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COVID-19 data for Tuesday, June 22:
Deschutes County cases: 10,027 (9 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 82 (zero new deaths)
Crook County cases: 1,291 (zero new cases)
Crook County deaths: 23 (zero new deaths)
Jefferson County cases: 2,371 (1 new case)
Jefferson County deaths: 39 (zero new deaths)
Oregon cases: 207,105 (267 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,757 (1 new death)
COVID-19 patients hospitalized at
St. Charles Bend on Tuesday: 17 (6 in ICU)
129 new cases
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OREGON’S SIXTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
Loretta Smith jumps into race for new seat
BY ZANE SPARLING
Pamplin Media Group
Former Multnomah County
Commissioner Loretta Smith is
the first to thrust an oar in the
water in the race to represent
Oregon’s unbounded
Sixth Congressional
District.
Smith, a Democrat,
announced her can-
didacy to the public
Tuesday — months
ahead of the autumn
deadlines for the po-
Smith
litical process that will
actually draw the dis-
trict onto the map ahead of a
ballot in 2022.
In an interview, Smith said
ending voter suppression was
“the most important thing that
we should be doing,” while also
highlighting the symmetry be-
tween police reforms proposed
federally and the policy slate
she crafted while running for
Portland City Council.
“We need a bigger, larger,
more aggressive voice from
someone of color who
has experience and a
track record,” she said.
“Qualified immunity
needs to be taken off
the table, … and po-
lice have to be charged
like everyone else if
they murder people in
our community.”
After eight years at
the county dais, Smith ran un-
successfully for Portland City
Council in a campaign won by
Commissioner Jo Ann Hard-
esty in 2018. Smith was bested
again by Commissioner Dan
Ryan in a nail-biter run-off
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she was a bullying boss to cer-
tain employees and misused
her county credit card, though
she later repaid the funds and
denied the claims of harass-
ment.
Smith says she has moved on
from the issues but tries not to
repeat her mistakes.
“I have so much passion in
helping the most vulnerable in
our community, so sometimes
that boils over,” she said.
It’s still an open question
whether Smith will live in the
district she hopes to represent.
State lawmakers plan to
craft in September the new
sixth district map, which was
spurred by Oregon’s 11% jump
in population in the last de-
cade, but if they can’t agree,
it will go to a special judicial
panel that should hammer out
the maps in November, barring
no further legal challenges.
Candidates have until March
to file for office.
But unlike Oregon state law-
makers, there’s no district resi-
dency requirement for election
to the House of Representa-
tives, as the U.S. Constitution
only requires living somewhere
within the state.
Smith, who lives in north-
east Portland, said her two de-
cades of experience working
as an aide to current U.S. Sen.
Ron Wyden had given her the
confidence to jump in the race
before anyone else.
“I’ve been exposed to issues
around the state, and if the
congressional line is drawn
anywhere in Oregon, I know a
little bit about it,” she said.
Reporter Peter Wong contributed.
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election last year.
If elected, she would be the
first Black person to represent
Oregon on Capitol Hill, and
stressed that her legislative pri-
orities would be guided by her
experience as a single mother
who raised a Black son, Jordan,
in Portland, as well as her up-
bringing in a union family in
Michigan and her 2011 health
scare involving a brain tumor.
“Had I not had the health
care that I did at the county, …
I would have never been able
to survive,” said Smith, who
later drafted a Medicare-For-
All proposal. “I thought about
all the other people who didn’t
have the luxury of having that
kind of health insurance.”
But Smith, 56, also carries
baggage from her history in of-
fice, including allegations that
Man charged with
kidnapping woman
Waller then allegedly as-
saulted the victim before driv-
ing her to his residence in Cali-
A California man faces fel-
fornia, roughly 450 miles south
ony charges after allegedly
of Terrebonne, Brown said.
kidnapping and sexually as-
After a few days, the victim
saulting his former girlfriend, a was able to convince Waller to
19-year-old woman from Ter-
drive her back home. Waller
rebonne, police said.
dropped her off early Sunday
Jeffrey D. Waller,
morning. The vic-
27, of Vallejo, Califor-
tim called authorities
nia, was arrested Sun-
about 2 p.m. Sunday.
day in Redmond and
Detectives were able
faces six charges: kid-
to determine Waller’s
napping, first-degree
location: a hotel in
rape, first-degree sod-
Redmond. He was
omy, coercion, men-
later contacted and
Waller
acing and fourth-de-
arrested without in-
gree assault, according
cident.
to Sgt. Ron Brown in a press
“I don’t have statistics on
release from the Deschutes
how many times kidnapping
County Sheriff’s Office. He ap- victims are taken back home,”
peared in Deschutes County
sheriff’s Sgt. Jayson Janes wrote
Circuit Court on Monday.
in an email. “I don’t know
Detectives determined that
(Waller’s) criminal history, and
Waller and the victim were
I don’t believe we release that
previously in a relationship.
information.”
Waller suspected the victim
Park district looks for teen
was dating someone new and
drove to the victim’s residence
volunteers for summer
early in the morning on June
15, Brown said.
The Bend Park & Recreation
“Waller convinced the vic-
District has volunteer opportu-
tim to get in his vehicle by
nities for teenagers interested
threatening harm to her fam-
in becoming junior lifeguards,
ily members,” Brown wrote in
swim instructor aides and
the press release. “After Waller
youth day camp helpers.
drove off with the victim, she
“Volunteering with BPRD
quickly noticed Waller had dis- programs is a great way for
abled the inside door handle
teens to gain some work-re-
preventing her from getting
lated experience and get in-
out of the car.”
volved with their community,”
said Kim Johnson, community
engagement supervisor for the
park district, in a press release.
“Teen volunteers provide fan-
tastic support to recreation
programs and serve as great
role models for younger par-
ticipants.”
Swim volunteers ages 12
to 15 can become junior life-
guards or swim instructor
aides at both Juniper Swim and
Fitness Center and Larkspur
Community Center.
Camp volunteers 14 and
over can become youth day
camp helpers at the Art Station
and Cougar Camp in Shevlin
Park. Volunteers can find de-
tails and sign up for opportu-
nities online at https://register.
bendparksandrec.org/.
Arson a possibility in
Warm Springs wildfire
A brushfire that burned 45
acres near the Warm Springs
Fish Hatchery Monday night
is being investigated as a possi-
ble arson.
The fire was reported around
9 p.m. near milepost 12 of
Highway 3, which is east of U.S.
Highway 26. Firefighters with
Warm Springs Fire & Safety and
the Bureau of Indian Affairs
were able to quickly contain it,
Warm Springs Police Chief Bill
Elliott told The Bulletin.
A Warm Springs Police de-
tective and fire investigators
are looking into the possibility
the fire was started intention-
ally, and the FBI has been noti-
fied, Elliott said.
“I can’t say much more other
than it’s an active investiga-
tion,” he said.
“The crime of arson in Indian
Country is a federal offense,
and due to the adverse fire con-
ditions, we will do everything
needed to arrest people inten-
tionally starting fires,” Elliott
wrote in a release Tuesday.
The Lionshead Fire of
2020, which burned 200,000
acres and began on the Warm
Springs Reservation, was
caused by lightning.
Man who swiped flag, set
it on fire, gets probation
A man who took the Amer-
ican flag from outside Gus J.
Solomon U.S. Courthouse in
Portland and then set it on fire
in front of the police bureau’s
Central Precinct was sentenced
Monday to a year of probation.
Jeffrey Richard Singer, 33,
had pleaded guilty to theft of
government property. The Or-
egonian/OregonLive reported.
The theft happened Sept. 19,
when Singer stole the flag and
marched with it in a crowd to
the Central Precinct during a
nightly protest after the May 25
killing of George Floyd, a Black
man who died when a Minne-
apolis police officer knelt on his
neck, according to prosecutors.
U.S. District Judge Anna J.
Brown additionally ordered
Singer to repay the govern-
ment $218.50 in restitution for
the destroyed flag.
Singer was indicted in Octo-
ber and charged with theft of
government property and civil
disorder. Singer is the third de-
fendant sentenced and one of
four who have pleaded guilty
in federal court in a protest-re-
lated prosecution.
Of 99 federal protest-related
prosecutions in the past year,
50 have been dismissed. Thir-
ty-two cases are pending with
trial dates scheduled. Fourteen
others are nearing resolution,
according to Kevin Sonoff, a
spokesman for the U.S. Attor-
ney’s Office.
— Bulletin staff and wire reports