Oregon Public Broadcasting

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton visited Junction City Friday. She went to a housing development and held a round table discussion with a family, a builder and a Springfield businessman.

The hour-long discussion covered everything from the gas prices to health care to education. Senator Clinton said there are problems unique to Oregon including the loss of federal timber payments to rural counties.
 
Hillary Clinton: “If there is going to be  some change you negotiate it you give people time to look forward to it and it happens over a period of years. It’s not just an abrupt, sorry, we’re not going to give you the money we’ve been paying you for a hundred years because we have so much of your land and you can’t get any tax revenues off it.”

Clinton also touched on the three proposed liquefied natural gas terminals on the Oregon coast. She asserted that she had voted against taking siting authority away from states.

Senator Barack Obama will be in Oregon Saturday and Sunday.