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Not exactly the full truth- BlackRock is the highest stake holder in PGE. That coupled with Oregons tight grip on plans for an unstable power grid of Solar and Wind that requires a huge amount of infrastructure building (and creates huge waste on the front end and back end to manufacture the windmills and panels and batteries- that won’t ever biodegrade)- is a HUGE factor. Solar and Wind is a waste of money and time, and the thing it will surely deliver- along with BlackRock- is more poverty.

Trump is exploding YOUR utility bills, pushing families in Oregon and across the country to the absolute limit.   And now he’s trying to cruelly rip away assistance that makes energy bills more affordable.   That’s not “America First.” It’s families last. thehill.com/policy/energy-…

@hardlee73 @RonWyden Even in NYC two or three different forms of ID were needed to sign up for a volunteer crew to shovel snow … make it make sense… it doesn’t 🙃

@RonWyden Put your illegal ailen pals in crews to clean the forest floor third senator from New York.

What I heard at today’s wildfire briefing in Medford was stunning & alarming. Snowpack = 11% of normal. Crater Lake snowpack = the lowest on record for 100+ years. The time is now for Donald Trump to invest here at home on wildfire prep rather than overseas in a needless war.

Talk to @GovTinaKotek about the massive cuts to the department budgets that handle mitigation and response for fire response. In 2024 alone $350 million was spent in response. The amount approved for 2025-2027 budget was only $271 million. We need to be proactive, not reactive ! Oregon state government has SEVERELY mismanaged spending and Oregonians have the second highest tax rate in the nation! Plus our businesses have the highest taxes- and our downtown property values have plummeted, from not being used , foot traffic being down second to the civil unrest that is stoked by state government officials in rhetoric and enforcement of laws being very weak- downtown Portland is suffering and tax revenue for the city has plummeted. Multnomah county has become a big hole in the bucket for state spending. It’s a multifactoral problem, time to point the finger at those who have been misallocating spending of resources- and raising our tax burden while feeding the problems ineffectively for decades. The state of Oregon has increased it’s budget by 400% in the last ten years- and our problems have only increased exponentially due to bad policies and lack of fiscal oversight. We can tighten up spending on so many things and make it work- but the state of Oregon officials refuse to give up certain pet projects that bring benefits to those currently in the state government offices- and don’t benefit the citizens who are treated like a bottomless ATM.

!!!! We have 1900 vacancies (and probably more that aren’t reported) in the affordable housing market already !!!!! No one wants to live at the sites here in East Portland - like Wy’East Plaza on Ash street (not the shelter closed down by the criminally fraudulent sunstone way) due to the crime and violence that goes on in these unchecked open air drug markets- so building more is your answer? By the way, Wy’east Plaza got another $2million bail out from OHCS just this month saying that ‘Covid’ is the reason they are behind on maintenance- poor leadership like yours, Tina, is the real reason why. Read the reviews for yourself and look at the crime logs. Definitely couldn’t be the high incidents of violence, open drug use, human excrement, the cockroaches and rats, the stabbing that happened there in 2024, the hallways being excruciatingly hot (despite your ‘climate’ kick backs and policies under the “Portland clean energy fund” which is actually our tax $$ that goes to heat and a/c that only goes to specific interest groups- another fraudulent funnel) or the elevator being busted for weeks last year - and it goes on and on and on with that place. “Everybody deserves a home” begins with not being a city/state that allows crime to fester in the shadows- so that safe living is possible, and so these spaces that exist can actually be utilized by the people who need them. Shame on you. Are you expecting more of us to lose our housing because of your taxes, Tina? Are you just taking the current sites that have been closed, like Rockwood Tower on 182nd (also fraudulent, charging the county for empty units), giving this money you speak of to new management (approved by you or your comrades I’m sure) to buy this existing building, and then flipping the sign and telling us it is “new affordable housing”? This is outrageous- and I guarantee those “interest free loans for construction” aren’t available to 95% of us here in the middle class working two jobs to feed your bottomless pit of a state budget! These construction projects by design take years- and new costs are always tacked on because there is no oversight, and by design, the delays are there to continue to milk the taxpayers. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. This doesn’t work & YOU and this decades long government grift aren’t working out for Oregon either. More “nice words” that cover up bad policies in action.

Every Oregonian deserves an affordable place to call home. Increasing the supply of housing is the key. Here’s some of what we’ve done so far. Let’s keep going.

Exactly seven years two months and 26 days since Gavin Newsom became governor of California. California is: #1 in homelessness #1 in poverty #1 in Retail crime #1 in gas prices #1 in illiteracy #1 in wage stagnation #1 in frivolous lawsuits #1 in unemployment #2 in housing costs #2 in water bills #1 in restrictions on workers #1 in Anti-business regulations #3 in energy/electricity costs #3 in inequality #1 in income tax #1 in gas tax #1 in budget deficit #2 in educational inequity #1 in COVID school shutdowns #1 in COVID business shutdowns #1 in COVID mandates #1 in illegal border crossings #1 in funding for illegal immigrants #1 in People leaving state

Independent research is so important- I think many in Oregon state government have kept their seats because they have bet on Oregonians to not read for themselves and just trust their “nice” words- but in action, their words are only 10% truth at best. Information sharing is important- I’m a lifelong student, and being open to new information is so important- progress is something that can only happen within the friction zone that is open dialogue- if I bring something forward for consideration, it is because I have done my research across many sources, with scrutiny, and I am open to new information and always encouraging others to do the work as well and give feedback so that ideas can be further developed and honed in. Many people in government like Dan here are betting that Oregonians are too busy working two jobs to pay the egregious cost of living we now have that has accrued exponentially over the last decade- to be able to read for ourselves. Reading through the entire EO that is the subject of his post- it was clear to me that what he and Tina and Tobias have been saying is a lie. I encourage everyone to do their own research, oftentimes in public facing statements and media we are given one shred of truth- especially in the captive culture bubble of the PNW - but there is SO MUCH MORE INFORMATION out there- and oftentimes language, like that of this post by AG Dan, is manipulated to fit a narrative of fear and fuel an agenda.

@TeaPartyPDX @AGDanRayfield Lee!!! Thank you for clarifying this!! Either way..They are NOT HAPPY about this new excellent development!! We are a far cry from Safe And Secure elections in Oregon, but it's a start!! STOP WASTING OUR MONEY @AGDanRayfield

At the Oregon Department of Justice, we're working every day to protect Oregonians' right to vote. #orpol Here are four important things to know about voting and elections:

Outright lies- it’s OBVIOUS that you, @ORSecretaryRead @GovTinaKotek , do not want to clean up the voter rolls- and you are using our tax dollars to fund this lawsuit and buy time so you can continue to hide how f*cked up the voter roll list has been. This state government has taken our money hand over fist, many of us working two jobs, and quadrupled the state budget in the last ten years- and yet still wants us to pay more to fill the potholes in Multnomah County! Too much money going places where it just burns up (like Tina’s OHP that she has been involved with since 2002) and doesn’t give back to our city. OUR FOURTH GRADERS CAN’T READ and WE HAVE THE SECOND HIGHEST TAXES IN THE NATION. All the money you’ve spent on lawsuits (instead of on the kids) to protect you and @GovTinaKotek ‘s version of “democracy”- apparently your version of democracy includes having y’all at the wheel of the state forever, and driving us at break neck speed into a near future where the middle class is hollowed out with no jobs or home ownership possibility where our children cannot read. Seems like a perfect landscape for the CCP to come buy up more property here- Kate Brown and Xi Jinping were homies- and she made China Oregon’s #1 trading partner in agriculture and manufacturing in 2015- I can go on more about how f*cked up it is to be trading with a nation that harvests organs from chosen groups arrested as political prisoners for profit - the Uyghur Muslims and the Falun Gong- but also- these solar panels and the batteries and the windmills- create SO MUCH POLLUTION on the manufacturing side, only last for 25-30 years, are highly inefficient, much more expensive, and they don’t biodegrade! “Clean energy” in words alone- it’s filthy, dark energy. F*ck this stupid ass backwards state government leading us into a Great Depression by SELLING OUT OREGON and suppressing industry like Timber that we need to survive and be an independent state. ✅Fact Check: Dan- Vote by mail, IS NOT cancelled. To be used through the USPS, it will require envelopes with advanced tracking tools - one per citizen, checked against the social security admin federal list for citizenship- one envelope per citizen. That voter registration list @ORSecretaryRead and @GovTinaKotek protect like the Nazgul Ringwraiths protect the gates of Mordor must be so messy if this is the fit y’all are throwing about it! Very telling. Lies Lies Lies. “Elections” are not threatened. Given the new tools available for data sorting- this isn’t that big of a deal- unless of course, some shady sh*t is happening. This lawsuit is unlawful use of our tax money. I can make a great case under Article 1 section 8 of the constitution that this use of our tax money is NOT for the common defense or general welfare of Oregonians- and is unlawful. But by all means, sue away, Dan Rayfield- if only for the discovery piece to happen and all of the lies spill out onto the floor like the marbles you and your cronies have been juggling in your mouths every time you practice your speeches of lies. Any judge that upholds this in Oregon court- will also come under the microscope. This case will climb all the way up to the Supreme Court. You’re so full of yourself, Dan, to think that you cannot be held accountable. It’s time to shake things up-and for Oregonians to begin having independent thought again instead of just blindly following these politicians like Dan and their “nice” words that are empty lies.

BREAKING NEWS: We filed a lawsuit challenging the president’s executive order threatening vote-by-mail. The Constitution gives states – not the president – authority to run elections. Voting by mail is safe, secure, and trusted by Oregonians across the political spectrum. #orpol

Jessica Vega Pederson also announced in December that she was not running for re-election. She oversees the Joint Office Of Homeless services -JOHS- as Multnomah county chair. Interestingly also that same month an article came out saying that two executive of Sunstone way (formerly All Good Northwest- name changed after 500k in double dipping payroll discovered in 2022) were also stepping down due to “stress”. Just a short period of time later- a whistleblower case came out against Sunstone way- the largest contractor for homeless services in Multnomah county. Whistleblower said that their sister non profit “do good multnomah”- started by a former CEO and a wife of another CEO at All good northwest- overcharged by approx $250k for food for an event. The whistleblower was told by the executive something to the effect of “don’t worry about it, there is an arrangement made ”. Coincidence? Or just the tip of an iceberg that is doomed to sink Portland like the Titanic if we don’t shift direction? Article from February 21, 2025- where Jessica Vega Pederson is asking for more money - $104 million- for budget shortfalls and talking about shelters closing- one of them mentioned - wy’East - on 122nd- which is overseen by sunstone way. In fact, all of their shelters have been the first to close, and several of their contracted sites have experienced bad press and closures even before 2025. wweek.com/news/county/20…

Anthony Effinger and his team at Willamette Week just dropped a chart and analysis that should make every Multnomah County taxpayer furious!! Between 2015 and 2025, County revenue didn’t just grow—it exploded, jumping from $1.1 billion to $2.7 billion. That’s an 80% increase even after inflation. And yet somehow, despite this windfall, Chair Jessica Vega Pederson is now telling departments to slash budgets. You can’t make this up. Effinger points to three main drivers: the expiration of urban renewal districts, a hike in the Business Income Tax from 1.45% to 2.0%, and a flood of new taxes—most notably the Supportive Housing Services (SHS) tax, the so-called “Pre-School for a Few” tax, and a 5-year library bond. The real problem is that third category. The SHS tax massively ballooned operating grants from $351 million to $1.14 billion. But this isn’t flexible funding—it’s locked into programs that don’t address the County’s core responsibilities like public safety and public health. Worse, Vega Pederson chose to spend it on policies that enable street camping—tents, tarps, and low-barrier shelters—while homelessness surged 177% over the same period. That’s not a coincidence; that’s a policy failure. Then there’s the “Pre-School for a Few” program—another Vega Pederson pet project. It’s a narrowly targeted, inefficient system that serves a fraction of families while duplicating existing state efforts. Instead of empowering parents broadly, it props up a limited supply-side model that leaves most people out. And because income tax revenue is volatile, the County has socked away a staggering $600 million reserve—effectively insulating politically favored programs from the very instability they created. That reserve is now even inflating reported “investment income,” adding another $92 million to the books. So yes, they’re now making money off the taxes they over-collected. Meanwhile, the County’s core functions—like the DA’s office and the Sheriff—are stuck relying on a General Fund that barely grows thanks to property tax limits. So while specialty programs swell, the basics of governance are left to scrape by. Bottom line: this isn’t a revenue problem. It’s a priorities problem. Effinger’s piece is essential reading. The next step? Someone needs to run this exact same analysis on City of Portland spending. @jvegapederson @MayorKWilson @GovTinaKotek

At one point, California had more people applying for unemployment than there were adults in the entire state. $32.6 billion. Gone. Prisoners collected. Dead people collected. I warned them. I begged them not to let the money go out like that. They suspended every rule anyway. The tools to stop this exist. So why are the doors still open? 30 years tracking fraud. This is the biggest in American history. It didn't have to happen. And it doesn't have to continue.nypost.com/2026/04/01/opi…

The regime secretly hanged 4 political prisoners within 24 hours. Now, 7 more are at risk. Each of them detained during the January protests and convicted of “enmity against God” (defying the supreme leader) through sham trials and tortured confessions. Be their voice.

@billgriffin1980 @RepDexterOR Totally fair. I just wanted to point out that the main point of the original argument is factually false and fits the picture of a fabricated crisis.

@TeaPartyPDX @RepDexterOR Because there is no defense. Mass VBM is third world voting by proxy. It is stupid and should never happen.

Oregon will always defend our right to run our elections as we choose: voting securely by mail. Any attempt to take that away from us will be fought with every tool available from litigation, legislation, and public pressure. Hands off our elections. oregonlive.com/politics/2026/…

Accountability is important- which is why I called out the misinformation piece of the original poster. Going back to the older process used by the DMV- paper forms with self attestation of voter eligibility without providing supportive data were used- and then that information was transferred over in entirety to the Secretary of State with the motor voter law- and then also laws were passed to block DMV employees from asking for supportive documentation when records review shows that there is deficiency- and they had to continue to treat these deficient records as complete. This plus the timing of the pre- 2016 “everybody votes” push by the group Oregon Voice (a table under the National State Voices network - which was funded by Open Society Foundation and others)- and this “civic engagement” group helped with registering many people. Jeff Malachowsky started Western States Center in 1987- and then in 2010 he and Helen Huang(who had worked for Soros) founded Oregon Voice under the National State’s Voice group . Minnesota Voice was another table under this umbrella. Many registrations were entered into the voter roll , there was a huge push to get the Motor Voter law through- which recognized the old IBM green screen “legacy” data as complete and then transferred in entirety - just in time for the 2016 elections. The DMV audit last summer on Oregon.gov pulled a mere 35 records- and of those records, 3 were found to be deficient. The auditor tried to say “it won’t affect voting”, however that is assuming population distribution is equal in Oregon- it isn’t- and Multnomah county is the most affected being that it is the most populated area. The auditor went on to say that the “legacy data” was “high risk” and “left the elections department open to litigation and distrust from citizens”- Tobias Read on that audit said he would “have a plan by December 2025”- crickets. Tobias unfroze the cleaning of the “inactive voters” that was paused in 2017- just so he could present a number to make it look like the state did something about the “high risk data”. They haven’t. This state government has known about this for years, they didn’t need an audit to tell them about it, and they have continued to drag their feet on it for a reason… If there wasn’t a problem, we wouldn’t have Tina Kotek and Dan Rayfield trying to use more of our tax dollars to fight this on the basis of it “messing with vote by mail”- which is ridiculous- because it doesn’t do that. What it does is create a tracking system for the USPS through barcode- and give out envelopes only for citizens to be used in federal elections. Their reasoning here is flawed- and it’s exposing the truth whenever these politicians either choose blindness, or are lying- but both actions are by choice unto their benefit- and not ours.

@TeaPartyPDX @RepDexterOR It’s because she doesn’t understand or she is lying. Maybe both….Cheaters cheat and Oregonians can see exactly how failed policymakers have failed the voters. In my opinion they should be held accountable for their fraud and corruption. You or I would be. IP37 YES….👍🌲

@billgriffin1980 @RepDexterOR I’m not debating that here- I’m merely calling out the misinformation piece of the original poster.

@TeaPartyPDX @RepDexterOR Mass VBM is stupid. Nothing but voting by proxy

Yes. Appointed 2021, ran in 2022 and won by a minimal vote number. As Senate Majority leader Jama was strategic in passing the bill the first time by holding up the special session long enough for an elector to get out of the hospital after having a vote- and another elector who was on hospice- so they could both attend and pass it by the two needed votes. SB 1599A that moved the ballot date- and shut out constitutional provisions that have 5 citizens participate in the ballot language, not to mention the timing of moving jt shuts out overseas voters- this was also his bill. Did I also mention that he passed bills that gave millions to his “civil engagement” non profit/PAC combination - that he “stepped down” from in 2021 - but is still the public reporter for the financials? Oh- and his spouse is over communications for ODHS conveniently a month before Tina announces and “EMERGENCY” for the ODHS department OIRA- office of immigrant and refugee advancement- to lead narrative about immigration issues and get all state departments “on the same page”. He also gave $25 million in the same bill to a segregationist school, and $1.25 million to another non profit organization that runs out of Oregon and MN… tons of other issues with his bills… been looking into this for months… he has been Tina’s puppet for everything she wants- because it benefits them both.

The simple answer: We didn't. People need to understand a couple of things about Oregon- mail-in ballots and corrupt Democrat leadership. Our actual vote means nothing. Example: look at what @GovTinaKotek did to the gas/DOT tax initiative for this year after we overwhelmingly said no new transportation tax. She ignored the people and shoved it through. We petitioned thousands of signatures to bring it back to the people for a November vote. She changed it to a May vote, which historically gets less voter turnout. Oregon leadership cannot be trusted to do the will of the people.

🚨 SHE NAILS IT! “Why would you do this to yourself, Oregon?”

Tina, vote-by-mail is not banned in Oregon under this Executive Order. Oregon can continue its universal vote-by-mail system exactly as it has for decades. Here’s exactly how it works: • Oregon simply notifies the USPS (90 days out) and submits its own list of eligible registered voters who will receive mail ballots (60 days out). • USPS then mails ballots only to people on Oregon’s list, using secure “Official Election Mail” envelopes with unique tracking barcodes. Oregon also gets a free federal citizenship-verification list from DHS/SSA to help confirm eligibility — but the state still controls its own voter rolls and who gets ballots. Vote-by-mail continues. It just adds modern tracking and citizenship safeguards. If the voter roll @ORSecretaryRead uses is accurate, as you claim it to be- why are you and @AGDanRayfield willing to spend millions more of our tax dollars to fight this? As a taxpayer, I find use of these tax dollars on this matter to be unconstitutional - as it does not support “common good welfare” or “security” under the spending clause Article I, section 8, clause 1 of the US Constitution. Get over yourself- we have been over you and your tax hikes and mis-spending for a long time now! Full order: whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…

This order is not about election integrity, it is a massive and unconstitutional voter suppression effort spearheaded by President Trump. Ultimately, this is about silencing people.

Yes- and states are to uphold federal law that protects citizenship voting. Vote-by-mail is not banned in Oregon under this Executive Order. Oregon can continue its universal vote-by-mail system exactly as it has for decades. Here’s exactly how it works: • Oregon simply notifies the USPS (90 days out) and submits its own list of eligible registered voters who will receive mail ballots (60 days out). • USPS then mails ballots only to people on Oregon’s list, using secure “Official Election Mail” envelopes with unique tracking barcodes. Oregon also gets a free federal citizenship-verification list from DHS/SSA to help confirm eligibility — but the state still controls its own voter rolls and who gets ballots. Vote-by-mail continues. It just adds modern tracking and citizenship safeguards. You’re throwing a tantrum, and it’s pretty obvious that you, @AGDanRayfield @GovTinaKotek are hiding something- and are willing to spend more of our tax dollars in million dollar lawsuits to hide the truth. If the voter roll that we pay you to maintain, is accurate- you have nothing to worry about- so- why are you worried exactly? Full order: whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…

The President's latest Executive Order is another desperate, illegal power grab. The Constitution is clear: states run elections. We don’t need decrees from Washington D.C. My message to the President: we’ll see you in court.

Senator, vote-by-mail is not banned in Oregon under this Executive Order. Oregon can continue its universal vote-by-mail system exactly as it has for decades. Here’s exactly how it works: • Oregon simply notifies the USPS (90 days out) and submits its own list of eligible registered voters who will receive mail ballots (60 days out). • USPS then mails ballots only to people on Oregon’s list, using secure “Official Election Mail” envelopes with unique tracking barcodes. Oregon also gets a free federal citizenship-verification list from DHS/SSA to help confirm eligibility — but the state still controls its own voter rolls and who gets ballots. Vote-by-mail continues. It just adds modern tracking and citizenship safeguards. Full order: whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…

Trump's attack on vote by mail isn't about integrity—quite the opposite. He knows vote by mail protects against all the well-known Election Day voter suppression tactics. This is all part of his effort to rig the upcoming November election. We can’t let him succeed. Save our Republic!

@TPBlue4 @Wendithbird @AGDanRayfield @grok hasn’t the Brennan Center received millions from George Soros since 2002ish?

@Wendithbird @AGDanRayfield Stop lying.

Read our statement on today’s executive order limiting vote by mail. #orpol