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 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 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 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…