Quote:On Thursday, the Oregon Supreme Court upheld a decision by the state’s chief election official to ban 10 Republican state senators from the ballot this fall for walking out of the legislature to protest bills on abortion, guns, and transgenderism.

“Last year’s boycott lasted six weeks — the longest in state history — and paralyzed the legislative session, stalling hundreds of bills,” the Associated Press reported. If enough lawmakers walk out, they can deny the quorum required to legally pass legislation. Through their walkout, Oregon Republicans extracted concessions from Democrats on bills related to firearm transfers and medical procedures for abortion and transgender-identified people.

Voters approved ballot Measure 113 in 2022, which amended the state constitution to boot lawmakers from the ballot for more than 10 unexcused floor absences. Oregon voters passed Ballot Measure 113 after Republican walkouts in 2019, 2020, and 2021.

“We obviously disagree with the Supreme Court’s ruling,” said GOP Senate Minority Leader Tim Knopp, according to the AP. “But more importantly, we are deeply disturbed by the chilling impact this decision will have to crush dissent.”

Democrat lawmakers have also deployed walkouts to block legislation in Texas, Wisconsin, and Indiana. In 2021, Texas House Democrats staged a weeks-long walkout to prevent the passage of a Republican-sponsored election bill. Lawmakers made national headlines for launching the walkout by fleeing the state to Washington D.C., where they met with Vice President Kamala Harris. Democrats in Wisconsin and Indiana also staged legislative walkouts to delay progress on union-busting right-to-work bills.

In the last few months, Democrat U.S. House Rep. Jamal Bowman also received a slap on the wrist for pulling a fire alarm amid Democrats’ attempts to delay a vote on unfunded federal spending.

Stripping Oregon Republicans from ballot access marks the latest episode in a decades-long saga to eradicate the state’s political minority. Conservatives in Oregon have become so disillusioned by the leftist state government that activists are petitioning to redraw the state’s rural eastern counties into Idaho.

Just last year, Oregon Democrats rubber-stamped aggressive laws restricting guns and water use while expanding abortion and transgender interventions. Last year, lawmakers in the Idaho House of Representatives formally approved talks to annex disenchanted neighboring counties from Oregon.

Ballot bans have quickly become Democrats’ central campaign strategy, with former President Donald Trump disqualified as a candidate in Colorado and Maine. Challenges to Trump appearing on ballots have been filed in at least 35 states and remain unresolved in 16. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in an appeal of Colorado’s court-ordered Trump removal next week.

Democrats are also working to keep Robert F. Kennedy Jr. off primary and state ballots, fearing his effect on Joe Biden’s re-election chances.

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Nothing says Democracy like banning your opposition from running for re-election because they dissented from your crazy destructive and most likely unconstitutional legislation.

(02-01-2024 05:51 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  Nothing says Democracy like banning your opposition from running for re-election because they dissented from your crazy destructive and most likely unconstitutional legislation.

wE hAvE tO aBaNoDn dEmOcRaCy iN oRdEr tO sAvE iT

Communism is how they win.

(02-01-2024 06:05 PM)BigTigerMike Wrote:  

(02-01-2024 05:51 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  Nothing says Democracy like banning your opposition from running for re-election because they dissented from your crazy destructive and most likely unconstitutional legislation.

wE hAvE tO aBaNoDn dEmOcRaCy iN oRdEr tO sAvE iT

Democracy leads to dictatorships. Always has. Always will.

Didnt a whole bunch of dem filth fly to dc from texas to avoid a vote? They were heroes.

Are these the Oregon Republicans that skipped out on doing their job, failed to attend any of their votes, in violation of the law passed by Oregonians?

If so, Democrats didn't ban them, they banned themselves

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(02-01-2024 07:16 PM)Kruciff Wrote:  Are these the Oregon Republicans that skipped out on doing their job, failed to attend any of their votes, in violation of the law passed by Oregonians?
If so, Democrats didn't ban them, they banned themselves
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So, were you as vocal in your criticism of the Texas "Killer Bee" democrats who did the same thing several years ago?

(02-01-2024 07:28 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(02-01-2024 07:16 PM)Kruciff Wrote:  Are these the Oregon Republicans that skipped out on doing their job, failed to attend any of their votes, in violation of the law passed by Oregonians?
If so, Democrats didn't ban them, they banned themselves
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So, were you as vocal in your criticism of the Texas "Killer Bee" democrats who did the same thing several years ago?

Would you just read this before you absolutely must start conflating it with completely unrelated things

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Question would be whether this could be retroactive.

So, we can just Vote anything in now. Great. That oughtta turn out ok. If representatives weigh more than 150lbs for women and over 199lbs for men they can run for re-election.

Oregon is completely fuxored anyway. What difference does it make?

(02-01-2024 09:12 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  So, we can just Vote anything in now. Great. That oughtta turn out ok. If representatives weigh more than 150lbs for women and over 199lbs for men they can run for re-election.

That's the problem I have. You can change the rules after the fact to target certain people.

Its like lowering the speed limit on a road from 55 to 45 and then giving everyone tickets who was over 45 the previous month.

Taking someone off the ballot is really extreme. Its very Fascist/Marxist.

Liberals can’t ever be in charge of anything. Ever.

They should have just pulled the fire alarm.

Wonder if this stimulates the Greater Idaho movement. https://www.greateridaho.org/the-maps/
Area only has 325,000 people with nearly half between Klamath County (voted yes) and Umatilla County (hasn't voted). Crook County votes in May.