Judge Grasty should not be recalled (OR)

By George Murdock
Umatilla County Commissioner
Published on May 27, 2016 3:27PM

... Steve Grasty, a veteran Harney County judge who is retiring Dec. 31, is .. facing a recall vote ...

... on the eve of his departure from a distinguished career in public service, Grasty is .. going to spend the twilight months of his public life experiencing a prolonged reenactment of the bizarre events that propelled Harney County from relative obscurity onto the national stage.

What are the basic charges? Grasty failed to support the armed takeover of the Malheur Wildife Refuge by out-of-state insurgents who, according to some reports, caused an estimated $6 million in damage to a treasured resource and blatantly plowed up artifacts important to the Paiute Tribes while at the same time transforming the community of Burns from a place where residents felt safe and unified into a nightmare of discontent and fear ...

It will be years before Burns and the small communities surrounding it will ever hope to return to normal. The recall effort focused on a dedicated public servant is evidence of the residue that remains ...

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