{"id":10820,"date":"2019-07-09T10:59:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T17:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/?p=10820"},"modified":"2019-07-10T11:30:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T18:30:19","slug":"senate-conduct-committee-takes-action-against-brian-boquist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/senate-conduct-committee-takes-action-against-brian-boquist\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Conduct Committee Takes Action against Brian Boquist"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Senate Conduct Committee Takes Action against Brian Boquist<\/strong><\/h1>\n

By Scott Michael Rohter July 9 2019<\/p>\n

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Senator Floyd Prozanski<\/p><\/div>\n

In\u00a0what was technically referred to as a “public meeting\u201d that almost no one knew anything about, after the real public session of the Senate Committee on Conduct was over, the four members of the Committee: Floyd Prozanski (D), James Manning (D), Tim Knopp (R), and Alan Olsen (R) unanimously\u00a0agreed to impose interim disciplinary measures against Senator Brian Boquist for some remarks he made on the Senate floor during a debate that were directed\u00a0at Senate President Peter Courtney, and for\u00a0certain other remarks he made in an interview he gave to the news media regarding Governor Brown\u2019s announced plans to have the Oregon State Police round up the eleven missing Republican Senators and force them back to the Legislature \u201cin handcuffs if necessary\u201d so the Senate\u00a0could\u00a0hold a vote.<\/p>\n

Senator Boquist must notify the Secretary of the Senate at least 12 hours before he intends to be\u00a0at the\u00a0Capitol building so they can provide additional police to satisfy the concerns of anyone who might\u00a0be intimidated by his presence there. He must also promise not to take any retaliatory action against anyone involved in the investigation into his behavior, or against anyone who files a formal complaint against him in the continuing investigation into his\u00a0conduct as a member of the Oregon\u00a0State Senate..<\/p>\n

There is no\u00a0investigation\u00a0into the numerous and sundry provocations that he and\u00a0other Republican members\u00a0of the Oregon Legislature have had to endure during the 2019 session. Apparently the four members of the Senate Committee on Conduct are missing the whole point. Mr. Boquist\u00a0is not alone. in feeling angry about what is going on in our State government. He represents just the tip of an ever growing iceberg \u2026 He is the “canary in a coal mine”<\/em>\u2026. Millions of Oregonians are mad as hell that their voices are not being heard in Salem anymore.\u00a0We don\u2019t feel like we are being represented because of the Democrat\u2019s heavy handed tactics and their political stranglehold on power which they have obtained largely through the process of gerrymandering the districts. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Millions of Oregonians are stuck in what seems to be a never ending minority status rendering\u00a0us politically and effectively irrelevant in\u00a0our State\u00a0by just a few thousand votes. There is no mandate for Democrats to take any drastic political action on any thing like what they were trying to do this year with the so called Climate Change Bill, nor to overturn the will of the people\u00a0by handing out\u00a0drivers licenses to illegal aliens beginning in 2021 and\u00a0registering them to vote by the way too.<\/p>\n

There are thirty six counties in Oregon, most of them rural, but only three counties that really matter politically. These are the three urban counties that surround “Moscow on the Willamette”.\u00a0 <\/em>There is more to Oregon than just the eight square miles surrounding Tom McCall Waterfront Park, but the conservative minority in Oregon is\u00a0one minority that Oregon Democrats don\u2019t care anything about.<\/p>\n

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Senate President Peter Courtney<\/p><\/div>\n

Another thing that Oregon’s Democrats don\u2019t particularly care anything about is being consistent\u2026. In addition to claiming to represent minorities they also claim to care about women\u2019s rights, yet when given the opportunity they often do nothing about violations of women\u2019s rights\u2026 such as when Senate President Peter Courtney who is the subject of a recent Bureau of Labor and Industries report that accuses him of turning a deaf ear and a blind eye\u00a0to years of allegations of sexual harassment that have\u00a0been\u00a0going on\u00a0under his watchful eye\u00a0both in the Oregon Senate and as a professor at Western Oregon University.<\/p>\n

\u00a0This is where the charges against Senator\u00a0Boquist\u00a0for creating an unsafe work environment\u00a0begin to lose their credibility and pale in comparison to the\u00a0charges that have been leveled against Senate President Peter Courtney in an official\u00a0Bureau of Labor and Industries report. He is accused of\u00a0 providing an unsafe work environment\u00a0for female employees both in the Senate and\u00a0at Western Oregon University where he teaches.\u00a0This is why the charges against Boquist begin to take on definite political overtones. They\u00a0seem to have the appearance of retaliation against him for\u00a0leading the call for Courtney to resign.<\/p>\n

Mr. Boquist who appeared at the Senate hearing\u00a0on Monday\u00a0appeared defiant. He \u00a0refused to answer any questions from the Committee saying that he had filed a lawsuit and he would answer all of their questions in court.<\/p>\n

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In what was technically referred to as a “public meeting\u201d that almost no one knew anything about, after the real public session of the Senate Committee on Conduct was over, the four members of the Committee: Floyd Prozanski (D), James Manning (D), Tim Knopp (R), and Alan Olsen (R) unanimously agreed to impose interim disciplinary measures against Senator Brian Boquist…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[895,885,863,894,893],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10820"}],"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=10820"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10834,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10820\/revisions\/10834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}