The Oregon Legislature will never enact meaningful campaign finance reform - Whole Community News
La Rochefoucauld (perhaps anticipating Oregon's House Bill 4024): "Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue."
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Oregon campaign finance proposal crafted by business, labor groups gets first hearing – Oregon Capital Chronicle
Critics said a bill would allow unions and small donor committees to give hundreds of thousands of dollars to candidates.
Initiative Petition 14 would level the playing field
Pair of former legislators endorse creation of independent redistricting commission
Shine a Light – Eugene Weekly
In his final legislative session as a state representative, Marty Wilde, a Democrat, has ruffled feathers with leadership in the Oregon Legislature. “I one hundred percent dedicated myself to inst…
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Democratic Rep. Marty Wilde’s lonely crusade — against his own party - OPB
The iconoclastic Eugene lawmaker says he was targeted for taking on gerrymandering. He's calling out his party's way of doing business.
Opinion: Why I left the House Democratic Caucus - oregonlive.com
Rep. Marty Wilde, a Democratic legislator representing Central Linn and Lane counties in the Oregon House, decided last summer to leave the House Democratic Caucus, he writes, as the caucus became a forum for leadership to hand out orders rather than support democratic processes and legislation that best served the public's interest.