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Willamette Week The need for strong, independent local journalism is more urgent than ever. Please support the city we love by joining Friends of Willamette Week. We Asked Oregon Republican Lawmakers: Do They Acknowledge Biden Won? We also asked what they’re telling their constituents to do on Inauguration Day, when right-wing protests are planned in 50 state capitals and Washington, D.C. A right-wing protester holds a rifle outside the Oregon Capitol. (Justin Yau) Updated January 13 Last month, a dozen Republican state legislators asked Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum to j...

Editorial: An election myth becomes a violent mob Updated Jan 07, 2021; Posted Jan 07, 2021 WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: A pro-Trump mob breaks into the U.S. Capitol on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Congress held a joint session today to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. A group of Republican senators said they would reject the Electoral College votes of several states unless Congress appointed a commission to audit the election results. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Getty ImagesGetty Images Facebook Share The mob of vi...

Reply(1) As of 12:45 AM PST January 7, 2021, after the congress read and accepted the results of the Electoral College declaring Joe Biden the President-elect and Kamala Harris the Vice President-elect, these Oregon REPUBLICAN legislators (see below) indicated that they still REFUSED to acknowledge that Joe Biden is the President-elect and Kamala Harris the Vice President-elect. As of 12:45 AM PST January 7, 2021, after a Trump insurrectionists, anti-democracy vandals, anarchists, seditionists and domestic terrorists attempted a violent coup as they stormed our nation's Capitol building, ...

SALEM — Bobby Levy will replace Greg Barreto as District 58’s state representative in 2021, but they got a chance to collaborate before the end of Barreto’s tenure on a letter supporting the effort to halt the Electoral College vote in several key swing states in the 2020 presidential election. Barreto and Levy signed a Dec. 11 letter from a group of GOP legislators to Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum requesting she join a Texas lawsuit that sought to block electors in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin from voting for President-elect Joe Biden. The letter did...

Willamette Week The need for strong, independent local journalism is more urgent than ever. Please support the city we love by joining Friends of Willamette Week. A Dozen Oregon Republican Lawmakers Urged the Attorney General to Support Texas Lawsuit Undermining U.S. Election Results “We believe that fair elections are vital to our democratic republic and that the submission of electors by these four states should be at least postponed.” An election-night party in Vancouver, Wash. (Chris Nsseth) Updated December 13, 2020 A dozen Republican state lawmakers wrote to Oregon Attorne...