Executive Club Meeting
7:00 pm • Wednesday June 3rd • Airport Shilo Inn
You know what a sink hole is, right?
That's where the surface looks just fine...
until the earth opens up and swallows a puppy.
or a car.
or a house.
Now imagine a sink hole big enough to swallow Oregon...
WHOLE!
The Oregon Legislature, with no hard hats, has been doing
their best ( worst? ) to spend every penny they can vacuum up
( those are YOUR pennies, by the way! )
while they KNOW that the very foundation of the state's tax revenue
-- paying for some things we need,
and paying for gobs of things just to buy votes --
is going to fall BILLIONS short in the very next cycle.
Remember California, and their approach to water supplies?
"Let it all go dry and then the taxpayers will cough up more money."
Yup, that's the plan: kill off the system then come begging.
And it's deliberate. Not to mention evil. And PERSonal.
Want to hear how it's happening?
Let's go exploring that funding cavern before the roof collapses:
Oregon Senator Jeff Kruse
A lifelong resident of Douglas County, Jeff is a farmer and a legislator,
has been the Supervisor of Oregon Turkey Growers,
and has experience as both a Construction Worker and Farm Laborer.
Not to mention his B.S/Economics from Willamette University,
to make sense of the economy of Oregon from the perspective of
employee, employer, and government leader.
Add to that a fearless will to expose this secret impending disaster.
Let it not be said Oregon voters were kept in the dark any longer.
Join us Wednesday night.
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Timely Information and Events
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Hi, Everyone:
At the request of a friend, I would like to share the following information:
On Thursday, May 28 at 6 PM in the Salem Convention Center, Turning Point USA will host a complimentary dinner for all interested right-leaning activists who want to take back Oregon! Please
download this flyer for more information.
Please share this with your family, friends and colleagues. High school and college students are strongly encouraged to attend. The hosts would like to see a HUGE turnout!
Thanks so much!
Disclaimer: I am sending this on my own behalf as an interested Oregon resident. This is NOT a Cascade Policy Institute sponsored event. Cascade is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and does not publicly support political parties or candidates.
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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.
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May 11, 2015
PUBLIC COMMENTS ON SB 525A
There are multiple reasons why this bill should not leave this committee. Unfortunately, given the attitude of the current party in control of Oregon, it is likely that it will go further.
1. This law makes the rules for those with a particular type of restraining order (threat of domestic violence) different than any other person who is denied ownership to a gun. It adds "ammunition" as a second item the person is ineligible to purchase or have for the first time. It also adds misdemeanor offenses to the ones that result in forfeiture of gun rights. The language used is "(C) Any other misdemeanor that involves as an element of the crime the use of physical force or a deadly weapon." This provides a more stringent standard for a misdemeanor offense than any other group denied the right to have a firearm and will put people at risk of losing their gun rights if they throw a bottle of catsup across the room during an argument.
2. Passing an unenforceable bill such as this undermines the justice system, demoralizes law enforcement, and causes the general public to wonder about the competence of those elected to represent them.
3. This bill validates the belief of those citizens that the true intent of the anti-gun lobby and those voting for these bills is to make all gun ownership illegal and ultimately confiscate the publics guns.
4. This bill will encourage law enforcement to pick and choose the laws they enforce because it represents yet another unfunded mandate absent the resources to enforce it.
5. This bill will also make it impossible to evaluate the true impact of SB941 as it will change the criteria for denials. I wonder if this is is actually one of the purposes of this bill as it will inflate the "denial" rate for gun checks.
6. This bill will also place a burden on the public to address "denied in error" situations. Currently, it can take months and an attorney to clean up errors.
The bottom line is it appears there are people in positions of power in the Democrat Party who have simply gone off the deep end. Like dictators, they now believe that they simply have to say "Let it be written, Let it be done" and no matter how poorly crafted a statute it will be implemented.
One more poorly thought out bill that erode public confidence in the legislative and justice systems and cause major increases in the "pended" and "denied in error" cases in the background checks. I could go on outlining problems with SB 525-A, but it would make no difference to the legislators whos real agenda is to keep increasing the reasons that a person is denied access to a firearm. One of our local law enforcement people said to me this morning, "Maybe the best way to stop all these bad bills being passed would be to enforce them!!!" Too bad they dont have the manpower to do so since the Democrat majority voted down the amendment to SB-941 which would have put the focus on increasing the policing of laws being passed.
I URGE YOU TO VOTE TO KILL THIS BILL IN COMMITTEE.
Irene Gilbert / 2310 Adams Ave. / La Grande / Oregon / 97850
e-mail: ott.irene@frontier.com
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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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June 1 • 7:00 pm •
Multnomah Athletic Club
Executive Club members are encouraged to attend a free debate about the right to privacy in charitable giving.
Debaters:
In FAVOR of donor privacy: James Huffman, former Dean of Lewis and Clark College
In FAVOR of public disclosure of donations: Dan Meek, lawyer and co-chair of the Independent Party of Oregon
Moderating: Nigel Jaquiss, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist with Willamette Week.
Space is limited;
reserve a seat here.
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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!
