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House majority leader Mary Nolan had a blog entry on Satan’s Post, I mean, Huffington Post Wednesday about the success of Measures 66 and 67. I’ve abridged it here for your curiosity, and in case you don’t feel like giving Ariana the extra hits:
Voters around the nation are frustrated – even angry. They are desperate for strong leaders and bold initiatives that fulfill their hopes and make good on the promise of change and the pledge to put Main Street first. Yesterday, Oregon legislators showed how to do it.
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Corporate lobbyists, for their part, viewed the election as a challenge to their power and influence in the State Capitol, and deployed a series of dirty tricks in an attempt to scapegoat teachers and homecare workers. The voters, however, spoke loud and clear, declaring that basic fairness is more important than the agenda of special interests.
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Oregon now has a chance to be a leader to the rest of the nation. Those in Massachusetts and Washington DC can and should learn this lesson: Progressive solutions to great challenges – backed by courage, conviction and hard work – will win support. We invite elected leaders and determined citizens everywhere to follow our lead.
Please explain how public employee unions are not lobbyists or “special interests” and why their money is good, and money from private individuals and corporations is bad.
http://bit.ly/bkHQUE
Makes you think.
I am wondering why you didn’t link to this story about a Democratic mayor in Chicago: http://www.suntimes.com/news/cityhall/2017…
D, plus the unions spent twice as much.
“Progressive solutions to great challenges…”
I’ve heard a lot of cheering for “progress” after this vote. Is raising taxes in and of itself a “progressive solution”? I can see arguing that it’s an unfortunate necessity in difficult times, but cheering tax increases as “progress” that needs to be emulated across the country is lame.
And I’d love for this chick to test out her theory that what the “angry voters” across the nation want is tax increases. Good luck with that.
But Blabb it’s “progress” for the beloved children you constantly whine about.
Abusive, how so?
I should add – why corporate and private money is “bad when given, but good when taken at gunpoint in the form of taxes”
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I believe most of this ballyhoo was so that education doesn’t get de-funded yet again your Blabbness. That’s why I voted and I don’t have children.