Gov. Kate Brown, pictured at a June 30 "reopening Oregon" celebration in Portland, spent the hottest day of the deadly heat wave two days earlier at a daylong working retreat at a winery.Dave Killen/The Oregonian
Gov. Kate Brown spent the third and hottest day of Oregon’s deadly June heat wave at a daylong retreat at a Yamhill County winery.
The governor’s decision to stick with a scheduled June 28 strategic planning meeting with her top staffers in the state’s idyllic wine country as Oregonians confronted deadly temperatures that killed more than 100 underscores the apparent failure of the state’s top elected leader to understand — and communicate to the public — the gravity of the heat emergency.
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