The Republican war on democracy has ground the state’s government to a halt
Boquist’s Democratic colleagues were alarmed. “That’s a direct threat against the lives of state police,” says Burdick, whose serves a district in Portland. “All of this rhetoric — all of this right-wing, terrorist rhetoric is figuring into this conversation. It’s very, very scary.” Boquist did not respond to requests for comment. And Kate Gillem, spokesperson for the senate Republicans, declined to say whether the GOP conference approved of his outbursts.
Republicans publicly rejected the help: “The Senators are not with any militias,” Gillem said, “and are not accepting their help.” But that didn’t change an emerging national media narrative that seemed to anticipate a redux of the explosive politics ofOver the weekend, loose talk about violence had spilled over into what state police called a credible threat, which, according to Burdick, prompted law enforcement to advise Democrats to cancel a planned Saturday session.
Activists I spoke to that day were confident the only thing impeding passage of the climate bill was the return of the GOP senators. “The votes are there,” said Brad Reed, communications director for Renew Oregon, the green coalition group pushing the bill. “I think that’s why they walked out. This is the last stand.”— would link the state into the existing cap-and-trade network run by California and Quebec.
Oregon’s climate bill offered an interesting test case. As state legislators put it, Oregon is the first “normal state” to contemplate joining a cap-and-trade network . If a state like Oregon could make this work, lots of other states from Colorado to New Mexico to Pennsylvania follow. “Certainly the large polluters are afraid this may proliferate,” Reed tells me. “And they don’t want to change the way that they do business.
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