Oregon, Fairness Makes A Comeback?

Oregon, Fairness Is Coming Back

Last night, we had Oregon Representative Shelly Boshart Davis on our podcast.

I am so encouraged that Oregon can restore fairness after years of one political party cheating its way to a super majority.

Here’s a link to the show.

I highly recommend watching it.

It will also be posted on Spotify later this afternoon if you want to catch it while driving or working out.

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Many Oregonians believe that abolishing vote-by-mail is the answer.

I think, at some point, yes, it has to be changed.

But there’s an order that must be followed when taking back Oregon, and you have to be strategic about this to make it work.

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Vote by mail is super popular with most people in Oregon.

Oregonians are proud, probably too proud of being first with the bottle bill, opening beaches, and not pumping their gas.

When lawmakers changed the gas pumping, Oregonians wouldn’t have it unless they allowed for both those, pump and those who don’t want to pump.

Living in a state that pumps you just want to laugh, but that’s Oregon, and we love her, warts and all.

Oregonians feel the same way about vote-by-mail.

It’s a virtue thing.

We were first, and it still sounds good to most.

Changing it will be costly and an uphill battle.

There’s a less obvious problem, in fact, two of them that should be tackled first.

Number one is apathy.

If all the Republicans who are eligible to vote were to, Oregon would not have a super majority for the Democrats.

Right there, problem solved.

Second, for 40 years, legislators on the Democratic side have gerrymandered redistricting boundaries.

They know most of the liberal voters live in metropolitan areas, so they place boundaries that water down rural, more conservative voters’ voices and rig the system.

Those same Democrat lawmakers now pretend to be outraged that Republicans in Texas are trying to do something similar.

So much hypocrisy.

Yes, Oregon needs to fix its voting system, but why spend money trying to do that when the easier fix is to get more conservative voters to the polls?

I fear that people will get so fixated on Vote By Mail, they’ll give up on these other, simpler fixes and dig a deeper hole.

Oregon, you don’t have a lot of time to get this done.

Economists say you’re in trouble and not quite at the bottom yet.

Do you want to reach the end of your rope, or do you prefer to act now and fix other problems later?

Just vote, stop allowing apathy to hand the keys to the castle to a party that is destroying Oregon.

Musc more is explained in the interview.

Please, go watch it, and then if you feel like commenting, do.

Fairness is coming back nationally, and Oregon’s not far behind.

Stay focused, be strategic, and don’t be too obvious.

Oh, and stop electing the same people who are driving Oregon into the abyss.