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OFF PAGE ONE Thursday, August 29, 2019 East Oregonian A7 Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand ends presidential bid By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON — Dem- ocrat Kirsten Gillibrand dropped out of the presiden- tial race Wednesday, abruptly ending a campaign that once looked poised to ride strong #MeToo credentials to formi- dability but instead collapsed amid surprisingly low poll- ing and major fundraising struggles. “I know this isn’t the result that we wanted,” the 52-year- old New York senator said in an online video in which she didn’t endorse any other 2020 Democratic White House hopeful. “But it’s important to know when it’s not your time.” The decision came as Gil- librand failed to qualify for a debate coming next month in Houston by not hitting 2% in at least four approved pub- lic opinion polls while secur- ing 130,000 unique donors — despite spending millions on online and TV ads to woo peo- ple contributing as little as $1. That proved especially embar- rassing since candidates who began the race with far lower national profi les, including businessman Andrew Yang, made it. On the eve of Wednes- day’s qualifying deadline, Gillibrand sat down with her family and decided that if a pair of polls set to be released the following morning didn’t AP Photo/John Locher, File In this Aug. 10, 2019, fi le photo, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., speaks at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa. help her meet the polling threshold, she’d drop out. Both ultimately showed her at 0%. To get to the U.S. House, Gillibrand had topped an incumbent Republican in a conservative part of upstate New York in 2007, and she was appointed to the Sen- ate two years later, fi lling the seat vacated by Hillary Clin- ton. She later retained the seat during a 2010 special election, as well as in 2012 and 2018. Vocal in the Senate on curbing sexual harassment and military sexual assault, and promoting equal pay for women and family leave, Gil- librand made those and her staunch defense of abortion rights the core of her presiden- tial bid. She stood out in the packed Democratic presiden- tial fi eld by becoming the fi rst to declare she’d only appoint judges to the Supreme Court who consider the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion nation- wide settled law, though most of her competitors quickly fol- lowed suit. Gillibrand also used her run to highlight systemic racism and white privilege, speaking on the subject fre- quently on issues such as mass incarceration, urban gun vio- lence and maternal mortality rates for black women. She initially hoped to stay in the race in a bid to qual- ify for October’s debates, but her fi nancial situation made that impossible. Gillibrand fi nishes with just $800,000 left in her campaign bank account. That means she spent well over $7 million, just since June 30. Walden: Green New Deal and other hot-button topics Continued from Page A1 action on the climate crisis. Houck said he plans to continue fi nding town halls and pressing politicians on explaining their environmen- tal positions. Earlier, Walden began the meeting highlighting the damage dealt to Americans by scammers utilizing “rob- ocalls” that often use threats of fi nes or law enforcement in order to steal data or extort money. According to Walden, there have been 47.8 billion illegal calls of this nature made in America this year already. To drive his point home, Walden told a story of ignoring a call that appeared to be coming from a Greek number. Later, he listened to the voicemail that President Mike Pence left him from Air Force 2. “Does anybody know how hard it is to get through to Air Force 2?” Walden said, prompting laughter from the hall. He made sure to remind the hall that these calls can have far more serious con- sequences, such as the story of a man who ignored a call from an unfamiliar number that was contacting him to notify him that he had been selected for a needed organ donation. He lost his spot on the list. Walden also shared his work on health care ini- tiatives, such as the CRE- ATES Act, which prevents pharmaceutical companies from withholding access to generic alternatives for the sake of reducing competition. After explaining some of his other work on the Resil- ient Federal Forest Act, Walden voiced optimism Staff photo by Kathy Aney Rep. Greg Walden addressed a variety of topics Wednesday at a town hall in Heppner. about trade agreements with North American neighbors Canada and Mexico, known as USMCA, along with prog- ress in trade talks between the U.S. and China. “I’m concerned about what’s happening on trade,” he said on the confl ict with China, noting its impact on wheat farmers in the region. “But I’m optimistic after President Trump’s tweets that there’s been progress.” Though troubled by the confl ict’s consequences, Walden still supports the Trump administration’s decision to be tough in the negotiations. “It was time to revisit with China,” he said. As for USMCA, Walden said that it will be on Dem- ocratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to continue its progress toward ratifi cation. By drawing tickets from a bucket, Walden then fi elded questions from the audience. Picked to go fi rst, Jeff Bailey of Heppner’s Bank of Eastern Oregon followed up on Pelosi’s role in the trade agreement with con- cern about the ability of Republicans and Democrats to work together. In response, Walden showed a slide and cited the 148 energy and commerce bills that Congress passed from 2017-18, 57 of which were signed into law and 93% that featured biparti- san support, as reason for his optimism. “I’m hopeful that she’ll channel her institutional speakership,” he said of Pelosi. “It’d be really good for the country.” Bailey was quickly fol- lowed by another resident who voiced more concern about divisiveness in Amer- ican politics. While using his own bipartisan efforts as reinforcement on why resi- dents should be optimistic, he acknowledged the problem and gave it a diagnosis. “I think social media has been a cancer on civility,” he said, adding that the anonym- ity it permits only emboldens its users. Reinforcing his con- cern over scammers, local rancher Al Osmin presented a letter he received seek- ing payments. After follow- ing up, he found the sender to be illegitimate but was frustrated with the inaction from authorities when he notifi ed them about it. “We went to the moon 50 years ago, why can’t we put these guys in jail?” Osmin asked. Nodding and listening to the rancher, Walden asked for the letter and said he and his staff would look into it. Morrow County Com- missioner Don Russell was the last resident who spoke and asked Walden about the Endangered Species Act and the possibility of removing protections from species that have recovered from their endangered sta- tus. Russell said the ques- tion was prompted by the Steller sea lion, which he says has boomed from a population of only 30,000 to now more than 600,000 and is threatening salmon in the river. Walden agreed with Rus- sell, though citing the com- plications of the legislation, and both seemed to agree to continue the conversation another time. Thanking the audience for their time, Walden ended the town hall and now pre- pares for the rest of his three- day tour of District 2. After holding events in Rufus and Arlington Wednesday morn- ing, the congressman will hold a town hall in Burns on Thursday before wrapping up the trip on Friday in Tygh Valley. The trip continues Walden’s commitment to holding direct meeting with his constituents. Wednes- day’s town hall in Heppner marked 38 town halls this year, which will reach 40 by the end of the week. Since 2012, Walden has held more town halls than almost any other U.S. representative, with 188 and counting. K-9: Training includes substance detection, tracking and capturing Continued from Page A1 tool for our department.” These additional skills mean that Bali will not only be able to detect ille- gal substances, but also be used as a method to catch and track fl eeing subjects or assist offi cers in subdu- ing a criminal. Bali’s addition to the department was made pos- sible through one of two scholarships offered by Working Dogs Oregon and Howling Creek K-9s. The two groups announced the scholarship at the June meeting of the Ore- gon Association Chiefs of Police before selecting Pendleton Police Depart- ment and Philomath Police Department as the program recipients on Aug. 19. Pendleton Police Chief Stuart Roberts said in a press release that without the scholarship Pendleton Staff photo by Ben Lonergan K-9 handler Offi cer Cass Clark and K-9 Bali pose for a portrait at the Pendleton Police Station Wednesday morning. 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