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 Taxpayers Association of Oregon / OregonWatchdog.com — The Right to Vote on the Gas Tax PAC (Senator Bruce Starr, Representative Ed Diehl, Jason Williams, Taxpayers Association of Oregon) just announced their unbelievable news of raising 150,000 signatures for the stop the gas tax referendum petition. Instead of admitting that voters should have a say in her transportation plan,…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon / OregonWatchdog.com — Believe it or not, after Thanksgiving weekend there are only 15 businesses days left to mail back your petitions by our mail deadline of December 20th. Previous petition campaigns have turned in tens of thousands of surplus signatures only to find that high disqualification rates caused them…
By Right to Vote on The Gas Tax PAC / StopTheGasTax.com — Volunteers Gather 150,000 Signatures in One Week Oregonians Are Urged to Continue Making Their Voices Heard Tuesday, November 25, 2025 Salem, OR – As of Tuesday midday, the estimated number of signatures collected was well above 150,000, a little over one week since the…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation — The man in charge of overseeing replacement of the $6 billion Interstate 5 bridge between Portland, Ore., and Vancouver, Wash., is resigning at the end of the year at a time when project proponents grapple for future funding. Greg Johnson, who worked four decades in transportation, moved from Michigan…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon / OregonWatchdog.com — There was massive mobilization, as many as 200 locations, to gather signatures on Sign Across Oregon, spearheaded by No Tax Oregon. Here are some photos: See all the photos and read the full article.
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon / OregonWatchdog.com — Hotel occupancy in Portland is lagging 13% behind pre-pandemic levels of 2019. Kotek’s gas tax is going to make it worse. Before 2020, occupancy was higher than 70 percent, but the past year saw it drop to 62 percent and revenue from each room dropped to an average of…
By StopTheGasTax.com — At NoTaxOR there’s over 200 locations to sign a petition on Sign Across Oregon on Saturday November 22 for the stop the gas tax petition. See the full list go here.
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon / OregonWatchdog.com — November 2025 now ties with spring of last year, when the spouse scandal broke, as the worst time in Oregon Governor Tina Kotek’s governorship. Here is why: Stop the gas tax petition surges. Governor Kotek’s flagship bill, the $4.3 billion gas tax, was signed in November, and the petition…