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ELECTION 2022 | OREGON GOVERNOR’S RACE
Latest debate: Candidates clash on issues
BY JAMIE GOLDBERG AND
BETSY HAMMOND
The Oregonian
Homelessness policies, accusations of
dishonesty, track records on education
spending and support for police sepa-
rated Democrat Tina Kotek, Republi-
can Christine Drazan and unaffiliated
candidate Betsy Johnson on Wednes-
day during a televised debate sponsored
by The Oregonian and KGW.
All three candidates agreed that
homelessness is among the biggest
issues facing the state and said they
would support a so-far bare-bones
plan by Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler
to ban unsanctioned camping in the
city and relocate homeless individu-
als to large designated camping areas.
Wheeler briefed each of the three can-
didates on his proposal ahead of tell-
ing the public about the initiative later
this week.
Kotek said Wheeler’s proposal,
if enacted, would make it easier for
outreach teams to reach homeless
individuals and she vowed to hold
Wheeler accountable for getting peo-
ple off the streets. “From what I un-
derstand of Mayor Wheeler’s plan,
I think he’s headed in the right di-
rection,” she said. “But I’ll be honest,
Mayor Wheeler and the city have
promised a lot of things. They need to
actually make it happen.”
Johnson blamed Kotek for enabling
sidewalk camping when she served as
House speaker, while Drazan said that
Kotek prioritized “almost everything
before she prioritized homelessness”
and failed to act on the issue. Kotek
responded by blaming Drazan for
delaying more than $100 million in
spending on homelessness and afford-
able housing by leading Republicans
Drazan visits
Bend for
discussion on
homelessness
in a walkout at the Capitol during the
2020 session.
Drazan said as governor, she
would focus on moving homeless
individuals into supportive hous-
ing and onto stability but would also
take action if individuals refused
help. “Frankly, if people decline ser-
vices, if they are choosing a home-
less lifestyle because they’re facing
substance use disorder or in fact it’s
a choice they’re making, it’s time for
our state to recognize there must be
accountability.”
BY ANNA KAMINSKI
The Bulletin
Republican gubernatorial
candidate Christine Drazan
said she favors declaring a
“state of emergency” to deal
with Oregon’s growing home-
lessness crisis during a visit to
Bend on Thursday.
Drazan visited Bend’s Vet-
erans Village for a discus-
sion about the crisis with local
nonprofits and leaders just
weeks ahead of the Nov. 8 gen-
eral election. The governor’s
race is one of the most con-
tested gubernatorial races in
the nation. Drazan is running
against Democrat Tina Kotek
and nonaffiliated candidate
Betsy Johnson.
“Establishing a homeless-
ness state of emergency gives
you that authority — frankly,
that power — to be able to…
innovate and get real serious
about finding support services
and also ensuring on the other
side of that there is account-
ability,” Drazan said.
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Time for
transition
Mount Bachelor may get 13
inches of snow by Sunday
BY JOE SIESS • The Bulletin
A
n abnormally warm and
dry start to October is
forecast to give way this
weekend to more seasonable wet-
ter conditions and below aver-
age temperatures, which could
bring more than a foot of snow to
Mount Bachelor.
“The Cascades will definitely
see snow,” said Camden Plunkett,
a meteorologist for the National
Weather Service office in Pendle-
ton. “I think our snow levels are
sitting at just over 4,000 feet (ele-
vation) Saturday morning.”
Plunkett said a weather sys-
tem moving in over the week-
end could bring about 13 inches
of snow to the summit area of
Mount Bachelor between Friday
afternoon and Sunday morn-
ing. A bit further down from the
summit, below 5,000 feet, 7 to 10
inches of snow is expected.
Plunkett said he grew up in
Oregon, and cannot recall an
October like this one. A station-
ary weather pattern affected by
meteorological conditions as
far away as the East Coast and
the Desert Southwest, resulted
in persistent warmer and drier
weather through October so far.
Plunkett called that a “blocking
pattern,” which is what he expects
will change.
“We are transitioning tomor-
row to a cooler and wetter pat-
tern,” Plunkett said Thursday.
The forecast for next week
calls for a cooling trend, with
temperatures lower than normal
for this time of year, Plunkett
said. Highs are forecast for the
upper 40s and lower 50s. Nor-
mally, highs are in the upper 50s
and lower 60s at this time of the
year.
Plunkett said it is difficult to
say with certainty whether a La
Niña or El Niño pattern, both
of which are tied to sea-surface
temperature in the equatorial Pa-
cific, is responsible for any given
weather event. But he said the
current La Niña pattern has a
58% chance of persisting through
January, February and March.
Typically a La Niña winter will
bring colder and snowier condi-
tions to the Northwest, according
to the National Weather Service’s
Climate Prediction Center.
“We are still in that La Niña
pattern right now. Equatorial
sea-surface temperatures are be-
low normal,” Plunkett added.
“That is expected to continue
through at least early winter.”
Johnny Sereni, director of mar-
keting and communications at
Mt. Bachelor ski area, said as of
Thursday, there is virtually no
snow on the mountain, but ski
area officials are looking forward
to the first snow of the season.
“We’ve seen the fall linger and
the higher temperatures linger a
little bit longer, and when it gets
this close to the season we start
to get a little bit nervous,” Sereni
said. “But with all of the staff of
Bachelor knowing there is possi-
bly a foot of snow coming in the
next few days there is actually a
pep in everyone’s step more than
there used to be.”
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Slavery is on
the ballot in
Oregon
BY KIMBERLEE KRUESI
Associated Press
Dean Guernsey/The Bulletin
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TODAY’S
WEATHER
Cooler, shower
High 61, Low 37
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A stand-up paddleboarder takes advantage of warm weather on the
Deschutes River in Bend on Tuesday. But it might time to put the
paddleboard away and get out the skis. The forecast calls for cooler weather
and the possibility of 13 inches of snow on Mount Bachelor by Sunday.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. —
More than 150 years after
slaves were freed in the U.S.,
voters in five
states, includ-
ing Oregon,
will soon de-
cide whether
NOV. 8
to close loop-
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forced labor
by people con-
victed of certain crimes.
None of the propos-
als would force immediate
changes inside the states’ pris-
ons, though they could lead to
legal challenges related to how
they use prison labor, a lasting
imprint of slavery’s legacy on
the entire United States.
The effort is part of a na-
tional push to amend the 13th
Amendment to the U.S. Con-
stitution that banned enslave-
ment or involuntary servitude
except as a form of criminal
punishment. That exception
has long permitted the ex-
ploitation of labor by con-
victed felons.
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