Oregon Conservative Caucus Dinner & Awards |
Saturday, May 17, 2025 at 6:00 pm |
Keynote: Steve Yates, CEO of DC International Advisor; Special Guest: Ray Hacke, Pacific Justice Institute; Live Music: Frank Carlson. Nonmember $112.75. www.oregonconservativecaucus.com |
Columbia River Hotel, The Dalles. |
OCL War Room |
Thursday, May 22, 2025 at 8:30 am |
Meet at Ike Box for training and updates on legislation. Send testimony, watch hearings, and visit capitol to testify. Legislators and special guests. Every Thursday 8:30am to 3:00pm to June 26 |
Ike Box, 299 Cottage St NE, Salem (upstairs) |
Oregon Citizens Lobby War Room |
Thursday, June 26, 2025 at 8:30 am |
Meet at Ike Box for training and updates on legislation. Send testimony, watch hearings, and visit capitol to testify. Legislators and special guests. Every Thursday 8:30am to 3:00pm to June 26. |
Ike Box, 299 Cottage St NE, Salem (upstairs) |
“Let me give you the facts, because there’s no confusion there. I voted alongside every other Republican in the State House to provide underprivileged girls with feminine products. A warped and radical progressive agenda–spearheaded by Kate Brown and Tina Kotek–then turned around and put feminine products into boys’ bathrooms.â€
And, in an email to a constituent who complained to House Rep David Brock Smith about his vote supporting this bill, Smith responded:
"The bill requires feminine hygiene products in two restrooms in public schools. It passed the House unanimously and for good reason.
One, it does not mandate them to boys restrooms, that would be silly. (Don’t believe everything you read on the internet). School districts (local control) decide which bathrooms they are placed, to which I could imagine would be the girls locker room bathroom and another girls bathroom within the school. If there is only one bathroom in the school, then they are there but I don’t know of any schools with one bathroom."
Two, there are a number of families that struggle to provide meals for their children, let alone feminine hygiene products. As a grandfather I would hope you would understand (even if you don’t have granddaughters) that a child’s lack of access to feminine hygiene products for whatever reason, should not be a barrier to education, sports or just a basic quality of life in our public school system.
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It turns out I was mistaken. For that matter, my entire caucus was mistaken. The language was amended to require all restrooms and not two. This was not caught by the house republican members or our Republican staff. My apologies to you and others. There will be a bill from our caucus to fix this in the ‘23 session. I and others would not have voted for the legislation if we would have known, even though it would have passed anyway because the democrats don’t need our votes to pass legislation. Hopefully we will be changing that this November. Again, my apologies.
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