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COVID-19 data for Friday, June 11:
Deschutes County cases: 9,903 (14 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 80 (zero new death)
Crook County cases: 1,262 (8 new cases)
Crook County deaths: 23 (zero new deaths)
Jefferson County cases: 2,351 (3 new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 38 (zero new deaths)
Oregon cases: 204,587 (308 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,726 (zero new deaths)
COVID-19 patients hospitalized at St. Charles
Bend on Friday: 25 (5 in ICU)
New COVID-19 cases per day
129 new cases
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103 new cases
7-day
average
(April 23)
100
90
74 new cases
48
new
cases
(April 10)
50
new
cases
70
(May 25)
60
50
40
*State data
unavailable
for Jan. 31
31 new cases
(Oct. 31)
16 new cases
(July 16)
30
(Sept. 19)
20
(May 20)
1st case
80
(Nov. 14)
9 new cases
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DEC. 21 CAPITOL BREACH
Oregon House expels Nearman
State Rep.
Mike Nearman
was the lone
vote against
his expulsion.
The other 22
Republicans
joined the 37
Democrats to
expel him.
BY PETER WONG
Oregon Capital Bureau
Rep. Mike Nearman became
the first state legislator to be
expelled in Oregon’s 162 years
of statehood for his part in aid-
ing anti-lockdown protesters,
some of them armed, to breach
the closed Capitol during a
Dec. 21 special session of the
Legislature.
On a 59-1 vote Thursday
night , the House concluded
that Nearman, a Republican
from Independence, engaged
in “disorderly behavior” when
he opened a door and allowed
some protesters to enter the
Capitol’s northwest vestibule.
Police eventually ejected them
and blocked their second at-
tempt to breach a different
entrance to the Capitol later
that day. Several people were
arrested.
Nearman was the lone vote
against his expulsion. The
other 22 Republicans joined
the 37 Democrats to expel him.
Some protesters gathered
near one of the Capitol en-
trances as the House debated
for 45 minutes. One of them
attempted to break down a
door, but it has a metal cover
that shields the glass.
Nearman, 57, was identified
through video surveillance
footage during an investigation
by Oregon State Police. A sec-
ond video surfaced last week
during which Nearman, five
days before the Dec. 21 session,
advised potential protesters
Submitted photo
how to reach him via text mes-
sage and “someone” would al-
low them to enter the Capitol.
House Speaker Tina Kotek, a
Democrat from Portland who
appointed a special committee
to consider the expulsion res-
olution she introduced earlier
in the week, had this to say af-
terward:
“The facts are clear that
Mr. Nearman unapologeti-
cally coordinated and planned
a breach of the Oregon State
Capitol. His actions were bla-
tant and deliberate, and he has
shown no remorse for jeopar-
dizing the safety of every per-
son in the Capitol that day.
“Given the extraordinary
circumstances, this was the
only reasonable path forward.
Safety — for the public, build-
ing employees, legislators and
their staff — continues to be
my top priority in managing
this extraordinary session.”
Earlier Thursday, when the
special committee met for
about two hours, Nearman
read a statement but said he
would decline to answer ques-
tions based on his lawyer’s
advice. He faces two criminal
charges in Marion County Cir-
cuit Court that are unaffected
by the House vote.
“I know you have all made
your decision. This has not
been a fair process,” he said.
He instead laid blame on
Kotek, Senate President Peter
Courtney, and the six mem-
bers of the special committee,
among others for the Capitol
closure.
LOCAL BRIEFING
Central Oregon history
project needs your photos
The Bulletin and the De-
schutes Historical Museum
are compiling photos from the
1950s to 2000s for a pictorial
history book about Bend and
Deschutes County due out this
fall.
“We’re asking long time res-
idents to dig into their closets,
basements, garages for pho-
tos from this period and bring
them to The Bulletin to be
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tor Gerry O’Brien. “We are es-
pecially interested in the large
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selves to before-and-after pho-
tos.”
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The sessions are Saturday, 9
to 11 a.m. and 1 to 3 p.m.
Deschutes County
Fair & Rodeo announces
free concert lineup
The Deschutes County Fair
& Rodeo is offering its summer
concert series for free with ad-
mission to the fair.
The summer concert series,
from July 28 to July 31, will be
held outside the First Interstate
Bank Center, rather than inside
the center. The outdoor set-
ting will better accommodate
people and allow for social dis-
tancing as a precaution for the
COVID-19 pandemic, accord-
ing to the fairgrounds.
Tickets for the 2021 De-
schutes
County Fair
& Rodeo will
go on sale
online July 5.
The con-
cert series
will feature
the following Nelly
performers:
• Wednesday, July 28: rock
band Skillet
• Thursday, July 29: country
music singer Chris Janson
• Friday, July 30: Grammy-
award winning rapper Nelly
• Saturday, July 31: country
rock band Reckless Kelly.
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“The easy thing is to expel
me,” he said. “I suspect that is
what you are going to do. But
to be clear, I am going to be
expelled for letting the public
into the public’s building.”
He made similar argu-
ments Thursday night during
a 3-minute speech to the full
House. He mentioned the
constitutional requirement
that legislative proceedings be
open, but the Oregon Con-
stitution allows the Legisla-
ture to define how it will do
so. He said while other pub-
lic places have gradually re-
opened — mostly because
COVID-19 vaccinations have
increased and infection rates
have dropped — the Capitol
remains closed.
“You can let this be tried in
the media and come down to
summary judgment on the
floor, like we are doing here,”
he said. “You can choose to
skip the House committee and
just do it now. There is no rea-
son to hear both sides and have
at least something resembling
due process.”
Legislative Counsel Dex-
ter Johnson, in response to a
question by Rep. Duane Stark,
R-Grants Pass, advised law-
makers that the closure of the
Capitol during the pandemic
“is not an arbitrary or unrea-
sonable decision, and does not
go beyond what is reasonably
necessary to enable the Legisla-
ture to make urgent policy de-
cisions pertaining to the state’s
response to the virus and other
urgent matters.”
House District 23 cuts
through Polk, Yamhill, Marion
and Benton counties.
Nearman’s seat will be filled
by appointment of commis-
sioners from the four counties,
weighted by their share of dis-
trict voters, after Republicans
nominate three to five candi-
dates.
There is nothing in state law
that prevents Nearman from
being nominated or appointed.
The Constitution prevents the
House from expelling him for
the same offense.
Given that the 2021 session
is scheduled to close by June
27, it is unlikely that the seat
will be filled before adjourn-
ment.
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Statue of Black hero of
Lewis & Clark trip defaced
PORTLAND — A statue
commemorating York, an en-
slaved Black member of the
Lewis and Clark Expedition,
was defaced this week in Port-
land .
The Oregonian reported
that while the bust itself was
unmarked, symbols and words,
including “love not hate,” were
spray-painted in purple letter-
ing onto the gray pedestal un-
derneath.
A plaque describing York
had also been spray-painted
over and then removed, leav-
ing behind a blank square
framed in purple.
The bust mysteriously ap-
peared in February on a pedes-
tal in a park in southeast Port-
land where a statue of Harvey
Scott, a well-known conser-
vative and longtime editor of
The Oregonian who opposed
women’s suffrage, stood until it
was torn down. It still isn’t clear
who created or placed the bust
of York.
After the Lewis and Clark
Expedition was over, every-
one but York was rewarded
with money and land. York de-
manded freedom as a reward
for his services on the expedi-
tion, historian Stephen E. Am-
brose wrote.
But Clark refused.
Clark later claimed to a
friend that he’d freed York.
Historians haven’t been able to
verify that.
— Bulletin staff and wire reports