Early results on the mandatory minimums measure that would blow a $2 billion hole in the state budget:
Yes Votes 86,359 43.11 percent
No Votes 113,957 56.89 percent
WTF Oregon? In a sane society, this would have gone down in flames.
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In a sane society, no one would have endorsed measure 60. Glass houses, y’all…
No kidding! Your endorsement and empty defense of measure 60 forfeits your right to make statements about close measures.
I third that shit.
Alison and I fourth it!
Um… someone else posted under my name. But I can’t really argue.
So far only 33% of Multnomah county has been counted, but most of red state rural Oregon is counted. If the trend in Portland continues then measure 61 did go down in flames, and Merkley beat Smith by a wide margin.
It doesn’t even matter if Measure 61 wins or not, because the Oregon State Legislature already set us all up for the fall with measure 57. Instead of concentrating resources and manpower on a campaign to shut down Measure 61, the Legislature offers up a watered down version in the form of Measure 57. This completely deflated all possibility of dodging the “mandatory minimums” bullet, preserving the independence of our judiciary, and avoiding a state corrections budget crisis.