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Women to hold record number of seats in state Legislature
aren’t all consensus build-
ers and we don’t all have the
traits that people always say,
that they always use, when
they talk about women in
elected office,” Williamson
said.
“I think any time you
have diverse voices that hav-
en’t been represented before
as a part of the conversation,
I think it’s going to change
the dynamic,” said Repub-
lican Christine Drazan, who
won a race to replace retir-
ing state Rep. Bill Kenne-
mer, R-Clackamas. Her pro-
fessional experience includes
working as chief of staff to
a House majority leader and
House speaker. “But I don’t
think I can predict how.”
Nationally, women ran
for Congress in unprece-
dented numbers in the wake
of the 2016 election and the
#MeToo movement, which
called attention to the perva-
siveness of sexual assault and
harassment.
Compared to other states,
Oregon is ahead of the curve
when it comes to women’s
representation in govern-
ment. Women lead the Dem-
ocratic caucus in the House
and both party caucuses in
the Senate.
Women hold roles of gov-
ernor, chief justice and attor-
ney general. Val Hoyle, who
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
SALEM — A record 37
Oregon women will serve as
state legislators in 2019.
Come January, once new
lawmakers are sworn in,
women will hold 28 out of 60
seats in the House.
Women also picked up one
seat in the Senate, bringing
their numbers in that cham-
ber to nine out of 30. (Women
held 10 of those seats in
2008 and 2010, according
to the Center for American
Women and Politics at Rut-
gers University).
House Majority Leader
Jennifer Williamson, a Dem-
ocrat from Portland, said she
thought that six more women
in the House could affect
what policies the Legislature
takes up.
“Women just bring differ-
ent life experiences than men
to the building,” Williamson
said. “So we talk about things
like child care and health care
and paid family leave and
issues that disproportionately
impact women.”
With more women in
office, Oregonians will also
see greater diversity of lead-
ership styles among those
women, Williamson said.
“I think that’s healthy for
our chamber, because we
Jaime Valdez/Portland Tribune
The 2018 Oregon Legislative Assembly at the Oregon
Capitol in Salem. In six state races, women defeated
men and bolstered their numbers in the Oregon House
and Senate. Winners note that they are focused on is-
sues, not gender.
won a May election for state
labor commissioner, will take
over from Brad Avakian in
January.
Tuesday’s results are, in
part, a testament to a con-
certed effort by sitting poli-
ticians and a candidate train-
ing organization to encourage
more women to run for the
state house.
More than a dozen office-
holders in Salem have been
through training with Emerge
Oregon, which recruits and
helps Democratic women run
for political office.
The program saw two
bumps in interest in 2016,
said Jillian Schoene, its
co-executive director.
The first was after Hillary
Clinton won the Democratic
nomination for president. The
second was after Clinton lost
to Republican Donald Trump.
Schoene thinks women
have more support now
because of organizations like
Emerge Oregon, than they
did in 1992, the so-called
“Year of the Woman.”
The year before that, law
professor Anita Hill testi-
fied before an all-male Sen-
ate Judiciary Committee
about being sexually harassed
by Supreme Court nominee
Clarence Thomas.
The committee’s treat-
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of women nationwide who
felt more female representa-
tion was needed in Congress.
“The difference between
now and 1992 is that I think
you will see a sustained level
of interest,” said Schoene.
Preston Mann, execu-
tive director of Promote Ore-
gon, the campaign arm of
the House Republicans, said
Republicans were intent on
recruiting a more diverse
group of candidates as well.
“Despite not having an
Emerge-like organization, the
2018 class of House Repub-
lican candidates included a
record number of women and
candidates of color,” Mann
wrote in an email. “This was
the product of a very inten-
tional effort by Representa-
tive McLane and the House
GOP Leadership team to
recruit and encourage a more
diverse group of candidates to
run for office. On what was an
otherwise disappointing night
for us, we are very proud to
be welcoming four additional
women to the Republican
caucus.”
Voters elected new female
representatives from the Port-
land suburbs to southern and
central Oregon.
Drazan, the represen-
tative-elect from Clacka-
mas, said the fact she was a
woman “might have been
notable” but she doesn’t think
it swayed votes.
She faced three men in
the Republican primary, and
another woman in the general
election.
By November, no mat-
ter whether voters chose the
Democrat or Republican, a
woman was going to be rep-
resenting that part of Clacka-
mas County.
The fact that Drazan is a
woman was acknowledged,
but she doesn’t think it played
into how people perceived
her on the campaign trail. She
also was reluctant to ascribe
intent to voters.
In Bend, Republican can-
didate Cheri Helt, a longtime
local school board member
and restaurant owner, hand-
ily won a race to replace state
Rep. Knute Buehler.
Her priority is improving
the state’s education system.
“I’m hopeful that I won
because I’m a moderate candi-
date and change in education
is so important that it appeals
to both parties, and what we
saw is a bipartisan vote for
me,” Helt said. “And I’m
extremely honored to have
earned that in such a polar-
ized time, and so I’m looking
forward to being a moderate
and being a voice for educa-
tion in the legislature.”
Oregon-based group sues
Trump Administration over
rule limiting asylum
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A Portland-based legal group that
focuses on immigrant rights is suing the
Trump administration over a presidential
proclamation barring migrants from seek-
ing asylum if they cross the southern U.S.
border outside of designated entry points.
The Innovation Law Lab is one of four
plaintiffs attempting to enjoin the presi-
dential proclamation, which was signed by
President Donald Trump Friday.
The plaintiffs in the lawsuit, filed in
U.S. District Court in Northern California,
are seeking a declaration that the new rule
violates the Immigration and Nationality
Act and the Administrative Procedure Act.
Stephen Manning, executive director of
Immigration Law Lab, said the proclama-
tion will “immediately create a population
of detained individuals who are in danger
of immediate removal to countries where
their lives are under threat.”
The Trump administration has instead
called on asylum seekers to enter the
United States through legal ports of entry.
Angelo Guisado, a staff attorney at the
Center for Constitutional Rights and an
attorney in the case, said that’s virtually
impossible. Guisado says potentially thou-
sands of asylum-seekers have been turned
away at legal ports of entry because of
backlogs forcing asylum-seekers to wait in
makeshift encampments in border towns.
“It’s no wonder why individuals cross
‘unlawfully,’” he said. “It’s an impossible
Catch-22 situation.”
The plaintiffs — East Bay Sanctuary
Covenant, Al Otro Lado, Innovation Law
Lab, and Central American Resource Cen-
ter in Los Angeles — are represented by
the ACLU, Southern Poverty Law Center
and the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Guisado said attorneys will move to get
the case heard early next week before a
judge in San Francisco.
“We presume that either way, the court’s
ruling will get appealed and will go to the
9th Circuit and duke it out up there,” he
said.
This is not the first time the Innova-
tion Law Lab has challenged the Trump
administration in court. In June, the group
joined a lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Ore-
gon arguing attorneys have not been able
to meet with 121 immigration detainees
who were housed at the federal prison in
Sheridan.
Correction
In a Wednesday, Nov. 7 article, the
East Oregonian incorrectly noted the
nature of a Hermiston School Board
executive session. The board met in
executive session to discuss negotiations
with a district collective bargaining unit,
not, as stated in the article, to discuss the
superintendent’s contract.
The EO regrets the error.
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