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…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon / OregonWatchdog.com — Have you heard the news? An extra surge in personal and business taxes has brought in $300 million more than expected, according to the latest State Economic Forecast. If we apply this to previous revenue lost in economic forecasts, we end up with a $64 million loss…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon / OregonWatchdog.com — The referendum petition to stop the $4.3 billion gas tax is in full swing. One of the most common questions this week is why we discourage people from making copies of the petitions we send them. People see this from other petition campaigns and want to know why.…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon / OregonWatchdog.com — Like putting together a big bouquet of flowers we assembled many of the photos of the first wild weekend of the signature gathering for the stop the gas tax referendum petition to show you firsthand the the genuine impact of people power! See all the photos and…