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Earlier this week, @ORSecretaryRead was sworn in as Oregon's 30th Secretary of State. Secretary Read’s top priority is to hold the State of Oregon accountable for delivering on its promises, managing tax dollars wisely, and running secure, fair elections.
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I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.
I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.
My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.
That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.
Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.
It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.
I want to tune out.
But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.
And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.
That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.
For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.
The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.
It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!
But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.
It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.
We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.
That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.
Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.
And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. vote.org
INDEPENDENT PARTY OF OREGON retweeted
In 1971, after the Justice Dept enjoined The NY Times from publishing the Pentagon Papers, my father gave them to the @washingtonpost. It was ultimately the call of Katherine Graham, publisher/owner. She was warned that her paper’s survival was on the line. She didn’t blink.
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Three of the worst oligarchs backing Trump - Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and David Sacks - are products of South African apartheid. This isn’t a coincidence.
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When someone stands behind a microphone and dehumanizes entire groups of people and says the most despicable and fear-mongering rhetoric, that disturbs me.
What disturbs me even more though is the crowd of people that hears these things and cheers.
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Notice how it’s always “vote according to Biblical values!” until it comes to welcoming the immigrant, helping the poor, feeding the hungry, bringing healthcare to the sick, forgiving debts, caring for our planet, laying down our swords, or loving our neighbors.
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Any candidate for president should understand that spreading misinformation about our nation's response to natural disasters endangers Americans. Now is not a time for politics. It's a time to unify as a country and look out for our neighbors in these states who are in danger.
INDEPENDENT PARTY OF OREGON retweeted
An investigation by @Grist and @HighCountryNews reveals how public institutions benefit from extractive industries on tribal lands.
hcn.org/articles/5-takeaways…
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Let’s be clear: This is illegal and unconstitutional. The American people had voted. The courts had ruled. The Electoral College had met and voted. The Governor in every state had certified the results and sent a legal slate of electors to the Congress to be counted. The Vice President has no constitutional authority to tell states to submit alternative slates of electors because his candidate lost. That is tyranny. Our institutions held on Jan 6 because Mike Pence refused to violate his oath to the Constitution. Trump picked JD Vance because Vance will do whatever Trump wants, including violating the Constitution. They are both far too dangerous to serve. It’s our duty to stop them.
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Grateful to share that I've been endorsed by @OregonWorking. I'm excited to work with them to improve the well-being of all Oregonians. #orpol #orleg
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Congratulations to Ellen Waterston on the start of her service as Oregon’s eleventh Poet Laureate! I can’t wait to see how she brings her literary talents and love of Oregon’s frontier landscapes to telling our collective story.
ktvz.com/lifestyle/arts/2024…
INDEPENDENT PARTY OF OREGON retweeted
Tim Walz says his administration serves free lunch to all Minnesota schoolchildren. But the average time of this meal is 11am, meaning that it's really brunch.
Two Pinnochios.
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The Electoral College disenfranchises many people.
Trump supporters in California have no voice and Harris supporters in Alabama have no voice.
Why not vote by majority vote?
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It isn’t “sharing your faith” when you’re using legislation to do it. That’s “forcing your faith.”
Jesus never gave us the right to impose our religious beliefs on anyone.
When it violates human free will and matters of conscience, it isn’t about Jesus.
It’s about control.
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Anyway, there's a lot more in the newsletter, including Google's sketchy accounting of how much it's pledging.
And if there's going to be any substantive change, we journalists are going to have get used to fighting. This was just the first round.
bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-…
INDEPENDENT PARTY OF OREGON retweeted
It’s always “the Bible must inform our laws!” until it comes to the +3,000 verses about using wealth in ways that prioritize the poor, the immigrant, the vulnerable, the indebted, and the oppressed.
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So, an Oregon official engineers a 50% pay raise for himself. Then he decides whether releasing records about the move serves a public interest. Nah, says Greg Smith, also a state legislator. @SPJOregon @rcfp

























