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SEPTEMBER CALENDAR
SIGN GAS TAX REFERENDUM, PUT IT ON THE BALLOT, says Hasso Hering
The Gas Tax just signed into law by Gov. Kulongoski is a myriad of issues all crammed into one bill, and Hasso Hering, editor of the Albany Democrat Herald, recommends that we force the legislature to take another look at the issues next session, one by one.
House Bill 2001, known as the Gas Tax bill, increases vehicle registration fees and gives Oregonians higher gas taxes to fund multimodal projects, provides for some highway construction, funds studying congestion pricing to manage traffic jams without building more roads, and even provides for contracting for the management of freeway rest areas (that’s where the cookie section comes in) — all those things may be worth doing, but Hering says, “Why include them all in the same monumental bill?
“Maybe the legislators and their constituents would have liked a little better opportunity to think about all these subjects separately, and ask the voters too.
That’s where the referendum comes in. If the bill is blocked and then voted down, the 2011 legislature can look at all these issues again, one by one.” LET’S GET IT ON THE BALLOT!
Tax Referral Signatures Still Needed to Help Kill New Taxes!
With only 28 days left, we are still collecting signatures - please download your e-petition today, or contact the ORP for more information.
ORP Chairman Tiernan Endorses New Senior Health Care Bill of Rights
Portland, Ore. – On Monday, Oregon Republican Party Chairman Bob Tiernan issued the following statement about the Seniors’ Health Care Bill of Rights and the importance of protecting health care for America’s seniors and veterans.
“Senior citizens will face significant consequences because of President Obama’s plans to finance his government-run health care experiment by cutting over $500 billion from Medicare; which is why Oregon Republicans wholeheartedly stand behind the Seniors’ Health Care Bill of Rights. Republicans want smart health care reform that does no harm to seniors, lowers health care costs, preserves quality care and keeps patients in charge of their health care. But the President’s plan will do just the opposite. It is our responsibility to ensure senior citizens have access to quality health care and we need to start by protecting Medicare, keeping health care decisions between patients and their doctors, keeping the government from interfering in end-of-life decisions, outlawing any government effort to ration health care, and ensuring that we keep our obligation to care for America’s veterans.
"Seniors are clearly concerned about the Democrats’ experiment with public support dropping like a rock. The people of Oregon deserve an open and honest discussion about important health care decisions. It’s time for President Obama and the Congressional Democrats to rethink funding their big-government experiment on the backs of senior citizens,” concluded Chairman Tiernan.
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SENIORS’ HEALTH CARE BILL OF RIGHTS
Go to the Oregon Republican Party
TIDBITS
CAP AND TRADE BILL COSTS TOO MUCH
The House-passed climate change bill (Cap & Trade), if enacted, would expand the federal government so much that it would take BILLIONS of dollars and thousands of new employees to implement, says the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
Government’s expansion would cost $8 billion over a 10-year period. For the bill to operate effectively, nearly 1,500 regulations and mandates would have to be approved for at least 21 federal agencies. The rule-making process alone would take years.
KEEP ROARING!
In town hall meetings across the country, your roar is being heard in Washington and around the globe. Newspapers in Europe and Asia are writing about demonstrators’ effectiveness. Many people are predicting that Obamacare will crash and burn. The idea of the federal government operating another health insurance business to compete with Blue Cross Blue Shield and hundreds of other private plans is the victim of a massive grass-roots protest movement and deepening fears and divisions among Democrat lawmakers.
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BILL WOULD GIVE PRESIDENT EMERGENCY CONTROL OF INTERNET
Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.
The Drudge report said yesterday that Jay Rockefeller and Olympia Snowe’s secret revised version still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency. An industry representative says the bill is “troubling because of its vagueness.”
When coupled with Pres. Obama’s plan to create a security force more powerful than the U.S. military, critics worry that the President is building a force that could give him dictatorial powers. “The first thing that a commander does in a successful invasion is to take out all communication powers,” observed a recent blogger.
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Monday, August 31, 2009
Newsletter: Benton Co. Republicans, Aug. 31
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