Wednesday, June 26, 2019

The GOP members of the Oregon State Senate: 10 men, 1 woman, all white.


Source of photos:  Oregon State Legislature
  
Why Oregon Republicans Vanished Over a Climate Change Vote.  (The New York times, 6/24/2019)
Democrats, who control the Oregon Senate as well as the House of Representatives, were preparing to vote on the measure last week when all 11 Republican senators disappeared. Without the votes to reject the bill, which would require businesses to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the Republicans denied the Democrats a needed quorum, blocking a vote from taking place in the Senate.

The GOP has a stranglehold on the sparsely eastern two-thirds of Oregon, as well as the southwestern corner of the state, a hotbed of 'preppers'.

(blank map found at Wikipedia)


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