Mark Shull arrested in 2011 for violating restraining order January 14 2021
Clackamas County commissioner faced contempt of court case for sending package to wife at domestic violence shelter.
Multnomah County court records show that Clackamas County Commissioner Mark Shull was arrested in 2011 for misdemeanor violation of a restraining order filed by his then-wife Galina Anufrieva. He was ultimately acquitted of that charge just a few months later in circuit court.
Shull has recently come under fire following publication of comments made on his personal Facebook page representing racist, Islamophobic, anti-immigrant and transphobic views, leading to widespreadcalls for his resignation.
According to court records, Shull was arrested for sending a package of chocolates and a note written in Russian to the Portland domestic violence shelter where his wife was staying at the time of their divorce proceedings in February 2011.
Phil Heppner aims to be people s voice as Oregon City mayor
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Homelessness and helping small businesses are big issues for Oregon City mayoral candidate Phil Heppner, which he sees as related. The city should be going to business owners and try to work a deal instead of having (buildings) empty the next two years, Heppner said. With the homeless issue, the city owns a lot of land, and we should find a spot to build tiny homes, and for them to be there, they have to be legally drug free and they need to do volunteer work.
January 13 2021
Clackamas County postpones a Jan. 13 swearing-in ceremony for new commissioners as Mark Shull faces condemnation.
Clackamas County has postponed a swearing-in ceremony for county commissioners. That ceremony had been planned for Wednesday, Jan. 13, but is being rescheduled, the county said, because of recent threats of violence.
County officials said it will provide a new date for the ceremony once they are determined. Additionally, the government said policy and business meetings would return to the streaming platform Zoom for the foreseeable future.
While the brief announcement posted online doesn t mention newly-elected Commissioner Mark Shull the politician has become the isolated center of a firestorm of controversy after Pamplin Media Group first reported on his Facebook posts, which widely deemed to be racist, Islamophobic, anti-immigrant and transphobic.
DA declined to charge Mark Shull for pulling gun on wife January 14 2021
Records illustrate a scene from December 2010 when future county commissioner was allegedly violent towards then-wife and stepson.
Allegations of domestic violence against Mark Shull in December 2010 were rejected by Clackamas County prosecutors due to a lack of evidence, newly obtained records show.
The records provided through a request to the Clackamas County District Attorney s Office illustrate allegations of a domestic dispute between Shull and his then-wife Galina Anufrieva on Dec. 16, 2010 in the presence of Aufrieva s 14-year-old son.
Shull who was elected to the Clackamas Board of County Commissioners in November 2020 has recently come under fire for racist, Islamophobic, anti-immigrant and transphobic statements made public from his personal Facebook page. Shull was censured by his fellow board members in a Thursday, Jan. 14 resolution calling on him to resign.
January 14 2021
More than 100 elected leaders, community organizations have called for Clackamas County Commissioner Mark Shull to immediately resign.
Leaders in Oregon s Muslim community have rejected an embattled Clackamas County Commissioner s plans for outreach and apologies saying his hate speech requires an immediate resignation.
Newly-elected Commissioner Mark Shull referred to Muslim Americans as invaders and savages as recently as mid-2019 in his Facebook posts and called for military force against them, including extermination outside the lands of Islam.
And while the former lieutenant colonel told The Oregonian he plans to meet with Muslim leaders to build understanding, the most prominent officials in that community say they haven t heard from him.