Posted May 14, 2019 12:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Oregon is a blue state all the way. There’s absolutely no doubt about that in anyone’s mind, especially most who live there. While it’s like most states where the Democrats are centralized in the cities while rural communities trend Republican, those Democrats still outnumber their GOP opponents by a significant margin.

As a result, Republicans make up a tiny minority in the state legislature. It doesn’t mean they can’t still defeat gun control bills, though.

Democratic leaders in the Oregon Senate have agreed to give up high-profile bills on gun control and vaccines in exchange for the end of a Republican walkout.

Multiple sources in the state Senate say Democrats have agreed to kill the two bills this session as part of a deal with Republicans. The agreement was first reported by Willamette Week and is aimed at bringing Republican Senators back to the Capitol after they staged a four-day boycott last week.

Though Republicans are in the minority this session, their walkout denied Democrats the quorum needed for a vote on the $1-billion-a-year business tax package pushed by legislative leaders and Gov. Kate Brown. Senators approved the tax plan to raise money for Oregon’s …Read the Rest

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