The Oregon Court of Appeals on Monday asked the state’s highest court to decide whether Republican state senators who carried out a record-setting GOP walkout this year can run for reelection.
Author: ANDREW SELSKY
GOP senators who boycotted Oregon Legislature file for reelection despite being disqualified
Oregon state senators with at least 10 absences during a record-setting Republican walkout are supposed to be disqualified from running for reelection, but several on Thursday filed candidacy papers with election authorities.
Oregon political leaders delighted by sunny state revenue forecast
Total general fund resources for the 2023-25 budget are projected to be $437 million higher than state economists projected ahead of final budget votes in June
Oregon’s 6-week GOP walkout over bills on abortion and guns could end soon
There was an optimistic mood in the Oregon state Capitol that a boycott by Republican senators, which has been underway for six weeks, could end soon as GOP and Democratic leaders met to negotiate compromises over bills on abortion, transgender health …
Oregon is invested in Fox Corp. and is investigating its board over bogus election fraud claims
Oregon’s attorney general announced Monday she has begun investigating the board of directors of Fox Corp. for breaching its fiduciary duties by allowing Fox News to broadcast false claims about the 2020 presidential election – claims that cost the bro…
Oregon, a Fox Corp. shareholder, investigates its board over bogus election fraud claims
The Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund owns more than 250,000 shares of Fox stock.
Extended boycott disqualifies 2 GOP senators, 1 independent in Oregon Senate from being reelected
Republicans and an independent senator in the Oregon Senate stretched a walkout Monday to 10 days, triggering a new constitutional provision that prohibits lawmakers with 10 or more unexcused absences from being reelected.
Oregon GOP walkout threatens abortion, trans bills — and senators’ own careers
A boycott by Republican state senators in Oregon threatens to derail hundreds of bills, including on gun control, gender-affirming care and abortion rights, as a deadline looms that could also upend the protesters’ political futures.
Marijuana job lands Oregon Secretary of State in trouble
Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan is in hot water, with Republican lawmakers calling for her resignation and the Democratic governor seeking investigations because Fagan took a consulting job with a marijuana firm.
Oregon’s first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization off to rocky start, audit finds
Oregon’s first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization has had a rocky start, but Secretary of State Shemia Fagan said Thursday in releasing an audit of the program that it’s too early to call it a failure.