Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek still hasn’t signed transportation funding bill, as pressure grows

By Dirk VanderHart, OPB

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Even some Democrats are objecting as Kotek runs down the clock on the bill’s opponents.

A transportation funding bill that was a major priority for Gov. Tina Kotek in August has sat, unsigned, on the governor’s desk for nearly a month. That’s a problem for enemies of the measure, which will hike gas taxes and other transportation-related fees by more than $4 billion in its first decade. Each day that Kotek withholds her signature is a day that opponents cannot collect signatures to force a public vote on the tax hike a year from now…

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