Cartel Alive, Thriving, and Growing in Portland & Oregon

So far this year, drug cops in Oregon have intercepted $1,071,727 in cash from 105 drug-related parcels. Last year, they seized $524,915 in 56 packages. This is suppose to double every year even after Marijuana becomes available leagally. www.kgw.com/story/news/local/special-reports/2014/...19361
#portlandoregon #oregon #ocot #tcot #marijuanalegalization #orgop #multgop #lnyhbt
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Cartel Alive, Thriving, and Growing in Portland & Oregon

So far this year, drug cops in Oregon have intercepted $1,071,727 in cash from 105 drug-related parcels. Last year, they seized $524,915 in 56 packages. This is suppose to double every year even after Marijuana becomes available leagally.
www.kgw.com/story/news/local/special-reports/2014/...19361
#milwaukie #portland #pdx #pdxevents #grimm #leveage #oregon #ocot #tcot #marijuanalegalization #orgop #multgop #lnyhbt
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Cartel Alive, Thriving, and Growing in Portland & Oregon

So far this year, drug cops in Oregon have intercepted $1,071,727 in cash from 105 drug-related parcels. Last year, they seized $524,915 in 56 packages. This is suppose to double every year even after Marijuana becomes available leagally. www.kgw.com/story/news/local/special-reports/2014/...19361

#portland #pdx #oregon #marijuana #orcot #tcot #pdxevents #pulpportland #orgop #multgop #mcmenamin4or


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Dems state leaders issued report suggesting happy economic days here again.

Several of these new political policies will further target the budgets of lower and middle income Oregonians. Given that reality, I do not expect the bleak economic outlook for Oregon families and communities to improve into the foreseeable future. The latest recession hit Oregon much harder than most other states. The celebrated"recovery” has yet to even restore the number of jobs that were lost during that recession.
For instance, comparing pre-recession 2007 and current 2014 numbers:
*The total number of current Oregon jobs remains nearly 14,000 fewer than in 2007.
*Private sector employment is down nearly 17,000 jobs, while Government sector employment has increased by about 3,000 jobs. Only the Portland metropolitan area has registered positive job growth since 2007. Other metropolitan areas, including Bend, Corvallis, Eugene, Medford and Salem, remain about 4 percent below 2007 employment opportunity levels. Virtually all of the more rural districts outside of those six metropolitan areas remain at least eight percent below 2007 job numbers. Even worse, Oregon’s workforce participation rate is at the lowest level since officials started keeping records in 1976. According to the Oregon Employment Department, more than two of every five Oregonians who are capable of working are currently neither working nor looking for employment.
#oregon #orcot #tcot #orpol #orleg #portland #cronycapitalism #corruption 


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How Much More In State, Property, County, & City Taxes Do You Want To Pay?

This week's email comes as Novick and Hales take a breather from their barnstorming tour of town halls and public meetings to push for more street maintenance. According to PBOT's 2014-15 budget, just $11.3 million of the estimated $102.8 million in discretionary money in the agency's coffers will go to direct pavement maintenance. The city, Novick said, pays more for other key maintenance work such as traffic control, than on physical pavement. Younger Oregonians are persistently experiencing the highest levels of joblessness. Oregonians’ household net worth has also declined more than 40 percent during the past seven years. Reduced equity in personal residences, diminished savings and increased personal debt are the leading causes for the sharp decline in net worth. In my opinion, Oregon’s economy will not recover until any number of failed political polices are dramatically reversed. The outcome of the recent state election virtually ensures that those changes will not be made in the next four years.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2014/07/port....html
#portlandoregon #pdxevents #grimm #leveage #pulpportland #pdxstreetfee #oregon #orcot #tcot #orpol #orleg #portland #cronycapitalism #corruption  


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Kitzhaber Short-term fix, long-term vision for transportation needs

Kitzhaber proposes a two-year, $3.5 billion budget for the Department of Transportation. All but $37.7 million comes from sources outside the tax-supported general fund, such as fuel taxes, vehicle and driver fees, and federal grants.Kitzhaber has Appointed a Transportation Vision Panel, which will submit its report in 2015. Can you not see the crony capitalism and culture of corruption? Oregonians’ household net worth has declined more than 40 percent during the past seven years. Reduced equity in personal residences, diminished savings and increased personal debt are the leading causes for the sharp decline in net worth. In my opinion, Oregon’s economy will not recover until any number of failed political polices are dramatically reversed. The outcome of the recent state election virtually ensures that those changes will not be made in the next four years. In my opinion, Oregon’s economy will not recover until any number of failed political polices are dramatically reversed. The outcome of the recent state election virtually ensures that those changes will not be made in the next four years.
pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/242448-109885-kitzhaber...needs
#oregon #orcot #tcot #orpol #orleg #portland #cronycapitalism #corruption mcmenamin4or


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What About The Middle Class?? People, Can You Not See The Cronyism??

What about the middle class? Those working, paying very high taxes and barely able to pay for their health insurance, their children's college tuition (which will go up under the present Governor's budget), their own rent/mortgage payment, increasing cost of food and ever increasing utility bills (due primarily to energy companies being forced to incorporate expensive 'alternative energy sources'), their car payments and gas in the rural areas of the state............etc. Why should we borrow, as a state/citizens to pay for new housing for anyone? From the article it appears most will be built in Portland - look around at the incredible poverty in the rural areas of this state. Younger Oregonians are persistently experiencing the highest levels of joblessness. Millennial and members of"Generation X” are generally struggling to make ends meet. Nearly a quarter of the population between the ages of 18 and 25, who want to work, either cannot find jobs or can only find part-time employment.Not surprisingly, Oregonians’ household net worth has also declined more than 40 percent during the past seven years. Reduced equity in personal residences, diminished savings and increased personal debt are the leading causes for the sharp decline in net worth.
www.oregonlive.com/mapes/index.ssf/2014/12/john_ki...river
#orcot #tcot #orpol #orleg #pulppdx #pdxevents #portland #oregon #cronycapitalism #corruption


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What happens when Radicals control Government?

This short film does a terrific service. Examine how past and current Governors and Legislatures in the State of Oregon have systematically destroyed industry, transportation, education, land use.. virtually every fabric of society. Why do Oregonians insist that we destroy our living standard by giving these radicals the power to destroy?



#oregon #portland #orcot #tcot #orgop #multgop #orpol #leveage #Grimm #PJNET #lnyhbt #WAR #portlandia


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Abortion is the leading cause of death in the United States every year.

The Progressive Argumnet at the time of Roe v. Wade that if the US Supreme Court makes Abortion legal their will never be an unwanted child in America again. How is that working out for you all?
www.facebook.com/ProLifeAlliance?pnref=story

#ortl #rtl #oregon #abortion #orcot #tcot #lnyhbt #timmcmenamin #mcmenamin #prolife #righttolife


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Most of us already know this, but it's front page NRA news.

Gov. Kitzhaber sat down for an interview with reporter Laural Porter of KGW to discuss his agenda for his next term in office. When asked about gun control Gov. Kitzhaber praised the new background check law recently passed in Washington state and stated that he plans to"pursue vigorously” the expansion of background checks in Oregon. He also indicated that he plans to use health care reform as a means to implement more gun control. He said by using the mental health system and reorganization of the health care system they can"identify families at risk” of gun violence. How exactly will Oregon’s doctors and mental health professionals play into this agenda of gun control. Does Gov. Kitzhaber plan to have doctors report on patients?
www.mississippigunnews.com/oregon-governor-plans-t...ntrol
#oregon #2A #OFF #NRA #orcot #orleg #orpol #orocl #PJNET #timmcmenamin #mcmenamin4or


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Oregon’s First Anti-Gun Ballot Measure Filed

Oregon’s first anti-gun ballot measure has been filed. This bizarre measure called the"Oregon State Integrated Concealed Handgun Carry Act” has been filed by"Ifeanyichukwu Diru” who you may (or may not) recall, actually ran for Governor.The measure calls for handgun licenses to be limited to one year and all applicants must"submit a mental health report from their physicians as part of conditions to qualify to hold a concealed handgun permit”. We fully expected the lunatic anti-gun fringe to pull out all the stops thanks to their gains in the legislature and the reelection of Kitzhaber, so this ballot measure should not be a surprise, but it is just a down payment on what’s coming down the road. Remember, no matter what the freedom haters in the population centers dream up, most counties in Oregon are pro-gun. If their sheriffs and county commissioners refuse to support this kind of lunacy, it’s going to be up to a tiny number of State Police to try to enforce this kind of nonsense. Where do your sheriffs and commissioners stand?
thenewsdoctors.com/oregons-first-anti-gun-ballot-m...filed
#Oregon #2A #secondamendment #NRA #OFF #orcot #orpol #orleg #ConcealCarry #mcmenamin4or


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WIND TURBINES DECLARED HEALTH HAZARD

In what appears to be the first of its kind ruling in the United States, the Board of Health in Brown County, Wisconsin, where Green Bay is located, has declared a local industrial wind plant to be a human health hazard. The specific facility consists of eight 500-foot high, 2.5 megawatt industrial wind turbines.
www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/20690

#oregon #windpower #greenenergy #orcot #orpol #orleg #kathleentaylor #orgop #multgop 


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Ignore the busybodies like Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum

That’s my advice after learning that Oregon’s attorney general, Ellen Rosenblum, and attorneys general representing 27 other states and territories, have signed a letter to big pharmacy chains, including Rite Aid, Walgreens, Kroger, Safeway and Walmart, calling on them to stop selling tobacco products in stores that also have pharmacies. What individual stores stock should be based on customer preferences, not the headline-grabbing antics of state attorneys general eager to impose their views on the marketplace. (nyti.ms/1ht1aLl)
thinkingoregon.org/2014/03/17/ignore-the-busybodie...odies
#oregon #portland #orcot #tcot #orpol #orAG #ellenrosenblum #oregoncourts #oregonlawyers #lnyhbt


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Thanks to all those who volunteered their time and donated to Our Campaign.

I will be writing a longer essay on my thoughts for the future and the Republican Party and publishing it soon. In the meantime, here's some thoughts from an Oregon journalist I have always admired: With the opposition reduced, next year the legislature will complete the program of driving up fuel costs in order to save the world from getting warmer, and it will likely pass laws to get more people automatically registered as voters even though they show no inclination to register on their own. Also coming in 2015: more restrictions on the constitutional rights of gun owners.
hh-today.com/why-vote-in-a-one-party-state
#oregon #portland #orcot #orpol #orleg #orgop #multgop #portlandia #leverage #grimm #pdxpost #multnomah #milwaukie #oakgrove


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League of Women Voters Cabdidate Q&A Tim McMenamin Wins Hands Down

see more at www.timmcmenamin.com
www.pollvault.com/polls/candidate/57919

#oregon #LWV #leagueofwomenvoter #orcot #orpol #orleg #orgop #multgop #timmcmenamin #mcmenamin4or
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Thank You To The Libertarian Party of Oregon For Their Nomination

Oregogn Libertarian Party Elects Tim McMenanamin For State Representative House District 41:
www.lporegon.org/index.php/2014-elections

#LPO #oregon #Libertarian #orcot #orpol #orleg #timmcmenamin #mcmenamin4or


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Oregon Virtual School Alliance Supports Tim McMenamin

Innovative Ideas from an Innovative Candidate: Tim McMenamin For State Representative House District 41:
1. Do you support allowing Oregon parents choose the public education option that works best for their children? Yes
2. Do you support the use of technology to offer different education methods designed to meet a child’s individual academic needs? Yes
3. Do you support full, stable, and non-discriminatory funding for virtual public schools to ensure their students are receiving the same quality education as their traditional classroom counterparts? Yes
4. Do you believe the state should be able restrict the number of virtual public schools available Oregon students? No
5. Do you support the removal of enrollment caps on virtual public schools, which currently limit the number of students who can attend a virtual public school from any one school district? Yes
6. Do you know anyone who has a child attending an Oregon virtual public school? Yes
7. Do you know a virtual public school teacher? Yes
8. Would you be willing to meet with a virtual school family for a virtual school lesson demonstration? Yes, Already.
www.orcapa.org/uploads/2/9/1/5/.../2014_candidate_....xlsx
#oregon #schools #publicschools #virtualschools #portland #PPS #NorthClackamasSchoolDistrict #timmcmenamin #mcmenamin4or #orcot #orpol #orleg #orgop #multgop #lnyhbt #leveage


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League of Women Voters Vote411 Voters Guide

All statements and videos are posted directly by the candidate, unedited by the League of Women Voters and do not express the views of the League. The League never supports or opposes candidates or political parties.

#orcot #orpol #orleg #orcot #oregon #portland #milwaukie #clackamas #orgop #multgop #timmcmenamin


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Track Your Ballot

secure.sos.state.or.us/orestar/vr/showVoterSearch....e=SOS

#orcot #orpol #orleg #oregon #portland #milwaukie #oakgrove #clackamas #multnomah #pdxevents #orgop #multgop


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Last Minute Tax Increase On Small Businesses!!

SB 1534-B has been amended to increase taxes on small business by changing the out-of-state income rates for business. Not only is this a back-door tax but a paperwork nightmare for businesses who would have to identify the geographic location of their income with some income being taxed differently. Do you know which of your customers come from Vancouver versus Portland? The fact that this is happening during the last few days (or hours) of Session means there is a real-life risk of a swift tax attack on Oregon business to steal away their tax relief set by the 2013 Legislature. This tax would help boost government coffers (maybe to fund their 13% growth and $11 billion PERS crisis).
oregoncatalyst.com/26700-sb-1534-minute-tax-sneak-....html
#oregon #orcot #orpol #orleg #taxincease #businesstax #taxpayersassociationoregon #oregoncatalyst #timmcmenamin #mcmenamin4or


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