What On Earth Is Happening to Oregon? - Carol Routh, Portland

What on earth is happening to Oregon?

We can't update the Bottle Bill to include ALL beverage containers???
We can't update the deposit to 10 cents???
What has happened to our spine?

We're afraid to tax tobacco???
We'll sacrifice medical services for kids because Big Tobacco objects???
What has happened to our spine?

We're afraid to charge a reasonable amount for vehicle registration???
We're not able to maintain our roads and bridges for lack of funds???
What has happened to our spine?

We're willing to give away our most precious pieces of natural
sanctuary to developers???
We're willing to give up the Metolius Basin???!!!
What has happened to our spine?

We're willing to give up our farmland, our land use planning, our
signature foresight that has made us world renowned???
We got sold a bill of goods by developers and think that now we're
stuck with it?
Where's the spine to reverse a devastating decision made on bad
information and a gutwrenching (but very slick) media campaign?

At the beginning of this legislative session there was hope that
finally, FINALLY! things would turn around and we'd see some progress
on the things that matter so much to Oregonians. Why has it all
seemed to stall out?

And one last thing -- WHAT were they thinking in the Senate when they
passed the Pedestrian Hand-wave law??? Talk about inviting chaos and
crashes, this one has to top them all. Please don't let that one go
into law.

Please pull out all the stops and get this legislature to do what's
right by Oregon, now, in this session. SB 30 and Measure 37 are
disasters that can't be reversed later. Please make us proud and
grateful to be Oregonians again.

Thanks,
Carol Routh
Portland OR