Oregon

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Oregon
Capital Salem
Nickname The Beaver State
Official Language English
Governor Tina Kotek, D
Senator Ron Wyden, D
(202) 224-5244
Contact
Senator Jeff Merkley, D
(202) 224-3753
Contact
Population 4,260,000 (2020)
Ratification of Constitution/or statehood February 14, 1859 (33rd)
Flag of Oregon Motto: "She Flies with Her Own Wings"
The back of the state flag of Oregon.

Oregon is a state on the west coast of the United States. Its capital is Salem, named after the biblical Hebrew word for "peace" (shalom), and its largest city is Portland. Oregon became the 33rd state on Feb. 14, 1859. The origin of the name "Oregon" is unknown, and the subject of much debate.[1]

The state Constitution of Oregon, like all of the other 50 states, acknowledges God or our Creator or the Sovereign Ruler of the Universe. It says:

All men shall be secure in the Natural right, to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences.

Politics[edit]

Although Oregon has been a blue state in presidential elections since 1988, Eastern Oregon is one of the major conservative red state parts of Oregon along with Southwest Oregon. Oregon had voted for Republican Presidential candidates from 1964 to 1984. For example, in the 2012 Presidential election, Mitt Romney received at least 60% of the vote in every county in Eastern Oregon.[2]

Since 2007, Oregon, due to the strongly liberal large urban population voting bloc of Portland, has offered domestic partnerships, which are similar to same sex marriage.

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Liberal Portland versus conservative Eastern and Southwestern Oregon[edit]

The high population density northwest areas of the state (Portland, Eugene, Salem) are very liberal leaning especially in the area of environmentalism. The southwest area of the state (such as the Rogue Valley, Josephine County and Jackson County) and the portion east of the Cascades are very conservative. Hence, Eastern Oregon (Palouse, Harney Basin, High Desert, Treasure Valley and East Central Oregon) is considered to be conservative.

In 2021, disgusted with Oregon's fascist liberal Democrat leadership, crime and domination, voters in Eastern and Southern counties voted to secede from Oregon and be annexed to Greater Idaho.[3]

Murder of peaceful protesters[edit]

See also: FBI scandal

In a letter sent to President Barack Obama, Oregon Democrat governor Kate Brown stressed her frustration and asked for help to bring a nearly three week long occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge to a swift resolution.[4]

“I conveyed the harm that is being done to the citizens of Harney County by the occupation, and the necessity that this unlawful occupation end peacefully and without further delay from federal law enforcement,” she wrote of an earlier conversation with FBI Director Jimmy the Weasel Comey. “On behalf of all Oregonians, I appreciate your consideration of our desire to see this situation come to a close, and I thank you for your timely attention to this matter.”

In a press conference Brown publicly aired her frustrations with how President Obama handled the occupation. The occupation saw little action from federal authorities, with peaceful protesters free to come and go as they please.

“The residents of Harney County have been overlooked and underserved by federal officials’ response thus far,” Brown said at the press conference. “I have conveyed these very grave concerns directly to our leaders at the highest levels of our government.”

In a second letter addressed to FBI director James Comey and U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, Brown outlined those conversations and referred to the occupants led by Ammon and Ryan Bundy as “armed radicals.” Brown wrote,

“As you are both aware for more than two weeks now, these radicals have been allowed to stay unlawfully in the refuge approximately 30 miles to the south of Burns, Oregon, in Harney County. While it is easy to assume that an occupation in such a remote location does not threaten public safety and does not harm any victims, that perception is far from accurate. What adds to the tensions felt by the community is the reality that multiple ‘supporters’ of these individuals have joined, staying in local motels in the City of Burns, and the criminals on the refuge are allowed to travel on and off the premises with little fear of law enforcement contact or interaction."

Brown argued to Lynch and Comey that because the occupation is on federal land, it is the federal authorities’ responsibility to lead law enforcement’s response to the occupation.

“For the citizens of Harney County and indeed all Oregonians, I must insist on a swift resolution to this matter. Efforts to negotiate have not been successful, and now it is unclear what steps, if any, federal authorities might take to bring this untenable situation to an end and restore normalcy to this community.

LaVoy Finicum, a spokesman for the Malheur occupiers, was murdered by Brown's state police and Comey's FBI agents.[5]

Michael Strickland case[edit]

Strickland assaulted by Fitzgerald

Michael Strickland is a journalist and Second Amendment activist who reported on far-leftist politicians and corruption in Portland, Oregon.[6] In 2015 Strickland was assaulted, robbed and seriously injured by an anti-gun activist named Skye Fitzgerald. Although the attack was caught on video,[7] Multnomah County refused to prosecute Fitzgerald. Strickland was unable to work for months due to his injuries.[8]

On July 7, 2016 Michael Strickland was assaulted in a pre-planned attack by a large Black Lives Matter mob on the streets of Portland. Strickland pulled a lawfully concealed handgun, warned his attackers to stay back, and made every effort to withdraw. Strickland was then arrested by Portland Police dressed in riot gear, charged with menacing, and released. The following day Strickland arrived in court for arraignment. The Multnomah County district attorney charged Strickland with 21 multiple felonies, and Strickland was hauled off to jail with a quarter of a million-dollar bail placed on him.[9]

2020 Antifa riots[edit]

Communists tore down a statue to Thomas Jefferson in Portland.
See also: 2020 Antifa riots and Leftwing violence in the Trump era

In September 2020 Portland marked 100 consecutive nights of protests marred by vandalism, chaos, and even killing. Those bent on violence regularly started fires, threw projectiles at law enforcement officers, and destroyed property. Numerous law enforcement officers, among others, suffered injury. Shootings increased by more than 140% in June and July 2020 compared to the same period last year. In the midst of this violence, the Portland City Council cut $15 million from the police bureau, eliminating 84 positions. Crucially, the cuts included the Gun Violence Reduction Team, which investigates shootings, and several positions from the police team that responds to emergency incidents. In August 2020, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler sent a letter to President Trump expressly rejecting the Administration’s offer of federal law enforcement to stop the violent protests.[10] The Democrat Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum sued the Trump administration on behalf of the rioters.[11]

Antifa broke into the Portland, Oregon Justice Center,[12] housing the central police precinct and the sheriff's office, and set a room on fire with occupants still inside the building.[13] A man carrying an American flag was beaten by white Antifa terrorists.[14] Small businesses were vandalized and looted.[15][16] Stolen cars were driven into stores.[17] A Chase Bank branch was attacked[18] and set on fire.[19] Virtually all offenders in these incidents were white. Antifa terrorists attempted to blind police with laser lights. Communist protesters tore down a statue of Thomas Jefferson, author of "all men are created equal."[20] Antifa terrorists toppled the George Washington statue. Washington is commonly referred to as the "father of the nation."[21]

Portland has been the hotbed of subversive Anti-American communist and anti-Trump activity since 2017. More than 100 fires were set in and around downtown.[22] After the Minneapolis George Floyd riot, Portland was under siege by leftwing white supremacists nightly for over a month.[23] More than 100 people were injured and over $20 million in damages. Oregon Democrat governor Kate Brown did absolutely nothing to stop the violence.

Despite the lamestream media insisting that wildfires that occurred in the West Coast were due to "global warming", this this CNN headline admits otherwise that conservatives were right about arsonists.

A white Antifa racist, Blake David Hampe, stabbed a gay Black Trump supporter.[24] Hampe the assailant, a leftwing racist and homophobe, previously was convicted of child pornography.[25] The Antifa white supremacist stalked and menaced the Black man for several blocks before the stabbing. The victim believes that ANTIFA fascists doxxed his identity and posted his location on social media before he was stabbed.

Democratic Socialists used mortar-style fireworks and lasers that can cause permanent blindness in he attacks.[26]

History[edit]

Oregon was originally settled by many Native Americans before the Lewis and Clark expedition brought greater attention to the area from the United States and Britain. The British had control of the majority of the territory until the Oregon Trail started in the 1840s and American settlers began moving in. Eventually, the land was ceded to the United States in the resolution of a boundary dispute.

Oregon Klansman in the 1920s.
Walter M. Pierce Oregon.jpg

Oregon is infamous for its history of racist left-wing progressivism.[27] In 1922, left-wing Democrat Walter M. Pierce ran for governor with the backing of the Ku Klux Klan against anti-KKK Republican governor Benjamin W. Olcott and won the general election.[28] The Klan and their allies, including Pierce, in that election cycle pushed for a ballot measure to ban school choice in the state by forcing all children to public schools rather than letting parents decide between government and parochial institutions.[29]

Although the KKK held a significant influence in Oregon for the first half of the 1920s, moral scandals and hypocrisy surrounding their leadership costed them membership; by the 1930s, the statewide organization collapsed as only local groups remained.[28]

Pierce lost re-election in 1926 and was later elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a staunch liberal New Dealer.[29] When World War II broke out, he adamantly supported – like most progressives – President Franklin D. Roosevelt's mass internment of Japanese-Americans by race.[30] Pierce also voted against anti-lynching legislation in 1940.[31]

Population[edit]

The population density is concentrated in the fertile Willamette Valley from Portland to Eugene. The Cascade mountains divide the state into wet and dry halves, much like neighboring Washington State, but Eastern Oregon lacks the irrigation works of the Columbia basin and much more resembles Nevada. Oregon supports a significant logging industry, largely concentrated in the western half of the state. Environmental restrictions have severely hurt the industry, producing conservative opinions inland, but the liberal cities of Portland and Eugene generally support environmentalism.

People from Oregon[edit]

Oregon is the birthplace of author Lance Goldman, and football quarterback Harry Shields.

Elected Officials[edit]

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Statewide[edit]

See also[edit]

Portrait of Sen. McNary.
Undated picture of Butler.

Former United States Senators:

Former United States Representatives:

Notable Oregon Companies and Major Employers[edit]

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Oregon Trail[edit]

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Archives, Oregon State[edit]

Agriculture, Department of[edit]

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Employment Department, Oregon[edit]

Legislature, Oregon State[edit]

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University of Oregon Libraries[edit]

Water Resources Department[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/oregon_the_name/
  2. ↑ US Election Atlas, Oregon 2012 Presidential Election. US Election Atlas.
  3. ↑ https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/oregon-counties-vote-to-secede-into-idaho_3822536.html
  4. ↑ https://www.opb.org/news/series/burns-oregon-standoff-bundy-militia-news-updates/gov-brown-appeals-to-obama-for-resolution-to-malheur-occupation/
  5. ↑ https://heavy.com/news/2016/01/lavoy-finicum-dead-dies-rip-funeral-youtube-school-family-ammon-bundy-arrested-malheur-standoff-wife-jeanette/
  6. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/user/LaughingAtLiberals
  7. ↑ http://www.victoriataft.com/rewind-tape-da-refused-charge-anti-gun-filmmaker-vicious-videotaped-beatdown-strickland/
  8. ↑ http://www.brettsanders.me/pro-gun-videographer-hospitalized-after-brutal-assault-by-anti-gun-filmmaker/
  9. ↑ https://www.oregonfirearms.org/vendetta
  10. ↑ https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-identifies-new-york-city-portland-and-seattle-jurisdictions-permitting
  11. ↑ https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/oregon-attorney-general-loses-court-motion-restrain-feds-stopping-rioters-portland/
  12. ↑ https://streamable.com/1j6fof
  13. ↑ https://streamable.com/avcfq0
  14. ↑ https://youtu.be/hpVj4658Zvc
  15. ↑ https://streamable.com/bfs08c
  16. ↑ https://streamable.com/adfxxt
  17. ↑ https://streamable.com/o1w92j
  18. ↑ https://streamable.com/o1wtom
  19. ↑ https://streamable.com/nanakz
  20. ↑ https://www.kptv.com/news/demonstrators-pull-down-thomas-jefferson-statue-in-front-of-portland-high-school/article_73436e00-aecc-11ea-9077-d733d2846650.html
  21. ↑ https://youtu.be/_fgK3a2JDN0
  22. ↑ https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/470191-380568-nearly-100-arson-fires-in-portland-under-investigation
  23. ↑ https://youtu.be/WXnT7Iolmt8
  24. ↑ https://twitter.com/SpaceForceUSA_
  25. ↑ https://bigleaguepolitics.com/antifa-terrorist-accused-of-stabbing-trump-supporter-had-once-been-indicted-for-child-porn/
  26. ↑ https://lawandcrime.com/crazy/man-allegedly-tried-to-drive-through-or-over-blue-lives-matter-protesters/
  27. ↑ McCoy, Robert R. The Paradox of Oregon's Progressive Politics: The Political Career of Walter Marcus Pierce. JSTOR. Retrieved September 25, 2021.
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 Ku Klux Klan. Oregon Encyclopedia. Retrieved September 25, 2021.
  29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 Robbins, William G. Walter Pierce (1861-1954). Oregon Encyclopedia. Retrieved September 25, 2021.
  30. ↑ A Mixed Reception: Japanese Americans Return to Oregon. Oregon Secretary of State. Retrieved September 25, 2021.
  31. ↑ TO PASS H.R. 801, A BILL TO MAKE LYNCHING A FEDERAL CRIME.. GovTrack.us. Retrieved September 25, 2021.
  32. ↑ Meet America's First Openly Bisexual Governor. MSN. Published February 16, 2015. Accessed February 20, 2015
  33. ↑ Long-time Democratic Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber announces his resignation amid ethics scandal. Published February 13, 2015. Accessed February 20, 2015
  34. ↑ The governor’s "fiancé, Cylvia Hayes, was taking money as a private consultant to" George Soros-funded "environment groups and then pushing their policies in her public role as “First Lady” of the state. Most infamously, she ordered state employees to follow a policy she was being paid $25,000 by an advocacy group to promote. Apparently, some of the money also wasn't reported on tax returns." Another Corrupt Democrat Governor Resigns – Oregon Governor Kitzhaber Announces His Resignation…. Published February 13, 2015. Accessed February 20, 2015
  35. ↑ "Kitzhaber’s response to the scandal has been egregious. The Willamette Week reported that his “office last week requested state officials destroy thousands of records in the governor’s personal email accounts.” Indeed, the governor’s executive assistant actually ordered all of his personal e-mail accounts to be removed from state servers. Such revelations have prompted Oregon senate president Peter Courtney and house majority leader Tina Kotek, both Democrats, to meet with Kitzhaber and urge him to resign." Fund, John, "Environmental Scandal Engulfs Oregon Governor, Where Is National Media?". National Review. Published February 13, 2015. Accessed February 20, 2015.
  36. ↑ Redden, Jim, "Report shows Intel tax breaks a net plus for state, county." Beaverton Valley Times, Published January 9, 2014
  37. ↑ Powell's Books on Burnside. Powell's City of Books. Retrieved on 2015-02-20.



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