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ROB RASCHIO
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
JOHN LAMBORN
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JIM CARPENTER
Circuit court judge candidates speak to voters
Carpenter, Lamborn and Raschio aiming to be on the bench for Grant and Harney counties
The three candidates to be
the next circuit court judge
for Grant and Harney coun-
ties introduced themselves
and answered questions from
community members during
the Grant County Republican
Central Committee meeting
Jan. 30.
Burns-based attorney John
Lamborn, Grant County Dis-
trict Attorney Jim Carpen-
ter and local attorney Rob
Raschio each came with their
wife and enjoyed the oppor-
tunity to be with community
members.
John Lamborn
Lamborn started the intro-
ductions and shared his work
experiences practicing law
and his education.
Lamborn has a bachelor’s
degree in psychology from
the University of Oregon in
Eugene and a professional
degree in law from McGeorge
School of Law in Sacramento,
California. Since 1995, Lam-
born has been practicing law in
Harney County, and before that
he was performing civil work
in California.
“Happy to be a Duck, and
when I graduated from U of O
in 1982, I went to McGeorge
School of law, which is part
of the University of the Pacific
down in Sacramento,” Lam-
born said. “I admitted to the
California Bar in 1990 and
admitted to the Oregon Bar in
1995.”
Lamborn is married to
Angela, who is the executive
director of the Harney County
Senior & Community Services
Center, and has three kids: his
oldest son, Woody, graduated
from Portland State and now
works for an accounting firm
in downtown Portland; his
middle son, Andy, who was a
valedictorian of his high school
class and graduated a couple
years ago from the Univer-
sity of Oregon; and his young-
est child, Maggie, who is about
to graduate from the Univer-
sity of Alaska in Anchorage
and will head to England in the
fall to a law program at Bristol
University.
Along with being an attor-
ney, Lamborn was chairman
of the Harney County Plan-
ning Commission for 10 years,
being involved with land use
issues in Harney County, and a
justice of the peace pro tem for
Harney County Justice Court.
“I really enjoy my law prac-
tice, and I enjoy the challenges
that it brings,” Lamborn said.
“I am on the arbitration panel,
and I have been on the panel
for Grant County, Harney
County and Malheur County.
As far as making decisions
for other people’s lives, I have
been doing this for years, and I
find this hugely rewarding.”
Jim Carpenter
Carpenter began his intro-
duction stating that he is a
Grant County kid. He grew
up in the county, and his fam-
ily was supported by the tim-
ber industry when they came
in 1972.
Growing up, he moved
irrigation pipes, built fences,
helped feed cows and cut juni-
per trees during the summer.
After high school, Carpenter
pulled green chain at John Day
Lumber Co., and he said that
was about the time he decided
that college was for him. He
attended Southern Oregon
University in Ashland where
he earned a bachelor’s degree
in business administration and
a minor in economics in 1996.
He then attended South Texas
College of Law in Houston,
Texas, where he earned a law
degree in 1999. He then took
and passed the Idaho and Ore-
gon state bar exams in 2000.
He has been married to
Angel Carpenter, who worked
for The Eagle as the sports
and community reporter, for
almost 30 years and has four
boys: Zack, 26, who is a Ban-
don police officer; Kyle, 24,
who is a UPS supervisor and
recently returned to school
part-time; Daniel, 20, who is
a commercial diver and under-
water welder for Chet Morri-
son; and Will, 16, who is cur-
rently enrolled in Grant Union
High School.
Carpenter began practic-
ing law in 2000 as an associ-
ate of Mike Kilpatrick and then
started a private practice with
Ryan Joslin in 2003. In 2006,
Carpenter began the practice
Jim Carpenter, P.C., until 2014.
He was then elected to be the
Grant County district attorney
in 2015.
“In Oregon, and to some
extent Grant County, prop-
erty crime is significantly
higher than the national aver-
age, according to the FBI sta-
tistics,” Carpenter said. “The
legislature is driving down the
sanctions for those things and
making the rights of the defen-
dants higher, but they are mak-
ing it so that our things aren’t
safe. One of the things that I
would be more apt with as the
judge is to protect the rights
of the victims and the peo-
ple who have interest in prop-
erty in those kinds of things
above the people that are tak-
ing them.”
Rob Raschio
Raschio grew up in Mil-
waukie and is married to
Sena, a kindergarten teacher
at Humbolt Elementary, and
has two kids: Vincent, who is
in the sixth grade, and Anna-
belle, who is in the first grade
at Humbolt.
Raschio attended Portland
State University and gradu-
ated with a bachelor’s degree
in history and then went to the
University of Oregon School
of Law where he received a
law degree. After law school,
he sought a rural area to prac-
tice law and began at the Law
Office of Markku Sario in
Canyon City from 2001-2002.
“I had an opportunity to
work with Judge Cramer that
year, and I learned a lot from
him,” Raschio said. “I had
an offer to go back to Port-
land to work at an attorney’s
office, but I turned the offer
down to move down to Burns
with John (Lamborn) and our
former partner Gordon Mal-
lon. I was down there for five
years and had the opportu-
nity to meet my wife, Sena, on
a blind date at El Toreo, and
that’s the only one (blind date)
I’ve ever been on.”
Raschio then moved to The
Dalles and became a partner
at Morris, Smith, Starns, Sul-
livan and Raschio, P.C., for
eight years. Rob and Sena
knew they wanted to move
back to Eastern Oregon to
raise their family and made
the conscious choice to move
back in 2014. Raschio opened
his private law practice and
continues to practice in Grant
County.
Raschio was appointed as
a pro tem commissioner to the
Grant County Court for six
months in 2018-2019.
“As many of you know, I
had an opportunity to work on
your Grant County Court, and
I had an opportunity to write
a forest objection on behalf
of Grant County,” Raschio
said. “I am running for judge
because I really do believe I
have an understanding of what
the voice of the community is
and what the efforts are here in
Grant and Harney counties.”
The death penalty
A community mem-
ber asked what the candi-
dates thought about the death
penalty.
Lamborn said murder is
wrong, no matter who does it.
“If person A kills person B,
that is a horrible thing to have
happen, but I don’t think the
state should be in control of
that decision,” Lamborn said.
“I believe that the state should
be in the business of empow-
ering the people.”
Carpenter said Oregon vot-
ers approved the death pen-
alty, and the state of Oregon
should abide by the will of the
voters.
“Our legislature recently
made the death penalty essen-
tially apply to crimes of ter-
ror, and so many cases when
the penalty was imposed are
now being raised on appeals
and are having those sentences
reversed,” Carpenter said. “I
think our legislature and our
governor should follow the
will of the people as opposed
to imposing their will on the
people.”
Raschio said, in his career
as a defender, he represented
people who have been accused
of murder and faced the death
penalty. He added that it is a
hard decision for a person of
faith on the question of death,
but a judge does have a job.
“My job as the judge is to
follow the law and the statutes
and the Constitution of Ore-
gon, and if I am required as a
part of that responsibility to
impose the death penalty after
a jury told me that is the result
that needs to happen, I am
going to do that,” Raschio said.
Judicial temperament
Each candidate was asked
to define judicial temperament
and how they planned to per-
sonify that definition as a cir-
cuit court judge.
Lamborn said an important
part of judicial temperament
is that a judge has a sense of
solemnity that does not sway
a jury or give the jury an idea
of his feelings toward a case.
“On the other side of
the coin, you really have to
respect everyone that comes
before you and respect law,”
Lamborn said. “When a law-
yer is working hard, you’re
identifying the fact, especially
to the client sitting next to the
lawyer, that a lawyer is mak-
ing the best argument that they
can make.”
Carpenter said judicial
temperament requires that a
judge see everyone individ-
ually and, if a judge is upset
with an attorney, he must
remember that the case is
about the client.
“Normally, our judge is
pretty temperate, but he called
an attorney rigid, silly, illogi-
cal, and when the judge left
the bench I turned to the attor-
ney and told him that the
judge was out of line to do
that,” Carpenter said. “I’m a
reasonable person, and I am
very even-handed, and that is
what a judge needs to be.”
Raschio said a true test of
a judge is his temperament
and how he treats people on
a daily basis. He also said a
judge needs a sense empathy
to step into the shoes of the lit-
igants and make sure they are
heard.
“The best judges that I
have seen in terms of temper-
ament can look at a person,
put them in jail or prison for a
long time and have that person
say, ‘Thank you, your honor,
and I appreciate you hear-
ing my position,’” Raschio
said. “I think that everybody
who comes to my courtroom
will feel respected because I
respect the people who come
in front of me.”
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