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Unions join Nike in new push
for tax package in Legislature
Grants Pass Rep. chosen as
House minority leader
to also be encouraging
to his fellow Republican
legislators.
“You’ve got to give peo-
ple hope where there is no
hope to be readily seen,”
Wilson said. “And to do
that, you’ve got to keep
them encouraged, you’ve
got to help them to under-
stand that they are still there
to serve their constituents,
the people who elected
them, and so get your vic-
tories where you can.”
House Republicans may
not have much luck on the
“larger” issues, Wilson
said, but they can still serve
their constituents.
“On some of the larger
things you may not have
much good luck, but when
it comes to dealing with
issues that your community
sent you to resolve … that
can make your day worth-
while so we want to keep
that message up among our
crew,” Wilson said.
He succeeds State Rep.
Mike McLane, R-Powell
Butte, who served as party
leader in the House since
2012. McLane, an attorney,
remains in the House but
elected not to hold the lead-
ership role.
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
SALEM — State Rep.
Carl Wilson, a Republican
of Grants Pass, was elected
Monday to serve as House
minority leader.
Wilson has represented
since 2015 a district that
runs from the California
border up to Grants Pass.
He also served in the House
from 1998 to 2003. A U.S.
Navy veteran, Wilson had a
career in radio as on-air tal-
ent, a station manager and
executive.
He believes the Republi-
can caucus of 22 represen-
tatives will be “under a tre-
mendous amount of stress”
as it faces a much larger
Democratic caucus.
Democrats hold 38 seats
in the House, and that could
make it easier for them to
pass measures that do not
have bipartisan support,
including tax increases.
Wilson
said Tues-
day he’s equipped to lead
the smaller caucus with a
“steady hand.”
“I don’t get very excit-
able about a lot of things,”
Wilson said. “I can cer-
tainly be passionate about
Courtesy Carl Wilson
Rep. Carl Wilson on the
House floor.
things, but you know, in the
legislative process, a steady
hand, especially when
you’re leading people, is an
important thing.”
He said the caucus
hasn’t developed its prior-
ities for the 2019 session
and is still reeling from the
results of the general elec-
tion, where Democratic
voters turned out in droves,
expanding majorities in the
Legislature.
Wilson is already look-
ing ahead to 2020 and said
his party will be working
to “remind Oregonians of
what they could have had”
if they had elected more
Republicans. He hopes
By JEFF MAPES
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Oregon’s public employee
unions joined forces Tues-
day with Nike and a group
of long-term care provid-
ers to launch a new coalition
aimed at pushing a major tax
package through next year’s
Legislature.
Leaders of the Coalition
for the Common Good said
they want to work with leg-
islators on new revenue for
schools and other public ser-
vices. And, unlike in previ-
ous years, they don’t want to
tie the negotiations to agree-
ments on cutting costs of the
state’s public pension system.
“We want to bring a sole
focus into revenue reform,”
said James Carlson, presi-
dent of the Oregon Health
Care Association. “The real-
ity is we can’t afford to waste
another five years chasing a
deal that may or may not hap-
pen” on cutting government
costs, he added.
The state’s major public
employee unions have repeat-
edly led efforts — both on the
ballot and in the Legislature
— to gain big new revenue
sources for schools and other
state services.
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State Police trooper shot 12
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They now see a big open-
ing this year after Demo-
cratic Gov. Kate Brown was
re-elected and Democrats
gained seats in both legislative
chambers. They now have
the three-fifths supermajority
needed in the House and Sen-
ate to pass tax increases, with-
out any Republican votes.
Melissa Unger, execu-
tive director of Local 503 of
the Service Employees Inter-
national Union, said that the
new coalition is looking for
a “bold solution that gets us
where we want to go … It’s
really about investing in our
state.”
Nike started working with
Brown earlier this year on tax
policy. This summer, the For-
tune 500 apparel company
agreed to join the governor
and the unions in opposing
two conservative tax mea-
sures on the ballot. At the
same time, a union-backed
group agreed not to proceed
with a proposed ballot mea-
sure that would require corpo-
rations to disclose more infor-
mation about their taxes and
workforce.
Nike signed the letter along
with the five other founding
members of the coalition to
work for “[i]nvestments that
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PORTLAND (AP) — An Oregon State
Police trooper and his wife are suing Wash-
ington County’s 911 Center over what they
say was mishandling of a call that ended with
him shot a dozen times.
KOIN-TV reports Nic Cederberg and Hay-
ley Shelton filed the federal lawsuit in Port-
land on Monday.
Cederberg’s lawsuit claims Washing-
ton County dispatchers issued an “attempt to
locate” bulletin for James Tylka on Dec. 25,
2016, but left out that Tylka had just fatally
shot his wife and was armed and suicidal.
The lawsuit says if he would have known
he wouldn’t have chased Tylka’s vehicle
down a dark, rural dead end road where Tylka
rammed his patrol car and started a gun battle.
Cederberg’s asking for about $20 million
for pain and suffering while Shelton as his
caregiver is seeking some $10 million.
Washington County Consolidated Com-
munications Agency Director Kelly Dutra said
she couldn’t comment on pending litigation.
Environmentalists sue over
acidic ocean off Oregon coast
PORTLAND (AP) — An environmen-
tal group is suing the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, alleging that fossil fuel
consumption has damaged Oregon’s marine
waters by causing ocean acidification that’s
killing off shellfish.
A lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District
Court in Portland by the Center for Biologi-
cal Diversity alleges that the EPA has failed
to identify and protect those marine waters
in Oregon under the Clean Water Act.
The lawsuit says increasing acid levels in
the ocean strips seawater of calcium carbon-
ate — a building block for marine creatures
with shells.
Oregon’s oyster farms first experienced
large-scale die-offs from ocean acidification
in 2005.
Some Pacific Northwest hatcheries have
lost 80 percent of their oyster larvae to prob-
lems linked to acidification.
EPA spokeswoman Suzanne Skadowski
says the agency doesn’t comment on pend-
ing litigation.
Man who killed teen in belt
robbing gets 19 years
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can adequately fund strong
schools and essential public
services.”
The letter also called for a
“state where businesses can
grow and thrive; where Ore-
gon-based businesses are val-
ued for the contribution they
make to the local economy
and their engagement with the
community.”
The other signers were the
Oregon Education Associa-
tion, SEIU Local 503, Ore-
gon AFSCME Council 75,
the Oregon Health Care Asso-
ciation and the Russell Devel-
opment Company. The lat-
ter is a Portland-based firm
headed by John Russell, who
has frequently worked with
Democrats.
The letter didn’t specif-
ically address whether the
revenue discussions should
exclude talks of cost control.
Nike spokesman Greg Ros-
siter said the company didn’t
have any further comment for
now beyond the letter.
Unger said she welcomed
additional business involve-
ment in the tax discussions.
At this point, the state’s major
business groups have repeat-
edly said they want any talk
of revenue to also include cost
controls.
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PORTLAND (AP) — A young man has
been sentenced to 19 years in prison for kill-
ing a 17-year-old boy while trying to rob him
of his belt in a Portland park last year.
The Oregonian/OregonLive reports
20-year-old Kole Jones pleaded guilty last
week to manslaughter and attempted robbery.
He also pleaded guilty to robbery from a dif-
ferent incident in 2016. He was sentenced on
Monday.
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Jones was part of a group of three teens
arrested in the Holladay Park killing of
Shawn Scott Jr. as they tried to force him at
gunpoint to hand over his brown-checkered
Louis Vuitton belt.
Scott died after being shot in the head
by Jones. Scott was a junior at a Vancouver,
Washington, high school where he lived.
Jones declined to say anything in court.
Joe Calhoun, his attorney, said Jones never
intended to shoot Scott and is sorry he killed
him.
Teen convicted of killing man
on Fourth of July
PASCO, Wash. (AP) — An 18-year-old
was convicted of killing a Pasco man who
had been on a grocery run before joining
Fourth of July festivities.
The Tri-City Herald reports Pedro Cade-
nas was found guilty Monday of first-de-
gree murder, second-degree unlawful gun
possession and attempted vehicle theft in
the July 4, 2017, death of Jorge Rodriguez.
The murder charge includes the special
allegation that Cadenas was armed with a
gun when he killed Rodriguez.
Cadenas, who already has a felony
record, is facing 28 years and five months
to just more than 36 years in prison. Five
years of that will be mandatory and served
before he does the rest of the time.
Defense attorneys Shelley Ajax and
Daniel Stovern told the Herald they did not
want to discuss the verdicts.
Country Crossings Music
Festival canceled
CENTRAL POINT (AP) — Officials say
a country music festival in Oregon has been
canceled.
The Mail Tribune reports a spokesperson
for Willamette Country Music Concerts con-
firmed Monday that the 2019 Country Cross-
ings Music Festival had been canceled and will
not return.
The spokesperson wrote in an email that
“we ultimately determined that the festival
team would not be able to deliver the quality
experience our Country Crossings community
expects of this event in 2019.”
A company spokesperson says all tickets
sold for 2019 will be refunded.
The festival, which debuted at the Jackson
County Expo in July 2017, had been on life
support since former president and event man-
ager Anne Hankins left in late summer, title
sponsor Bi-Mart pulled its support in early fall,
and contractors and vendors were left unpaid.
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