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John Delaney says hes a different kind of Democrat.

I work to pursue goals that I think the Democratic Party shares broadly, but I think about how you do that differently, Delaney says.

Delaney is a member of Congress from Maryland and the first officially declared Democratic candidate for president in 2020.

It bears reminding that the 2020 presidential election is more than three years away, and even Iowas first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses are roughly 2 years off.

Yet here was Delaney, making his way around the 2017 Iowa State Fair this past week, holding multiple media interviews and meeting with people interested in his campaign over the span of a couple of days in Des Moines.

The 54-year-old Delaney said he is not a typical Democrat because he believes the best government work is done when both major political parties work together, and that he has a different view on economic issues because of his experience as an entrepreneur.

Assuming he stays in the race for the long haul --- during the interview he assured he would --- Delaney will be among what almost assuredly will be a large crowd of Democratic candidates. (CNN political analyst Chris Cillizza recently estimated more than 20 possibilities --- and that list did not include Delaney.) So Delaney will need a message that differentiates himself from the crowd.

A key element of Delaneys message is that he thinks federal officials are, as he said it, having the wrong conversation. He said too much political debate is about re-litigating battles of the past, and not enough about looking toward the future.

And a critical piece of that forward-looking debate, Delaney said, is technology and the disruption it will have on the global workforce.

Technology, automation, global interconnections, these are changing everything, Delaney said. These things are going to have profound effects over the next 20 or 30 years, and theyre going to create large-scale opportunities and challenges, and were doing nothing to prepare our country and our citizens.

Delaney said the federal government should be doing more to prepare for those profound effects by creating a more competitive and entrepreneurial business climate, creating a better educated and more well-trained workforce, investing in communities, and make smarter investments of government resources to create a healthier budget and environment.

That, to me, is a blueprint for the future, Delaney said.

Delaney founded two companies: a finance company for health care providers and a commercial lender. Both went public within three years of their founding, according to Delaneys biography.

He was first elected to Congress in 2012 and serves on the financial services committee.

Delaney said his business background gives him a different economic perspective that is different that some Democrats, that he does not view the private sector as the enemy.

And that message, Delaney said, is what will help Democrats regain voters they lost in 2016 --- including in Iowa, which went twice for former President Barack Obama but flipped for Trump.

I dont think its the policy goals of the Democratic Party are wrong. But I definitely think that we are not talking to people about what they care most about. We tend to talk to people about what we care most about. And those are very different things, Delaney said.

Obviously what most people care about is their job and the economy in their local community. Because really at the end of the day everything flows from that: a persons sense of dignity, their ability to raise a family, their ability to support their kids, the ability to make sure the community has the resources it needs so its vital and vibrant. And Democrats arent talking enough about that.

As for his early entry into the race, Delaney said part of the reason is his desire to be straight with voters, who he thinks are tired of all the b.s. in politics.

We all know there are a lot of people running for president right now, Delaney said. Theyre just not saying it.

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(1 of ) A tree explodes into flames as the wind whips up the southern front of a wildfire as it burns near Sisters, Ore., Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017. (Andy Tullis /The Bulletin via AP) (2 of ) A wildfire burns just outside of Sister, Ore., Friday Aug. 18, 2017. (Chris Pietsch/The Register-Guard via AP)

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SISTERS, Oregon Evacuation orders affecting hundreds of people were issued in California and Oregon as wildfires neared small towns, including one thats a prime location for viewing the eclipse.

About 600 residents were told to leave the tourist town of Sisters, Oregon, and authorities said Saturday another 1,000 people had been told to be ready to leave if necessary.

Sisters is located on the edge of a 70-mile swath of the state where the moon will completely blot out the sun.

No structures had been lost and no injuries have been reported since the fire began last week. The cause is under investigation.

Crews were expecting a tough day Saturday with winds gusting to more than 20 mph.

On Monday, they will have to contend with the solar eclipse that fire officials say will ground all firefighting helicopters and most fixed-wing aircraft for about 35 minutes as the moons shadow passes over the area.

Shopkeepers were hoping the fire would not inhibit business as tourists arrive to watch the eclipse.

If you look up at the sky its not an orange cloud anymore, said Andrew Bourgerie, co-owner of Sisters Bakery. So its simmering down a little bit.

Some campsites and recreational areas were shut down due to the 12-square-mile wildfire in Deschutes National Forest that jumped fire lines Friday.

Officials say the blaze is producing heavy smoke while burning in forests at higher elevations and sagebrush in lower areas.

We have a few days before the eclipse to see if the smoke is in the area, fire spokeswoman Lisa Clark said.

Officials said only aircraft with instruments allowing them to fly at night can fight the fire during the eclipse. Clark said that eliminates the bulk of the firefighting fleet, though large airtankers will be able to fly.

In California, authorities issued an evacuation order for the small town of Wawona as a week-old fire in Yosemite National Park grew and air quality reached a hazardous level.

The U.S. Forest Service said the fire grew to more than 4 square miles overnight due to winds from thunderstorms. Authorities ordered people to leave as air quality was expected to worsen.

Wawona, with a population of 1,000 to 2,000 people at any given time, is less than 2 miles from the fire. The evacuation order included the historic Big Trees Lodge, formerly known as the Wawona Hotel.

The fire has closed campgrounds and trails in the national park since it began a week ago. It was 10 percent contained.

In Montana, 155 National Guard troops arrived to monitor about three dozen security checkpoints in an area south of Missoula that was evacuated due to a fire that flared up after burning since at least July 15.

The fire destroyed two homes and several outbuildings Thursday. It burned an additional 14 square miles Friday and has charred an estimated 44 square miles of wooded, mountainous terrain west of Lolo.

The troops will relieve law enforcement officers so they can return to other duties.

The Missoulian reported that heavy smoke has settled into valleys and officials warned of poor air quality

Idahos two largest wildfires were burning mostly in wilderness areas.

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Kansas House Minority Leader Jim Ward, D-Wichita, jumped into the pool of candidates running for governor by announcing his candidacySaturday morning in Wichita.

Ward joins a Democratic Party lineup that includes former Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer; former Kansas Agriculture Secretary Joshua Svaty, Ellsworth; Olathe physician Arden Andersen; and Wichita high school student Jack Bergeson. The Republican primary has drawn an even larger field.

Speaking prior to the announcement, Ward said the decision by Paul Davis, D-Lawrence, to run for the congressional seat in the 3rd District was one factor in his decision to run for governor. Davis is a previous House minority leader who ran but lost to Republican Gov. Sam Brownback in 2014. Davis had been mentioned as a possible candidate in the 2018 gubernatorial race.

I did my due diligence, Ward said, as he weighed the race. That included surmising the field of candidates and talking to every Democrat in the House. There are 40 Democrats in the 125-seat House.

Ward, 59, will run on a platform advocating fiscal responsibility, tax fairness, strong schools, public safety and investment in roads and infrastructure. He has prior experience as a prosecuting attorney in Sedgwick County, and he opened his private practice in 1990.

He entered the House in 2003 and was elected House minority leader for a two-year term that began in 2017. He will continue in that role next year. He will not be the only member of the Legislature running for state office or Congress next year. Ward thinks that works in his favor.

I think theyre looking for a problem-solver, Ward said of voters. They will gain insight about candidates from their job performance, in his opinion.

Ward wont be able to run for governor and another term in the Kansas Housesimultaneously, so his jump to the governors race creates an opening in the 86th House District in the 2018 election. It also means House Democrats will choose a new leader following the 2018 election.

Rep. Jason Probst, D-Hutchinson, was chosen in June to fill the seat held by the late Rep. Patsy Terrell, D-Hutchinson, andProbst said Ward has been helpful as he learns about the new job. Probst said he knows Ward better than the other Democrats running for governor, but hehasnt felt pressureto endorse a candidate.

Probst said he also hasnt thought much about the topic of endorsing a gubernatorial candidate.He said hes spent most of his time trying to figure out how to do this and what the district needs from him.

University of Kansas political science professor Burdett Loomis said Ward is not going to get a better year than 2018 to run for governor. He gets to run against the Brownback record and against President Trumps record, Loomis said.

I certainly think if youre Jim Ward, you look around and Carl Brewer is certainly not nothing as a candidate at all, but I dont see that theres a lot of energy there, Loomis said. And youve got Josh Svaty who is pro-life and also is not especially well-known, Loomis said.

Ward also has the example of Davis, who ran a competitive campaign against Brownback in 2014.

More Democratic votes are in the four northeast Kansas counties of Johnson, Wyandotte, Douglas and Shawnee than anywhere in the state, Loomis said. If I was any of these candidates, Loomis said, I would work like an absolute dog in those counties.

Loomis did not regard Wards entry into the race as too late. A big question will be which of the candidates can raise serious money to run against the Republican nominee in fall 2018, he said.

Ward made his announcement at a labor union headquarters, and Loomis said which candidate gets labors support also will be important.

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By Jason Hancock and Bryan Lowry The Kansas City Star (TNS)

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal was adamant Friday that she isnt resigning over a Facebook post calling for President Donald Trumps assassination.

Chappelle-Nadal, a University City Democrat, has faced calls by Missouris top Democrats and Republicans demanding she resign from the legislature over a comment she posted on her personal Facebook Thursday: I hope Trump is assassinated.

Among those calling for her resignation were the chairman of the Missouri Democratic Party and U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill.

Chappelle-Nadal deleted the comment and said posting it was a mistake. She said she posted the comment out of frustration with Trumps statements about recent events in Charlottesville, Va., where an alleged white supremacist drove his car into a crowd near the citys downtown mall, killing a 32-year-old woman.

But in a series of tweets following the calls from her fellow Democrats to resign, she struck a defiant tone.

I am not resigning, she said. When (people of color) are respected by this (White House) & they are willing to do real work, Ill sit down with them. People are traumatized!

She then retweeted statements of support along with racist comments she began receiving after news broke about her Facebook post. One person sent her a message on Twitter that was just the N-word over and over again from a Twitter account called KillMaria69.

She also tweeted a link to I Stand With Maria website.

Out of anger and frustration, I said something that could have been reframed, she said on the website. And I refuse to shy away from the hypocrisy and chaos our country is enduring under Trump.

But the calls for her resignation grew louder Friday. Joining the chorus late Thursday was House Minority Leader Gail McCann Beatty, a Kansas City Democrat and the highest-ranking black lawmaker in Missouri.

Suggestions of violence have no place in our political discourse, and an elected official who expresses hope for someones murder has forfeited the right to hold office, McCann Beatty said. Given state Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadals repugnant social media post suggesting the president should be assassinated, she must resign.

Both Senate President Ron Richard, a Joplin Republican, and Senate Majority Leader Mike Kehoe, a Jefferson City Republican, echoed the call for resignation.

In a time when we should be calling for peace, promoting violence of any kind is unacceptable, and Im asking her to resign from her position, Kehoe said.

Talking with reporters Friday, McCaskill said leaders of the Democratic Party have spoken in one voice against Chappelle-Nadals comments.

Theres nothing we can do to force her to resign, but we can continue to reject that kind of advocation of violence, McCaskill said. Thats the problem we have now.

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The male victim involved in a shooting Thursday afternoon has died.

The victim has been identified as 28 year-old Leon Hinckley of Windsor.

According to Pettis County Sheriff Kevin Bond, around 12:50 p.m. deputies responded to the Sunset Village Trailer Park on West Main Street, located just west of the Sedalia city limits near the Galaxy Movie Theater. He said one man was taken by the Pettis County Ambulance District to Bothwell Regional Health Center with multiple gunshot wounds.

Bond said deputies had interviewed witnesses in the area and that a black male driver and a white male passenger were seen leaving the scene in a black four-door passenger car with a sunroof.

A news release states that during the investigation a black 2012 Chevrolet Impala, believed to have been involved in the crime and reported stolen from Sedalia, was recovered by the Lafayette County Sheriffs Office in Lexington.

We believe theyve (the suspects) left our area and the Lafayette County Sheriffs Office is assisting us in investigating, Bond told the Democrat. The vehicle, it was reported as being stolen here in Sedalia, so the Sedalia Police Department is working that portion of it. The vehicle is on its way back from Lafayette County so we can search it, process it, collect evidence.

Bond said an autopsy for the victim is scheduled for Friday morning at the Boone County Medical Examiners Office.

Anyone with information on this case is asked to call the Pettis County Sheriffs Office at 660-827-0052 or Pettis County Crime Stoppers at 660-827-8477.

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Pettis County deputies still searching for suspects

Nicole Cooke can be reached at 660-530-0138 or on Twitter @NicoleRCooke.

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