Oregon Students Furious Over Governor Doing Her Job

By Tom Knighton

Townhall Media/Beth Baumann

The job of an elected official is to pass laws and make sure the government is running efficiently.

Well, their purpose is to do stupid things to justify their positions and get in the way of people trying to exercise their God-given rights, but the first definition is far more likely to appear in a textbook somewhere.

In Oregon, Governor Kate Brown had to make a decision. Republicans were refusing to show up, thus refusing to allow there to be a quorum for any legislation to pass. Their reason? A gun control bill needed to die.

So, Brown tossed the bill to bring the GOP back to the table. In other words, she did her job and recognized that the law wasn’t going to happen.

Now, students who pushed for the bill in the first place are furious.

These student leaders from around the state spoke out after a sweeping Senate gun control bill was dropped by Brown and Senate Democrats in an apparent effort to attract needed votes to an education funding bill.

According to students, Gov. Kate Brown recently traded away with SB 978 to get Republicans back to work. They said the measure was a …Read the Rest

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