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By ScottHammers e The Bulletin
SUNRIVER — The two leading candidates to be Oregon's next governor squared off in Sunriver on Friday, trading barbs and their vision for the state in a televised debate hosted by the Oregon Association of Broadcasters.
of the hourlong debate, highlighting the recent struggles with the Cover Oregon website and the failed push to build a new bridge crossing the Columbia River.
referencing a 1990s-era $75
funding education first in the
million cost overrun at the
biennial state budget.
Oregon Department of Motor
Kitzhaber said that al-
On education issues, Richardson said Oregon students
though Oregonians will not see the results immediately, he'll push for improving kin-
now have the second-highest
dergarten readiness and stu-
dents' reading performance in theearly grades,before they begin falling behind. He dismissed Richardson's fund-education-first proposal as a gimmick.
Vehicles.
Richardson reached back
further still, claiming difficulties funding the Public Democratic Gov. John
Richardson argues the state
Richardson said in his open-
Employees Retirement
Kitzhaber is seeking an
is in need of "a reboot," as he
ing remarks. "It's about the
Systemcan be traced to
rate of absenteeism of any state in the country, and the second-worst high school graduation rate. Richardson
unprecedented fourth term
as Oregon's governor, while
put it in Friday's debate. "This isn't about a Repub-
past versus the future." Richardson took swings
Kitzhaber's tenure in the state House and Senate
said the state "can't afford to lose another generation" and
Republican state Rep. Dennis
lican versus a Democrat,"
at Kitzhaberover the course
more than 20 years ago, and
spoke for local control and
See Debate/A5
COming Sunday: In LOCalCoverageof today's gubernatorial debate in Eugene.• In OpiniOn and BOOkS AQ8A with House District 54 candidates Craig Wilhelm andKnute Buehler.
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the coalition that now i ncludes
college where she and her alleged attacker
five Arab states, France, Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark, provides Washington a broader consensus for what is describedas an extended campaign
sexual misconduct" and failed to protect
her. The lawsuit filed in federal court is
against Chemeketa Community College the school's Yamhill
Valley campus in McMinnville.
Lanning was put on administrative
leave in February after the woman ac-
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group and can travel relatively thereis"a strong case"for carryeasily from the battlefield to West- ing the air war to Syria, as Washern Europe. ington is doing, he also promised
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In Britain, Mme Minister David
that any British military involve-
tions of its self-dedared caliphate. Cameron called Parliament back ment in Syria would require anEuropeans have been reluctant to from recess to approve British par- other parliamentary debate and take military action inside Syria, ticipation. But his policy was limit- vote, which is considered unlikely in part out of concern about fuel- ed by what the opposition Labour before the general election next ing a larger regional conflict, in Party was willing to support. And May. part because of public opinion in Labour, itself divided, refused to Friday's motion was approved their own nations and in part be- countenance the idea of attacking by 524 to 43, and essentially means cause of a desire to avoid helping Syria. that six British Tornado fighter jets "In military terms, the vote has that have been flying reconnaisthe Syrian government, led by President Bashar Assad, to survive no significance whatsoever, but sance missions over Iraq can now the rebellion against him by a wide politically it has more importance," be ordered to drop bombs as well. array of opposition groups, includ- said James Strong, a foreign polCameron was desperate to avoid ing the Islamic State. icy expert at the London School the humiliation of August 2013, For now, the attacks within Syr-
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chine club, his basso voice luring customers in, his muscle keeping the unwanted out. For a time, the
police said, his was a world of prostitutes, drugs, gangs and gambling. But a fewyears ago, Baryalei, the son of
Afghan refugees who settled in the suburbs of Australia's most
multicultural city, embraced radical Islam
and traveled to Syria, where he resurfaced as a lieutenant of the extremist Islamic State. This month, the authorities here said,
of Economics, of the British vote. "There is a sense in the United States that if even Britain thinks
when his motion to authorize the
it is a bad idea, then it probably is." State to be a threat to them and to The parliamentary motion speregional stability. cifically rules out the deployment Europeanleadersasserted that of any British ground troops in failing to confront the Sunni radi- Iraq, although the British are accals would leave their own nations tive in training and equipping
government for using chemical weapons, was defeated in Parlia-
he was recorded on a phone call instructing ayoung Australian
ment.Then, the Labour Party lead-
to carry out what
er, Ed Miliband, opposed the government motion, and both he and
the police described
Cameron were considered to have
vulnerable to attack by fighters,
the Iraqis, mostly Kurds, who are
including European citizens, who
fighting the Islamic State.
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bombing of Syria alongside the United States, to punish the Assad
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