Like the battered spouse grateful for token kindness, eastern Oregon voters will again be settling for crumbs from the state’s 2025 legislative session.
In the session’s final days, a controversial $11.7 billion transportation department spending spree dominated the debate. Even a normally unified Democratic supermajority couldn’t choke that one down, and the biggest tax increase in state history failed in the session’s final hours.
But maybe the transportation bill kerfuffle was simply a distraction while the legislature quietly handed other agencies and nonprofits a 12% increase over the last budget. When taxpayers balked early in the session at the legislature’s spending habits, one representative chided taxpayers as petulant children.
With over 2200 bills introduced, it’s difficult to put our arms around what eventually passed. But, the Democratic supermajority made sure that funding and policy decisions favored…
Fuckin idiots ‼️✝️🇺🇸