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Time for Non-Partisan Elections - Democrats

  An open letter to Oregon’s Democrat Caucus                Oregon’s 23 Republican state Representatives have signed a statement castigating state Republican Party officials for passing a resolution condemning Congressional Republicans who voted to impeach President Trump and calling the attack on our federal Capitol Buildings a “false flag” operation.   They cannot take Oregon’s Republican Party leadership seriously any longer and should not support this or any political party with their membership.   Democrats should not feel thrilled about this.   There are many Democrats who have their own problems with the choices of their party, and more people than in either party who are so disgusted with the two major parties that they refuse to join either one.   A legislative supermajority invites extreme legislation that gets many people to vote against the party in power. Donald Trump has caused a lot of problems for our...

Time for Non-Partisan Elections - Republicans

  An open letter to Oregon’s Republican Caucus             Oregon’s 23 Republican state Representatives have signed a statement castigating state Republican Party officials for passing a resolution condemning Congressional Republicans who voted to impeach President Trump and calling the attack on our federal Capitol Buildings a “false flag” operation.  You cannot take Oregon’s Republican Party leadership seriously any longer and should not support this or any political party with your membership.               It is time for all-non-partisan elections in Oregon.   Write a constitutional amendment to no longer allow party nominations and to take all party labels off all ballots for any office, from President on down.   Allow only the top two candidates from primary elections to move on to the general election.          ...