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STATE MEASURES
Voters protect sanctuary status, nix grocery tax ban
104, Oregonians came together
to defend our values from out-
side special interests who tried to
increase their profits at the expense
of Oregon families,” said Our Ore-
gon Executive Director Becca
Uherbelau in a written statement.
“Voters once again made a state-
ment for all of Oregon’s leaders to
hear: we want strong investments
in health care and education.”
Proponents of Measure 104
said the measure’s complicated
ballot title presented an insur-
mountable challenge.
“The complicated and confus-
ing ballot title was just too much
to overcome,” said Shawn Cleave,
government affairs director for the
Oregon Association of Realtors,
in a written statement. “Our coa-
lition will continue to fight to pro-
tect important deductions like the
mortgage interest and property tax
deductions that keep homeown-
ership affordable for many of our
friends and neighbors.”
Measure 105 would have over-
turned a state law that prohib-
its local police from using their
resources to apprehend people
whose only violation of law is
being in the country without legal
permission. About 63 percent of
voters said no.
Supporters of the measure chal-
lenged a law that has been in place
since 1987. It was designed to pre-
vent racial profiling by police.
“It reaffirms the feeling that
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
SALEM — On election night,
Oregonians blocked attempts to
overturn the state’s sanctuary sta-
tus for undocumented immi-
grants and affirmed public funding
for reproductive health care —
including abortion — holding onto
its status as a socially liberal state.
In so doing, Oregon voters
rejected socially conservative pri-
orities by large margins.
They also roundly rejected fis-
cally conservative measures that
attempted to restrict tax increases,
opening the door for broader tax
reforms in the 2019 legislative
session.
In early statewide returns,
about 58 percent of voters rejected
Measure 103, which would have
banned taxes on groceries.
And about 66 percent of vot-
ers counted rejected Measure 104,
which would require a three-fifths
majority vote in the Legislature on
certain tax-related measures.
Under that measure, lawmakers
— 60 percent in both the House
and Senate — would have had to
vote “yes” to approve changes to
tax credits, exemptions and deduc-
tions, or fee increases.
The liberal coalition Our Ore-
gon claimed that the state in this
election defended itself from out-
of-state interests.
“By rejecting Measures 103 and
Staff photo by Phil Wright
Protesters line up on Oct. 27 along Highway 395 in Hermiston to
oppose Ballot Measure 105, which sought to end Oregon’s sanc-
tuary state status.
Oregon is a welcoming state,” said
Levi Herrera-Lopez, executive
director of Mano a Mano, a com-
munity organization in Salem that
primarily serves Latino families.
Herrera-Lopez joined many
Mano a Mano staff knocking on
doors urging people to vote no on
the measure. He said the results
validate what they heard from vot-
ers on the ground.
“Us immigrants, we’re seen
as people who can contribute to
the community,” he said. “The
rhetorical significance of invad-
ers doesn’t hold ground here in
Oregon.”
Forecast for Pendleton Area
TODAY
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The measure prompted a divide
within the state’s police commu-
nity, with 16 largely rural sher-
iffs supporting the measure. Other
police officials spoke out against
it publicly, including Multnomah
County Sheriff Mike Reese and
Deschutes County District Attor-
ney John Hummel.
The measure demonstrated the
renewed interest in immigration
policy since now-President Don-
ald Trump announced his candi-
dacy in 2015.
Voters also blocked Measure
106, which was mounted by a
pro-life group that wanted to ban
public funding for most abor-
tions. About 64 percent of voters
rejected Measure 106.
Pro-choice advocates were
buoyant about the results.
“Together, we made sure that
Oregon voters saw Measure 106
for what it was: a backdoor ban on
abortion,” said Grayson Dempsey,
executive director of NARAL’s
Pro-Choice Oregon political
action committee. “In Oregon, we
trust women to make their own
decisions — and a right is not a
right if you cannot afford to access
it.”
Amid a statewide housing crisis,
Oregonians also approved a mea-
sure that allows local governments
to use public bond money for pri-
vate housing projects.
Nearly 56 percent of voters
approved the measure.
“Housing is affecting everybody,
whether it’s our workers at OHSU
who are getting priced out of Port-
land or workers in Pendleton who
are worried about finding housing,”
said Joe Baessler, political direc-
tor for Oregon’s American Federa-
tion of State, County and Municipal
Employees, which represents gov-
ernment workers. “It took me by
surprise how strongly our members
felt about that measure.”
The measure requires local vot-
ers’ approval of any such bonds,
annual audits and public report-
ing on how the borrowed funds are
spent.
UMATILLA COUNCIL
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Challengers on path to win in Umatilla
council last year. She promised if elected
that she would vote with the community’s
best interests at heart.
Umatilla’s mayoral race was too close
She also said one of the things that
to call when results came in at 8 p.m., but inspired her to run was her new duties at
Mary Dedrick had a 22 vote lead over Umatilla School District as the district’s
incumbent Daren Dufloth.
homeless liaison. She said she wanted to
Dufloth was running for re-election encourage the city to do what it could to
for the first time since he was
decrease homelessness in the
community.
appointed to the mayor’s seat in
Dedrick is a volunteer coordi-
March 2017. Dedrick resigned
nator at McNary Heights Elemen-
from the city council in April
tary School and has worked for
2017, but said she decided to run
the school district for 38 years.
for mayor after she was encour-
aged by several community
She has served on the city council
members.
twice before, for a total of about
13 years.
Dufloth said he was disap-
Another incumbent looked
pointed to see the initial results
showed him behind, but he felt Dedrick
likely to lose his seat on the city
council.
Umatilla would move forward
Mark Keith had 45.7 percent of the vote
and continue to do well whether he or Ded-
rick were at the helm. The city is already for council position 1, compared with Corinne
moving in a forward direction, he said, and Funderburk’s 53.7 percent as of 8 p.m.
Keith and his wife Jennifer Armstrong
has an excellent staff.
“I think the city is in a better place now recently opened a new wellness clinic,
Encore Wellness 4 Life, in Umatilla and
than when I took over,” he said.
Dedrick couldn’t be reached for com- have other locations in the Tri-Cities area.
ment Tuesday night, but before election day Keith was appointed to the council in June
she said she thought too many people on 2017.
Funderburk, a language arts teacher at
the city council were more focused on what
they personally wanted than what the com- Umatilla High School, said now that her
munity as a whole wanted. She said that three sons are teenagers she wants to spend
was the main reason she resigned from the more time giving back to the community.
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HERMISTON COUNCIL
Davis beats Gomolski for council seat
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Hermiston city councilor Lori Davis
will keep her seat for another four years,
beating challenger Mark Gomolski with
57.1 percent of the vote as of 8
p.m.
Davis has served on the
Hermiston City Council since
2010. She was appointed to fill
a vacant seat, and then elected a
few months later.
A three-way split between
Davis, Gomolski and Jackie Lin-
ton during the May primaries
forced a runoff between Davis Davis
and Gomolski. At the time,
Gomolski got 36.3 percent of the vote and
Davis pulled in 32.6 percent.
Davis said she grateful for the commu-
nity’s support to win the race. She alluded
to a larger movement of women candidates
winning positions around the country.
“The future is female,” she said.
Before election results came in she sent
an email to East Oregonian saying she
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tunate to be a part of its city government.
“I will continue to listen and serve all
citizens in this great city,” she said.
When reached about 8:30 p.m., Gomol-
ski said there were still more votes to be
counted, and while the obvious hope is
always to win an election, he
hoped no matter what the out-
come that he had inspired more
people to get involved in their
city government.
Gomolski also served on
the school board for Hermis-
ton School District, which holds
its meetings the same time as
the Hermiston City Council. He
said regardless of the outcome
of the race, he would continue to
encourage the organizations to find a way
to meet at different times so that residents
could attend both. It would also be benefi-
cial for the two governing bodies, he said,
as they continue to partner on projects,
such as using the aquatic center to host free
swimming lessons for students.
“If we’re going to be doing partnerships
like that, I think we should be attending
each other’s meetings,” he said.
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