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Legs for Robonaut — By Hillary Borrud Now the experimental space station robot will get to move After a series of around. A3 high-profile prob- lems during Gov. ’s third term, In national news — Bank- the Oregon governor’s rupt San Bernardino is again strong race would appear ripe for taking on California’s pension By Beau Eastes • The Bulletin challengers. agency. A2 The failed launch of Or- egon’s on- Cherri Brewer was cruising. line health And a Web exclusive insurance — The gun metaphors in our Competing in her first Boston Marathon last April, market- everyday slang. place drew MAY 20 bendbulletin.com/extras Brewer, a 63-year-old registered nurse from Bend, national ELECTION atten- breezed through the race’s halfway mark in 2 hours, tion, and Kitzhaber was unable to EDITOR’S CHOICE 13 minutes and was eyeing a finish time that would convince state lawmakers to proceed with the Colum- qualify her for this year’s marathon. bia River Crossing project. Yet none of this was enough fodder to draw a Photos link serious Democratic chal- lenger into the governor’s race, and political analyst masked Bill Lunch said the Republi- can front-runner, state Rep. Dennis Richardson, will men, Russia find it difficult to win in the increasingly Democratic By Andrew Higgins, suburbs outside Portland Michael R. Gordon and because of his conservative Andrew E. Kramer positions on social issues. New York Times News Service Six Republican candi- KIEV, Ukraine — For dates will face off in the two weeks, the mysteri- May 20 primary election, ously well-armed, profes- while the only candidate sional gunmen known as who filed to challenge “green men” have seized Submitted photo; background photo from The Associated Press Kitzhaber does not appear Ukrainian ABOVE: Cherri Brewer, Kathy Lein and Amy Houchens, at the finish to be actively campaigning. Inside government line of the Boston Marathon on Sunday. Brewer and Houchens, of See Governor / A4 • Checkpoint sites in town Bend, and Lein, formerly of Bend, will run the race today. The three shootout, after town, were unable to finish last year because of the bombings. A2 igniting a BACKGROUND: Runners near the midpoint of a 5K race Saturday in brush fire Boston, part of marathon weekend. of separatist unrest across eastern Ukraine. Strenuous denials from the Kremlin “I was doing really well for Follow along Study casts have closely followed each me,” says Brewer, a fit grand- To follow the 118th Boston Mara- accusation by Ukrainian mother of two who has 11 thon live: www.baa.org officials that the world was marathons under her belt. “And doubt on witnessing a stealthy inva- then all of a sudden we came to sion by Russian forces. an abrupt stop.” it’s not wise for distance run- Now, photographs and Less than 2 miles from the ners to stop abruptly?’ corn fuels descriptions from eastern end of the race, Brewer and “Some people had cellphones,” Ukraine endorsed by the thousands of other runners Brewer adds. “You started hear- By Dina Cappiello Obama administration ground to a halt after a pair ing words like, ‘bomb,’ ‘explo- The Associated Press on Sunday suggest that of homemade bombs went off sion’ and ‘blood.’ And then you — Biofu- many of the green men are near the finish line of the 2013 heard the helicopters and sirens. els made from the leftovers indeed Russian military Boston Marathon, an act of ter- It was such a surreal scene.” of harvested corn plants and intelligence forces ror that killed three people and One of almost 5,000 runners are worse than gasoline — equipped in the same injured almost 300 more. who were unable to finish the for global warming in the fashion as Russian special None of that information, marathon because of the bomb- short term, a study shows, operations troops involved though, was known to the run- ings, Brewer is back in New challenging the Obama ad- in annexing the Crimea ners stranded on the course. England today — along with ministration’s conclusions region in February. “It was like a freeway when a host of other Central Orego- that they are a much cleaner See Russia / A4 there’s a car-to-car traffic jam,” nians — set to compete in what oil alternative and will help Brewer explains. “And we had is expected to be a highly emo- combat climate change. no idea why. People started tional 118th Boston Marathon. A $500,000 study paid for grumbling. ‘Don’t they know See Marathon / A8 by the federal government TODAY’S WEATHER and released Sunday in the peer-reviewed journal Na- Mostly cloudy ture Climate Change con- High 59, Low 38 cludes that biofuels made Page B8 with corn residue release 7 percent more greenhouse gases in the early years INDEX compared with convention- al gasoline. 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drug benefits and to require And one country, Schin- Governor medically accurate sex educa- JOHN KITZHABER TIM CARR Russia dler noted in an article last Continued from A1 tion in Oregon public schools. Party: Dem- Party: Repub- Continued from A1 year in which he coined the Lunch, a retired Oregon Meanwhile, Richardson has ocrat lican Some of the men pho- term, that particularly ex- State University professor attracted support from Oregon Age: 67 Age: 56 tographed in Ukraine cels at special war is Russia, who regularly provides politi- Right to Life’s political action Family: partner Family: wife have been identified in which carried out its first cal analysis for Oregon Public committee, which contributed Cylvia Hayes, Rosana Carr, other photos clearly taken post-Soviet war to regain Broadcasting, said in an in- $20,000 to his campaign in No- son from a previous marriage two children among Russian troops in control of rebellious Chechn- terview last week that health vember, according to state cam- other settings. ya back in 1994 by sending in Education: South Eugene Education: Jesuit High care reform and the gover- paign finance records. And Ukraine’s state se- a column of armored vehicles High School, bachelor’s School in Portland, bach- nor’s other policy priorities “Those positions work ex- curity service has identified filled with Russian soldiers degree from Dartmouth Col- elor’s degree in political are still popular enough with tremely well in the Republican one Russian reported to be masquerading as pro-Mos- lege and doctor of medicine science from Portland State Democratic voters in Oregon primary,” Lunch said. “They active among the green men cow Chechens. from University of Oregon University that they are not much of a li- don’t work well in the general as Igor Ivanovich Strelkov, Russia’s flair for “maskirov- Medical School ability for Kitzhaber. election in Oregon anymore.” Experience: CEO for 10 years a Russian military intelli- ka” — disguised warfare — has “The issues that might be The Bulletin interviewed sev- Experience: governor of Or- at CoSource USA, a Tualatin gence operative in his mid- become even more evident un- problematic for the governor en candidates about why they egon; president, Estes Park company that manufactures to late 50s. He is said to have der Putin, a former KGB offi- are not ones that have a lot of are running for governor. Here Institute; endowed chair of truck parts for Freightliner a long résumé of undercov- cer whose closest advisers are resonance with the kind of vot- are their responses. health policy — Foundation and other companies; nine er service with the Main mostly from that same Soviet ers on the Democratic side,” for Medical Excellence; direc- years as vice president of Intelligence Directorate of intelligence agency. Lunch said. “The Republicans Democrats tor emeritus, Center for Evi- Portland-based DePaul In- the Russian general staff, Heightening skepticism of have a kind of structural prob- John Kitzhaber: Kitzhaber, dence-based Policy, Oregon dustries, an outsourcing firm most recently in Crimea Russia’s denials is also the fact lem right now, which is their 67, said he is asking voters for a Health & Science University; that provides employment for in February and March that Putin, after denying any appeal to rural constituencies, fourth term because he wants to emergency room physician, people with disabilities and now in and around the Russian link to the masked which is substantial, probably continue working on Oregon’s Roseburg, 1973-1989 Hometown: Portland eastern Ukrainian city of gunmen who seized govern- covers at the very most a third economic recovery. “I ran in Hometown: Portland Time in Oregon: 56 years Slovyansk. ment buildings in Crimea and of the state’s population,” Lunch 2010 because I felt that embed- Time in Oregon: 52 years “There has been broad blockaded Ukrainian military said. “What has happened in ded in this recession was an op- GORDON CHALLSTROM unity in the international bases there, last week changed the last 10 to 12 years is the sub- portunity for some real trans- IFEANYICHUKWU DIRU Party: Repub- community about the con- his story and said, “Of course, urbs have swung more to the formational change,” Kitzhaber Party: Dem- lican nection between Russia Russian servicemen did back ocrat No photo Democrats.” said. Four years later, “There No photo provided Age: 58 and some of the armed mil- the Crimean self-defense The higher concentration of are parts of rural Oregon that provided Age: unavailable Family: wife itants in eastern Ukraine, forces.” voters and political power in the continue to suffer from dou- Family: un- Mary Chall- and the photos presented More direct evidence of state’s liberal metro areas is ex- ble-digit unemployment, and available strom, five children by the Ukrainians last week a Russian hand in eastern actly what frustrates many Re- a lot of the jobs we’ve created Education: unavailable Education: bachelor’s degree only further confirm this, Ukraine is contained in a dos- publican gubernatorial candi- have been at the bottom or top Experience: unavailable in business administration which is why U.S. officials sier of photographs provided dates, who say they want more of the income ladder.” have continued to make that by Ukraine to the Organization Hometown: unavailable from University of Nevada, local control of their property Kitzhaber said the economy Reno case,” Jen Psaki, the State for Security and Cooperation Time in Oregon: unavailable and tax dollars. continues to be the most im- Experience: founder and Department spokeswoman, in Europe, a Vienna-based or- Kitzhaber is a well-known portant issue in this election, owner of C.W. Concrete Inc. said Sunday. ganization now monitoring the advocate for health care inno- and he created Regional Solu- in Medford Russia’s role in east- situation in Donetsk and oth- vation, and the state got an ear- tions Centers to identify local boost job growth by loosening ern Ukraine has a critical er parts of the country. It fea- Hometown: Medford ly start building its own online economic development oppor- land use restrictions, including bearing on the agreement tures pictures taken in eastern health insurance marketplace. tunities across the state. The mining and timber reforesta- Time in Oregon: 37 years reached Thursday in Ge- Ukraine of unidentified gun- But six months after the insur- regional advisory committee tion policies, so the state can BRUCE CUFF neva among Russian, men and an earlier photograph ance exchange was supposed to in Central Oregon identified as make better use of its natural Party: Repub- Ukrainian, U.S. and Euro- of what looks like the same go live, Oregon is the only state its top priority the expansion of resources. Challstrom said he lican pean diplomats to ease the men appearing in a group shot No photo of a Russian military unit in in the nation where residents Oregon State University-Cas- would push for the federal gov- Age: 53 crisis. U.S. officials have still cannot sign themselves cades Campus, and university ernment to transfer land it owns provided said that Russia would be Russia. up for health coverage in one officials say the first phase of in Oregon back to state control. Family: wife held responsible for ensur- One set of photographs sitting. The state has paid the the campus will open to stu- According to Challstrom’s web- Mary Cuff, four ing that the Ukrainian gov- shows what appears to be the primary technology contractor, dents in fall 2015. Kitzhaber site, this would spur the creation children ernment buildings were va- same gunman in pictures taken Oracle Corp., $134 million in said the new campus will help of well-paying jobs in Oregon. Education: bachelor’s de- cated, and that it could face in the Crimean annexation and federal money and is withhold- more Oregonians obtain the gree in political science from new sanctions if the terms more recently in Slovyansk. ing $26 million from the compa- skills necessary to obtain good Darren Karr: Karr, 44, said Willamette University were not met. Another features a portly ny, while Cover Oregon’s board jobs. that if voters elect him as gover- Experience: residential sales The Kremlin insists that bearded man photographed in decides how to proceed with Ifeanyichukwu Diru, the nor, he will use crowd-sourcing broker for Prudential Real Russian forces are in no way Slovyansk on April 14, wearing the website. Board members only Democratic candidate who to gather new ideas to improve Estate Professionals; resi- involved, and that Strelkov a camouflage uniform without are deciding whether to fix the filed to challenge Kitzhaber, Oregon’s government. “There’s dential property preservation does not even exist, at least insignia, but six years earlier, existing website or go to the fed- does not appear to be actively a lot of ideas and innovation that inspector; served on the Mar- not as a Russian operative had been photographed during eral insurance exchange. campaigning and did not re- we’re missing out on because ion County Board of Property sent to Ukraine with orders Russia’s invasion of Georgia For his part, Kitzhaber, a spond to repeated attempts to we’re stuck in this old party Tax Appeals to stir up trouble. with a Russian special forces former emergency room physi- contact him. system,” Karr said. Karr did not Hometown: Mehama “It’s all nonsense,” Pres- patch on his left arm. cian, said his takeaway from the provide details of how he would Time in Oregon: 53 years ident Vladimir Putin said Another character in experience is that he is a good Republicans orchestrate his crowd-sourcing Thursday during a four- Ukraine’s case against Russia doctor, “but I don’t know a whole Tim Carr: Carr, 56, said he plan, but he said he would hire DARREN KARR hour question-and-answer is Strelkov, the supposed mil- lot about building websites.” decided to run for governor technology firms to set up the Party: Repub- show on Russian television. itary intelligence officer who The governor defended the because no other Republicans new system. lican “There are no Russian units, Kiev says took part in a furtive overarching goal of health care from the Portland metro area Age: 44 special services or instruc- Russian operation to prepare reform. “The buck stops here had jumped into the race, and Lorraine Mae Rafferty: Raf- Family: wife tors in the east of Ukraine.” for the annexation of Crimea on the management problem,” he believes a moderate Repub- ferty, 52, said she decided to run Leslie Karr, two Pro-Russian activists and, more recently, in insurgent Kitzhaber said. “But at the end of lican from this area would be for governor because she op- children from a previous who have seized govern- action in Slovyansk. the day, the website is a means to the strongest candidate to chal- poses Richardson’s plan to at- marriage ment buildings in at least No photographs have yet an end, not an end in itself.” lenge Kitzhaber. Carr said that tract Chinese companies to Or- 10 towns across eastern emerged of Strelkov, but the Education: studied com- That’s not the only problem with ongoing problems at Cover egon. Rafferty said she learned Ukraine also deny getting Security Service of Ukraine, puter science at Clackamas Kitzhaber faces. Republicans Oregon, “This is the one time I of Richardson’s support for the help from professional Rus- the successor organization to Community College also say the governor wasted think Kitzhaber could go down. idea through a June 2011 news- sian soldiers or intelligence what used to be Ukraine’s lo- money on the defunct Colum- … He could do anything wrong, letter to constituents, in which Experience: self-employed agents. cal branch of the KGB, has re- bia River Crossing project, the and no one seems to care.” Richardson cited the benefits of property manager; previous- But masking the identity leased a sketch of what it says is planned new Interstate 5 and Carr said his top priority as Japanese car companies open- ly operated a floating food of its forces, and clouding his face. lightrail bridge in which Oregon governor would be to reform ing manufacturing plants in the cart on the Willamette River the possibilities for interna- Military analysts say the and Washington jointly invest- Oregon’s public pension system, United States. “Our message and worked as a business tional denunciation, is a cen- Russian tactics show a dis- ed more than $180 million. The and the only way to achieve this for Chinese investors is this ... analyst for Portland-based tral part of the Russian strat- turbing amount of finesse that Oregon Department of Trans- would be to start by moving the Oregon is open for business,” email marketing company egy, developed during years speaks to long-term planning. portation shut down planning governor and his or her staff, Richardson wrote. Rafferty Yesmail of conflict in the former So- “The Russians have used for the project in March, after plus all lawmakers and the Or- said she is concerned that as Hometown: West Linn viet sphere, Ukrainian and very specialized, very effective state lawmakers declined to egon Supreme Court, onto a Chinese companies purchase Time in Oregon: 34 years U.S. officials say. forces,” said Jacob Kipp, an pay for construction. Kitzhaber 401(k) retirement system. The land for companies in Oregon, John Schindler, a former expert on the Russian military said the state’s investment in the governor, lawmakers and judg- Americans will lose control of LORRAINE MAE National Security Agency and the former deputy director project was not wasted because es currently have a financial the state. “We’re inviting an in- RAFFERTY counterintelligence officer of the Army’s School of Ad- the state will archive all of the interest in maintaining the pen- vasion,” Rafferty said. Party: Repub- who now teaches at the vanced Military Studies at Fort planning documents for later sion system because they bene- Rafferty also said Oregon lican Naval War College, calls it Leavenworth, Kan. use. “It is the weak link in our fit from it, Carr said. has too many regulations, so Age: 52 “special war” — “an amal- transportation between Cana- “That is going to take such an she would like to pick a point Family: husband gam of espionage, subver- da and Mexico,” Kitzhaber said effort to get these people to vote in history and remove all the James Rafferty sion, even forms of terror- of the existing I-5 bridge. against their own financial in- state laws passed since then. Education: high school di- ism to attain political ends And as Richardson is quick terest,” Carr said. “People can- Rafferty said that going back to ploma, classes at Northwest without actually going to to point out, Kitzhaber hired not forget that issue is still out Oregon’s 1959 laws “might be Nazarene University in Nam- war in any conventional former Chief Education Officer there. It’s going to bankrupt this good,” but she would have to do pa, Idaho sense.” Rudy Crew at an annual salary state.” further research in order to se- Experience: owns and oper- of $280,000 to oversee the gov- lect the correct year. ates Hardwoods Plus lumber ernor’s plan to improve student Bruce Cuff: Cuff, 53, wants store in Grants Pass achievement and coordinate to give local communities more Dennis Richardson: Rich- the education system from pre- control over government spend- ardson, 64, said in an interview Hometown: Selma school through college. Crew ing. First, Cuff would like to Thursday that he is running for Time in Oregon: 27 years left after barely a year on the cut personal income taxes and governor because he would be DENNIS RICHARDSON 721 SW 10th • Redmond • (541) 548-8616 job, to take a job as president eliminate the business income a better leader than Kitzhaber. Party: Repub- www.redmondwindowtreats.com of the City University of New tax — which currently provide “Presently, what we have is a lican York’s Medgar Evers College. a majority of schools funding governor who makes promises Age: 64 Kitzhaber served two terms — and instead require school about the future, and then fails as governor, from 1995 to 2003. districts to ask voters to ap- to deliver,” Richardson said. Family: wife The state constitution prohibits prove local sales taxes to pay “Cover Oregon was going to be Cathy Richard- governors from serving more for schools. Cuff said this would (Kitzhaber’s) legacy. … Instead son, nine children and 31 than eight years during a 12- make school districts account- of admitting failure and stop- grandchildren. year period, but there is no limit able to voters and free up state ping the loss, we continue to Education: bachelor’s de- on the total number of terms. lawmakers to focus on other spend taxpayer dollars because gree in pre-law studies from In 2010, Kitzhaber narrow- budget issues. Cuff would also they want to save face. It’s gu- Brigham Young University, ly won the governor’s seat in a like to redirect much of the Or- bernatorial malpractice, what law degree from J. Reuben race against moderate Republi- egon State Police budget to the he’s doing.” Clark Law School can and former Portland Trail sheriff’s offices in each of Ore- Richardson said the most im- Experience: Oregon House Blazer Chris Dudley. gon’s 36 counties. According to portant issues in the governor’s of Representatives, 2002 Lunch said it’s possible to Cuff’s website, he wants to pre- race this year are job creation to present; co-chair of the imagine a Republican beating serve Oregon State Police fund- and improving the economy. Joint Senate-House Ways Kitzhaber, “but not somebody ing “where it makes sense,” in- Richardson said the state’s tax and Means Committee, as far to the right as Richard- cluding for the state crime lab system is problematic but did 2011-13; several decades son.” Lunch said he expects and protection of state property. not provide details during his of experience as a small Richardson will have a “terri- Cuff’s third major strategy in- interview on how he would business owner and small ble time with suburban voters,” volves appointing to the Land change the current system. “We town attorney; Army combat particularly women, because of Conservation and Development need to go through and deter- helicopter pilot; previously Richardson’s conservative posi- Commission seven new mem- mine the barriers that prevent served as a Central Point City tions on social issues. Last year, bers who will transfer land use Oregon from having a robust Councilor and member of the NARAL-Pro-Choice Oregon planning control back to local economy,” Richardson said. local school district budget launched an attack on Richard- communities so property own- — Reporter: 541-617-7829, committee son, calling his voting record in ers can benefit from their land [email protected] Hometown: Central Point the Oregon House the “worst- and have fewer restrictions. — Monicia Warner contributed to Time in Oregon: 35 years of-the-worst.” The group cited this report. Richardson’s support for an un- Gordon Challstrom: Chall- successful 2006 ballot measure strom’s main focus in this elec- to require parental notification tion is on jobs. when teens sought abortions. “That’s what this state is The group also took Richard- starving for,” he said. “I want to son to task for voting against see people become more self-re- legislation to mandate birth liant and self-sufficient.” control coverage in prescription Challstrom, 58, would like to