{"id":10772,"date":"2019-06-28T01:48:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T08:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/?p=10772"},"modified":"2019-07-02T10:16:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T17:16:29","slug":"the-arrogance-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/the-arrogance-of-power\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arrogance of Power"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Oregon Governor Kate Brown is at the center of a huge power struggle in Oregon<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Arrogance of Power<\/strong><\/h1>\n

By Scott Michael Rohter, June 28th, 2019<\/p>\n

We\u00a0have all heard\u00a0the saying that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Well, in Oregon the Democrats exercise nearly absolute power.\u00a0They have a super majority in the State Legislature and they have\u00a0held the Governor’s office for more than two decades.\u00a0 During that time they have appointed all of the top officials in the State\u00a0including all the members of the Oregon Supreme Court. At the top of this\u00a0pyramid of power are a few chosen people, all Democrats.\u00a0They are\u00a0Floyd Prozanski and\u00a0Ginny Burdick the longest serving members of the Oregon Senate, Then there is Peter Courtney the next longest serving member of the Legislature who is the President of the Senate. There is Tiny Kotek, the Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives, and last but certainly not least… at the very\u00a0top of this pyramid of power is Oregon’s Democratic Governor Kate Brown who inherited the position after the political downfall of Oregon’s last\u00a0Governor, John Kitzhaber. Then in 2017 she won re-election in her own right in\u00a0what was a\u00a0hard fought race against Dr. Knute Buehler who\u00a0was the Representative from Bend.<\/p>\n

The Oregon Legislature consists of ninety members… There are thirty State Senators and sixty members of the House. Democrats hold a super majority in both chambers which means that they can pass just about any legislation they want without\u00a0a single\u00a0Republican vote. The only thing Republican members of\u00a0 the\u00a0Legislature can do to\u00a0serve the voters in their districts which elected them is just not to show up for work thereby effectively denying the Democrats\u00a0the necessary quorum to\u00a0pass new legislation. This\u00a0is exactly what they have done… not once, but twice this year.<\/p>\n

The first time Republican members of the\u00a0Senate walked out of the legislature for\u00a0four days. This was\u00a0over a huge tax and spend bill, but they returned after obtaining some concessions which scuttled a couple of other bills they did not like. One of those bills would have\u00a0required mandatory vaccinations.<\/p>\n

This time Republican\u00a0Senators have left the State altogether after a threat from the\u00a0Governor’s\u00a0office to have them all arrested if they didn’t return to work immediately, so off to Idaho they went, all eleven Republican members of the Oregon\u00a0Senate. This time they say they intend to remain out for the rest of the legislative session\u00a0in an attempt to kill\u00a0two bills.\u00a0One of them is HB2020,\u00a0the so called “climate change” cap and trade spending Bill which will drastically\u00a0change the way\u00a0Oregonians live and increases\u00a0our taxes. The other Bill would give drivers licenses to illegal aliens. Oregon voters nixed that one in a statewide referendum back in 2014…<\/p>\n

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Longest serving member of the Oregon Senate, Floyd Prozanski<\/p><\/div>\n

Apparently\u00a0Democrat legislators\u00a0did not like the result of that referendum. Now\u00a0that they have a super majority and they can basically do whatever they want including slap emergency clauses on bills that are not real emergencies they are finally going to do something about it, and since they know better than we do what we\u00a0need by golly they are going to give it to us under an emergency clause that\u00a0won’t allow the question to be put on the ballot again (not that it needs to be. We already said no). Once is enough, and since they didn’t like the outcome\u00a0of that referendum, Democrat legislators in Salem\u00a0are going to\u00a0decide the issue for us, and this time they will decide it the way they<\/em><\/strong> want. Need I\u00a0remind you\u00a0that Oregon voters overwhelmingly rejected the idea of giving drivers licenses to illegal aliens\u00a0by\u00a0a\u00a0nearly 2 to\u00a01 margin.\u00a0Nevertheless it’s time for a “do over”\u00a0according to the power hungry\u00a0mob of Democrat politicians in charge in Salem. That consists of Peter Courtney, Floyd Prozanski,\u00a0 Ginny Burdick, Tiny Kotek, and at the very top of this pyramid\u00a0of power is Governor Kate Brown. They are the main players in the Democrat’s\u00a0stranglehold on state government, and this time they will do it over for us the way they want\u00a0to see it done.<\/p>\n

Such is the arrogance of power, and\u00a0Governor Kate Brown is\u00a0right at the center of this power struggle calling the shots\u2026. She is practically livid over the prospect that her precious plans to institute the Nation’s second only Cap and Trade\u00a0program is in jeopardy of dying right along with\u00a0some of\u00a0the\u00a0other Bills that she desperately wants to sign (and I do mean desperately) when the Legislature adjourns in just three days on June 30th<\/sup>.. so America’s first openly bi-sexual and maybe even bi-polar Governor has threatened to convene a special session of the Oregon Legislature on July 2nd, just two days after the current session ends if Republican Senators\u00a0run out the clock on this session\u2026 Meanwhile she has called out the Oregon State Police to conduct a statewide manhunt for any missing Republican members of the Senate, and to bring them back to\u00a0the State Capitol\u00a0by any means necessary including in chains. Until that happens they are all being fined 500 dollars a day which by the way is more than they earn\u00a0per day. One of the eleven Republican Senators, Brian Boquist\u00a0is being fined for being absent while at the same time he is not allowed back in the building for making what they called\u00a0incendiary remarks.<\/p>\n

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Former Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber<\/p><\/div>\n

The last time Governor Brown called out the Oregon State Police to end a\u00a0peaceful political protest in Oregon it was during the\u00a0occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. In that incident\u00a0an innocent\u00a0man was\u00a0killed.\u00a0\u00a0An investigation into the shooting\u00a0death of Lavoy Finicum said it was justified, but the\u00a0victim had his hands up in the air and his back was turned to the two Oregon State police officers who\u00a0shot him.. Now if that isn\u2019t murder than I don\u2019t know what is\u2026 Such is the arrogance of power, and the power of this\u00a0Governor,\u00a0and her\u00a0lust for even more power\u00a0is such that I am beginning to wonder if she\u00a0was just an innocent\u00a0bystander in\u00a0the political demise of Oregon’s last\u00a0Governor\u00a0or if\u00a0she\u00a0played a roll in his political downfall.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile back at the State Capitol thousands of people are\u00a0gathering to protest\u00a0the Governor’s policies, and\u00a0to support\u00a0Oregon’s Eleven Republican members of the\u00a0Senate who have walked\u00a0away from\u00a0their jobs rather than let\u00a0bad legislation be jammed down their throats. They want the emergency clause to be removed from\u00a0two Bills so that House Bill 2020, the\u00a0so called cap trade “climate change” Bill and House Bill 2015 can be placed on the ballot for all<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Oregonians to vote on, not just the chosen few in Salem. HB 2020 would so drastically change the way\u00a0that Oregonians live that it is only fair that everyone has the opportunity to vote on it,\u00a0 and just for the record there is no\u00a0real proof\u00a0 that Carbon emissions are the\u00a0 reason\u00a0the earth’s climate is changing, or even if it is changing. The cap and trade Bill is all pain and no gain. It is a perfect \u00a0example of legislative over reach and it illustrates the arrogance of power.<\/p>\n

Update: Salem, Oregon June 29th 2019…<\/strong>\u00a0 Even\u00a0while\u00a0Governor Brown publically vowed no<\/strong>t<\/strong> to negotiate with\u00a0Senate Republican leaders while all eleven members of their caucus were hiding out in another State, secret negotiations were actually taking place. As a result, eight of our eleven absentee Republican Senators\u00a0have\u00a0agreed\u00a0to return\u00a0 to the State Capitol on Saturday June 29th for the\u00a0remaining two days of the legislative session. The three who will not return are Brian Boquist, Fred Girod, and Dennis Linthicum. If there were any guarantees made by the Democrat leadership that certain bills would not be brought up for a vote once they return, or that a special session will not be convened by the Governor\u00a0if they aren’t voted on it is not being\u00a0revealed to the public. Both House Bill 2020 (the so called Climate Change or Cap and Trade Bill) and House Bill 2015 (the Bill that gives drivers licenses to illegal aliens) are still on the calendar for a third reading in the Senate. Let”s hope that\u00a0our\u00a0trusting Republican\u00a0lawmakers didn’t get duped into returning only to find that these\u00a0two bills\u00a0are secretly scheduled for a vote. That’s the problem with doing things in secret. Such is the arrogance of power.<\/em><\/p>\n

Re-Update :\u00a0Salem, Oregon June 29th 2019<\/strong><\/em>… House Bill 2020 the so called Climate Change Bill which\u00a0would institute a cap and trade programin Oregon was referred back to\u00a0committee where it has been agreed that\u00a0the Bill\u00a0will die for now.. Meanwhile House Bill 2015 which will give drivers licenses to illegal aliens thereby automatically registering them to vote has passed the Legislature and will be signed into law\u00a0by the Governor without\u00a0a single\u00a0Republican vote, but keep in mind that the Republicans knew this would happen when they agreed to\u00a0come back\u00a0for the\u00a0remaining two days of the legislative session.\u00a0 I hate to admit it, but we were sold out on this one. That is because most p0liticians have no principles. Such is the arrogance of power on both sides of the political aisle.<\/p>\n

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  The Arrogance of Power By Scott Michael Rohter, June 28th, 2019 We\u00a0have all heard\u00a0the saying that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Well, in Oregon the Democrats exercise nearly absolute power.\u00a0They have a super majority in the State Legislature and they have\u00a0held the Governor’s office for more than two decades.\u00a0 During that time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[885,602,886,888,887],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10772"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10798,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772\/revisions\/10798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}