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Clackamas County condemns Jim Crow, vaccine card comparison June 02 2021
Commissioner Mark Shull s resolution abhorrent and irresponsible according to Chair Tootie Smith
A firestorm of criticism was unleashed this week when a Clackamas County commissioner proposed a resolution that compared showing a COVID-19 vaccine card to the segregationist Jim Crow laws.
Commissioner Mark Shull had drafted a resolution to block the state rule that a business must see someone s vaccine card before they can enter without a mask.
Shull s resolution draft stated vaccine passports create conditions of a new Jim Crow 2.0 but fellow commissioners, including Chair Tootie Smith, harshly criticized the comparison to laws that had legalized segregation and led to arrests and lynchings.
Voters say yes to Clackamas Sheriff s Levy May 18 2021
Levy to add maintain deputies, add mental health beds and body camera program winning by considerable margin.
Clackamas County voters approved the sheriff s levy once again, according to early election results.
As of 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 18, there were 19,774 yes votes and 15,694 no votes.
Voters first passed the Clackamas Sheriff s Levy in 2006 and have approved it every five years since.
This year though, for the first time, new Clackamas County Sheriff Angela Brandenburg raised the taxation rate on the levy by 12 cents up to 36.8 cents per $1,000 of assessed value. That amounts to a cost of approximately $8.19 per month, or $98.26 per year, on a home with an assessed value of $267,000, which is the median assessed value of a home in Clackamas County (note that assessed value is lower than market value).
Clackamas County board at impasse over condemnation of Dave Hunt May 06 2021
Chair Tootie Smith s rush to judgement criticized as lacking respect for due process of law.
Clackamas County commissioners this week hit an impasse over how to address the arrest of former Oregon House Speaker and current Clackamas Community College board member Dave Hunt for commercial sexual solicitation.
As first reported by Pamplin Media Group, the Democrat who lives between Gladstone and Milwaukie was picked up in April during an undercover sting conducted by the Portland Police Bureau. Hunt was among eight men cited in an operation where officers posted online decoy ads on known human trafficking websites, and people who according to the bureau contacted undercover police officers to arrange payment for sexual acts were criminally cited.