Oregon Senate Republicans have laid out the education bills they want to see passed this session by the same body they walked out on earlier this week.
Originally published on February 26, 2021 4:37 pm
Joyce Dorsey, whose son Che Taylor was shot by Seattle Police nearly two years ago, speaks in Olympia before the delivery of Initiative 940 petition signatures to the Washington secretary of state Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017. CREDIT: TOM BANSE
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BY LAUREN DAKE & DIRK VANDERHART / OPB
Oregon Senate Republicans boycotted the state Legislature’s floor session on Thursday, shortly after Gov. Kate Brown announced she was extending her COVID-19 related emergency order.
It was a move reminiscent of Republican walkouts of the previous legislative session, which denied the majority Democrats enough people to be able to vote on bills.
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• Today in useless, crybaby Republicanism: Shortly after Gov. Kate Brown extended Oregon s state of emergency orders to May 2 because, hello, PEOPLE ARE STILL DYING Republicans refused to show up to work (FOR THE THIRD STRAIGHT YEAR), thereby grinding the legislature to a halt. However they did send a letter demanding that the Governor immediately reopen all schools to in-person learning. something that s decided by individual school districts, not Brown. To paraphrase Dean Wormer from
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Oregon Senate Republicans boycotted the state Legislature’s floor session on Thursday, shortly after Gov. Kate Brown announced she was extending her COVID-19 related emergency order.https://t.co/QxmJYPNTqY
by Tim Gruver, The Center Square | February 26, 2021 08:00 AM Print this article
For the third time in three years, the Oregon Legislature has ground to a halt following state GOP lawmakers choice to walk out.
As of Thursday morning, all 11 Republican-held seats in the Oregon Senate were left empty by the time floor activity was scheduled to begin. State Sen. Brian Boquist of Dallas, a longtime Republican who shed his party affiliation last year, was also absent from the Senate floor.
In a statement posted to Facebook on Thursday, Oregon Senate Republicans said the walkout was in protest of the state s vaccine rollout for seniors and virtual learning models.
Oregon Senate hit by another GOP lawmaker boycott, now over COVID-19
(Update: Adding video, more comments from Knopp, says it was one-day deal )
Knopp says Democrats afraid of people that don’t agree with their agenda
SALEM, Ore. (AP) Republican lawmakers boycotted an Oregon Senate session Thursday morning, using a tactic they had employed in the past two years to assert their will by stopping work in the Democratic-led Legislature.
This time, it was over the state’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Senate Republican Leader Fred Girod said the Legislature “has abdicated too much responsibility” to Democratic Gov. Kate Brown. He demanded legislation aimed at school reopenings, vaccine distribution, economic recovery and government accountability.