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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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-
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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-
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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-
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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%.
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