60 Democrats (and counting) are not attending the Trump inauguration

(snip) Oregon

Reps. Earl Blumenauer and Kurt Schrader, told Oregon Public Radio that they will attend anti-Trump events instead of going to the inauguration. Blumenauer, who claims to have attended every inauguration since he took office two decades ago, said this one was “not a productive use of my time.”

Rep. Peter DeFazio said he usually avoids inaugurations and Friday will be no exception.

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Sign up for Peter DeFazio's October 1st tele-townhall

DeFazio cancels townhalls scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday (Sep 25-26). Schedules Tele-townhall for 6:00PM (PDT), Tuesday, October 1st. SIGN UP FOR REP. DEFAZIO'S OCTOBER 1 TELE-TOWN HALL Read More......

Newsletter: Big Government runs Amok!

March 10, 2012 Newsletter - Benton County Republicans

IN THIS ISSUE: 

1. Whistleblower within Dept. of Interior Fired for Questioning Biased Science (Klamath Basin Dam Removal)
2. Two Robinsons run against DeFazio!
3. Obama's Press Conference Leaves Many Questions Unanswered
4. Final Gavel Falls - 2012 Legislative Session Adjourned
5. Benton County hosts opportunity to meet COO

 
Whistleblower within Dept. of Interior Fired for Questioning Biased Science (Klamath Basin Dam Removal)

TODAY, 11a.m.-noon (Pacific time). Listen live on KYKN (1430-AM) or, if you’re outside of the Salem (Oregon) listening area, go to www.kykn.com and hit the listen live button. Guest: Dr. Paul Houser 

This week: If you’re a regular listener to the I Spy Radio show, or the I Spy Minute, you know we’ve been following the situation down in Klamath. The Secretary of the Interior back in 2009 pledged that the effort to remove the dams, quote, “Will not fail.” Even worse, an eyewitness heard the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation called the Klamath effort “precedent setting.” Meaning that if they can ram through the Klamath decision, the dams on the Snake and Columbia could also be on the chopping block.

This is an extremely important story. It’s big government run amok. This week we’re talking with a whistleblower, who alleges he was fired when he questioned how the science behind removing the dams—which is very uncertain—was being spun to the public. Tune in to hear his story and some of the chilling details of what’s going on behind the veil of secrecy of big government.

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Two Robinsons run against DeFazio! 

EUGENE, Ore. - Voters caught a glimpse of Matthew Robinson in TV ads 2 years ago when his father Art ran as the Republican nominee for Congress against Rep. Peter DeFazio, a 13-term Democrat from Springfield.

Now voters in Oregon's 4th District will see more of Robinson - both Art and Matthew.

In the run up to the May primary, Art Robinson intends to again seek the GOP nomination for Congress.

Matthew Robinson wants to run, too - as a Democrat. He changed his voter registration from Republican to Democrat last August and filed to run against DeFazio in the May primary.

The 24-year-old nuclear engineering graduate student at Oregon State University's birthday is in June, so he'll be old enough to meet the Constitutional age requirement.

"I decided that DeFazio needed some competition in the primary, so I decided to run against him," Robinson told KVAL News.

“We’re out to replace him,” he said, “and this is a fine chance to replace him in the primary.”  Read more at KVAL News.

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Press Conference Leaves Many Questions Unanswered

Heritage Foundation - This week, President Barack Obama ended his months-long press conference drought and faced the White House press corps. Unfortunately for the American people, questions on some of the biggest issues facing the country remain unanswered.  WHY DIDN’T the PRESS and the PRESIDENT DISCUSS THE FOLLOWING TOPICS?

THE ECONOMY wasn’t discussed, although 8%  (13 million) Americans are unemployed and only 63.7% of adult Americans are active in the labor force, the lowest since 1983.  We’re in the slowest economic recovery in the post-war-era.

OBAMA WANTS $$$TWO TRILLION IN NEW TAXES.  How will massive tax hikes on job creators spur job growth?

NO BUDGET??  It’s been over 1,000 days since the Senate passed a budget.  No plan to reform unsustainable entitlement programs.  The subject wasn’t raised in the Press conference by the Press or by the President.

THE KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE.  The President didn’t deny that rising gas and oil prices support his long term agenda.  He didn’t address Keystone, regulatory hurdles to drilling and refining in the US, or his Energy Secretary’s policies to see gasoline cost at least $5 a gallon.

IRAN and U.S. RELATIONSHIP  with ISRAEL.  The Press didn’t push the President on a number of vital issues regarding his policies with these two nations.

OBAMACARE’S ASSAULT on RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.  All we got was political rhetoric.  The question that brought this debate to the fore was ignored:  Where in the Constitution does the President find the authority to issue a mandate that violates the conscience of religious organizations and people?

OBAMA REFUSES to DENOUCE INSULTS against REPUBLICAN WOMEN.  Rae Lynne Chornenky, President of the National Federation of Republican Women (NFRW), issued the following statement following President Obama's Tuesday news conference in which he ignored questions regarding insults made against Republican women.

“The hypocrisy displayed by President Barack Obama and liberal Democrats when Republican women are the targets of vicious attacks is shameful,” Chornenky said. “Yesterday, President Obama dodged questions from USA Today and the Daily Caller, flatly refusing to denounce or even criticize his liberal supporters for making vile remarks about Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann and other prominent Republican women. What hypocrisy! And, what about the mainstream media? Where are the media when liberals utter demeaning, derogatory remarks about Republican women? Nowhere to be found. This liberal hypocrisy and media double standard must end.”

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Final Gavel Falls-2012 Legislative Session Adjourned

This week the final gavel fell ending Oregon’s five-week, 2012 legislative session. For a complete list of what was accomplished during the 2012 Legislative Session. (Click here www.dennisrichardson.org/2012_keyvotes.pdf).

The key goals for this short, even-year session:

1)        Rebalance the State Budget,
2 and 3) Pass transformative legislation for education and health care, and 
Clear the path for Oregon’s economic recovery and jobs for Oregon workers.

Bipartisan cooperation and compromise enabled legislative success in meeting the first three of Oregon’s key goals.

Unfortunately, Democrats would not cooperate when the legislature turned its attention to bills introduced by Republican legislators that had the key goal of creating a clear path for Oregon’s economic recovery and creating jobs for Oregon’s unemployed and underemployed workers. 

For the whole story, click on www.DennisRichardson.org/lu030712.htm

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Benton County hosts opportunity to meet COO

CORVALLIS, Ore. – The Benton County Board of Commissioners will be hosting a Community Forum to discuss current happenings in Benton County as well as introduce Chief Operating Officer Dennis Aloia.

The event is scheduled from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 14, at the Corvallis Depot Passenger Room, 700 Washington Ave., in Corvallis and will feature presentations by Benton County Board of Commissioners Chair Jay Dixon and Aloia. Dixon will discuss where Benton County has been in the last year and where it is going, followed by an introductory presentation by Aloia.

Following the presentations the Benton County Board of Commissioners and other county leaders will be on hand to discuss issues pertaining to Benton County Government and county services. The event is free and open to the public, and light refreshments will be provided.

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Oregon not a lock for Obama this time around

OneNewsNow, 8/23/2011 by Russ Jones - A liberal lawmaker from Oregon is speaking out against President Barack Obama and saying he may lose his 2012 re-election bid. ✧ During a break between town hall meetings in Eugene, Oregon, Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Oregon) recently told KGW-TV that President Obama is "not [doing] so good." ✧ "I think it started really with his stimulus package, which I voted against," DeFazio speculates. "And I remember the original stimulus that came out of the House would've built a lot more stuff, would've put a lot more people to work." ✧ He points out that the GOP nomination could make or break Obama's bid for a second term.

Barack Obama big"At this point, it pretty much depends upon how far out there the Republican nominee is," the Oregon representative notes. "With a respectable sort of someone who would tend a little more toward the middle of the road ... he's gonna have a very tough time getting re-elected."

And in The Beaver State, where KGW reports that Obama won by some 600,000 votes in 2008, no such landslide is guaranteed next year.

"I believe Oregon is very much in play. I mean, we are one of the harder-hit states in the union, particularly my part of the state," the Democratic lawmaker explains. "I've just done six town hall meetings, got seven to go, and people are shaking their heads and saying, 'I don't know if I can vote for him again.'"

And ultimately, he concludes that Obama has not fought to make good on his promises.


"Fight? I don't think it's a word in his vocabulary," DeFazio suggests. "He concedes everything to the Republicans, so he doesn't seem to have an ounce of fight in him." Read More......

Corrected local Town Hall Schedule for Rep. DeFazio

Here's the correct information for U.S. Representative Peter DeFazio's local town hall meetings:

Thursday, August 25, 2011
1:30pm-2:30pm, ALBANY (Senior Town Hall) - City Council Chambers, Albany City Hall, 333 Broadalbin St. 5:30pm-6:30pm, CORVALLIS - Main Meeting Room, Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, 645 NW Monroe Ave.

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OSU vs. Art Robinson's children

THE ARTICLES:

• WorldNet Daily 3/7/2011 by Art Robinson - Democrats attack Republican candidate's children
  
• WorldNet Daily, 3/7/2011 by Art Moore (News Editor with WND) - University denies attack on GOP candidate's children But prof says colleagues are sacking 3 grad students at bidding of Democrats
  
• Oregon State University (OSU) 3/7/2011 - Statement regarding Internet postings by Art Robinson
  
• Gazette-Times/News, 3/8/2011 (AP) - Failed candidate claims unfair treatment at OSU
  
• Gazette-Times, 3/8/2011 (with updates) by Gail Cole, GT Reporter - Defeated candidate Art Robinson contends OSU engaged in political payback
  
• NEW The New American, 3/11/2011 by Raven Clabough - Leftist University Targets Conservative Candidate's Children

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Was America Built on a House of Cards?

Excerpt from Government of Deceit by Pat McConnell, Chapter 37, Page 206:

"Was Twentieth Century America built on a mountain of debt?

Federal Government infrastructure
How about the interstate system with all the bridges? Were they ever paid for? We are now in need of repairing or replacing some bridges, but did we ever pay for them the first time?

The Interstate Highway system is the largest public works project ever completed in the U.S. Its construction started in late 1956 and continues today. The original system was budgeted at $25 billion and was to be completed in 12 years. However, the originally planned interstates were completed in 1992, taking about 36 years to complete. Alas, the costs grew, and soon the price tag ended up at $114 billion (adjusted for inflation, the cost might approach $1 trillion.) The actual funding of construction was 90% federal and 10% state. The feds financed the 90% with bonds to be paid back through federal gas taxes.

Only for the years 1956, 1957 and 1960, did the Federal Government balance the budget. Examining the deficits for the years thereafter; it is obvious that when the bonds came due, they were just paid off with new borrowing. So, in essence, we never paid for the interstate system. In addition, we have been paying interest on the interstate system ever since. Now, if the Interstate Highway system is the largest public works project in our history and it is not paid for, I think that a logical conclusion could be reached that little of our Federal Government infrastructure was paid for after about 1930, when Deficit Spending became a national addiction. Oops."

Mr. McConnell continues the chapter with state & local government and John Q. Public's addiction to credit; though hardly comparable to the fed.

Doesn't Rep. DeFazio (D-OR) serve on the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure? Read more about Government of Deceit. --bc Read More......

AT: Hey kids! Let's impeach the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court!

AMERICAN THINKER, 10/23/2010 by Rick Moran - I suppose we're going to have to make allowances for Congressman Peter DeFazio. After all, he is from fruit and nutcake country in Oregon. And he's been in Washington for 11 terms, which is enough to drive even the most levelheaded among us into a mental institution.

But this is just bat guano crazy:

With Democrats increasingly outraged over the Supreme Court's Citizen United decision that allowed unlimited corporate spending in elections -- a change conservatives have been more successful at taking advantage of -- a Democratic congressman is raising the prospect of impeaching the Supreme Court's chief justice over the issue."I mean, the Supreme Court has done a tremendous disservice to the United States of America," Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) told The Huffington Post on Tuesday. "They have done more to undermine our democracy with their Citizens United decision than all of the Republican operatives in the world in this campaign. They've opened the floodgates, and personally, I'm investigating articles of impeachment against Justice Roberts for perjuring during his Senate hearings, where he said he wouldn't be a judicial activist, and he wouldn't overturn precedents."

If we impeached every justice who fudged their views in confirmation hearings, they could turn the Supreme Court building into a much needed parking garage.

And you could easily make the case that it was McCain-Feingold that upset precedent and that the Roberts court was re-establishing the long held point of law that money in politics is a matter of free speech and worthy of First Amendment protections.

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DeFazio Switches 'Yes' Vote to 'No' on Health Care Bill (unless...)

UPDATE: DeFazio voted "Yes."

FOXNews.com, 3/19/2010 - The vote tally on health care reform is starting to look like the Dow. ∴ Just when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seemed to be one vote shy of the 216 she needs for health care reform to pass, a Democrat [DeFazio] who voted for the bill last year says he's switching his vote to no. ∴ [...] But he indicated he could still change his mind again.

"I'm a no unless they fix this," he said, referring to what he sees as insufficient Medicare spending in rural areas."

Read more at FOX...

Note: Rep. Boccieri (D-OH) switched his vote from no to yes. Try to keep up with the health care vote switching at National Journal's Hotline On Call. Read More......