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DESCHUTES COUNTY
COVID-19 data for Monday, April 26:
Deschutes County cases: 7,676 (43 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 73 (zero new deaths)
Crook County cases: 949 (3 new cases)
Crook County deaths: 19 (zero new deaths)
Jefferson County cases: 2,097 (2 new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 32 (zero new deaths)
Oregon cases: 181,231 (630 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,486 (1 new death)
COVID-19 patients hospitalized
at St. Charles Bend on Monday: 30 (8 in ICU)
130
(Dec. 4)
108 new cases
(Jan. 1)
120
7-day
average
90
new
cases
Ways to help limit its spread: 1. Wash hands often with
soap and water for at least 20 seconds. 2. Avoid touching
your face. 3. Avoid close contact with sick people. 4. Stay
6 feet from others and wear a face covering or mask.
5. Cover a sneeze with a tissue or cough into your elbow.
6. Clean frequently touched objects and surfaces.
103 new cases
(April 23)
110
100
(Nov. 27)
90
74 new cases
80
(April 10)
50
new
cases
70
60
(Feb. 17)
47 new cases
50
(Nov. 14)
28 new cases
8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
(July 16)
40
*State data
unavailable
for Jan. 31
31 new cases
(Oct. 31)
16 new cases
30
(Sept. 19)
9 new cases
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129 new cases
What is COVID-19? A disease caused by a coronavirus.
Symptoms (including fever and shortness of breath) can
be severe, even fatal, though some cases are mild.
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(May 20)
1st case
10
(March 11)
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Oregon lawmakers face backlash
— and threats — over gun bills
BY SARA CLINE
The Associated Press/Report for America
PORTLAND — Ahead of the Oregon
Legislature’s final vote on two contentious
gun bills, lawmakers from both parties
have received death threats, intimidating
messages and faced recall petitions.
While lawmakers say it is not uncom-
mon for Democrats to receive threats for
supporting and sponsoring gun bills, this
session some Republicans are seeing a
backlash for just showing up to work.
In March, the state Senate voted in favor
of Senate Bill 554, which would ban guns
from the Capitol and other state build-
ings and allow local jurisdictions to decide
whether people with a concealed handgun
license can bring guns into public buildings.
During the floor session, the seats of five
Republican senators were empty. Walkouts
have become an increasingly common tactic
by the minority party to prevent a vote from
taking place by denying quorum. Unlike
past walkouts, a majority of the Republicans
, six, attended the floor session, all of whom
voted against the bill and filed multiple mo-
tions on the floor for more than six hours.
But not everyone was happy with the
GOP lawmakers’ decision to show up to
work at the Capitol that day, as each of
the six senators have received threatening
messages.
One email to the lawmakers wished that
they would “become victims of criminals
who use violence” and in another message
the senators were called “traitors” and the
“enemy.”
“We’ve gotten some very nasty emails,”
Athena Republican Sen. Bill Hansell, who
attended the vote, told the East Oregonian.
“Even to the extent that we’ve had to turn
some of the emails to the state police be-
cause we were threatened to be shot.”
The harassment didn’t stop there.
Hansell said his constituents had been
contacted to gather signatures to recall him,
and a Molalla resident filed a prospective
Connor Radnovich/Statesman-Journal via AP, file
A group including three Democratic senators stand among the empty desks of Republican sena-
tors during a Senate floor session at the Oregon Capitol in Salem in 2019.
petition to recall Oregon state Senate Mi-
nority Leader Fred Girod. The petition said
Girod “refused to use the single tool avail-
able to defend the people who elected him.”
“I think it is pretty amazing that there
would be a recall for a Senate Republican
leader just because he stayed on for a vote,”
said Priscilla Southwell, a political science
professor at the University of Oregon.
The petition is a reflection of a new
reality for Republican lawmakers, who
have repeatedly held walkouts since 2019
to block legislation they disagree with or
know they can not defeat.
Dru Draper, the communications di-
rector for the Senate Republican Office,
said walkouts are an important tool for the
GOP, but they only delay bills from being
passed by Democrats.
“We are focused on bringing back bal-
ance to the Legislature. Other Republicans
should be too,” Draper said.
Democrats also faced threats and intim-
idation over the gun measures.
Rep. Rachel Prusak, a West Linn Dem-
ocrat, was recently targeted in a series of
flyers with antisemitic and holocaust im-
agery found in Clackamas County. At the
bottom of the flyers is a website for a gun
rights advocacy group.
“The hate symbols displayed were used
to attack my identity while also attacking
my commitment to pass gun safety legisla-
tion that will save the lives of Oregonians
throughout the state,” Prusak said.
Prusak, a victim of gun violence, is co-
sponsoring a proposed House Bill 2510
— a storage law that would be among the
toughest in the U.S.
Officials in the House Majority Office
say the Democrat is one of many who have
received intimidating messages this ses-
sion surrounding proposed gun legisla-
tion. But for lawmakers, these threats are
not new.
“To my knowledge, every legislator who
works on gun safety receives threats from
the small minority of extremist gun enthu-
siasts,” said Sen. Ginny Burdick, a Portland
Democrat.
Capital Press
ROSEBURG — A farm owned by former state
Sen. Jeff Kruse was fined $12,236 for illegal burn-
ing more than a year ago near the South Umpqua
River. According to the Oregon Department of
Environmental Quality, Douglas County fire-
fighters responded to an open burn complaint at
Kruse Farms, of Roseburg. Crews arrived and ex-
tinguished the fire, which included approximately
233 cubic yards of polyester fabric used as a soil
cover between rows of sugar beets.
State law prohibits open burning of plastics,
which can create both noxious odors and toxic
air pollutants. Kruse Farms is appealing the fine.
Few takers for vaccines
at Baker County drive-up
The Baker County Health
Department had more than
1,100 doses of COVID-19
vaccine available during a
free drive-thru clinic Satur-
day at the Baker County fair-
grounds. But just 62 people
showed up to be inoculated.
“It was extremely disap-
pointing,” said Baker County
Commissioner Mark Ben-
nett, who is also the county’s
incident commander during
the pandemic.
Almost one-third of the
county’s 16,800 residents
are fully vaccinated (4,401
people) .
— Bulletin staff and wire reports
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