Posted on 04/27/2020 8:03:07 AM PDT by nwrep
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum sent a letter Friday threatening legal action against conservative Oregon City Mayor Dan Holladay if he followed through with talk of reopening the city's businesses before Gov. Kate Brown lifts the statewide stay-home order.
"I send this letter in the hope that you will reconsider your approach without the need for more formal action. I remind you that there are significant legal repercussions for violating the governor's order," says the letter, which was obtained by WW. "You do not have the authority to override the governor's executive order.… So, in addition to putting your residents' health at risk, you may be placing them in legal jeopardy."
Holladay tells WW he hadn't made any concrete plans to reopen Oregon City businesses, but that he had spoken to business owners and mayors across the state about the prospect of doing so. However, after a mayors' consortium meeting Thursday, Holladay says, he decided he would abide by the governor's stay-home order and that he was caught off guard when, the next day, he received the letter threatening legal action.
"I think it was the nuclear option," Holladay says. "I just think it could have been handled with a phone call or an email."
Oregon City commissioners held a special meeting Sunday in which they rebuked Holladay and reaffirmed their support of Brown's order.
Oregon's lockdown enjoys an 82% support among the state residents per a recent poll.
Could we form a different country for the tiny portion of our population that does not favor being locked down?
Oregon’s lockdown enjoys an 82% support”
Depressing
82% support for lockdown in Oregon...oh gawd help us
I bet if you asked the 82% in three months whether they supported the lock down on April 27, 2020, a sizable percentage would say no.
Like I said before, only small groups of right wingers are fed up with this. Most of the rest of the population is happy to stay home.
Many people are moving on with their lives.
This is designed to keep The People from moving forward.
Sheep
I hope this mayor has the balls to follow through and open up.
“Could we form a different country for the tiny portion of our population that does not favor being locked down?”
Too many people unquestionably believe government bureaucrats especially if it concerns the children. This disease poses almost no risk to children other than the destruction of the economy and the lessons they are learning on being self reliant and the value of liberty.
Aren’t there a few islands the US controls that these people can be sent to then forgotten about?
He already backed down.
What? The governor is going to have the mayor arrested? I’d call his bluff, because he isn’t going to do any such thing.
Behold the power they wield! See how they love using it! See how well they play out the role of fascists!
If you have 10 or 20 people breaking the ordnance you can enforce it. If you have 10,000 or 20,000 breaking the ordnance you have lost and can't do squat.
I don't think the libs have thought this through, they are completely undermining the authority of the State which the love so much.
As more and more people realize they are being lied to and stop obeying the State it becomes more and more obvious just how toothless the State really is.
We have lots of people who like collecting unemployment insurance payments which exceed what they used to make from working.
If their old companies re-open, and they refuse to return to work, unemployment payments cease.
I have a distant cousin in Oregon. He likes to think of himself as a libertarian but he’s a lefty. He was born in U.K. so compared to the Nanny State, being told to do something as opposed to being told without stiff penalties seems like freedom to him. I think a lot of our immigrants from places with tyrannical governments suffer from the same nearsightedness.
“Holladay tells WW he hadn’t made any concrete plans to reopen Oregon City businesses, but that he had spoken to business owners and mayors across the state about the prospect of doing so. However, after a mayors’ consortium meeting Thursday, Holladay says, he decided he would abide by the governor’s stay-home order and that he was caught off guard when, the next day, he received the letter threatening legal action.”
Rosenbeotch has an itchy finger...
FWIW-—Oregon City is adjacent to Portland, so the shock is that the mayor would even muse about such things.
This polling is very likely skewed, doubtless taken in the portland/salem area.
Rural oregonians are largely ignoring dictator brown's unconstitutional edicts.
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