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In Grants Pass itself, the Oregon city of 40,000 whose policy won the high court’s approval last summer, there is one city-sanctioned lot where homeless residents can sleep, though the city closes it at 7 every morning.

Sasse was among a small group of business owners and law enforcement officials from around the Portland area who gathered in a sectioned-off portion of a banquet hall in Oregon City, as a steady rain slicked the streets outside.

It encompasses disparate regions spanning metro Portland and its wealthy and working-class suburbs, as well as rural agricultural and mountain communities and the fast-growing central Oregon city of Bend on the other side of the Cascade Range.

In the 5th District Democratic primary, McLeod-Skinner, who lives in central Oregon, has a base of support in the southeast corner of the district, especially in the central Oregon city of Bend in Deschutes County.

In her last primary, she performed strongly in Clackamas County, home to Oregon City, but Bynum represents part of Clackamas County in the state House.