Minority leader Tim Knopp said:
we are deeply disturbed by the chilling impact this decision will have to crush dissent
Give me a fucking break. As a legislator, you have no shortage of ways to dissent including access to media, the ability to speak on the floor of the legislature, and the ability to vote on legislation. What you can’t do, if you want to keep your job is not show up for work every time you know you’re going to lose a vote so that the legislature can’t do business.
“What about a musician who wants to express a nonpartisan message that young people should participate in our democracy?”
That’s DIFFERENT she needs to JUST SHUT UP
“She said she votes for human rights, so we know she votes for the wrong team.”
As an Oregon voter, tough shit. We voted with a 68% majority to amend the state constitution, with explicit penalties for legislative absenteeism.
The chilling impact they are feeling is the will of the people bitch slapping their defunct political strategy.
“But that’s all just Portland voters! All the rest us of didn’t want that!” - My idiot father. Yeah dude, Portland is most of us. Your vote isn’t worth more just because you live around less people.
Land doesn’t vote
That’s still a majority. Tough shit pops, do some math.
It’s not even true. There are 3 million registered voters in Oregon, of whom 565k are in Portland (well, Multnomah). While we lean very heavily D, most of the registered D’s in the state are elsewhere.
“Portland” is usually used as shorthand for Clackamas/Multnomah/Washington counties, which are about half the states population overall. Shouldn’t be shocking that half the states population does rather heavily influence how the state is run though. Did folks expect Harney county (10,135 sq mi, with 7,515 people) to be the big decider? C’mon now.
Surprisingly, even if you include all 3 counties you’re still only about 40% of the registered voters–although you are now at about 50% of the registered D’s. Meaning the rest of the state skews Republican but not by that much.
Refuse to do job.
Get fired.
/surprisedpikachu
we are deeply disturbed by the chilling impact this decision will have to crush dissent
What they really said is: Wah! Boohoo! We don’t like consequences for our actions! Wah! Wah!
Daddy, why are they fucking around and when they find out, they’re being little bitches?
Because they are little bitches.
The amendment says a lawmaker is not allowed to run “for the term following the election after the member’s current term is completed.” The senators claimed the amendment meant they could seek another term, since a senator’s term ends in January while elections are held the previous November.
What a slimey disingenuous BS argument. They are knowingly trying to subvert the law specifically aimed at their behavior while pretending it’s SOMEHOW the will of the voters to ignore them.
‘Crush dissent’? lol good you clown, I don’t think law makers should be crushing dissent…
Conservatives supported this rule to punish those who attempted to manipulate sessions by not showing up. When the rule applies to them, they pretend they are victims of some kind.
The entire time the walk-out was happening, they told the media the rule wouldn’t apply to them and they intended to run again. It was pure arrogance as it happened. And it’s pure arrogance now as they claim their rule shouldn’t apply to them.
Fuck conservatives. A conservative is incapable of honesty. Every word they utter is deception or manipulation. Every word.
As an orgonian, fuck yes, that entire group can go eat a bag of dicks.
…eat a bag of dicks…
Why would you reward them?
* expired dicks
yeah, give me those dicks
We should hang out sometime.
i’ll tell you what should hang out…
The GOP loves whining and not doing their job. These people are being paid to represent people, by wilfully abusing quorum to stall the process they are doing their constituents a major disservice.
Filibuster if you want to stand there and defend against change you disagree with, but using absence as a political weapon is slimy and low effort.
Isn’t that literally what the nazis did? Block decision making by walking out of the Reichstag when they were in the oposition?
Yeah they also used the term “fake news” to illegitimize opposing news sources just like a specific rotten orange I refuse to name
Huh. Who’d thought?
As an Oregonian…
Hehe. Hehehehe! Hehehahahaaahahah!!! …*gasp*… HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Huuurrr hurr hurrr.
Found out.
What a pack of morons.
Proud of my state here
Where will the GOP find 10 more shit heads to run?
The bottom of the barrel, especially with conservatives, is like the TARDIS - impossibly larger on the inside than it appears from the outside.
I’d say that it’s not a good path to tread to have courts deciding who can and can’t be on the ballot, however, in this particular case, it was put to the voters, and these guys knew the rule when they broke it, so c’est la vie
As for their argument, I’d say go with it… Let them run, let them get elected, then bar them for the term… That’s actually how the wording works out… Theyre correct that they can technically run, but it’s pretty specific about being unable to seve the term.
Fuck around and let a district go unrepresented for a term because legislators wanna play the “well ackshually” game, and the voters will sort that shit right out.
have courts deciding who can and can’t be on the ballot
Who but the courts rules on 14th amendment violations?
this isn’t 14th amendment, it’s oregon state law
The other major news story about courts deciding who can and cannot be on the ballot is regarding the 14th amendment. @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca was likely referring to that, and to @aelwero@lemmy.world’s comment.
fair enough, ty
The problem with that is it denies all of the people in that district their right to representation. It’s not fair to punish people just because voters were dumb enough to elect someone who can’t actually serve. The reasonable thing to do is ban unqualified candidates from the ballot. Otherwise it’s like electing a dead person, they are going to have to hold a special election or appoint someone or do whatever the legal process is to fill the vacancy ASAP.
It’s not fair to punish people just because voters were dumb enough to elect someone who can’t actually serv
But isn’t it the dumb voters being punished here? I kind of agree with OP
It’s everyone in the district being punished, not just those who voted, and not just those who voted “dumb”. That’s not justice.
I’d rather have no representation than one of these bad faith assholes “representing” me.
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I’ve often wondered if this should be the punishment for failing to draw up constitutionally legal district maps. If a state can’t figure out how to not gerrymander the heck out of itself, deny them represention for a term while they sort it out. Arguably the people elected under such maps don’t reflect the true will of the people anyways
Womp womp.
HAHAHAHAHA
What? There’s a consequence for not doing your job? Who would have guessed?
If you missed more than 10 days of work at any job, it’s likely you’ll be fired, so they can just pull themselves up by the boot-straps and find another job.
