Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 12, 2020 -- THREE
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ponents say is the major
cause of global warming.
Beginning in 2022 the law
would mandate reducing
carbon emissions state-
wide by 2035 to 45 per-
cent below 1990 levels. It
would require an 80 percent
reduction by 2050. Oppo-
nents say imposing these
limits will drive businesses
out of Oregon, discourage
others from locating here
and destroy thousands of
jobs. The law would have
a disproportionate effect
on food processing plants
such as those in Boardman,
which emit large amounts
of carbon. Opponents say it
will also drive up fuel costs
since fuel importers will
be required to purchase al-
lowances for the fuels they
distribute upping the cost of
gas and diesel to consum-
ers. The fuel requirement
will be phased into different
areas of the state over time,
starting with the Portland
metro area, TimberUnity
says all of this will severely
damage rural businesses
and hurt drivers, who be-
cause of long distances use
more fuel than urban busi-
nesses and residents.
Bailey says he is also
worried about the way the
law is being pushed. “We
all matter,” he says. He said
he got the impression the
legislators pushing cap and
trade think “we are all too
illiterate to understand the
bill so it’s their duty to pass
the bill without informing
us what’s in it and what it
will do.” The Oregon leg-
islature is controlled by a
super majority dominated
by liberal Democrats from
the Portland area, and cur-
rently doesn’t need votes
from the state’s rural areas
to pass legislation.
If passed, the legisla-
tion will reduce the carbon
released in the state of Or-
egon, but nowhere does it
say by how much it will
lower the temperature of the
earth, which leads Bailey to
think it may be a just anoth-
er way for state government
to raise large amounts of tax
money. “All of that money
is just going into the general
fund,” he says. “They will
just spend it on whatever
special interest groups they
want. They won’t even
tell us how all this new
tax money is going to be
spent.” Many members of
TimberUnity are saying
since the cap and trade bill
is a new tax it should be
sent to the voters first for
approval. Proponents, how-
ever, have made no indica-
tion they would be willing
to do that. Bailey says the
bill even exempts Portland
International Airport from
the carbon regulations, as
well as the railroads and
shipping, another indication
he says the legislature is
looking out for its special
interests.
Bailey, who is an em-
ployer and has owned his
own repair business for 38
years, said he met people
at the rally from all over
the state just like him. “We
aren’t a bunch of angry
loggers,” he says of Tim-
berUnity. “We are business
owners, farmers and work-
ing people. If we can’t make
a living, if we can’t employ
people. Where are the jobs
going to come from?”
The crowd was also
very orderly during the
rally, he says. “We weren’t
running around beating up
the cops or causing trouble
with people. When we left,
the capitol grounds were
cleaner than when we got
there.” And the people he
met on the road were most-
ly respectful too. “We got
lots of honking horns and
thumbs up, but we did get
a couple of one finger sa-
lutes,” he adds with a smile.
“But mostly people were
very supportive.” He says
he did notice one overpass
along the convoy route with
a banner hanging down
touting electric cars.
With the convoy and
rally now over, Bailey says
the efforts mustn’t stop
there. “People need to get
involved. This is about
our future.” Representative
Smith told him with a shift
of just three seats from
Democrat to Republican it
would break the super ma-
jority in the legislature and
put a stop to the drastic laws
and regulations that have
come out of Salem. Bailey
urges people to study up on
what is happening in their
government and to vote.
“You can make a difference
just sitting at your kitchen
table and filling out a bal-
lot,” he says.
For those who want to
know more about Timbe-
rUnity he urged them to go
to their web site at timbe-
runity.com, and also look
at their Facebook page.
“Every one of us who is
connected to working the
land has a voice in Timbe-
rUnity,” the web page says.
“Even if you’re not a forest-
er, logger, rancher, trucker,
miner, fisher or farmer,
when our jobs go away, it
hurts every local business in
our community We can no
longer support lawmakers
who support special-inter-
ests over the working men
and women of Oregon. It’s
time to stand up and make
a change.”
Rebekah Lodge to
host paint party
The Holly Rebekah
Lodge in Lexington will
host a paint for fun party
at the Lodge in Lexington
on Thursday, March 5 be-
ginning at 6 p.m. The cost
is $30 per person and it is
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Ordinance contains
incorrect statement
of law
To the Editor,
I respond to the January
22 G-T story about a “Sec-
ond Amendment Sanctu-
ary.” It refers to Lexington
Ordinance 20-1, which
contains the following pro-
vision:
“...all local, state, and
federal acts, laws, orders,
rules or regulations re-
garding firearms, firearms
accessories, and ammuni-
tion are a violation of the
Second Amendment [of the
US Constitution].”
However, that state-
ment clearly is an incorrect
statement of law. The fact
that it is contained in a city
ordinance does not make it
correct. The US Supreme
Court has clearly stated
that the right secured by
the Second Amendment of
the Constitution is not un-
limited. It is not “a right to
keep and carry any weapon
whatsoever in any manner
whatsoever and for what-
ever purpose.”
This quote is from
the US Supreme Court’s
analysis of the Second
Amendment in the leading
case of District of Colum-
bia v. Heller (2008). The
Court’s opinion, written
by Justice Antonin Sca-
lia, held that the Second
Amendment conferred an
individual right to keep and
bear arms – to possess and
carry weapons in case of
confrontation. But Justice
Scalia made clear that the
Supreme Court does not
read the Second Amend-
ment to protect the right of
citizens to carry arms for
Ione Library board
to meet
The monthly meeting of the Ione Library District’s
Board of Directors will be held on Monday, February 24
at 6 p.m. at the Ione Public Library, 385 W. 2nd Street.
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend.
Community lunch menu
Hopeful Saints volunteers will serve lunch on
Wednesday, February 19 at St. Patrick’s Senior Center.
Lunch will be spinach and cheese quiche, roasted red
potatoes, lemon parmesan broccoli and Rice Krispy treat.
Milk, coffee and tea is served at each meal. Suggested
donation is $3.50 per meal. Menu is subject to change.
Glen F. Ward – Glen F. Ward, 92, of Heppner, died
Friday, January 7 at Heppner. He was born May 23, 1927
at Haines, OR.
A memorial service is being planned for a later date.
A complete obituary will appear in a future issue of the
Gazette-Times with a time and date of service. Sweeney
Mortuary is in care of arrangements.
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The Cattle Baron and
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Death Notices
“any sort of confrontation,”
just as the First Amendment
does not protect the right of
citizens to speak for “any
purpose.”
Justice Scalia stated
that nothing in the Supreme
Court’s opinion “should be
taken to cast doubt on long-
standing prohibitions on
the possession of firearms
by felons and the mentally
ill, or laws forbidding the
carrying of firearms in sen-
sitive places such as schools
and government buildings
or laws imposing condi-
tions and qualifications
on the commercial sale of
arms.”
The US Supreme Court
ruled that the core of our
right to keep and bear arms
includes self-protection in
the home. However, outside
of that protected core, the
Supreme Court recognized
the large scope of regula-
tions that do not “infringe”
our “right” to keep and bear
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need for us to try to rely on
invalid and ineffective Sec-
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