#Portland#transit users: OPAL's Bus Riders Unite! meeting is 6-8pm tonight (3rd Thurs of every month) at The Street Trust, 1259 Lloyd Center #pdx#ORpol#trimet
"The Oregon #MotorVoter (OMV) registration law took effect on January 1, 2016, making #Oregon the first state in the nation to implement automatic #voterRegistration [for drivers]" and then they mail you a ballot, but how do we get non-drivers to vote? #pdxBikes#ORpol
Did you miss my ride about #Portland's five layers of govt and #STARvoting on the hottest Sunday of the summer? Come to the Hottest Sunday of the Fall Govt and Voting ride! #pdxBikes#bikeFun#ORpol#pdx An easy ride along the river and back through inner SE, starting from City Hall at 11:30am.
Most of our #transportation "funding crisis" is due to an overly-conservative read of Article IX of the #ORpol constitution, which says car taxes & fees must be spent only on the "construction, maintenance, and use of highways & rest areas..." assumed "for cars", or nonsense like that paying bus drivers from gas tax is not an option (hello "use of" highway, which legally also includes streets, and actually even car-free paths.) The rest is an inability to see cars except through a windshield...
2:30 at city hall, learn about the governments of #Portland on #pdxBikes, what to expect from our new districts and #RankChoice elections, and sign the #STARvoting Oregon petition + join the campaign for better state and federal elections. #pedalpalooza#ORpol
The Willy Week comments section is like every #orpol Nazi on Twitter.
The new fear? Infill affordable housing is "Soros-ing Portland".
Listen, if you want to be an anti-Semitic piece of shit at least have the fucking guts to say it. The Nerdletta and Friends set is never gonna can it, #Portland, so white folks need to start pushing the fuck back on this weird obsession with preventing any new housing whatsoever in a growing city.
But the worst part is that these people are professing hatred for Jews, and I think you should have a good long think on why maybe white people who hate Jews are gonna hate other people.
#STARVoting is canvassing at PSU Farmers Market Sat July 29. Volunteers and signatures needed to get https://www.starvoting.org/star4or2024 on the Oregon 2024 ballot. This is the #VotingReform we need to break out of two-party games like "throwing your vote away" with simplistic outdated vote-counting methods, better than #RankChoice because in STAR, your vote always counts and the 2-step results (add & count your favorite of top-2) are simple to distribute, track, & audit. #ORpol#Portland#pdx
Help #STARvoting get on the statewide ballot and let's get #ORpol unstuck from polarized deadlock! Volunteer to gather signatures before the Pride Parade on Sunday, and more #pdx events coming up later this month and next. State chapter zoom Wednesday night. #VotingReform
A victory for the RCV campaign in November 2024 would be a significant breakthrough for voting justice, as it would liberate voters in Oregon from being required to vote for just one candidate.
The #Oregon legislative session just ended. Linked is an OPB article summarizing some of the action. One bill that passed that I didn’t know about but am looking forward to is a ban on styrofoam takeout containers and foam coolers beginning in 2025.
"House Bill 2426 would require gas stations to staff at least half of their open pumps for people who want assistance. But it would allow other pumps to be open for self-service."
When Oregon state Rep. Charlie Conrad (R-Lane County), joined Democrats to pass a bill guaranteeing access to abortion and gender affirming care, he knew there was going to be backlash.
An anti-abortion activist just started a PAC specifically to get him out of office.
Julia Shumway from the Oregon Capital Chronicle has been all over the Conrad story for months. Her latest:
🚨 STOP ODOT’S BACKROOM HEIST, HELP US RIGHT-SIZE INTERSTATE BRIDGE INVESTMENT
The freeway lobbyists have included a $1 billion allocation of General Obligation Bond funds for the proposed Interstate Bridge Replacement in an amendment to House Bill 5005. This amendment dropped over the holiday weekend, a day before two work session votes on the legislation, the week before session ends. #ORleg#ORpol#NoMoreFreeways#ClimateAction#Portland#pdxBikes
None of Oregon's #drivers are qualified to drive, so it's no surprise that the DMV doesn't know what they're doing with your identity. 🙄 ODOT's oversite, the OTC, are appointed by the governor BTW. Maybe it would help to pay attention to who is running your government #ORpol#pdxTraffic#ODOTGTFOpdx
Oregon voters will soon get to decide whether to adopt ranked choice voting statewide (www.nwprogressive.org)
A victory for the RCV campaign in November 2024 would be a significant breakthrough for voting justice, as it would liberate voters in Oregon from being required to vote for just one candidate.