I understand - ultimately, the supermajority tax increase thing is to blame. If Congress had that, they would fully collapse. In spite of my disappointment with the party, I know a lot of you are doing good work and dealing with hard situations. There's just so little margin for error as it stands.
I hate it. We shouldn’t be here because we absolutely should have passed HB 2025 in June. I don’t shy around the fact that this stops hemorrhaging, not even bleeding. It’s a tourniquet and we better get ready to perform surgery ASAP or the patient dies. (I should not blue-skeet after midnight lol).
ODOT needs to manage money better. They have plenty of money. I’m a Democrat and I am PISSED. The more the Dems fuck over this state, the more they’re gonna start voting republican. I will never vote for Kotek again after het dirty gamesmanship.
It's 2am here 🫣. But no, you obviously feel the importance of this as much as many Oregonians, and that's really reassuring. My wish would be for the same urgency to come through from more legislators. If you have clones in other house districts or something, lmk
And good luck with the surgery!!
To continue the metaphor… we need to train some doctors. If I had bandwidth I’d be in, but I chair Labor and between that, the pub sub, and emergency management, gen govt and audits….it’s a lot. Now insert my not so silent plea to professionalize the legislature b/c I am a Full time FF as well.
There are not a ton of working folks serving but the legislature is a full time job. Professionalize the positions and I think you’d see far better outcomes from a more diverse range of people.
I fully support a full time, better paid legislature as well. I think about this article sometimes www.opb.org/article/2022...