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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Five things to know about Oregon's outdoor smoking ban!!

The saga of the outdoor smoking ban at Oregon state parks is about to wrap up.
During the past year and a half, the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department has studied two rules that restrict how smokers of tobacco products can use the state's 286 parks along with all 362 miles of Oregon Coast beach.
Few issues have been as polarizing for the department. Among detractors, the department has been called everything from a nanny-state enforcer to a rogue branch of tyrannical government on par with Nazis. Among supporters, the department is taking logical steps to ban a toxic poison with no place on our public lands.
www.statesmanjournal.com/story/travel/outdoors/201...90829
#orcot #orpol #orleg #nannystate #FF #oregoncigaretteban #smoking #pdxevents #grimm #levearge #constantine


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KOIN TV Exposes Oregon Sex Education Perversion

Special Announcement Parents' Rights in Education is excited to inform you that KOIN 6 Investigative Reporter, Carla Castaño is doing a 6-7 minute investigative story entitled "XXX Rated Education" on Tuesday, November 18 at 11:00 p.m. Our grassroots organization has spent a number of years researching, gathering evidence, informing Oregonians about what the Oregon Department of Education considers "healthy sexuality" and "safe sex". Many of you have contributed to our efforts. We are grateful for this! We are very pleased to have yet another opportunity via this upcoming news story, to "inform, equip, and empower" parents, guardians, district residents, school board members, and school officials. This "XXX Rated Education" needs to stop. Oregon students deserve better!
afpclackamas.ning.com/events/event/show?id=3653619...event
#orcot #tcot #orpol #orleg #PPS #Portlandpublicschools #NorthClackamasSchoolDistrict #NCSD #oregonschools #oregonpublicschools #sexeducation #sexting #FF #lnyhbt


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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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You were warned. TriMet rebuffs C-Tran request

TriMet reiterated Wednesday that it has no plans to terminate a controversial light rail contract it signed with C-Tran last year, despite an earlier request from C-Tran to do just that. The two agencies signed the deal last year to detail how they would operate light rail in Vancouver as part of the proposed Columbia River Crossing project. The Interstate 5 Bridge replacement plan has since died, but the contract has no end date, leaving it in legal limbo.
www.columbian.com/news/2014/nov/12/trimet-c-tran-l...tract

#Trimet #Metro #portland #pdx #portlandia #stumptown #multnomah #orcot #multgop #C-Tran #lightrail #orleg


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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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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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WE LIVE IN A REPUBLIC IT IS YOUR DUTY! FOR YOUR CHILDRENS FUTURE!

Well, the polls close in 24 hours. I know we are all done with the phone calls, mailers, and commercials. But please don't let all that keep you from going to the polls. The privilege to choose our leaders in a free Republic is something we should never take for granted. Please get informed and vote.

#portland #portlandia #milwaukie #oakgrove #milwaukiemustangs #stumptown #leverage #grimm #orcot #orpol #orleg #orgop #multgop


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The no-brainer bunch Editorial endorsement by The Oregonian

Tim McMenamin has Unparralled name recognition along with a hard work ethic. Tim has been out in House District 41 for four years now, but his opponent has yet to show any commitment to the District. Rather than pretending an endorsement would make the slightest bit of difference in such races, we'll simply point out the obvious: The candidates belonging to the party with the huge registration advantage are going to win. This would be the case even if a disadvantaged candidate had unparalleled name recognition, as Timothy McMenamin does in Portland's House District 41. He'll still be beaten by Democratic candidate Kathleen Taylor, thanks to her party's nearly three-to-one registration advantage. That's to bad. Tim has worked hard for his District and this writer thinks he deserves to win.
www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/10/the_n....html ia 
#portland #milwaukie #portlandia #oakgrove #multnomah #clackamas #pdxevents #stumptown #orcot #orleg #orpol #orgop #multgop #timmcmenamin #mcmenamin4or


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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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Tim McMenamin on World News Tonight!!

Tim McMenamin For Oregon State Representive House District 41: see more at www.timmcmenamin.com
wn.com/tim_mcmenamin

#ABC #KATU #Channel2 #WorldNewsTonight #timmcmenamin #mcmenamin4or #orcot #orpol #orleg #orgop #multgop


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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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WE LIVE IN A REPUBLIC IT IS YOUR DUTY! FOR YOUR CHILDRENS FUTURE!

Well, the polls close in 44 hours. I know we are all done with the phone calls, mailers, and commercials. But please don't let all that keep you from going to the polls. The privilege to choose our leaders in a free Republic is something we should never take for granted. Please get informed and vote. You may still have time to get over to the Shawnee county election office to vote. Early voting ends Monday at noon.

#portland #portlandia #pdx #stumptown #multnomah #milwaukie #oakgrove #clackamas #mcmenamin4or #leverage #timmcmenamin #beavers #ducks #grimm #orcot #orpol #orleg #orgop #multgop


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Oregonians For Immigration Reform (OFIR) Tim McMenamin's Positions Clear

The questionnaire of the Oregon Abigail Adams Voter Education Project for this year’s general election is a rich resource for learning what candidates think about important public issues, including immigration. All who replied to the OAAVEP questionnaire are persons who’ve thought about public issues and are willing to say what their views are. Politicians are often accused of vagueness and speaking only in generalities, but those who answered the OAAVEP questionnaire are stating specific opinions for voters to consider. To see replies to the OAAVEP questions, please visit oregonabigailadams.wordpress.com
www.oregonir.org/immigration-topics/some-candidate...early
#OFIR #ImmigrationReform #NoOn88 #orcot #orpol #orleg #orgop #multgop #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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Vote For Timothy E. McMenamin For Oregon State Rep. HD 41

SEE MORE AT WWW.TIMMCMENAMIN.COM
oregonvotes.org/pages/history/archive/may202014/mi...n.pdf
#milwaukie #milwaukiehighschool #clackamascounty #timmcmenamin #mcmenamin4or #mustangs #orcot #orpol #orleg #orgop #multgop #lnyhbt #portland #portlandia #stumptown #pdx #multnomah


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