While Oregon Republican legislators are calling for a slow down and draw back on raising utility rates and other conservative efforts, Democrats steam ahead with glee having a supermajority.

Outgoing Senator Brian Boquist writes his “Last Observations for Thought” as he explains, it is to stimulate the thought process, encourage research, then make your own decisions.

Boquist’s final thoughts are a wakeup call to Oregonians on why Democrats want to pass tax increases, keep the failing homeless project funded, protect the sanctuary state status, control healthcare, take guns from lawful citizens, legalize pornography in schools, designate a toll zone blocking traffic in and out and through Oregon, and pass tax increases to make up for timber sales, and fund projects causing a deficit in a good number of agency budgets.

Boquist writes, “The plea for kindness across the divide in the Oregon Legislature it far to late for this State Senator to believe will happen. Why? Because it defies human nature? Or because it simply does not matter? The printed version of the Oregon Revised Statutes is three foot high. One third of these laws are never used, one third is ignored, and one third is used to justify every emergency. Oregon, and DC, operate in a constant state of emergency. Governors can do anything in an emergency including move money and make laws. The Governor can simply direct with no real checks and balances at all. The Oregon Supreme Court says anything the Governor says is an emergency unless reversed by the legislature. The Attorney General defends the Governor using unlimited funds in any challenge. Likewise, the Attorney General illegally, unconstitutionally, defends the majority Democrats, and Democrat presiding officers in the Legislature at the request of the same two Democrat presiding officers. The real lawyer for the Senate President and House Speaker is the Attorney General. The presiding officers have 100% control over the passage of all bills: either can kill any bill and block any budget. However, even Legislative Counsel agrees the Governor can spend, spend, spend on whatever after the budget is passed or even in an emergency. Just like they can raid PERS funds for an emergency. Then the Executive Branch only has to enforce the laws it wants to use itself while ignoring the others. In short, there is no democracy or republican government at all. In reality the Oregon Legislature is a feckless fraud on the People. It will fall when millennials decide enough is enough … ‘from the ashes will rise a new order’ as the saying goes!”

A D V E R T I S E M E N T

A D V E R T I S E M E N T

Previewing the list of bills being posted on OLIS, a significant number are studies or task forces to report on the issues leadership wants to further their agenda. Traditionally, these are “placeholder” bills to use as “gut-and-stuff” waiting to drop the real content at an appropriate time for speedy passage with full intent to blindside Oregonians. But with a supermajority, as long as all Democrats show up for a vote, they don’t need studies or task forces to conjure up support from the public. Voters already gave them the supermajority to amend legislation behind closed doors and finalized on the House and Senate floor.

November 2024 election results should give Democrats pause after voters turned down a corporate tax by 77.5% and refusing to outsource legislators’ salary increases to a committee. This session will be a wake-up call to Oregon voters, exposing how much elections matter.


--Donna Bleiler

Post Date: 2025-01-13 10:03:25

Last Update: 2025-01-13 23:27:35