By Oregon State Representative Dwayne Yunker — Rep. Dwayne Yunker Condemns Passage of SB 1599 Oregonians Right to Vote Should Not Be Manipulated SALEM, Ore. – Representative Dwayne Yunker (R–Grants Pass) today condemned the passage of Senate Bill 1599, legislation that shifts the voter referendum on the 2025 transportation tax package from the November general…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon / OregonWatchdog.com — By ramming the gas tax election into the May Primary, it shortens the time for voters to issue voter pamphlet arguments on the ballot measure. This is especially true for citizens who wish to get their voter pamphlet arguments submitted through the free process by gathering 500…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon / OregonWatchdog.com — The Senate bill to swap the gas tax vote from a November General election to a May election has hit a Constitutional wall. As a result the bill is stalled. The petition itself on the front page in bold sets the election date. Politicians cannot just move…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon / OregonWatchdog.com — All of the Republican State Senators walked out of the State Capitol over the gas tax election swap bill which changes the election date of the gas tax from the November General election to the May Primary where voter turn-out can be half as much. The exit…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon / OregonWatchdog.com — Oregon gas prices have jumped by 14-cents in one week and by 30-cents over the past month according to Gas Buddy and KTVZ-21. Oregon remains in the top gas price states in America. All of this is happening as the politicians debate trying to subvert the gas tax…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon / OregonWatchdog.com — Many lawmakers showed up to testify against the bill (Sen. Drazan, Rep. Diehl, Rep. E. Werner Reschke, Rep. Boice, Rep. Yunker) but we did not see any lawmakers during our review who showed up to support the bill. That means liberal lawmakers are willing to violate the…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon / OregonWatchdog.com — Senate Bill 1599 has been created and it aims to swap the gas tax referendum election from the November General Election Ballot and places it on the lesser-turn-out election of the May Primary. The hearing will be held this Monday in the State Capitol at 1:00pm, HR 50 in the…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon / OregonWatchdog.com — Today, the Oregon State Capitol was abuzz over Senate Bill 1599, a bill that would swap the gas tax referendum election from the November General Election Ballot and places it on the lesser-turn-out election of the May Primary. If you were to look up the State Capitol…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon / OregonWatchdog.com — Oregon reporter Jeff Eager with the Oregon Roundup wrote a guest commentary for the Wall Street Journal (which we remind everyone is the nation’s #1 print subscription newspaper). Here are some juicy tidbits, “As expected, the left used everything in its arsenal to thwart opposition. Ms. Kotek waited to…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon / OregonWatchdog.com — Don’t let this Kotek press conference from a week ago slip from being noticed. This is one of the few times, as governor, Tina Kotek has faced a steady stream of tough questions while also being somewhat flummoxed on the answers. Kotek had no answers because she…