Executive Club Meeting!
7:00 pm ⊕ Wednesday January 2nd ⊕ Airport Shilo Inn
No doubt about it: we got whipped pretty badly in November.
First, how badly did we get clobbered?
(Well, I got stomped, for sure, but wait until 2020, Earl!)
Almost no restraint remains against the leftist excesses.
Second, what's this next session hold for us?
"No guns, more taxes and fees! Oh, my!"
Third, what are we going to do about it?
Hide under rocks and wait for 2020, after Brown-aggedon?
Just let the left burn and break everything?
Fight every move, petitions in hand?
Enter our speakers for January, for whom I have no pictures,
so use your imagination:
Bridget Barton, a principal of Third Century Solutions, and
Director of Action PAC and Director of Oregon Pathfinder
(a n/p 501(c)4, dedicated to improving Oregon's economy),
will present ideas on the path forward for Oregon's rural
and suburban minorities after the heavy losses
of the 2018 midterm election.
Dr. Eric Fruits, President of International Economics Corp.,
will follow with comments building on Barton's approach,
and then explain how Oregon's "middle class squeeze"
will worsen during Gov. Brown's second term and with
actions of the 2019 Oregon legislature.
Then comes the fun part, 'cause then it's our turn
to tell them just what we're going to do about it.
Oregon's worth the fight, right?
Join us Wednesday Night!
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Portland Airport Shilo Inn ~~ 11707 Northeast Airport Way
Bring a friend! ~~ $20 select menu option ~~ no host bar
And of course, the cigar room, afterward
Next meeting after this: February 6th
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Submitting Followup Information
Executive Club passes on meeting followup information as a courtesy to our speakers and members. Any member or speaker may submit, by email, a simple update text presentation to be sent to the club mailing list, to give the membership to have more details, or just a recap of your platform presentation. To be considered for publication, please be sure to submit your update within 24 hours of the close of the meeting. Please don't include any pictures in your text, but links to web pages, or links to things stored elsewhere on the web -- .pdf files, Word documents, or even pictures -- are OK now. Formatting and inserted pictures will not be copied, just the text content, so please don't use 4 fonts and 6 colors to convey your thoughts: you will be disappointed. Look at a previous followup email, or the bottom of most of the invitation emails, to see how they are presented. The simpler and cleaner your text, the more likely it will appear exactly the same in the email we send out. Each update must also indicate the author's name and contact information -- either a phone number, email address, or website with contact information. We reserve the right to edit for brevity, or reject, any submission.
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Timely Information and Events
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The Freedom Foundation is a regional think and action tank dedicated to removing government unions influence on the political cycle.
Since the Janus decision back in June we've assisted over
6,500 public employees in leaving their union. This has had a significant impact on the unions' revenue.
We've also filed 2 federal class action lawsuits,
Anderson and
Chambers. If successful, both will have significant financial penalties to the unions in Oregon.
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This video may provide a platform for understanding as least some of Randal O'Toole's presentation at the Executive Club on December 5th.
It may even prepare us to shine a light on Oregon's put-on-the-blinders approach to transportation.
Watch this 30 minute C-SPAN interview of Reason Foundation's Robert Poole:
"Rethinking America's Highways"
Mr. Poole covers the subject from 30,000 feet to asphalt level, East to West.
Cheers, Larry
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