Oregon Governor: If Donald Trump asks me to deploy Guard, I'll say no.

Twitter ^ | April 4, 2018 | Governor Kate Brown

[hiho hiho]

If @realDonaldTrump asks me to deploy Oregon Guard troops to the Mexico border, I’ll say no. As Commander of Oregon’s Guard, I’m deeply troubled by Trump’s plan to militarize our border.

There’s been no outreach by the President or federal officials, and I have no intention of allowing Oregon’s guard troops to be used to distract from his troubles in Washington.

[Steven Tyler]

Governor cannot see the forest cause of all the trees

[Buckeye McFrog]

So you are saying that Oregon is governed by someone
who does not know the most basic facts of American History.

[goodnesswins]

The “Governor of Oregon doesn’t understand” LOTS of things....she’s an open BI-SEXUAL...and I’m hoping she just lost the Governorship for Dems...for the first time since the 1980s

[goodnesswins]

Oregon ping

[CodeToad]

Correct. Govs only own the Guard until the pressure wants them.

[Salvation]

If you would like more information about what's happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me.

[Salvation]

We need to un-elect this leftist governor.

[CurlyDave]

Some Governor with a chip on his shoulder. Some day when disaster strikes his territory he will wish he wouldn;t have said this.

Oregon Gov is actually an admittedly bisexual she.

[houeto]

If you can make sense of that then kindly translate it for me.

STILL no reply?!?

[Jack Black]

This thread has a fair number of snarky errors—but you likely win the prize. She wasn’t elected to the governorship—her predecessor resigned. She wasn’t elected as governor (though in fairness, she was elected as Secretary of State).

/begin_snark

No, not exactly. She did assume office when Kitz resigned, but then she had to stand for election in 2016. So in fact she was elected to the Governorship, unfortunately.

Per Wikipedia:

Brown ran in the 2016 special election for governor. She faced Julian Bell, Chet Chance, Kevin M. Forsythe, Steve Johnson, and Dave Stauffer in the Democratic primary, and won the nomination.[24][25] By April 2016, she had raised over $800,000 for her campaign in 2016 alone, while her closest Democratic competitor, Julian Bell, had raised $33,000.[26][27]

Brown won the election against Republican Bud Pierce, Independent Party nominee Cliff Thomason, Libertarian James Foster, and Constitution Party nominee Aaron Donald Auer, receiving 51% of all cast votes in the state.

/end_snark

[Hieronymus]

Thanks very much, I stand more corrected than not. I’ve only been back once since ‘99 and have largely stopped following the politics—they are a nasty combination of depressing and predictable.