Oregon Speaker of the House Tina Kotek(right) and her wife, Aimee.
Kate is only the tip of the iceberg.
Posted on 06/20/2019 11:05:40 AM PDT by gundog
Oregon Republican senators have left the Capitol and scattered in various directions outside the state in order to avoid being rounded up by troopers for a high-profile climate bill vote scheduled today.
Reached just after 7 a.m. Thursday, Sen. Cliff Bentz of Ontario said he was on his way out of the state. "In a few moments, I will not be in Oregon,” said Bentz, who spent most of Wednesday meeting with Gov. Kate Brown’s staff in an effort to negotiate changes to the carbon cap-and-trade plan, House Bill 2020.
Bad precedent.
I think you can, but OSP won’t go to Washington for them.
“Just vote no and let the chips fall”..you don’t live here, this bill will utterly decimate this state, drive multiple businesses to leave of close down and it will raise gas and electrical prices 100%. Not to mention setting up a huge new bureaucracy that will act as the EU currently does in Europe.
It’s a nightmare bill that will impact us as much as the spotted owl decision shut down logging.
And they’re declaring it an emergency bill, which means it can’t be subject to a petition for referendum.
No, leaving the capital to deny them a quorum is the only thing that will do any good.
Ed
She’s such a PervoCrat
Hope this works as a strategy. How long do they stay away before the bill is dead?
Oregon Speaker of the House Tina Kotek(right) and her wife, Aimee.
Kate is only the tip of the iceberg.
Oh. Believe me...I know.
It's called cowardice. Running off doesn't help and only prolongs the inevitable. The voters apparently want Marxism, so let them have it. Vote against the crap and let the people lie in their own feces.
Yes, they should be in the chamber and vote against it as well. Let people know where you stand. You know if such a scenario would happen, nobody in OR besides the Antifa morons in Portland would obey the law anyway.
I don't have to live there. Stay and fight and stand your ground and make your case to the people, instead of running away and being the butt of liberal jokes.
The point is STOPPING this monstrosity. Show up to vote means it passes. When dealing with evil and evil people, you use every weapon in your arsenal to stop their agenda, you don’t ENABLE it.
Communo-Fascists will never stop making jokes about the good no matter what our side does. That’s why they’re evil.
You got it totally wrong.
The Dems have supermajorities in both chambers. Every single Republican could vote No and this horrible bill would still pass.
Nope, denying them a quorum is the logical way to proceed.
Ed
It’s called strategy...
I think leaving the State is an unambiguous statement about where they stand. And I doubt that Antifa turns in any weapons.
Make your case to the voters during election year then.
How do Dems have supermajorities in the OR legislature anyway? Probably because the Republicans were me-too bitches and thought they could moderate their way into victory.
Show up to vote means it passes.
Good, let it! The people voted for this and want it, let them have it!
When dealing with evil and evil people, you use every weapon in your arsenal to stop their agenda, you don’t ENABLE it.
Oh please. I would agree with you if we were fighting globalists or a Hillary Clinton administration. But this is an Oregon issue.
It’s not cowardice. ...the Dems have a super majority...Oregonna has been screwed by Dems for last @35 years. In Oregon this is seen as standing up to the treasonous aholes...I LIVE HERE..and have been fighting for a long time...but when laws are only for GOP you do what you gotta do.
No this IS A “GLOBALIST ISSUE”
Just because the loons want it doesn’t mean the law-abiding straights deserve to be saddled with it. Let those in the moonbat areas screw themselves up, not force the rest of Oregon to go with them.
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