Executive Club Meeting!
7:00 pm ⊕ Wednesday December 4th ⊕ Airport Shilo Inn
So this is a test for the cell phone display of these emails.
The CRC is dead and buried, right? I mean, forgotten?
Nope. Guvs Brown and Inslee won't hear of it! CRC LIVES!
Not content to listen to voters, or the cries of commuters,
it's back to the job of ruining commerce for the sake
of little toy trains over the Columbia. Liberals simply
can't rest until the unwashed workers are made to
suffer so that transit systems that don't serve them
can expand! What nonsense!
And the carbon tax that almost passed? Remember the log
trucks surrounding the capital? Here comes Round 2!
Timber Unity is back, stronger, more determined to make
Salem LISTEN to sense while sniffing the diesel exhaust!
Our defense against threatened legislative mayhem?
Joe Cortright
Economist
Adam Lardy
Timber Unity
Angelita Sanchez
Timber Unity
Joe Cortright is Director of
City Observatory, a think tank producing original research on what makes cities successful in the 21st Century, principal of Impresa, a Portland based firm consulting on urban and regional economic issues, serves as Chair of the Oregon Governor’s Council of Economic Advisers, and is a research affiliate of the Upjohn Institute in Michigan. You might suspect he has some lucid points to make about the function of transportation in economic health.
You see traffic crossing the Columbia, and you think, "Wow! If their commutes weren't so difficult, imagine how fast Oregon's economy could grow!" Salem sees the traffic, and says, "Wow! Let's make it worse, so workers will be forced to get out of their cars and waste MORE time on transit that doesn't even take them where they want to go!"
Adam Lardy is an Oregon native log truck owner, with long family business history in Oregon logging. He started his busines in 2006. Angelita Sanchez is a 6th generation rural Oregonian from Sweet Home, whose family was a big part of creating Oregon's rye grass industry. She started her log truck business in 2016. They are founding members of
Timber Unity, who together are determined to make Salem remember what resource-based business is to the economy of Oregon.
You see a log truck driving down the road, and you think "there is a family living, and renewable prosperity for the state, part of our enduring heritage." What does Salem say? "Look at that stinky truck, destroying nesting sites. We gotta tax that out of existence! Hey, let's tax CARBON!"
It's about time Salem started thinking like the PRODUCERS of this state think!
Isn't it fun to irritate the unthinking left?
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: January 8th (**NOT** New Years Day!)
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TAKE THE INITIATIVE!
Drivers on both sides of the Columbia River are frustrated by growing traffic congestion. It's hurting our distribution-based economy, creating unsafe conditions, and increasing air pollution. As the situation gradually became a crisis, the State of Oregon and local jurisdictions invested billions elsewhere.
2 years ago the Legislature responded by passing HB-2017, increasing Vehicle Registration Fees, and raising the gas tax by 10 cents per gallon, exclusively for maintenance. Several large highway projects were funded, but money for widening I-205 and Hwy 217 was eliminated late in the process. Tolling was presented as a possible way to fund those projects.
Instead, the State authorized a study for "Value Pricing", a plan to toll existing freeways in which the millions collected won't be spent on increasing capacity, and the rates will be higher during heavy traffic times. Imagine the cost! Imagine how much traffic would be diverted into our neighborhoods! Fortunately, we have the power of the Initiative process, and are already taking action. IP-10, a state-wide petition, is being circulated to require a public vote before tolling can be imposed.
A second initiative, involving transportation spending, will soon be filed In Clackamas County. The opportunity to make a difference is here. We need energized volunteers and financial support to qualify the Initiatives for the ballot in 2020. Please join our movement to keep driving affordable!
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