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Oregon
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Our prayers are with those attacked in New South Wales while gathering to celebrate Hanukkah, and with our Jewish brothers and sisters who continue to suffer from violence born of religious hatred. Such bigotry corrodes our shared humanity. We must reject it wherever it appears.
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Vote in the IPO State Council election and member survey. indparty.com/vote
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Oregon Republicans should follow the example set by conservative Indiana Republicans and start breaking with and calling out the cynical and immoral policies of this administration and its allies. bbc.com/news/articles/cgqzzy…
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Weird to see @OregonGOP lose it over a six cent gas tax but not say a word about the crippling taxes Trump is putting on basically everything Americans buy and reciprocal taxes and boycotts on most of what we sell. Was it ever actually about taxes?
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Perhaps @ChristineDrazan will sprinkle her magic pixie dust and our roads will fix themselves?
If politicians tell you that they have to make your life more expensive and raise taxes to meet basic transportation functions—they’re lying. Raising taxes and the cost of living on Oregonians is an unconscionable and deliberate choice. We can protect road maintenance jobs, reprioritize spending at ODOT, and prevent Kotek’s layoffs—and we don’t need new taxes to do so. Read more: kgw.com/article/news/politic…
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INDEPENDENT PARTY OF OREGON retweeted
Earlier this week, @ORSecretaryRead was sworn in as Oregon's 30th Secretary of State. Secretary Read’s top priority is to hold the State of Oregon accountable for delivering on its promises, managing tax dollars wisely, and running secure, fair elections.
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Independent Party members adopted the 2025-2027 platform and called on party leaders to do more to hold elected officials and state agencies including the Oregon Health Authority and Oregon Public Defense Commission, accountable for low performance. #orpol docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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Think your vote doesn’t matter?
This is new. Dem Lesly Munoz has pulled one vote ahead of incumbent Rep. Tracy Cramer in HD22. As of Weds there were still 800 ballots to potentially "cure" (ie resolve signature issues). If Munoz wins, Demshave supermajorities in both chambers. #orleg
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Congratulations to @AndreaRSalinas on winning re-election in OR-06.
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House Minority leader Jeff Helfrich trails Nick Walden-Poublon by 28 votes. Wow! #orpol
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Congratulations to the Independent Party endorsed slate that won overwhelmingly in #Hillsboro city council races.
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Congratulations to @ufcw555 on their successful ballot initiative that will make it easier to unionize cannabis workers.
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Congratulations to our @ORIndependent nominees for their success in this election. In particular, John Lively, Emerson Levy, Zach Hudson, Ricki Ruiz, Hoa Nguyen and Chris Gorsek, who all overperformed in swing districts and Nick Walden Poublon who may be close to a big upset.
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It is not accurate that the state is not adequately funding public defense. The state should take a closer look at the performance and the reasons for attrition among these large non-profit public defender offices. How much is related to management?
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Dictators for Trump.
Just got off the phone with President @realDonaldTrump . I wished him the best of luck for next Tuesday. Only five days to go. Fingers crossed 🤞
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INDEPENDENT PARTY OF OREGON retweeted
I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians. I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor. My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California. That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people. Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime. It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand. I want to tune out. But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious. And I will always be an American before I am a Republican. That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious. For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing. The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better. It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed! But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems. It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful. We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger. That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz. Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us. And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. vote.org
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.@EricPosner is wrong about fascism and the norms of Trump. Trump’s convention called for roundups and mass deportations. Posner’s argument that “He is delusional and incompetent” was also used to soft pedal the risk Hitler posed. @freakonomics 1/2
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Posner’s analysis is also elitist. It ignores the threat that Trump’s rhetoric and agenda poses to marginalized communities to which Posner does not belong. It’s easy to minimize authoritarian risks that don’t threaten you, personally. @Freakonomics should be more diverse.
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