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NORTHWEST East Oregonian Page 2A Saturday, November 24, 2018 Oregon sees surge in Hispanic candidates, office holders 22 councilors who’ve served since the elected body was reorganized in 1995. Oregon has seen a surge in recent years in Hispan- ics seeking and winning election to public office, from local school boards to the Oregon Legisla- ture. According to the U.S. Census, Oregon had about 495,000 Latinos in 2017 — 13 percent of the state’s population. That’s up from 11 percent in 2000. The recent election advanced that trend with Gonzalez’s win and the possible election of Eddy Morales to the Gresham City Council. Multnomah County is recounting the votes in Morales’ race against incumbent Kirk French because the margin was so narrow. Following the May 2017 election, Hispanics were the majority on the Wood- burn School Board, reflect- ing the makeup of the dis- trict’s enrollment. Latinx candidates continue to win seats on other school boards around the state. School board members from Hispanic and other backgrounds formed the Color Caucus two years ago to increase their influ- ence on the Oregon School Boards Association. During that period, the caucus has By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau Juan Carlos Gonzalez was a high school junior from Forest Grove when he encountered President Barack Obama in Washing- ton, D.C., through the Boys Nation leadership program. Meeting the nation’s first black president made a last- ing impression on Gon- zalez, the son of Mexican immigrants. “His campaign slo- gan was hope. He just acti- vated so many people in the country to think about the United States in the way that he did,” Gonzalez said. “He was larger than life. I thought if he could be the first, I could be first in some- thing else. Glass ceilings could be shattered.” Now 26, Gonzalez recently won election to Metro, the Portland area’s influential regional plan- ning council. The agency is responsible for planning infrastructure and develop- ment across jurisdictional boundaries and protecting green space. When he takes office in January, he will be the first Hispanic to serve on the council and possibly the youngest member in history. Metro officials confirmed he’s younger than any of the Jaime Valdez/Portland Tribune Juan Carlos Gonzalez recently won election to Metro, the Portland area’s influential regional planning coun- cil. Oregon has seen a surge in the number of Hispanic candidates and office holders. grown from a handful to dozens of members, said Erika Lopez, a Hilllsboro School Board member and part of the caucus. The group is seek- Forecast for Pendleton Area TODAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY Partly sunny Times of clouds and sun Cloudy, a shower in the p.m. Cloudy with occasional rain Intervals of clouds and sun 47° 28° 45° 31° PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 46° 38° 50° 40° 50° 33° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 49° 27° 43° 31° 44° 37° 49° 40° OREGON FORECAST PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yest. HIGH LOW TEMP. Olympia 51/40 40/28 47/21 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 44/29 Lewiston 49/35 49/30 Astoria 52/39 Pullman Yakima 44/28 49/33 46/28 Portland Hermiston 51/36 The Dalles 49/27 Salem Corvallis 49/30 Yesterday Normals Records La Grande 41/22 PRECIPITATION John Day Eugene Bend 51/32 44/25 41/24 Ontario 47/21 Caldwell Burns 50° 33° 47° 31° 70° (2017) -11° (1985) 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date Albany 50/33 Boardman Pendleton Medford 51/31 0.14" 0.15" 0.89" 6.60" 8.58" 8.17" WINDS (in mph) 46/22 39/7 0.07" 0.17" 1.09" 8.32" 14.84" 11.08" through 3 p.m. yest. HIGH LOW TEMP. Pendleton 37/16 53/34 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date HERMISTON Enterprise 47/28 48/31 51° 41° 45° 31° 75° (1933) -12° (1985) PRECIPITATION Moses Lake 51/33 Aberdeen 36/25 42/27 Tacoma Yesterday Normals Records Spokane Wenatchee 49/38 Today Sun. SW 4-8 SW 6-12 NNE 3-6 NNE 4-8 SUN AND MOON Klamath Falls 43/21 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2018 Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today 7:06 a.m. 4:17 p.m. 5:56 p.m. 8:31 a.m. Last New First Full Nov 29 Dec 6 Dec 15 Dec 22 NATIONAL EXTREMES Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 85° in Key West, Fla. Low -26° in Old Forge, N.Y. Even PCUN — which previously focused on working conditions — recently started recruiting Latinx candidates. Its politi- cal action arm, Accion Polit- ica PCUNista, urged Teresa Alonso Leon, the daughter of a farm worker, to run for the House district that runs from Woodburn to Salem and helped buoy her to vic- tory in 2016, Lopez said. That same year, the Leg- islature gained two other Hispanic lawmakers – Diego Hernandez of east Portland and Mark Meek of Clackamas County. Lopez was elected to the Hillsboro School Board in 2017 after participating in Emerge training, a nonprofit that recruits and trains Dem- ocratic women for office. She learned how to file cam- paign finance reports, land endorsements and build up a resume before running for office. The Hillsboro School District, where 37 percent of students are Latinx, had no Hispanic board mem- bers at the time. The board appointed another Latina, Yadira Martinez, earlier this year. Martinez, raised in Hill- sboro, said she sought the appointment because she realized the Hispanic community needed more involvement and “our voices need to be heard.” To win votes from His- panic voters, advocates do a lot of canvassing. PCUN sent out Spanish-speak- ing employees and volun- teers for house calls, some- times visiting several times to convince a voter to turn in a ballot or help them under- stand the ballot choices, Reyna Lopez said. 51° 35° BRIEFLY ALMANAC Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Seattle ing a vote on the associa- tion’s board. A majority of school boards must agree, and some, such as Hills- boro, have already voted in favor, Lopez said. The cau- cus expects to find out the outcome by the end of the month, she said. The movement to put Hispanics in office gained steam in 2014 after vot- ers rejected an Oregon bal- lot measure that would have provided a four-year driving card to undocumented immi- grants. Disappointment over the measure’s failure stirred Hispanic leaders to step up their advocacy and orga- nizing, said Reyna Lopez, executive director of PCUN (Pineros y Campesinos Uni- dos del Noroeste), Oregon’s union for farm workers and tree planters. The same year, the Color Political Action Committee formed to find and support candidates who reflected their minority constituen- cies. Since then, other orga- nizations with the same pur- pose have formed, including East County Rising in east Multnomah County. President Trump’s immi- gration stands during his presidential campaign in 2016 helped galvanize unprecedented political organization in the Latinx community. Lopez ran for office after her 10-year-old son came home from school and told her he was afraid she would be deported. Lopez, whose family emigrated from Mex- ico, is a citizen and can’t be deported. But, Lopez said, the inci- dent “was kind of the nexus of what was happening in the national policy land- scape and … how it trans- lates into our lives and in our communities.” She said her son is hear- ing “this negative narrative around people who look like me or come from where I come from. It was really disheartening.” Then, this year, three Ore- gon lawmakers proposed a state measure to repeal the state’s 30-year sanctuary law, which prohibits local police from enforcing fed- eral immigration law. Voters earlier this month defeated the measure after a robust opposition campaign led by the Hispanic community. NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Portland police officers on leave after man dies at hospital PORTLAND (AP) — Authorities say a man who was restrained by police in Port- land later died at a hospital and the offi- cers are on paid leave while an investiga- tion takes place. KOIN reports the incident started on Thursday night with reports of a person yelling and running in the streets. When Portland State University officers found the man, there was a struggle, so they requested assistance from Portland Police officers. The man was restrained and taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. Investigators believe the man suffered a medical event and died at the hospital. The Portland Police have launched an internal administrative investigation and two Portland Police officers will remain on leave until the review is completed. Man charged in killings was under supervision in Washington PORTLAND (AP) — Authorities say a man accused of killing two strangers in separate downtown Portland shootings was under supervision in Washington state. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports James Barquet pleaded not guilty Wednes- day to aggravated murder charges, first-de- gree robbery and felon in possession of a firearm. A probable cause affidavit says Barquet killed Carol Horner late Monday, and then Brian Hansen less than four hours later with single shots to the head. Washington State Department of Cor- rections spokesman Jeremy Barclay says Barquet was released from prison July 11 after serving seven months for a felony drug charge. Barclay says Barquet entered a supervi- sion program, meeting weekly with a com- munity corrections officer. Barclay says Barquet’s last meeting was Nov. 13. Court records show Barquet’s supervisor told authorities he was unaware Barquet had traveled to Oregon. Corrections The Nov. 22 article “How a PHS senior ‘Beat the Odds,’” misstated the number of Beat the Odds scholarships Stand for Children Oregon gave out per year before 2018. It was three. Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. -10s -0s 0s showers t-storms 10s rain 20s flurries 30s snow 40s ice 50s cold front — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. Main St., Hermiston 541-567-6211 Office hours: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed major holidays www.eastoregonian.com To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ East Oregonian (USPS 164-980) is published daily except Sunday, Monday and postal holidays, by the EO Media Group, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. Periodicals postage paid at Pendleton, OR. Postmaster: send address changes to East Oregonian, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. 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