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Thursday • April 21, 2022 Serving Central Oregon since 1903 • $3 ENJOY THE SHOW IN GO! » Cascades 10 returns with a collection of short plays SPORTS PULLOUT, A5-8 Oregon Republicans prepare for debate, party conference By Gary a. WarNEr Oregon Capital Bureau Oregon Republicans will gather in Clackamas County this weekend for three days of debate and détente in preparation for the 2022 elections. The annual Dorchester Con- ference, held again this year at the Mt. Hood Oregon Resort in Welches, is the traditional gath- ering of loyal activists, party MORE INSIDE MAY 17 ELECTION leaders and conservative na- tional stars in politics and the media. Pushed to the margins of political power in Oregon in recent years, Republicans are hoping for a turnaround in 2022. No current or former governor is running for the state’s top job for the first time since 2002. The newly drawn congressional and legislative All coverage online at bendbulletin.com/ elections districts could yield surprises. President Joe Biden’s popular- ity is slumping, and voters his- torically have taken out their • More on the Republican governor’s forum in Bend, a2 • Tuesday is the deadline to register to vote for a major party, a2 OREGON CONGRESSIONAL SEATS Heavy primary spending marks start of races By Gary a. WarNEr Oregon Capital Bureau frustrations during midterms on the party of the president in power. President Joe Biden is visiting Portland on Thursday for his first election-year trip beyond the Washington, D.C., area. Despite a lingering COVID-19 pandemic, the president is coming to Oregon, where one of the first primaries of 2022 is less than a month away on May 17. See republicans / A4 See Primary / A4 WIND, SNOW AND SURFING? MUST BE SPRING IN BEND. despite the cold and windy weather, surfers line up for their turns to carve the wave at the Bend Whitewater Park on Wednesday. The wet weather is forecast to continue Thursday with a chance of snow and rain in the morning and be- coming partly cloudy with a high of 51 degrees in the afternoon. Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin Rural Oregonians overwhelmingly Residents to vote on 1850 Donation Land Act as unfair $7M public safety levy see The act granted free land to white settlers, SUNRIVER The Sunriver Service District is asking voters to approve a $7 million levy to fund construction of a new public safety building. The buildings that house fire and police services in the destination resort have several issues, including roof prob- lems, no suspect holding rooms, no decontamination space for first responders and insufficient accommodations for fe- male firefighters, according to the service district. See Levy / A13 TODAY’S WEATHER Cloudy High 54, Low 32 Page a12 INDEX at the expense of Native Americans By MIChaEL KOhN The Bulletin In 1850, Congress passed the Donation Land Act, which granted free land to white settlers in Oregon as a way to encourage Ameri- cans to go West. The act ush- Business Classifieds Comics A11-12 A14 A9-10 Dear Abby Editorial Events A7 A8 GO! ered in a wave of migrants and carved Oregon up into plots of land, largely at the expense of Native American tribes. A February survey to gauge Oregonian’s perceptions on the Donation Land Act re- Horoscope Local/State Lottery A7 A2-3 A6 Obituaries Puzzles Sports A4 A10 A5-7 vealed that rural people view the act as unfair in larger per- centages than people living in urban areas. According to the survey, 77% of people polled in rural areas said the Donation Land Act was not fair to people who were not white. For the same question, 70% of people in ur- ban areas also responded that the act was not fair. The per- The Bulletin An Independent Newspaper We use recycled newsprint Vol. 117, No. 329, 38 pages, 2 sections centages were even higher in Oregon’s suburbs, where 80% of people said the policy was unfair. The online survey was con- ducted by the independent, nonpartisan Oregon Values and Beliefs Center. It polled 1,584 Oregonians and had a margin of error of 1.5% to 2.5%. See Land act / A13 SUN/THU By BrENNa VIssEr The Bulletin U|xaIICGHy02330rzu
