Bulletin Daily Paper 11/13/10

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Debt holders may operate Broken Top Club By Zack Hall The Bulletin

Minnesota-based Thrivent Financial is considering assuming control of Bend’s Broken Top Club and operating the private facility itself, according to an e-mail sent by the club’s board of directors to its members. Thrivent, which holds the $5.5 million note with Broken Top, began the foreclosure process last week with a notice of default. But an unnamed Thrivent representative assured George Hanseth, vice president of Broken Top’s board of directors, “That as long as the majority of the membership was in place they intended to hire a manager and continue to operate the club as the premier club in Bend,” according to the e-mail. Thrivent refused to comment Friday specifically about Broken Top. “That’s an option they have,” Jim Wolfe, chairman of Broken Top’s board, confirmed Friday. “But I don’t think I should comment any more than that.” The ownership group of Bend’s Tetherow Golf Club is also discussing a deal with the club’s members and Thrivent to purchase the club, Tetherow managing partner Chris van der Velde has said. In 2007, a court-appointed arbitrator ordered Broken Top’s owners to sell the exclusive club to a group of its members for $6.35 million in cash. See Broken Top / A6

An end to D.C. earmarks? What does Oregon stand to lose? By Keith Chu The Bulletin

WASHINGTON — Federal pork could be going the way of the dodo once U.S. House Republicans take control next year. Pork barrel politics were a popular target for Republicans as they racked up big gains in both houses of Congress earlier this month. That might explain why Oregon’s members of Congress, even those who have defended earmarks in the past, mostly shied away from answering

questions about where they stand on letting lawmakers pick and choose federal spending priorities. Only U.S. Rep. Greg Walden — who supports a ban — and U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden — he’s for earmarks, if the process is reformed — responded to questions by The Bulletin this week about the proposed ban. Walden, R-Hood River, began opposing earmarks last year, after several years of requesting earmarks only for nonprofits or local governments. See Earmarks / A7

IN CONGRESS

Oregon’s earmarks (2010)

No. of Shared shared value earmarks

No. Solo value solo

Greg Walden (R)

32

3

$24,861,200

$640,000

Peter DeFazio (D)

19

$23,868,900

4

$1,500,000

Earl Blumenauer (D)

26

$27,805,200

0

0

Kurt Schrader (D)

29

$42,405,000

0

0

David Wu (D)

49

$49,184,800

2

$500,000

Ron Wyden (D)

106

$86,246,174

0

0

Jeff Merkley (D)

104

$80,905,174

0

0

Source: Center for Responsive Politics

Greg Walden: The detail point man in an ascendant GOP

ONLINE OUTBURSTS

Brief rant turns Twitter user into a criminal, cause By Sarah Lyall New York Times News Service

DONCASTER, England — The troubles of Paul Chambers began on a cold night in January, when his attempt to visit a woman from Northern Ireland he had met online was thwarted by a snowstorm that grounded flights. Chambers’ first reaction, as in many things in his life, was to address the issue on Twitter. “Robin Hood Airport is closed,” Chambers, then 26 and a financial supervisor, said to his 690 followers, including the woman, known on Twitter as @crazycolours. “You’ve got a week to get your [expletive] together, otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!!” That would have been the end of it. But Chambers’ impulsive outburst led him down a long and unexpected path, turning him into both a convicted criminal and a cause celebre for Twitter users and freespeech advocates in Britain and beyond. See Twitter / A6

Correction In a map accompanying the story headlined “N. Santiam searched for body of missing woman,” which appeared Friday, Nov. 12, on Page A1, the location of the Oregon city of Detroit was misrepresented. A corrected version of the map appears with today’s story on Page C1. The Bulletin regrets the error.

TOP NEWS INSIDE

Alex Brandon / The Associated Press

Rep. Greg Walden, R-Hood River, speaks Wednesday on Capitol Hill as House Speaker-in-waiting John Boehner looks on. Walden’s latest job is overseeing the Republican transition to the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.

New clout in Congress By Philip Rucker The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — In BoehnerLand, the constellation of loyalists and associates surrounding the soon-to-be House speaker, Rep. Greg Walden has become the indispensable jack-of-all-trades. A former radio station owner from Hood River, the six-term representative for all of Central and Eastern Oregon and much of the state’s south tackles every thankless task assigned by House Minority Leader John Boehner with the

precision that he learned as an Eagle Scout. Walden’s latest assignment: to oversee his party’s transition to the majority — and to somehow translate its campaign promises to reform the way Congress works to a practical rule book that, well, reforms the way Congress works. This is no sexy task. And it will not culminate in a landmark bill that bears Walden’s name. This is a matter of floor-vote calendars and committee-hearing schedules. Should Congress stream live witness testimony and committee deliberations? Keep printing 200 copies of each

amendment? Slash the money spent on the Capitol’s underground subway or guards or cafeteria cooks — or all of the above? “We often get hamstrung about what the existing structure is,” Walden, 53, said in an interview this week. “ ‘Well, we can’t do that because we have a rule.’ Um, guys, we write the rules. Think outside the box. If you were designing this institution starting today, how would you design it? What works? What doesn’t? And how would you do it better?” See Walden / A7

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Defying trend, Manitoba chooses immigrants An immigrant worker assembles furniture at the Palliser Furniture factory in Manitoba, Canada. John Woods New York Times News Service

By Jason DeParle New York Times News Service

WINNIPEG, Manitoba — As waves of immigrants from the developing world remade Canada a decade ago, the famously friendly people of Manitoba could not contain their pique. What irked them was not the Babel of tongues, the billions spent on health care and social services, or the explosion of ethnic identities. The rub was the newcomers’ preference for “MTV” — Montreal, Toronto or

Vancouver — over the humble prairie province north of North Dakota, which coveted workers and population growth. Demanding “our fair share,” Manitobans did something hard to imagine in U.S. politics, where concern over illegal immigrants dominates debate and states seek more power to keep them out. In Canada, which has little illegal immigration, Manitoba won new power to bring foreigners in, handpicking ethnic and occupational groups judged likely to stay. See Manitoba / A6


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