Oregon counties seek to secede from Oregon & join Idaho

[Anti Federalist]

Secession in the Pacific Northwest? Some Oregon residents petition to join Idaho

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...egon-idaho-border-petition-secede/4789936002/

Kristin Lam
USA TODAY

Frustrated by liberal policies, some Oregon residents are petitioning to leave the state –by moving the border with Idaho westward.

The movement has secured initial approval from two counties and aims to get enough signatures to put the proposal on local ballots in November, said the group Move Oregon's Border for a Greater Idaho.

If the group succeeds, voters in southeast Oregon may see a question on whether their county should become part of Idaho by redrawing the border.

“Rural counties have become increasingly outraged by laws coming out of the Oregon Legislature that threaten our livelihoods, our industries, our wallet, our gun rights, and our values,” Mike McCarter, one of the chief petitioners, said in a press release. “We tried voting those legislators out but rural Oregon is outnumbered and our voices are now ignored. This is our last resort.”

more at link...

 

[tod evans]

City vs Country.

Again.

Still.


Starve the cities! Thin the heard.

 

[RonZeplin]

If they form a union with the State of Jefferson (N. California & S. Oregon), that's two States independent of the USMCA clusterflop.

 

[Anti Globalist]

Something tells me that isn't going to make it to the ballot. Like how Calexit was stopped from being on the ballot last presidential election.

 

[Ender]

If they form a union with the State of Jefferson (N. California & S. Oregon), that's two States independent of the USMCA clusterflop.

I'd love the State of Jefferson!

 

[Occam's Banana]

I am approve these shenanigans.

 

[Snowball]

So you're saying Harold Covington died too soon?

 

[Swordsmyth]

Greater Idaho for the win!

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Some states are too big, and should be more than one state. It’s also nice to give rural areas some say in their states and the federal government.

But any new state that is created will be strategically infiltrated and co-opted. Leftist billionaires and companies will move jobs there, create an urban center, and populate it with leftists until they dominate the new state.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Some states are too big, and should be more than one state. It’s also nice to give rural areas some say in their states and the federal government.

But any new state that is created will be strategically infiltrated and co-opted. Leftist billionaires and companies will move jobs there, create an urban center, and populate it with leftists until they dominate the new state.

That's why joining another conservative state is such a good idea.

It adds conservatives to an already conservative state and deprives a liberal state of population and taxes.

 

[Pauls' Revere]

Good luck.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Oregon's 2020 legislative session imploded Thursday amid a boycott by minority Republicans over a climate change measure, an action they have taken repeatedly and which Democrats say threatens democratic rule.In response, Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, is finalizing executive actions that will reduce Oregon’s greenhouse gas emissions, House Speaker Tina Kotek told the chamber as the session ended early. The GOP walkout resulted in not only the bill aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions being killed, but many other measures, including on gun control and housing for the homeless.
Frustration boiled into the open after Senate Republican Leader Herman Baertschiger, Jr., said his party would return on Sunday only to vote on emergency budget bills. At a news conference, Democratic lawmakers, some struggling to keep their composure, said representative democracy is at stake by repeated use of walkouts to deny a quorum and freeze all legislation.
“It's a historical precedent that I think shows us where we're headed and ... that anytime they are not happy with any sort of bill, our government is going to be shut down,” said Rep. Diego Hernandez, a Democrat from Portland.
Senate President Peter Courtney took the podium and responded to Baertschiger's offer by declaring the session over.
"All of us are going to be in history one day as the Legislature that failed the fifth short session,” Courtney said. This was the fifth short session since even-year 35-day sessions began in 2012.

More at: https://news.yahoo.com/oregon-gop-lawmakers-set-conditions-195038482.html

 

[Origanalist]

Oregon's 2020 legislative session imploded Thursday amid a boycott by minority Republicans over a climate change measure, an action they have taken repeatedly and which Democrats say threatens democratic rule.In response, Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, is finalizing executive actions that will reduce Oregon’s greenhouse gas emissions, House Speaker Tina Kotek told the chamber as the session ended early. The GOP walkout resulted in not only the bill aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions being killed, but many other measures, including on gun control and housing for the homeless.
Frustration boiled into the open after Senate Republican Leader Herman Baertschiger, Jr., said his party would return on Sunday only to vote on emergency budget bills. At a news conference, Democratic lawmakers, some struggling to keep their composure, said representative democracy is at stake by repeated use of walkouts to deny a quorum and freeze all legislation.
“It's a historical precedent that I think shows us where we're headed and ... that anytime they are not happy with any sort of bill, our government is going to be shut down,” said Rep. Diego Hernandez, a Democrat from Portland.
Senate President Peter Courtney took the podium and responded to Baertschiger's offer by declaring the session over.
"All of us are going to be in history one day as the Legislature that failed the fifth short session,” Courtney said. This was the fifth short session since even-year 35-day sessions began in 2012.

More at: https://news.yahoo.com/oregon-gop-lawmakers-set-conditions-195038482.html

Shut_it_down.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Shut_it_down.

Civil disobedience and sabotage is the key to making them agree to let the rural counties join Idaho.

Hopefully Washington can follow.

 

[Origanalist]

Civil disobedience and sabotage is the key to making them agree to let the rural counties join Idaho.

Hopefully Washington can follow.

If Eastern Washington joins Idaho I'm in. But it won't happen. Either way I'll be in Idaho or Montana in the next 5 years.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Oregon's 2020 legislative session imploded Thursday amid a boycott by minority Republicans over a climate change measure, an action they have taken repeatedly and which Democrats say threatens democratic rule.In response, Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, is finalizing executive actions that will reduce Oregon’s greenhouse gas emissions, House Speaker Tina Kotek told the chamber as the session ended early. The GOP walkout resulted in not only the bill aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions being killed, but many other measures, including on gun control and housing for the homeless.
Frustration boiled into the open after Senate Republican Leader Herman Baertschiger, Jr., said his party would return on Sunday only to vote on emergency budget bills. At a news conference, Democratic lawmakers, some struggling to keep their composure, said representative democracy is at stake by repeated use of walkouts to deny a quorum and freeze all legislation.
“It's a historical precedent that I think shows us where we're headed and ... that anytime they are not happy with any sort of bill, our government is going to be shut down,” said Rep. Diego Hernandez, a Democrat from Portland.
Senate President Peter Courtney took the podium and responded to Baertschiger's offer by declaring the session over.
"All of us are going to be in history one day as the Legislature that failed the fifth short session,” Courtney said. This was the fifth short session since even-year 35-day sessions began in 2012.

More at: https://news.yahoo.com/oregon-gop-lawmakers-set-conditions-195038482.html

Good.

We can do just what the Bolshies claim to do:

Become Ungovernable.

 

[Swordsmyth]

In an end run around Republican legislators, Oregon’s Democratic governor ordered the state on Tuesday to lower greenhouse gas emissions, directing a state agency to set and enforce caps on pollution from industry and transportation fuels. Gov. Kate Brown’s sweeping executive order, one of the boldest in the nation, aims to reduce carbon emissions to at least 45% below 1990 levels by 2035 and an 80% reduction from 1990 levels by 2050. It more than doubles a clean fuels program, making it the most ambitious goal for clean fuels in the country, Brown said at a news conference.
“I’ve heard it loud and clear from our young people in Oregon: climate action is crucial and urgent,” Brown said, surrounded by students. “If we adults don’t take action right away, it is the next generation that will pay the price.”


Republicans lawmakers, a minority in the Legislature, staged a walkout during this year’s short session to sabotage a bill that aimed at many of the same climate goals. The boycott caused the session to end two days early on Friday, with only three bills passed and more than 100 dying, including the climate measure.
Senate Republican leader Herman Baertschiger Jr. predicted Brown’s executive action would wind up in court.

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“I think all this is going to do is initiate a whole bunch of lawsuits,” he said Monday. Brown’s legal team said it is confident they would prevail in any litigation.
Baertschiger said many rural counties oppose the so-called cap-and-trade concept.
“It’s obvious Kate Brown is not Oregon’s Governor, she is Portland’s Governor, and as she promised, she is serving revenge, cold and slowly,” he said in a statement.

More at: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/mar/10/kate-brown-oregon-governor-issues-climate-change-e/

 

[Anti Federalist]

Rural Oregon counties vote to discuss seceding from state to join ‘Greater Idaho’

Rural Oregon counties vote to discuss seceding from state to join ‘Greater Idaho’

https://www.foxnews.com/media/rural-oregon-vote-secede-greater-idaho

By Teny Sahakian | Fox News

A deep political divide between urban and rural areas has conservative residents feeling ignored by the state government

(And right there, shows the disconnect that the media organs have. No, Teny, that would would make them happy to have the state government "ignore" them - AF)

A group called Move Oregon's Border is leading an initiative to have Oregon's rural counties secede from the rest of the state and join Idaho.

Mike McCarter, 72, a retired plant nursery worker and lifelong Oregonian, has been leading the effort for almost two years. He said he and many others are eager to “get out from underneath the chokehold of Northwestern Oregon.”

“We’ve watched the shift take place in Oregon politics where the primary concern of the Legislature is Northwest Oregon. That’s where 78% of the state’s population is based. They tend to forget that every law that you pass in the state affects us out in the rural economies, too,” McCarter told Fox News.

He highlighted a number of benefits that come with being a citizen of Idaho, including lower taxes and generally more freedoms. Idaho is ranked No. 3 in regulatory freedom whereas Oregon is ranked No. 43, according to the Cato Institute.

Oregon’s state politics took a sharp left turn during the past 20 years, something that has not gone unnoticed by more conservative residents in the state’s rural communities. McCarter pointed to a recently passed law that made Oregon the first state to decriminalize possession of hard drugs.

“Now you look and you say, 'well, if you're homeless, if you're a hard drug user, if you're a rioter, if you're an illegal, come to Oregon - we’re a sanctuary state and you won't get in trouble.' And that's not the way conservatives feel in Oregon.”

Portland has seen months of violent protests and riots with little government intervention since the death of George Floyd in May in Minneapolis.

“Idaho is not a sanctuary state at all, and they want to protect their citizens. That's comforting, to live in a state like that who enforces the laws and not let the lawbreakers go free.”

A measure requiring local officials to meet on the subject of changing the border was on the ballot in four counties this past election. It passed in Jefferson and Union counties and was voted down by small margins in Douglas and Wallowa counties.

McCarter’s goal, however, is to get the issue as much attention as possible, since the final decision will lie with Oregon and Idaho state legislatures. The group hopes 19 of Oregon’s southern and eastern counties will secede and become part of what they call “Greater Idaho.”

If successful, the border change would no longer make Idaho a land-locked state, giving it two coastal counties, something McCarter said could be a key selling point for the neighboring state.

Move Oregon’s Border will continue collecting signatures for the May 2021 local elections in 11 other counties.

 

[Anti Federalist]

https://www.greateridaho.org/?fbclid=IwAR3ou3i2FGtzNAQrX9PJ9Om51c7geANW9E_bgi9o1vdfd1-9ixLGxO_FecM

 

[Origanalist]

I'm itching to move there, border move or not. Family is all thats keeping us here. I know some who already went.