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  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...

  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.          ...

A Proposed Oregon Constitutional Amendment To be included in Article II, “Suffrage and Elections:” All-Non-Partisan Elections (1)    All elections within the State of Oregon shall be non-partisan, with no indication of political affiliation on the ballot. (2)    A candidate for any lucrative office shall be placed on the primary election ballot only after submitting a sufficient number of signatures of qualified electors.  (a)The number of nominating signatures for the primary election ballot shall be: a percentage of the total number of qualified electors for that office in the previous general election in which a Governor was elected to a full term; shall be set by the legislature; shall be uniform for all offices; and shall be not more than 0.1%. (3)    Only candidates who receive the highest and second-highest number of votes in the primary election for any office shall be placed on the general election ballot.  Nomination...