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Thursday, March 7, 2019
Late Secretary of State memorialized in state funeral
Dennis Richardson
died late last
month following
a battle with brain
cancer
By SARAH
ZIMMERMAN
Associated Press
SALEM (AP) — For-
mer Oregon Secretary of
State Dennis Richard-
son, who died in office last
month following a battle
with brain cancer, was hon-
ored Wednesday at a state
funeral with stories about
his devotion to his faith,
family and the state.
Richardson, 69, was
Oregon’s top elections
official and held the sec-
ond-highest office in the
state after the governor. He
was the highest-ranking
Republican in state gov-
ernment and was the first
Republican elected to state-
wide office in years.
Lawmakers and col-
leagues paid their respects
during a state funeral on
the floor of the Oregon
House of Representatives,
where Richardson served
for 12 years.
Through
tears
and
laughter, acting Secretary
of State Leslie Cummings
praised Richardson for
AP Photo/Andrew Selsky
Republican lawmakers gather around the flag-draped coffin
of Oregon Secretary of State Dennis Richardson, who is lying
in state at the Oregon Capitol before his funeral in Salem on
Wednesday.
Statesman-Journal via AP/Anna Reed
Oregon’s Secretary of State Dennis Richardson, seen in photo at left, lies in state in the rotun-
da at the Oregon Capitol in Salem on Wednesday.
lic Schools and the state’s
Medicaid program.
Cummings took over
day-to-day operations last
October, about four months
after Richardson publicly
announced he was diag-
nosed with cancer.
As he battled the disease,
he kept working, encourag-
ing Oregonians to register
to vote, using social media
as a pro-democracy tool
and overseeing audits done
by his office’s audit team.
wholehearted dedication
to public service, recall-
ing that Richardson would
often work from early in
the morning until late at
night, and would bring
such an enthusiasm to his
work that his colleagues
called him the “Energizer
Bunny.”
Richardson prioritized
election fairness and con-
ducting thorough audits
on the state’s ailing foster
care system, Portland Pub-
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High 86° in Tucson, Ariz. Low -31° in Stonington, Mich.
By RACHEL LA CORTE
Associated Press
OLYMPIA, Wash. —
As health officials monitor
an outbreak concentrated
in southwest Washington,
the state House approved a
measure that would remove
parents’ ability to claim a
personal or philosophical
exemption to vaccinating
their school-age children for
measles.
The vote comes in the
midst of an outbreak that
has sickened at least 71
people — mostly children
age 10 and younger. As of
Wednesday, Clark County
Public Health said that they
were investigating an addi-
tional three suspected cases.
The chamber passed the
bill on a 57-40 vote late
Tuesday night and it now
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heads to the Senate, which
is expected to vote in the
coming days on its own bill,
which is broader. While the
House bill removes the phil-
osophical exemption for
just the combined measles,
mumps and rubella vaccine,
the Senate measure seeks
to remove such exemptions
for any required school
vaccinations.
The measure is spon-
sored by Republican Rep.
Paul Harris of Vancouver,
who said that the measure
“will make our communi-
ties safer.”
Harris pointed to the
nearly three dozen states
— including those with
Republican leadership —
that currently don’t have the
option of the philosophical
exemption.
“This is a biparti-
san issue,” he said during
debate.
Republicans
initially
introduced more than three
dozen floor amendments,
but withdrew most of them
before the late night vote
after majority Democrats
agreed to accept a few of
them, including one that
exempts a child from the
requirement if a parent or
legal guardian presents a
written certification that a
biological parent or sibling
has immune system prob-
lems or adverse reactions to
a particular vaccine.
Unless
an
exemp-
tion is claimed, children
are required to be vac-
cinated against or show
proof of acquired immu-
nity for nearly a dozen dis-
eases before they can attend
school or child care centers.
BRIEFLY
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Boardman
Pendleton
opened his own law prac-
tice in Oregon after gradu-
ating from Brigham Young
University.
A devout Mormon,
he and his wife Cathy
have nine children and 31
grandchildren.
U.S. Rep. Greg Walden,
the only Republican mem-
ber of Oregon’s congressio-
nal delegation, remarked
that Richardson’s “quiet
competence and civility
were a rarity in today’s
world.”
This was Oregon’s first
state funeral since 1983 for
former Gov. Tom McCall.
Washington House passes bill
limiting vaccine exemptions
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Democratic Gov. Kate
Brown remarked in her
eulogy that he was a
respected friend and men-
tor to colleagues on both
sides of the aisle.
“Dennis embodied what
it means to be a dedicated
public servant: hardwork-
ing, passionate, and whole-
heartedly committed to
making Oregon a better
place on behalf of those he
represented,” she said.
Brown will appoint
Richardson’s
successor
in the coming weeks. Her
office said she would con-
sider a Republican who
commits to not entering the
2020 election.
During the funeral,
Richardson, a former com-
bat helicopter pilot during
the Vietnam War, was
accorded full military hon-
ors, including a 21-gun
salute from the Oregon
National Guard outside the
Capitol.
He will be buried in
Medford, near his home-
town of Central Point.
Born in Los Angeles, he
Ex-first lady
agrees to settle
ethics charges
PORTLAND (AP) —
Former Oregon First Lady
Cylvia Hayes has agreed to
pay $44,000 for ethics vio-
lations arising from her use
of public office for personal
profit.
The Oregonian/Oregon-
Live reports the settlement,
signed Jan. 18 by Hayes and
made public Tuesday by the
Oregon Government Ethics
Commission, states Hayes
will not contest that she
broke ethics laws 22 times.
But it allows Hayes to main-
tain that she didn’t know-
ingly break the law.
Private groups paid
Hayes more than $200,000
to lobby for eco-friendly
policies, work investigators
later concluded she obtained
because of her access to
Gov. John Kitzhaber.
The full Ethics Com-
mission will vote Thursday
on whether to accept the
settlement.
Surfer survives
shark attack with
no injuries
PACIFIC CITY (AP) —
A surfer survived a shark
attack off the Oregon coast
with only damage to his
surf board.
The Oregonian/Oregon-
Live reports that Nathan
Holstedt, 33, of Pacific City,
was waiting for a wave
Tuesday when something hit
him from behind and he was
sucked into the water.
When he surfaced, he
saw a shark a few feet away
and thrust his board at it.
Then, he paddled safely to
shore.
That’s when he real-
ized the shark had bitten his
board and missed his leg by
about 6 inches.
OSU student
pleads guilty in
tweet-threat case
EUGENE (AP) — A for-
mer student who threatened
a shooting at Oregon State
University has been sen-
tenced to time served and
will be on federal super-
vised release for three years.
Authorities said Chris-
topher Strahan, 23, pleaded
guilty Tuesday to making
threats. He has been in cus-
tody for about a year.
He was also barred from
entering the campuses or
contacting the employees of
OSU or Linn-Benton Com-
munity College, where he
also took classes.
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