Big businesses drop $5.8M to defeat measure that would tax corporations to pay Oregonians $1,600 a year
The businesses opposing the measure range from Oregon staples to corporate behemoths.
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Portland Elections Office Investigating Rene Gonzalez For Using Taxpayer Funds on Wikipedia Edits
Portland's Elections Office is investigating potential campaign finance violations by City Commissioner Rene Gonzalez. The Auditor’s Office, which houses the Elections Office, confirmed the investigation to the Mercury Friday, after receiving three complaints about the commissioner’s expenditure of $6,400 in city funds to edit his Wikipedia page. Gonzalez, who was elected to Portland City Council in 2022, is currently running for mayor. The use of taxpayer funds to enhance Gonzalez’s Wikipedia page was first reported...
Oregon legislative Democrats join governor, Republicans in opposing rebate ballot measure • Oregon Capital Chronicle
Democratic leaders in the Oregon House and Senate have come out against a November ballot measure that would hike taxes on corporations.
Portland Commissioner Rene Gonzalez spent thousands in city funds to polish Wikipedia page
Gonzalez’s office at City Hall hired a New York-based company in March to develop a handful of requested edits, records obtained by The Oregonian/OregonLive show.
Utah Supreme Court sides with opponents of redistricting that carved up Democratic-leaning area
Utah’s Supreme Court has ruled in favor of opponents of redistricting that carved up Democratic-leaning Salt Lake County among four congressional districts that have since elected Republicans by wide margins.
Utah Court Rules State Leaders Cannot Throw out Voter Initiatives
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Utah Supreme Court Reinstates Challenge to Repeal of Anti-Gerrymandering Initiative
How Portland elects its mayor is about to drastically change. Here are the promises — and pitfalls
The move adds Portland to a small but growing list of U.S. cities, states and other jurisdictions that have adopted a widely used form of single-winner ranked-choice voting.
DEMS KNEW, COVERED UP, $500K FTX DONATION NOT FROM BANK
"I will keep my mouth shut for sure." - DPO staffer who knew DPO misreported source of its biggest contribution ever
FTX & Democratic Party of Oregon
Oregon Rebate Amount Was $750 per Person but Now It’s $1,600
Montana Supreme Court allows signatures of inactive voters to count on ballot petitions
Montana's Supreme Court is allowing the signatures of inactive voters to count on petitions seeking to qualify constitutional initiatives for the November ballot, including one to protect abortion rights.
Murmurs: Kotek Opposes Corporate Tax Measure
Kotek opposes tax ballot measure
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon
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Willamette Week is reporting that Oregon Governor Tina Kotek is opposing Initiative Petition #17 which is a measure heading to the November ballot that taxes large businesses 3% as a way to bring in a haul of tax cash and then dole it out to
Voter Proposal Would Give Oregonians $750 Each
strongIP 17 already has opponents including business groups and Gov. Kotek./strong
Trump's top campaign money bundler connected to Ohio's largest public corruption scandal ever • Ohio Capital Journal
FirstEnergy was the company behind the largest political bailout and bribery scandal in Ohio history. This week, Sludge reported that Trump’s top campaign money bundler advised FirstEnergy on its contributions to a dark money group that pleaded guilty to racketeering charges in that scandal.
Oregon Campaign Finance Reform ATA Episode 15
After a tsunami of campaign spending on the 2022 governor’s race in Oregon – a record-breaking $70 million – a broad coalition and lawmakers worked together ...
A Changing Campaign Finance Landscape
Democracy reform legislation must address the role of money in politics.
Oregon won’t press for criminal charges in case involving Democratic Party of Oregon
The Oregon Department of Justice will not seek criminal charges into a $500,000 political contribution made to the Democratic Party of Oregon.
La Mota cofounders say they gave money orders to rep. candidate Val Hoyle in 2022
Sworn declarations of Aaron Mitchell and Rosa Cazares say the cannabis couple communicated with Hoyle's office about federal agency filings as recently as September 2023
Marijuana Money in Oregon Politics
DOJ: No charges for FTX $500k OR Dem donation
Nishad Singh pleaded guilty to federal charges of campaign finance fraud; Oregon today declined to prosecute under state law
Oregon prosecutors won’t charge state Democratic Party leaders, convicted crypto exec with breaking campaign finance law
The Oregon Department of Justice announced Wednesday that did not find enough evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that former FTX executive Nishad Singh and state Democratic Party leaders knowingly misreported the source of the crypto trading company's 2022 donation.
DOJ: No charges for FTX $500k OR Dem donation
Nishad Singh pleaded guilty to federal charges of campaign finance fraud; Oregon today declined to prosecute under state law
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Oregon voters will face few ballot measures this fall
Oregonians will likely decide just four or possibly five ballot measures this fall as only a pair of citizen-led initiatives appear to have garnered enough signatures by Friday’s deadline.
Signature-gathering effort fails for measure that would have provided public money for private education
Proponents of a school voucher-like system have failed to collect enough signatures to put a proposed measure on the November 2024 ballot.
Deadlocked Oregon ethics commission won't investigate complaints against Gov. Kotek • Oregon Capital Chronicle
The Oregon Government Ethics Commission won’t investigate Gov. Tina Kotek’s since-abandoned plans to give her wife an expanded policy role.
Idaho is awash in the corrupting sludge of political money • Idaho Capital Sun
Idaho – like the rest of the country – is drowning in political money. The corrupting influence of all that cash, most of it untraceable as to its origin, is hiding in plan sight. By general agreement at least $1.5 million in “dark money” – the money of millionaires and billionaires who are trying to […]
New Report Outlines How to Make a Redistricting Commission Effective
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) released a report to help lawmakers, experts, activists and citizens look to the lessons of the 2021 redistricting cycle and understand how a well-designed redistricting commission can deliver fair representation and what the process to get there should look like.
Facing a Budget Crunch, Portland’s Small Donor Elections Program Explores Loosening Rules
Portland weighs tweaking public campaign finance program to allow larger donations
Less than five months from a historic election, Portland may tweak campaign finance rules to stretch the city’s cash-strapped public financing program.