By Right to Vote on The Gas Tax PAC / StopTheGasTax.com — Our recent mailbag shows how one person copied their petition and then gathered 23 signatures over three copied sheets. Every sheet and all 23 names are invalid because the person forgot to copy the backside of the petition. Even if they did copy the…
By Kayvon Bumpus, The Source — The increases provide “critical new funding,” per ODOT On Nov. 7, Gov. Tina Kotek signed Oregon House Bill 3991 into law. But before it can take effect, a petition may send it to next year’s ballot instead, giving Oregon voters the power of a thumbs up or thumbs down. The…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon / OregonWatchdog.com — Alger from Oregon City sent us this comment on how Governor Kotek’s $4.3 billion gas tax/wage tax would hurt him financially. Agler told us, “I’m 81 years old, and I do not have any savings or investments to help with my retirement expenses. To have a big…
By Mike Slagle, Marion County Republicans — “Marion County Republicans entered the Downtown Salem Holiday Parade. Angela Plowhead for Oregon Joined as well. We gathered about 120 signatures for No Tax Oregon petition in about an hour. People are still motivated to sign. Huge thank you Susan Dunfee for organizing it. Anna Munson with Wes…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon / OregonWatchdog.com — Oregon’s largest union, SEIU, has put out an email alert on the referendum petition drive to stop Kotek’s $4.3 billion gas tax — of which the Taxpayers Association is playing a part. SEIU implies that this petition effort will imperil your safety. Then the email encourages its members to…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon / OregonWatchdog.com — Two amazing lawmakers, Representative Shelly Boshart-Davis and Representative Ed Diehl are spreading the word on $70 million in Electric Vehicle hand-outs at a time that ODOT says they are broke and cannot provide road safety.
By Right to Vote on The Gas Tax PAC / StopTheGasTax.com — These are the seven most common questions on filling out a petition coming in on the gas tax referendum petition campaign: Do I have to sign as the circulator (witness) at the bottom if I am the only person signing the sheet? Yes. The…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon / OregonWatchdog.com — This week Oregon Governor Tina Kotek declared an emergency over the Olympia Pipeline disruption. This is the second disruption in just three months. Since the emergency the pipeline has partially been repaired. There is a risk that if not fully repaired it may cause gas prices to spike. Oregon…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon / OregonWatchdog.com — Karen from Portland wrote us at the Taxpayers Association of Oregon a very special and heartfelt note saying she couldn’t gather extra signatures for the Stop the Gas Tax referendum petition drive. She detailed that due to a June stroke she was unable to get out and gather…
By Anthony Kustura | KOIN 6 — PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Activists opposed to an Oregon transportation funding bill that would hike gas taxes in 2026 began a petition drive two weeks ago to gather signatures to put the issue on the ballot. They needed to collect 78,000 signatures by the end of December. The group No Tax…