
of sun
Very hot
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
98° 67°
102° 69°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
103° 68°
102° 65°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
97°
90°
112° (1928)
62°
60°
45° (1917)
PRECIPITATION
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PRECIPITATION
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Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Full
Last
July 27
Aug 4
Albany
96/57
Eugene
96/55
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Wenatchee
93/64
97/68
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Moses
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Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 99/64
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Kennewick Walla Walla
91/57
99/69 Lewiston
101/62
Astoria
99/66
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Enterprise
Hermiston
95/63
Pendleton 92/53
The Dalles 102/65
98/64
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La Grande
Salem
94/54
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Corvallis
96/57
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Yesterday
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Seattle
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7:12 p.m.
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First
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Aug 18
John Day
97/60
Ontario
102/67
Bend
96/56
Today
SUNDAY
Sunny and hot
97° 67°
SALEM (AP) — The
air quality in southern Ore-
gon was the worst in the
nation Monday, according
to officials.
Connie Clarstrom, a
meteorologist with the
National Weather Service
in Medford, said not to
expect the conditions to get
better anytime soon.
She said southern Ore-
gon will likely face tri-
ple digit temperatures and
unhealthy to hazardous air
all week.
“As long as we’re sur-
Burns
95/53
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Baker City
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Medford
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Klamath Falls
94/54
Boardman
Pendleton
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Times of clouds and sun
today; pleasant across the north.
Eastern Washington: Mostly sunny today.
Clear tonight. Mostly sunny tomorrow.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly sunny
and hot today. A moonlit sky tonight. Plenty
of sunshine tomorrow.
Western Washington: Plenty of sunshine
today, but some clouds at the coast.
Cascades: Very warm today with abundant
sunshine. Clear tonight. Plenty of sun
tomorrow.
Northern California: Partly sunny at the
coast today; hot in central parts. Sunny
elsewhere.
Today
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PORTLAND (AP) —
The U.S. Geological Sur-
vey recorded a series of
earthquakes in the Pacific
Ocean off the coast of
Oregon.
The Tuesday morning
quakes were about 125
miles west of Gold Beach,
and occurred at a depth of
6.2 miles. They ranged in
magnitude from 3.2 to 5.6.
There have been no
reports of injuries or
damage.
Experts have said for
years that Oregon and the
Pacific Northwest are due
for a major earthquake
with a magnitude of 8.0
or higher. Smaller quakes,
like those on Tuesday, are
fairly common.
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rounded by wildfires, it’s
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Nine major wildfires
are sending thick smoke
into the region, bringing
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cities including Ashland,
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the Statesman Journal
reported.
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might consider leaving
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Most of the major fires
have continued to grow,
despite more than 5,000
fire personnel and a small
air force of tankers and
helicopters working the
blazes, according to the
Statesman Journal.
“As soon as we get one
fire knocked down and out
cold, another one comes to
life and jumps containment
lines,” said Ashley Ler-
tora, spokeswoman on the
Garner Complex, which
includes the fires in Taylor
Creek and Grave Creek.
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cal fire weather conditions
the next few days, and our
teams are really battling to
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PORTLAND (AP) —
Jury selection started in
the trial of an FBI agent
accused of lying about fir-
ing two shots that missed
Robert “LaVoy” Finicum,
spokesman for the group
that took over an Oregon
wildlife refuge in January
2016.
The errant shots came
as the Arizona rancher
emerged from his pickup
when authorities arrested
leaders of the takeover on
Jan. 26, 2016.
Oregon State Police
fatally shot Finicum sec-
onds later.
The agent, W. Joseph
Astarita, pleaded not guilty
to felony charges of mak-
ing a false statement and
obstruction of justice.
Defense lawyer David
Angeli says his client
didn’t fire, and the gov-
ernment’s case is based
on weak circumstantial
evidence.
Jury selection began
Tuesday afternoon. The
trial is expected to last sev-
eral weeks.
The occupiers seized
the refuge to protest the
imprisonment of two Ore-
gon ranchers who set fires.
President Trump recently
pardoned those men.
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campaign headquarters was
chosen so that we would
have a presence on the east
and west sides of the state,”
Wroblewski
said.
“As
the campaign progresses,
we will have a presence
throughout the state and in
multiple locations.”
Oregon has a “citi-
zen legislature” that meets
for roughly five months in
odd-numbered years and for
a month in even-numbered
years.
State lawmakers from
further-flung parts of the
state often rent apartments
in Salem during the session.
But Article IV, Section 8 also
states that a “person does not
lose status as an inhabitant
of a district if the person is
absent from the district for
purposes of business of the
Legislative Assembly.”
“This
is
different,
because Buehler has said,
on more than one occasion,
that he has moved to Tuala-
tin,” a spokeswoman for the
DPO, Molly Woon, wrote
in an email Tuesday. “Not
temporarily and not to ful-
fill his legislative duties.
He’s actually left his dis-
trict and moved to Tualatin.
This leaves the constituents
of HD 54 without represen-
tation, even though Buehler
continues to receive a state
paycheck.”
Asked to respond Tues-
day to potential criticism
that this could be perceived
as an “election-year stunt,”
Atkins again referred to the
constitution.
“I would ask you to read
very clearly the state Con-
stitution,” Atkins said. “And
we have asked the Secretary
of State to examine whether
or not his residency has been
maintained, as required by
the state Constitution. That’s
the bottom line here.”
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
PORTLAND — The
Democratic of Party of Ore-
gon is claiming that the
GOP nominee for governor
no longer lives in the district
he represents in the Oregon
House, in what they argue
is a violation of the state’s
Constitution.
State Rep. Knute Bue-
hler, an orthopedic surgeon,
was elected to represent
House District 54, which
spans the core area of Bend,
in 2014. He won the GOP
nomination in May and is
facing incumbent Gov. Kate
Brown, a Democrat, in the
November general election.
The Democratic Party
alleges Buehler has moved
to Tualatin and is no longer
eligible to serve as a state
representative for the Bend
area.
The Buehler campaign
dismissed the allegations
as “a nonsense, desperate
attack from a campaign that
cannot defend Kate Brown’s
record of failed leadership.”
The Democratic Party of
Oregon points to two press
interviews with Buehler —
one with a sports reporter at
The Portland Tribune and
another with Mark Mason
of 1190 KEX in Portland —
as evidence that Buehler has
moved to Tualatin.
In the interview with
Mason, Buehler confirms
Mason’s sign-off description
of the candidate as “Knute
Buehler, of Tualatin now.”
Then Buehler responds,
“Of Tualatin now, yeah, just
down the street.” Mason
then says, “No longer
Bend.” And Buehler says
“Yeah, and soon to be resi-
dent of Salem.”
“The evidence for this
is in his own words,” said
DPO chair Jeanne Atkins.
Atkins pointed to Article
IV, Section 8 of the state’s
Constitution, which states
that “A person may not be a
Senator or Representative if
the person at all times during
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High 122° in Thermal, Calif.
Low 36° in Bodie State Park, Calif.
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