BAKER CITY HERALD • THuRsDAY, NovEmBER 10, 2022 A5
ELECTION 2022
Kotek prevails in close governor’s race
services.
As of 11 a.m. Wednesday,
PORTLAND — Demo-
Nov. 9, Kotek was ahead of
crat Tina Kotek has won the
Drazan by 30,000 votes, the
race for Oregon governor, de-
state’s tally showed. And Mult-
nomah County had yet to tab-
feating Republican Christine
ulate results from 80,000 bal-
Drazan.
It was a hard-fought and
lots it has logged as received by
Kotek
expensive win by Democrats,
10 a.m. Wednesday, state and
who have a huge party registration ad-
county websites showed. With Mult-
nomah voters favoring Kotek over Dra-
vantage in Oregon but faced strong
zan by a better than 70% to 30% mar-
headwinds this year amid voter frus-
gin, those untallied votes in Oregon’s
tration at problems including home-
lessness, violent crime and lackluster
biggest, bluest county can be expected
delivery of government programs and
to add another 30,000 votes to Kotek’s
lead, The Oregonian/OregonLive pro-
jected.
Votes still untallied in other counties
that favor Drazan, including Clack-
amas, Marion and Yamhill, won’t be
sufficient to erode Kotek’s substantial
margin, an analysis by The Oregonian/
OregonLive shows.
Democratic Gov. Kate Brown’s low-
est-in-the-nation popularity rating was
also widely viewed as a drag on Kotek’s
ability to win over voters, and the Dem-
ocratic nominee attempted with in-
creasing intensity to distance herself
from Brown by criticizing the governor
BY HILLARY BORUD
The Oregonian
polling showed was attracting more
Democratic voters than Republicans.
Kotek’s win affirms just how diffi-
cult it is for a Republican candidate to
win election to the state’s highest office,
which Republicans last held in 1987.
Now, Kotek will get the opportunity
that she said on the campaign trail she
wanted: to follow through on initiatives
that Democrats passed in the Legisla-
ture but the state hasn’t yet produced,
such as the state’s family and medical
leave program that is expected to launch
eight months late while workers forgo as
much as $453 million in benefits.
Baker County Results
Baker County residents strongly fa-
vored Republican Christine Drazan in
the oregon governor’s race.
Drazan received 72% of the coun-
ty’s votes, with 6,232, compared to
Democrat Tina Kotek’s 1,451 votes
(16.9%). Independent Betsy Johnson
was third, with 821 votes (9.5%).
in debates and ads. Kotek also had to
contend with an unusually well-funded
unaffiliated candidate in Johnson, who
Democrat Ron
Wyden wins
re-election to
U.S. Senate
Oregon passes Measure 114, one of
strictest gun control measures in U.S.
BY MAXINE BERNSTEIN
The Oregonian
Oregon voters passed one of
the country’s strictest gun con-
trol measures, a long-sought
goal of a grassroots faith-based
campaign.
Partial returns tallied as of
11:15 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 8
showed Measure 114 leading
51% to 49%.
Most of the votes left to be
tallied were in Multnomah,
Washington and Clackamas
counties, all favoring or heavily
favoring the measure.
The measure will require
Oregonians to obtain a permit
to buy a gun after completing
a firearms safety course and
would ban the sale or transfer of
magazines that hold more than
10 rounds of ammunition.
It also will close the so-called
Charleston loophole by requir-
ing state police to complete full
background checks on buyers
with permits before any gun
sale or transfer. Under federal
law now, firearms dealers can
sell guns without a completed
background check if the check
takes longer than three business
days.
“We began this historic cam-
paign to save lives with faith,
and we remain hopeful as we
wait for all of the votes to be
counted,” said the Rev. Mark
Knutson, one of the chief peti-
tioners, speaking earlier in the
night to supporters gathered at
Portland’s Augustana Lutheran
Church.
“We thank everyone that
helped put Measure 114 on the
ballot and supported us every
step of the way, gathering sig-
natures, knocking on doors,
making phone calls, and turn-
ing those precious ballots in,” he
said. “We are eternally grateful
for your strength and dedica-
tion.”
The highest support for the
measure was in Multnomah
County, with 75% to 25% in fa-
vor. The measure led in Wash-
ington County 62% to 38% and
Clackamas County at 52% to
48%. The measure led in Lane
County at 54% to 46% and in
Deschutes County at 51% to
50%.
The measure was losing in
Marion, Jackson, Linn and
Douglas counties.
It drew national attention,
gaining support from mass
shooting survivors including
David Hogg, who became a gun
control activist after the 2018
shooting at Marjory Stoneman
Douglas High School in Florida,
and Joshua Friedland, who lost
eight friends and classmates in
the 2015 Umpqua Community
College shooting in Roseburg.
“We know that throughout
U.S. history change rarely comes
from the federal government,”
Hogg said during the campaign.
“Most often it comes from states
and local governments, and this
is an example of everyday peo-
ple using their state government
and working together to create
a safer community to stop this
violence before it touches them,
too.”
Friedland, now a forestry stu-
dent seeking his master’s degree
BY GILLIAN FLACCUS
Associated Press
PORTLAND — Oregon’s senior
U.S. senator, Democrat Ron Wyden,
won reelection easily Tuesday, Nov.
8, defeating a Republican opponent
who has never held elected office.
Wyden, who was first elected to
the Senate in
1996, chairs the
powerful U.S.
Senate Finance
Committee and
also sits on the
Energy and Nat-
ural Resources,
Wyden
Budget and In-
telligence Com-
mittees.
As legislative accomplishments, he
points to his work on clean energy
tax credits — including a key role in
the passage of the Inflation Reduc-
tion Act — prescription drug price
reduction measures, tax reform and
boosting the semiconductor manu-
facturing industry.
Wyden, 73, is known for holding
town halls in each of Oregon’s 36
counties, with thousands of those
gatherings taking place over the
years.
He previously served in the U.S.
House of Representatives, represent-
ing Oregon’s 3rd Congressional Dis-
trict from 1981 to 1996.
Wyden raised $13.8 million this
election cycle, according to Federal
Elections Commission campaign fi-
nance reports.
His Republican opponent,
66-year-old Jo Rae Perkins from Al-
bany, Oregon, previously made un-
successful runs for the Senate in 2014
and for the 4th Congressional Dis-
trict in 2016 and 2018. She received
33% of the vote in the Republican
primary.
Perkins, who has a background in
the financial services industry, calls
herself a “Main Street American” and
has voiced support for QAnon con-
spiracy theorists. She questions the
validity of President Joe Biden’s 2020
victory, opposes COVID-19 mask
and vaccine mandates and does not
support abortion for any reason.
She raised more than $92,000, ac-
cording to FEC records.
A third candidate, Chris Henry
of the Oregon Progressive Party, is a
truck driver and airplane mechanic
who ran for Oregon Commissioner
of Labor and Industries this year but
was defeated in the May primary.
Kathy Aney/East oregonian, File
Clay Winton, owner of Crosshair Customs in Baker City, chats with customers March 11, 2018, at the Pendleton Gun Show. The passage of
Measure 114 on the November ballot in Oregon would make obtaining a gun more difficult and outlaw magazines that hold more than
10 rounds.
How Did Baker County Vote?
Baker County
measure 112: Would remove
slavery (involuntary servitude)
as a basis for criminal punish-
ment
• No, 6,853 (81.3%)
Baker County
• Yes, 1,577 (18.7%)
• No, 5,877 (71.7%)
MEASURE 113: BAR
LEGISLATORS FROM SEEKING
RE-ELECTION IF THEY HAVE 10
OR MORE UNEXCUSED
ABSENCES FROM A REGULAR
OR SPECIAL SESSION
• Yes, 2,324 (28.3%)
Baker County
Baker County
• Yes, 4,619 (56%)
• No, 5,710 (69.6%)
• No, 3,622 (44%)
• Yes, 2,523 (30.6%)
MEASURE 114: GUN PURCHASE
RESTRICTIONS
at the Yale School of the Envi-
ronment, said he suffered anx-
iety and depression and was on
a suicide watch for months after
the Roseburg carnage. He said
he expects the measure could
cut down on impulsive suicides
because people won’t be able
to purchase a gun as quickly as
they can now.
The chief petitioners behind
the measure — Knutson of
Portland’s Augustana Lutheran
Church, the church musical
director Marilyn Keller and
Congregation Beth Israel Rabbi
Michael Cahana — awaited
the results with other support-
ers at the church. U.S. Sen. Jeff
Merkley, D-Ore., stopped by the
church and spoke with support-
ers in the church basement.
Lift Every Voice Oregon, the
interfaith group that crafted the
measure, launched shortly after
the Parkland, Florida, school
shooting four years ago that
killed 17 students and staff and
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injured 17 others. The group
ran out of time to collect
enough signatures for similar
petitions that year. Bills re-
flecting the initiatives never
got a hearing in the state
Legislature in 2019 and the
pandemic hampered signa-
ture-gathering efforts in 2020
and last year.
Days before the election,
the backers marched to North
Portland’s Dawson Park to
urge support. Three people
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preference for Republican Jo Rae
Perkins, who lost her race against
incumbent Democrat Ron
Wyden in a race for u.s. senate.
In Baker County, Perkins re-
ceived 5,816 votes (68.5%) to
Wyden’s 2,488 votes (29.3%).
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with Connie Ballmer, a Seat-
tle philanthropist and Uni-
versity of Oregon alumna,
the top contributor, donating
$750,000.
Ballmer is married to bil-
lionaire Steve Ballmer, the
former CEO of Microsoft and
current owner of the Los An-
geles Clippers NBA basketball
team.
Opponents raised a
fraction of that, just over
$200,000, and will draw a
state penalty for late reporting
of a $25,700 donation from
a National Rifle Association
fund based in Virginia, ac-
cording to state officials.
Critics, including the Ore-
gon Firearms Federation, the
National Rifle Association
and the Oregon Sportsmen’s
Alliance, called the measure
costly and said its unwieldy
process will block prospective
lawful gun owners.
Kevin Starrett, director of
the firearms federation, has
argued the measure violates
the Second Amendment and
will be challenged in court.
He called it “impossible to
comply with” and said it won’t
have the desired impact.
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were killed in fatal shootings
in or on the edge of the park
in the last two years.
“We cannot stand idly by
when our neighbor bleeds,”
Cahana said. “It’s our attempt
to make a difference.”
Oregon joins Washington,
D.C., and 14 other states that
have enacted similar per-
mit-to-purchase gun laws.
Nine states and Washington,
D.C., have adopted laws ban-
ning large-capacity ammuni-
tion magazines.
Ari Freilich, state policy
director at the Giffords Law
Center to Prevent Gun Vio-
lence, said the campaign and
approval of the ballot mea-
sure has shown voters are
ahead of their lawmakers on
gun safety.
“A lot of folks will be look-
ing to Oregon on how it’s im-
plemented,” he said.
Under the proposal, any-
one who wants to buy a gun
will have to obtain a permit,
pay an anticipated $65 fee,
complete an approved fire-
arms safety course at their
own expense, submit a photo
ID, be fingerprinted and pass
a criminal background check.
Proponents raised $2.4
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