Fri., Jan. 22: Phone bank volunteers needed for NO on 66 & 67!

NEED HELP! 20 MORE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!!! Benton Co. Republicans will be working the phones to remind voters to get those ballots turned in! Volunteers are needed between 12:00 noon and 8 p.m. to keep 18 phones busy at the calling center in Salem at 495 State Street, Suite 350. If you can’t be there the whole time, please volunteer for the time that fits your schedule. Callers will spell each other off so no one gets tired. Snacks will be available. PLEASE GIVE THIS EFFORT TOP PRIORITY!

Please respond to Jean Nelson, (541) 745-3936.

Added 1/24: A big thank you to all from Benton County who participated in the phone bank effort to get out the vote against measures 66 & 67! Read More......

Have you voted yet?

If you haven't gotten your ballot in for the January 26th Special Election on Ballot Measures 66 & 67, the Benton County Republicans strongly recommend that you do so with a "NO" vote on both measures. Read More......

Letter: Wake up and look at facts about M66 and 67 tax increases

CORVALLIS GAZETTE-TIMES/LETTERS, 1/15/2010 by Lou Copes - Economists have estimated these permanent tax increases would cost 70,000 Oregonians their jobs and the only jobs higher taxes would save are public employee jobs. ∴ The tax increases would be retroactive to Jan. 1, 2009, and no money to cover this tax increase has been with held from Oregonians' paychecks during all of 2009. ∴ Small businesses would be forced to lay off their workers, reduce wages and benefits, or close their doors. ∴ We should not send more money to Salem until state government can get its spending under control. ∴ The state already had $1 billion in extra cash reserves to spend with out enacting $733 million in tax increases. ∴ The Legislature refused to listen. Voters have rejected income tax increases twice before, but the legislature keeps coming back for more. NO MEANS NO!

Lou Copes
Corvallis

Good letter Lou, thanks for submitting it. --bc Read More......

Letter: Advocates for M66 and 67 are playing games with priorities

CORVALLIS GAZETTE-TIMES/Opinion, 1/7/2009 by John H. Detweiler - The Oregon Legislature is playing "Washington Monument" with the voters. ∴ There is an old tale that circulates in federal budgeting circles that when the U.S. Park Service doesn't receive enough money from the Congress, the Park Service closes the Washington Monument and tells the tourists to go to Capital Hill and complain to their senators and representatives who will hopefully - from the Park Service point of view - give money to the Park Service. ∴ We keep hearing that if measures 66 and 67 do not pass, the Legislature will have to make some very painful adjustments to the budget in February. ∴ Had the most important items been funded by taxes in place and the least important items funded by the new taxes imposed with HB3406 and HB2649 - measures 66 and 67, there would be no adjustments to make. The least important items would just not be funded, and the Legislature wouldn't have a problem.

John H. Detweiler
Corvallis Read More......

JHD Letter: (Untitled regarding Measures 66 & 67)

SUBMITTED TO: CORVALLIS GAZETTE-TIMES/LETTERS by John Detweiler - We are about to vote on raising taxes on corporations and the rich. As I said on this page on November 30th, the people who will have to pay the increased taxes make economic decisions in their best interests as they see them. Taxes have been raised in other places at other times creating an incentive for people to take action to reduce the effects of the increased taxes. People living in the Boston area have been moving to New Hampshire for years to avoid Massachusetts' taxes. People retiring in New York move to places like Texas for lower taxes -- and better weather. California has been losing business to Nevada and Arizona for years because of high taxes. People are moving out of Maryland to avoid the recently imposed millionaires tax. The results will be the same in Oregon.

Responsible citizens know they must live within their means. They prioritize their needs and wants over the long run and stop spending when they run out of money. Oregon can't seem to act responsibly. It has been known for many years that Oregon's revenues fluctuate with the business cycle. The Legislature needs to spend less in good times, putting serious money into the rainy-day-fund, so there is money for the bad times.

John H. Detweiler (www.peak.org/~detweij)
Corvallis Read More......

Volunteers Needed: Voter ID and GOTV Calls for No on Job-Killing Taxes

From Bob Tiernan, Chairman
Oregon Republican Party
We have started making Voter ID calls to identify voters who oppose these taxes so that when we begin our Get-Out-the-Vote efforts next month we’re calling people we know are with us. WE NEED VOLUNTEERS TO COME INTO THE OFFICE TO MAKE PHONE CALLS – BETWEEN NOW AND ELECTION DAY ON JANUARY 26th! ∴ Volunteers can sign up online at: HERE or they can contact the coordinators below directly. Here is the information for the call centers in your area:

Salem
495 State Street
Suite 350
Salem, OR 97301
Coordinators: Wayne Brady, wbrady@acm.org, 503-949-5430 cell or Chase Tedrow, , 541-979-6241

Eugene
2225 Coburg Road
Eugene, OR 97401
Coordinator: Bob Avery, , 541-510-6184 cell

Thanks for all your help,

BOB

Bob Tiernan, Chairman
Oregon Republican Party
PO Box 25406
Portland, OR 97298
(503) 595-8881
Become a part of the Oregon Republican Party by donating at:
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