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ELECTION 2022
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
John Day council sees turnover New mayor for Prairie City
By JUSTIN DAVIS
Blue Mountain Eagle
JOHN DAY — The John
Day City Council will have
two new faces in the new
year.
Sitting City Councilor
Katrina Randleas cruised
easily to re-election, but
fellow council members
Shannon Adair and Chris
Labhart are on their way
after being outpolled by
challengers Ron Phillips
and Sherrie Rininger.
Three of the council’s
six seats were up for grabs
in the election, with the
positions going to the top
three vote-getters.
Here are the results of
the election, based on unof-
ficial returns as of Monday,
Phillips
Rininger
Nov. 14:
Katrina Randleas: 486
Ron Phillips: 446
Sherrie Rininger: 393
Shannon Adair: 376
Richie Colbeth: 252
Sitting Councilor Chris
Labhart missed the dead-
line to get his name on the
ballot but ran as a write-in
candidate. Three write-in
candidates garnered votes
in the balloting, with the
top one getting 74 votes, but
they were not identified by
name by the Grant County
Elections
Office.
Under a
new
state
law, mail-in
ballots post-
m a r k e d
Randleas
by
Elec-
tion
Day
can still be counted up to
a week later, so the final
results could still change.
Where that could still
make a difference is in the
17-vote margin between
Adair and Rininger. If
Adair receives enough late
mail-in votes to pull ahead
by the final count, she will
retain her seat on the coun-
cil. As of Monday, how-
ever, she had only nar-
rowed the gap by a single
vote.
Scott Offi cer headed for victory
in Prairie City mayor race
By TONY CHIOTTI
Bluer Mountain Eagle
PRAIRIE CITY — Scott Offi cer will be
the next mayor of Prairie City.
Results are still unoffi cial, but Offi cer
appears headed for victory with the results at
press time reported as follows:
Scott Offi cer: 279
Georgia Patterson: 147
Write-in: 35
Offi cer, a current city council member,
was not immediately avail-
able for comment. He will
be sworn into offi ce in the
new year and will succeed
Jim Hamsher, who did not
seek reelection.
Offi cer, 56, has served
Offi cer
on the city council for four
years.
In a candidate statement submitted to the
Eagle, he said he would continue to work on
updating the city’s infrastructure, particularly
te water and sewer systems.
Offi cer also identifi ed an outdated plan-
ning document and a housing shortage as
issues that Prairie City needs to address.
COUNTING THE VOTES
Psilocybin bans pass
By TONY CHIOTTI
Blue Mountain Eagle
PRAIRIE CITY — Two
measures on the ballot that
proposed prohibitions of psi-
locybin-related businesses
in portions of Grant County
passed handily.
While results are still
unoffi cial, the tallies as of late
Monday, Nov. 14, left little
doubt as to the fi nal outcome.
Measure 12-83, which
bans psilocybin-related busi-
nesses in unincorporated
Grant County, was passing
2,457 to 1,554.
Measure 12-84, which will
keep psilocybin-related busi-
nesses from opening in Prai-
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out the right of cities and
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in their jurisdictions.
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ballots, a total of 27 of Ore-
gon’s 36 counties proposed
bans, along with more than
100 municipalities. The bans
passed in all but two Oregon
counties.
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Grant County Clerk Brenda Percy sends a batch of ballots through the counting machine at the
clerk’s offi ce Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022.
Jewell leads mayor’s race in Granite
By TONY CHIOTTI
Blue Mountain Eagle
GRANITE — A week
after Election Day, the may-
or’s race in the tiny Grant
County community of Gran-
ite remained too close to call.
Unoffi cial results as of
Monday, Nov. 14, stood as
follows:
David Mosteit: 8
Sandra Smith: 11
Dorothy Jewell: 12
A total of 31 ballots have
been tabulated so far, and
there are 35 registered vot-
ers with addresses in Granite,
according to Grant County
Clerk Brenda Percy.
Ballots postmarked on or
before Election Day will be
counted, provided they are
received by election offi cials
within a week.
In a race this close, the
offi cial results will have to
wait until the very last bal-
lots are tallied, Percy said.
There are challenges on sig-
natures yet to be resolved on
county-wide totals. The fi nal
counts will be performed
on Oct. 29, with certifi ca-
tion on the 30th and results
Jewell
Smith
announced the morning of
Dec. 1.
The vote tallies for Gran-
ite’s mayoral election were
locked in a tie between
Sandra Smith and Dorothy
Jewell in unoffi cial returns
on election night, Tues-
day, Nov. 8. On Thursday, a
potentially tie-breaking vote
was added to the tally, put-
ting Jewell in the lead by
one vote.
Two city council seats
will also be decided, with
both determined purely
from write-in candidates as
nobody fi led to have their
names appear on the bal-
lot. No returns are currently
available for that race.
When reached for com-
ment on election night, Jew-
ell said she planned to go
down to city hall in the morn-
ing and see if she could get
in to fi nd the bylaws. “The
current council and mayor
are the only ones who have
keys to the building,” she
explained, noting the build-
ing has been closed for
“some time.”
Mosteit, the incumbent
mayor, is now trailing by
four votes, which could be
an insurmountable defi cit.
He was reached by phone
the day after Election Day
while elk hunting. He was in
his truck, warming up with
coff ee after having “putzed
around for a while,” unaware
of the results. “It is what it
is,” he said. “And so I’ll be
glad to step aside and turn it
over to those folks.” When
he heard the vote was a tie,
he suggested a tie-breaker
could be to “put the two girls
at the bottom of the hill and
have a race to the mailbox at
the top of Center Street and
see who wins.”
He said he might go to city
hall to dig through the boxes
of papers to fi nd the city
charter, hoping it might spell
out the next steps should the
election remain tied. But if
the unoffi cial result holds up,
that won’t be necessary.
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