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February 9, 2018 | Cannon Beach Gazette | cannonbeachgazette.com • 3A Wyden pushes for coastal, social issues Lawyer, musician runs for state House Town hall was senator’s 869th in Oregon ty coordinating council, a committee to site the North Coast Youth Correctional Facility in Warrenton, an By Edward Stratton affordable housing board in EO Media Group Cannon Beach and with the Surf Pines Homeowners As- Local attorney John Orr sociation. He was president has filed for the Democratic of the North Coast Land primary to replace state Rep. Conservancy from 1996 to 2002. Deborah Boone. “I think my skill set is Boone, D-Cannon Beach, uniquely suited announced last to the demands month she would of working in the not run for an state Legislature,” eighth two-year Orr said, describ- term in state House ing himself as a District 32. Til- lamook County fiscal conserva- tive and social Commissioner progressive. “It Tim Josi and local looks like the educator and au- thor Melissa Ous- Legislature needs John Orr ley have also filed help to address its funding issues for the primary. and the problems Brian Halvorsen, an Independent from Rocka- the state is facing, both in way Beach, has also filed. terms of education, housing, Orr ran a family law and sustainable wages and fami- criminal defense practice in ly wage jobs.” Orr would also like to see Astoria for about 25 years, also serving at times as a Oregon better utilize its nat- Municipal Court judge, be- ural resources, particularly fore leaving to pursue art biomass energy. and recycling. He has lived in Clatsop He is project develop- County about 28 years and ment manager for Trails Oregon for 32 years. He is End Recovery in Warrenton, from Kalamazoo, Michi- provides the company legal gan, and originally moved counsel and plays in several to Portland to attend law school at Lewis & Clark local bands. This is Orr’s first at- College. tempt at elected office. He Candidates have until has served in appointed March 6 to file for the May positions on a public safe- primary. Orr ran practice for 25 years By Edward Stratton EO Media Group U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden told the crowd at an Astoria town hall Saturday that he would continue pushing the federal government to take seriously Oregon coastal issues such as the coming Cascadia Subduc- tion Zone earthquake, tsuna- mis and offshore drilling. Wyden, a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, last week urged U.S. Geological Survey Deputy Director Da- vid Applegate to support fund- ing for ShakeAlert, a federal early warning system being developed for the West Coast. President Donald Trump last year proposed eliminating funding for the system. “I think that we need to get all the Democrats, all of the Republicans, all over the West, all up and down the coast, to say to Mr. (Mick) Mulvaney, the head of the Office of Management and Budget, ‘Earthquakes and tsunamis are serious, deadly business for our part of the world,’” the Oregon Demo- crat said. Wyden took a moment near the beginning of the town hall to honor state Rep. Debo- rah Boone, D-Cannon Beach, who recently announced she would retire from the state House when her term expires in January. Boone’s late hus- band, Bill, had been battling brain cancer the last two years until his death in November. “One of his last requests of me was to retire and take some time for me … to do some things that we didn’t get to do together,” she said, add- ing she plans to visit relatives in Sweden. Boone’s tenure has largely been defined by her focus on coastal issues such as natural disaster resiliency. EDWARD STRATTON/EO MEDIA GROUP U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, stopped for photos with attendees at the end of his town hall at Astoria High School. Melissa Ousley, one of several Democratic candi- dates who have filed for the primary to replace Boone, asked for Wyden’s take on the proposal by Trump to expand offshore drilling on the West Coast. The senator promised to help block attempts at off- shore drilling and the return to the natural resource-based economics of yesteryear, and to shift the conversation on economic prosperity to in- clude emerging industries like recreation and tourism. Wyden accused the presi- dent of committing legislative malpractice by publicly push- ing for a large infrastructure package, then passing a tax bill that saps federal money. “He didn’t want to have money for roads and bridges,” Wyden said. “He wanted to have money for tax cuts, for his friends, for the multina- tional companies.” He also decried the tax bill for weakening the low-in- come housing tax credit, link- ing homelessness with the need for affordable housing, expanded Medicaid and more coverage of mental health services by insurance com- panies. He recounted his late ‘Earthquakes and tsunamis are serious, deadly business for our part of the world.’ Rep. Ron Wyden brother Jeff’s struggle with schizophrenia and bouts of homelessness before his death in 2002. “Don’t for a second let anybody off the hook on this homeless issue right now,” he said. Republicans recently made public a memo by U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Com- mittee, accusing the FBI and U.S. Department of Justice of abusing surveillance tools. Wyden called the memo a smokescreen to distract from recent arrests and guilty pleas in the investigation by spe- cial counsel Robert Mueller into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election. He called Nunes hypocritical for criticizing federal officials’ use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act he recently voted to reauthorize. Asked about the threats to Mueller’s investigation, Wyden said firing the special counsel would start a consti- tutional crisis and lead some members of the U.S. House to push for Trump’s impeach- ment. Wyden renewed his push to have Trump’s tax returns released and restrict the pres- ident’s ability to unilaterally launch a nuclear missile. When Democrats feel dis- couraged, they should look to more promising develop- ments, such as Doug Jones becoming the first Democrat elected to the Senate in Ala- bama in more than 20 years, Wyden said. “There’s a lot going on in America, and you ought to keep it in perspective, along with the record number of young people (running) for office,” he said. Wyden also held town halls in Columbia, Multnomah, Tillamook and Washington counties over the weekend, bringing him to 871 since he was elected to the Senate in 1996 and promised to visit each of Oregon’s 36 counties at least once a year. Local author, educator files for state House seat Ousley part of a progressive group By Edward Stratton EO Media Group Local college adviser and author Melissa Ousley has filed in the Democratic prima- ry to replace state Rep. Debo- rah Boone. Boone, D-Cannon Beach, announced this month she would not run for an eighth two-year term in state House District 32. Tillamook Coun- ty Commissioner Tim Josi, a Democrat, and Brian Halvors- en, an Independent from Rock- away Beach, have also filed. Ousley, 42, is an adviser at Clatsop Community College who lives in Warrenton with MELISSA OUSLEY Local author and educator Melissa Ousley is running in the Democratic primary for state House. her husband, Chris, the dean of students at the college, and their twin 14-year-old boys. She has a doctorate in high- er education and has worked in the field for 15 years, pre- viously as a student services adviser at Pima Community College in Arizona and as a researcher at the University of Arizona. A suspense and young adult fiction author, she serves on the Seaside Public Library Foundation Board. Ousley volunteers with progressive activist group Indivisible North Coast, can- vassing for the recently passed health care ballot measure and trying to increase voter regis- tration. Another focus of the group has been getting more people to run for office. “I see running for office as a way to expand my service to my community,” Ousley wrote on her campaign website. Among her values are making health care and ed- ucation more accessible and affordable. “I’m concerned about the environment, protecting our gorgeous coast and forests and advocating for clean, re- newable energy,” she wrote, expressing concern about po- tential offshore drilling. 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