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Then in February, legislative Ds introduce an "emergency" plan to "stop the Republican cuts" with legislation to supercede the cuts. It'll require strong leadership, message discipline, and a public willingness to never put up with Republican bad faith ever again. 2/2

FWIW, electorally, I think "orange man bad" and "Christine Drazan-Trump" will work perfectly well in Nov '26. Still, the very day the sigs are verified, the Gov issues a *specific* list of "Republican transportation cuts" so that R's know what they're going to get, and it will be punishing. 1/2

I appreciate the effort to draw a distinction, but I think it's more complicated with *sworn* statements. For a (mere) misrepresentation that is sworn to be true, the lie is in the oath.

Shoutout here for Al Brown, who I had the pleasure of working with in some Baltimore neighborhoods in his day job as an EPA Region 3 community affairs guy. Before he was a star.

Seems like a big waste of card-entry systems and cameras and ... vestibules. But it's probably in the terms and conditions of my banking agreement.

The ballot measure was overturned *because* it wasn't bargained, right?

Yeah, it seems so obviously necessary. I assume there are administrative downsides or complications (I don't know what they are), but it seems like building support and getting started should be a priority, not just figuring out more places to cut the budget

It's kinda implicated on that slide - nonrepresented employees appear to have a different (normal) calculation.

I would absolutely think so, but.... For one thing, (probably the main thing), it'll need to be bargained.

Your lifetime of FPDR retirement pay is set by looking back at the last "year" of employment pay. But some 12-month "years" have an extra payday. If you retire at the end of a (rare) 27-payday "year" you will automatically make more in retirement than retiring at the end of a (normal) 26-payday year

Making devastating cuts to our own budget simply implements Trump's plan to make rich people richer. Our supermajority should decouple Oregon from this new federal tax regime. It doesn't work for us. 4/4

But look at this chart, from a CBO letter linked to in the article. People at top end of the income scale is getting a massive windfall, on the backs of people on the lower end. Oregon could and should plug the budget gap by taxing that windfall. Call it the Big Beautiful Surcharge. 3/

Lieber and Sanchez describe the biggest problem: $15B lost in Medicaid and food assistance, $874M in increased responsibility for Medicaid and SNAP, and $900M in lost revenue simply because we're tied to the federal tax code. But that's not all. Keep in mind that we're our own FEMA now. 2/

The gamification of final salary for retirement purposes is fun for everyone except taxpayers

I learned about it, and now I am forever cursed with wanting to be rid of it.