The head of a campaign finance watchdog group called on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate Oregon Republican congressional nominee Mike Erickson, saying his financial disclosure reports are among “the most egregious cases of intentional withholding of information” the group has ever seen.
Author: Julia Shumway of the Oregon Capital Chronicle
Oregon Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer criticized infrastructure law, now lauds it
As a candidate in 2022, Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer said the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law was “not a benefit” and would see “pennies on the dollar” returned to communities.
But as the U.S. representative of Oregon’s 5th Congressional District, Chavez-DeRemer has praised the law and some of the more than $5.2 billion in Oregon-specific investments that have been announced in the past two years.
U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear Oregon lawsuit that sought to end mail voting
On the eve of Oregon’s primary election, a group of Republican candidates and election deniers learned they won’t get to make their case to the U.S. Supreme Court to end Oregon’s mail voting system.
The high court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from plaintiffs, including state Sen. Dennis Linthicum, the leading Republican candidate for secretary of state, in a case that sought to overturn the method Oregon voters have used to vote in every election for decades.
Oregon House Republican leader used minor ballot delivery delay to question election integrity
Oregon’s House Republican leader sent state election officials scrambling this week after he used a minor delay in delivering mailed ballots to clerks in two counties to raise doubts about the integrity of the state’s voting system.
Biden alone in Oregon voters’ pamphlet after Trump declined to submit statement
Oregon voters will see a big name missing when they open their state-issued voters’ pamphlet next month: Republican Donald Trump.
While Oregon lawmakers debated campaign finance limits, Phil Knight gave $2 million to Republican PAC
While lawmakers debated campaign finance limits last month, Oregon’s richest man quietly gave another $2 million to a political action committee that tries to elect Republicans to the statehouse.
Dark money group targets Oregon swing districts with new mailers, ads
A dark money group founded by a national Republican political operative and oil industry lobbyists stepped up its efforts to influence Oregon voters this week, sending mailers and buying ad space in seven competitive state House districts.
Republican senators who participated in walkout from reelection
Republican senators who participated in the longest walkout in state history cannot seek reelection in 2024 or 2026, the Oregon Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
Oregon lawmakers’ overseas trips funded by lobby groups, Taiwanese government
Oregon lawmakers jetted off to Taiwan, Portugal, Denmark and tech hubs in California this fall, all paid for by companies and groups that have a keen interest in the laws they’ll pass.
Fall of a rising star: Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan resigns over cannabis side job
Secretary of State Shemia Fagan will resign next Monday, a little less than a week after news broke of her moonlighting for a troubled cannabis company that played a key role in an audit conducted by her office.