Republican Legislators STILL Feeding The Orange Elephant

Donald Trump is an existential threat to democracy in Oregon, America and around the world as well as to the climate enveloping our planet.

As the 2019 session rolls on our Oregon Legislature will have the same old perennial debates about how much or how little to fund education, housing etc. But none of that can compete with the overarching political issue of the day, How do we remove Donald Trump from office? As long as that question is unresolved the daily chatter about our state’s ordinary legislative agenda is merely a sideshow to the main event.

Every day the Democrats’ supermajorities in the Oregon legislature must remind Oregonians that the 34 Republican members*1 of the Oregon House and Senate have for two years, and continue to this day, indicated that Donald Trump is fit to be President of the United States of America and a moral, ethical and political exemplar for Oregon and America’s children.

At the beginning of each business day the House and Senate are in session a member must address their respective bodies and say, “As of this date all 34 Republican members of the Oregon legislature have NOT called for Donald Trump to resign or be impeached. They continue to extol Trump’s behavior as an exemplar to Oregon’s children.” This could be followed by a short summary of Trump’s lies and bad judgements from the previous day.

Dear readers, if you are represented by a Democrat then please encourage them to speak out against the Republicans in the legislature who continue to enable Donald Trump. If you are represented by a Republican please encourage them to publicly ask for Donald Trump’s resignation or impeachment.

There can NOT be business as usual in the Oregon legislature as long as a madman, Donald Trump, remains President.

Richard Ellmyer
North Portland
NAV, Non-Aligned Voter
Citizen activist since 1975
Legislative Assistant to former state senator Bill McCoy, 1981 session.
Author of The Ellmyer Report, a newsletter that informs, educates and influences on public policy. Occasionally distributed to more than a quarter of million readers in Oregon and beyond. Facebook, Portland Politics Plus . Opinion contributor to Patch.com news.

*1
“Trump’s base (see below) remains oblivious to his likely contempt for them as sheep who can be effortlessly gulled by preposterous fictions.”
Conservative columnist George F. Will
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Republican State Senators

Herman Baertschiger, Sen.HermanBaertschiger@oregonlegislature.gov
Cliff Bentz, Sen.CliffBentz@oregonlegislature.gov
Brian Boquist, Sen.BrianBoquist@oregonlegislature.gov
Fred Girod, Sen.FredGirod@oregonlegislature.gov
Bill Hansell, Sen.BillHansell@oregonlegislature.gov
Dallas Heard, Sen.DallasHeard@oregonlegislature.gov
Tim Knopp, sen.timknopp@oregonlegislature.gov
Dennis Linthicum, Sen.DennisLinthicum@oregonlegislature.gov
Alan Olsen, Sen.AlanOlsen@oregonlegislature.gov
Kim Thatcher, Sen.KimThatcher@oregonlegislature.gov
Chuck Thomsen, Sen.ChuckThomsen@oregonlegislature.gov
Jackie Winters, Sen.JackieWinters@oregonlegislature.gov

Republican State Representatives

Greg Barreto, Rep.GregBarreto@oregonlegislature.gov
Denyc Boles, rep.denycboles@oregonlegislature.gov
Daniel Bonham, Rep.DanielBonham@oregonlegislature.gov
Shelly Boshart Davis, Rep.shellyboshartdavis@oregonlegislature.gov
Christine Drazan, Rep.Christinedrazan@oregonlegislature.gov
Lynn Findley, Rep.lynnfindley@oregonlegislature.gov
Cedric Hayden, Rep.CedricHayden@oregonlegislature.gov
Cheri Helt, Rep.cherihelt@oregonlegislature.gov
Gary Leif, Rep.garyleif@oregonlegislature.gov
Rick Lewis, Rep.RickLewis@oregonlegislature.gov
Mike McLane, Rep.MikeMcLane@oregonlegislature.gov
Mike Nearman, Rep.MikeNearman@oregonlegislature.gov
Ron Noble, Rep.RonNoble@oregonlegislature.gov
Bill Post, Rep.BillPost@oregonlegislature.gov
Werner Reschke, Rep.EWernerReschke@oregonlegislature.gov
David Smith, Rep.DavidBrockSmith@oregonlegislature.gov
Greg Smith, Rep.GregSmith@oregonlegislature.gov
Sherrie Sprenger, Rep.SherrieSprenger@oregonlegislature.gov
Duane Stark, Rep.DuaneStark@oregonlegislature.gov
Kim Wallan, Rep.kimwallan@oregonlegislature.gov
Carl Wilson, Rep.CarlWilson@oregonlegislature.gov
Jack Zika, Rep.jackzika@oregonlegislature.gov

Don’t let these smiley Republican faces deceive you. These are Donald Trump’s “grab them by the pussy” girls who stand by Trump as he heartlessly separates mothers from their children, locks them in cages by the thousands then loses the paperwork to reunite them. Many are sick. Some die. These Republican women hold up Donald Trump as an honest, incorruptible, moral, ethical and political exemplar for the children of their constituents. Sad.



We need to stop lying to kids about Donald Trump
By MARTHA BROCKENBROUGH
https://www.salon.com/2019/01/...

This flow of falsehoods is decidedly unpresidential. When I wrote my book, I compared Trump’s rate of falsehoods to Obama’s. For every lie Obama told during his presidency, Trump told 1,230. And it’s only gotten worse since I did that math.

The president of the United States is untrustworthy. This is a truth we need to tell ourselves — that Trump is purposely shattering the most basic and necessary bond between people, the thing all of society rests on. The truth is not a nicety.

When there isn’t truth, there is only power, and that prospect should terrify us. Even more than the sometimes scary act of telling the kids the truth about life, death, and this sometimes broken world.