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Oregon high court says 10 GOP state senators who staged long walkout can’t run for reelection (www.politico.com)

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[-] [email protected] 244 points 5 months ago

Minority leader Tim Knopp said:

we are deeply disturbed by the chilling impact this decision will have to crush dissent

Give me a fucking break. As a legislator, you have no shortage of ways to dissent including access to media, the ability to speak on the floor of the legislature, and the ability to vote on legislation. What you can't do, if you want to keep your job is not show up for work every time you know you're going to lose a vote so that the legislature can't do business.

[-] [email protected] 86 points 5 months ago

"What about a musician who wants to express a nonpartisan message that young people should participate in our democracy?"

That's DIFFERENT she needs to JUST SHUT UP

[-] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

“She said she votes for human rights, so we know she votes for the wrong team.”

[-] [email protected] 74 points 5 months ago

As an Oregon voter, tough shit. We voted with a 68% majority to amend the state constitution, with explicit penalties for legislative absenteeism.

The chilling impact they are feeling is the will of the people bitch slapping their defunct political strategy.

[-] [email protected] 56 points 5 months ago

"But that's all just Portland voters! All the rest us of didn't want that!" - My idiot father. Yeah dude, Portland is most of us. Your vote isn't worth more just because you live around less people.

[-] Untitled4774 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Land doesn’t vote

[-] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

That's still a majority. Tough shit pops, do some math.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's not even true. There are 3 million registered voters in Oregon, of whom 565k are in Portland (well, Multnomah). While we lean very heavily D, most of the registered D's in the state are elsewhere.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

"Portland" is usually used as shorthand for Clackamas/Multnomah/Washington counties, which are about half the states population overall. Shouldn't be shocking that half the states population does rather heavily influence how the state is run though. Did folks expect Harney county (10,135 sq mi, with 7,515 people) to be the big decider? C'mon now.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Surprisingly, even if you include all 3 counties you're still only about 40% of the registered voters--although you are now at about 50% of the registered D's. Meaning the rest of the state skews Republican but not by that much.

[-] [email protected] 62 points 5 months ago

Refuse to do job.

Get fired.

/surprisedpikachu

[-] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago

Not even fired, but not rehired when their contract is up.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago

we are deeply disturbed by the chilling impact this decision will have to crush dissent

What they really said is: Wah! Boohoo! We don't like consequences for our actions! Wah! Wah!

[-] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago

Daddy, why are they fucking around and when they find out, they're being little bitches?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Because they are little bitches.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

The amendment says a lawmaker is not allowed to run “for the term following the election after the member’s current term is completed.” The senators claimed the amendment meant they could seek another term, since a senator’s term ends in January while elections are held the previous November.

What a slimey disingenuous BS argument. They are knowingly trying to subvert the law specifically aimed at their behavior while pretending it's SOMEHOW the will of the voters to ignore them.

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[-] [email protected] 206 points 5 months ago

Conservatives supported this rule to punish those who attempted to manipulate sessions by not showing up. When the rule applies to them, they pretend they are victims of some kind.

The entire time the walk-out was happening, they told the media the rule wouldn't apply to them and they intended to run again. It was pure arrogance as it happened. And it's pure arrogance now as they claim their rule shouldn't apply to them.

Fuck conservatives. A conservative is incapable of honesty. Every word they utter is deception or manipulation. Every word.

[-] [email protected] 77 points 5 months ago

As an orgonian, fuck yes, that entire group can go eat a bag of dicks.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

…eat a bag of dicks…

Why would you reward them?

[-] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

* expired dicks

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

yeah, give me those dicks

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

We should hang out sometime.

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[-] [email protected] 56 points 5 months ago

The GOP loves whining and not doing their job. These people are being paid to represent people, by wilfully abusing quorum to stall the process they are doing their constituents a major disservice.

Filibuster if you want to stand there and defend against change you disagree with, but using absence as a political weapon is slimy and low effort.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

Isn't that literally what the nazis did? Block decision making by walking out of the Reichstag when they were in the oposition?

[-] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

Yeah they also used the term "fake news" to illegitimize opposing news sources just like a specific rotten orange I refuse to name

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Huh. Who'd thought?

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[-] [email protected] 48 points 5 months ago

As an Oregonian...

Hehe. Hehehehe! Hehehahahaaahahah!!! ...*gasp*... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

[-] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago

Huuurrr hurr hurrr.

Found out.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago

What a pack of morons.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

[-] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

Proud of my state here

[-] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

Where will the GOP find 10 more shit heads to run?

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Womp womp.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

What? There's a consequence for not doing your job? Who would have guessed?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

HAHAHAHAHA

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

FAFO indeed.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Haha

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

If you missed more than 10 days of work at any job, it's likely you'll be fired, so they can just pull themselves up by the boot-straps and find another job.

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