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MONDAY • January 11, 2021
COVID-19 in Oregon
GOP legislators back new group
seeking to defy state restrictions
BY ANDREW THEEN
The Oregonian
Two Southern Oregon Re-
publican lawmakers back a
new group, Citizens Against
Tyranny, that formed last
month to defy Gov. Kate
Heard
Brown’s COVID-19 regula-
tions, try to recall elected offi-
cials who decline to sign onto their “declaration
of basic rights” and publicly name private citi-
zens who file complaints against businesses that
don’t comply with Brown’s executive orders.
Sen. Dallas Heard, a Repub-
lican from Roseburg, is one of
the group’s main supporters.
On Friday night, Heard an-
nounced he would raffle off
his sports car, a 2000 Dodge
Viper, to raise money to sup-
Baertschiger
port the group’s future endeav-
ors.
Sen. Herman Baertschiger Jr., R-Grants
Pass, also spoke at a Friday event at a Roseburg
church. The event appeared to be well attended,
according to an hourlong video posted to Face-
book showing with multiple camera angles. No
one in view on the video appeared to be wearing
a mask.
Heard made headlines last month when he re-
moved his mask in a floor speech at the Dec. 21
special session, saying Brown’s government “op-
pressors” had “false authority” when demanding
he wear a mask.
As part of his lengthy speech Friday, Heard
said people who file complaints against busi-
nesses that choose to open despite COVID-19
regulations are “extremists.”
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Pedestrian killed
on Bend Parkway
Bulletin staff report
A 42-year-old Bend man was killed Satur-
day night when he was struck by a semi truck
on the Bend Parkway.
The Bend Police Department said in a
statement early Sunday that Marlow White,
of Bend, was a pedestrian and was seen by
witnesses attempting to run eastbound across
the Parkway, starting from the west side of
the roadway just south of Hawthorne Ave-
nue. The driver of the semi truck, William
McCain, 56, of Alaska, saw White and braked
while turning into the adjacent southbound
lane of the Parkway in an attempt to avoid
the collision, but the 2017 Volvo truck he
was driving struck White. White was not in a
crosswalk or pedestrian crossing.
Officers from the Bend Police Depart-
ment arrived and provided medical aid to
the unconscious White. Bend Fire & Rescue
paramedics took White to St. Charles Bend,
where he died.
The accident took place just after 7 p.m.
McCain, the driver, remained on scene and
cooperated with investigators. There was no
indication that alcohol or other substances
were a factor in this collision, according to
Bend Police.
Plane crashes on
the reservation
Bulletin staff report
A small plane crashed in a remote part of the
Warm Springs Indian Reservation on Saturday.
According to the Warm Springs Police
Department, dispatchers were notified at
2:30 p.m. by Seattle air traffic controllers of a
possible plane crash in the area of the Mutton
Mountains, which are in Wasco County.
The plane was described as a Cessna Cita-
tion 560 jet with the capacity to seat up to 11
passengers. The number of people on board
was not known.
The crash was confirmed by a U.S. Air Force
flyover and an Oregon State Police aircraft.
Warm Springs police responded with as-
sistance from Warm Springs Fire and Safety,
Wasco County Sheriff’s Office and Oregon
State Police.
The crash site was accessed by all-terrain
vehicle. No further information was available.
UPDATES | WASHINGTON, D.C.
Trump plans
defiant final full
week in office
BY JENNIFER JACOBS, MARIO PARKER
AND JOSH WINGROVE
Bloomberg News
Banned from social media and abandoned
by some aides and Cabinet members after
inciting a riot at the U.S. Capitol, President
Donald Trump and a dwindling circle of ad-
visers plan a defiant final week in office, ac-
cording to people familiar
with the matter.
Trump is said to be con-
fident Vice President Mike
Pence and his Cabinet won’t
attempt to remove him un-
der the 25th Amendment.
Pence is dismissive of the
idea of trying to use that au-
thority to drive Trump from INSIDE
office, one person said —
• Schwarzeneg-
though Pence won’t firmly
ger compares
Capitol mob to
rule it out either, a source
Nazis, A4
told CNN over the weekend.
Trump and Pence hav-
• Former Ore-
en’t spoken since Wednes-
gon journalist
describes the
day, when the vice presi-
chaos, A2
dent sheltered in place at
the Capitol after the build-
ing was stormed by Trump supporters. Sen.
James Inhofe of Oklahoma told the Tulsa
World newspaper he’d “never seen Pence
as angry” as he was after being blasted by
Trump for not intervening in the congressio-
nal count of Electoral College votes. Trump
tweeted that Pence lacked “courage.”
Snacks
to go
Photos by
RYAN BRENNECKE
The Bulletin
Julia Luke, 11, smiles as a gray jay
swoops down in an attempt to grab
a nut from her hand while taking a
snack break after skiing at Virginia
Meissner Sno-park with her father
and family friend Saturday. At left,
Luke stands perfectly still as the
bird flies in to grab a nut placed on
top of her head.
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