The Taxpayer Association is trying to protect Don McIntire's Measure 5 property tax limits from the 2015 Legislature. There are several property tax bills submitted, and HB2635 -- Requiring ballot title cost estimates -- has already passed.
If you would like to be notified of when a Measure 5 killing property tax bill comes up in the Legislature and would like to testify at the hearing, then please email Jason Williams at
oregonwatchdog@gmail.com and ask for the TAX ALERT advance sheet. This will explain how they plan to gut Measure 5 and how you can testify at the State Capitol.
Even the Legislature's own numbers show that without Measure 5 your property taxes would be 40% higher. That's why they wish to kill it.
For more information contact
Jason Williams at 503-603-9009.
Consider this: When a gun owner wants to leave or loan his gun to another person, he must pay for and complete a background check. Background checks accomplish two things: 1. They verify that the new owner can legally have a gun and 2. They transfer the ownership of the gun to the new person. That is why you have to do a second background check when you get your gun back in order to transfer ownership again.
I can think of no other property that citizens own which requires the person to pay a tax and turn over legal ownership of the property in order to leave it in the care of another person when there is no intent to permanently transfer the item to the other person.
Certainly this requirement would be found to be an
infringement on the rights of gun owners. Any insurance on the gun could be denied if the gun was lost, stolen or damaged since the person with the insurance would no longer own the gun. The person receiving the gun could choose to keep it since they now have
legal ownership of your property, etc.
Keep challenging legislators.
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I'm Kay Bridges, and I'm running for Multnomah Education Service District, Position 7, Zone 3, representing SE and SW Portland, from Washington County line east to 82nd Ave, and South to Clackamas County line (
map).
Please see my
Voter's Pamphlet statement.
I need your support. Please visit
KAY L. BRIDGES FOR MESD, POS. 7, ZONE 3 on Facebook for pictures of
Multnomah Education Service District ( MESD ) facilities and information about the District, including those facilities they contract with that are in Albany, Yamhill County and on the Coast. Please give the Facebook page a LIKE and invite your friends to do the same. They may not live in Zone 3 but they may know someone who does.
THANK YOU.
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Cliff Thomason of Grants Pass is chief petitioner for a statewide measure titled the "Lottery Local Control Act".
From the site
LotteryLocalControl:
The Oregon Lottery Local Control Act will send 50% of the Oregon Lottery net proceeds back to the counties from which they were generated. Counties can use the revenue to help fund: public education, economic development, providing for public safety, restoring native fish and wildlife, or protecting parks and beaches. Every Oregon county will benefit from more local control.
2016 Oregon Lottery Local Control Act is well underway with statewide signature gathering. Anyone wanting to help gather signatures or donate to the effort, please contact Cliff Thomason by email to
clifft9@msn.com or visit
LotteryLocalControl.Com.
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Oregon Citizens Lobby is looking for patriots to analyze bills according to our five values of fiscal responsibility, local control, free markets, limited government, and personal choice/responsibility. We also need volunteers to staff the war room lobbying politicians, attending hearings, giving public testimony, writing letters to the editor, and on the twitter brigade, tweeting and retweeting. Go to
OregonCitizensLobby.org to sign up.
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And from all of us in Executive Club
Thank you, Fred!
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