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Brown says Virginia’s Northam should resign
By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
Governor urges vaccines as
Northwest measles cases climb
SALEM — Democratic
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown
called for her Virginia coun-
terpart to step down over
a racist photo in his 1984
medical school yearbook.
“It’s appalling, all of it,”
Brown told reporters Thurs-
day when asked about Vir-
ginia Gov. Ralph Northam.
“He should resign. And then
we have the next layer of
issue, right? And one after
that.”
She was referring to Lt.
Gov. Justin Fairfax, the next
in line for succession to Vir-
ginia’s highest office, who
is accused of sexual assault;
and Attorney General Mark
Herring, the second in line,
who acknowledged he once
put on blackface in college.
Northam apologized for
appearing in a photo on his
medical school yearbook
page showing someone in
blackface and another in a
Ku Klux Klan outfit, then
later denied he was in the
photo.
“I think part of it is
awareness on these issues,”
Brown said when asked why
some people don’t under-
stand that such costumes are
offensive. “I think some of it
is stupidity, honestly.”
The governor, who is
only the second female gov-
AP Photo/Andrew Selsky
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown speaks Thursday to reporters in front of pictures of previous state
governors in Salem.
ernor elected in Oregon and
is the first openly bisex-
ual governor in the United
States, said America needs
to have a broader conversa-
tion at every level about race
and the impacts of racial
inequities and racial justice.
“I wish we had a presi-
dent who was willing to lead
on this,” she said, referring
to President Donald Trump,
who flirts with racially
tinged rhetoric and who said
there were “very fine peo-
ple” among white suprema-
cist protesters in Charlottes-
ville, Virginia, in 2017. One
woman was killed when a
neo-Nazi drove a car into
counterprotesters.
White people don’t
know what it’s like to live
in a world where they are
treated differently because
of the color of their skin,
Brown said.
“I only know from my
experiences what it’s like
to be treated differently
because I’m female or
because I’m bisexual,” the
governor told reporters sit-
ting with her at a conference
table in her office. “That can
translate a little bit, but it is
not the same.”
Racial discrimination is
more explicit in Virginia,
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African-American students
remain low. The graduation
rate for the state improved
slightly to 78.7 percentage
points but was only 68 per-
cent for African-American
students.
“That tells me we have
a lot of work to do,” Brown
said, advocating education,
a change in culture and pro-
viding better awareness as
ways to erase racism.
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CORVALLIS (AP) — The parents of a
5-year-old boy, who drowned at a Corvallis
summer camp, are suing the athletic club that
hosted the camp for more than $56 million.
The Oregonian/OregonLive reported
Thursday that the lawsuit alleges the Tim-
berhill Athletic Club didn’t have a lifeguard
on duty when Tomas Barreto Pizano rode a
water slide into the pool on June 18, 2018.
The lawsuit says surveillance video
shows the boy sinking and then bobbing up
to gasp for air between 88 and 92 times over
a four-minute period before he becomes
unresponsive.
The complaint says it took eight more
minutes for other adult pool guests to notice
Tomas floating in the water.
Eric Kekel, an attorney for the athletic
club, declined comment about allegations in
the lawsuit.
PORTLAND (AP) — Authorities say a
man admitted to killing his wife in a note to
his two sons, saying she was suffering from
terminal cancer.
The Oregonian/OregonLive reports that
Michael D. Winchester, 52, of Lake Oswego
is suspected of killing Heidi A. Winchester,
50, on Jan 30.
Their 18-year-old son initially told dis-
patchers that his father had strangled the
woman. But when police entered the home,
they said they found the woman with cuts to
her neck.
Court documents say Winchester told an
officer he killed his wife and that she had
cancer. The couple had just returned home
from a doctor’s appointment when the attack
occurred.
Winchester was being held without bail
Wednesday in Clackamas County Jail.
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which grapples with a leg-
acy of slavery and white
supremacy, but it also exists
— in a more subtle form —
in Oregon, Brown said.
Brown earlier Thurs-
day proclaimed February as
African-American history
month in Oregon, and said
she commented to an edu-
cation department official
at the ceremony that high
school graduation rates for
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TODAY
SALEM (AP) — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown urged
residents to get vaccinated Thursday as public health
officials in Oregon and Washington reported a com-
bined 56 confirmed cases of measles.
The Oregon Legislature will likely take a look
at ways to tighten the state’s immunization rules in
the wake of the Pacific Northwest measles outbreak,
Brown said, although she didn’t point to any specific
proposal.
“I think we need to strengthen our legislation,”
she told reporters.
Washington lawmakers, meanwhile, will hold a
public hearing Friday on a bill that would remove
the so-called “philosophical” exemption for the
combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, or
MMR.
Advocates on both sides of the childhood vac-
cines debate are expected to attend.
Clark County, Washington — where the outbreak
began on Dec. 31 — reported Wednesday that is has
identified 13 additional suspected cases, including
four in unvaccinated people who had contact with
contagious individuals.
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