Second Class Citizens

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Originally Posted by PNW-type-gal

To think that political nonsense is only the result of one party is silly - BOTH parties are capable of it. Also, outside of a few Portland-area representatives, MOST Dems at the state level are fairly centrist.

I might disagree a bit.


I see a lot of the state senators towards the center, but not the house. The house reps are pretty 'scorched earth' types.

[Metlakatla]

Originally Posted by oregonwoodsmoke

And all of the business owners in Portland were begging to have the minimum wage get raised to $15 an hour? So everybody got what they wanted?

That's not what I said. Again, I said that the people of Eastern Oregon put significant effort into the lower min. wage increase and were granted it as a result. Your OP was made on the premise that somehow, Eastern Oregon go the shaft in favor of Portland interests, which isn't the case here. If anything, Portland lost out here, if you want to look at it that way.

[boulder2015]

Originally Posted by Metlakatla

That's not what I said. Again, I said that the people of Eastern Oregon put significant effort into the lower min. wage increase and were granted it as a result. Your OP was made on the premise that somehow, Eastern Oregon go the shaft in favor of Portland interests, which isn't the case here. If anything, Portland lost out here, if you want to look at it that way.

Thank you for making sense....note: if the bundys had got their way and eastern or public lands were privatized, the same folks would be griping about how they couldnt ohv or hunt any where. "Ooobaaaaammma!!"

Sounds like conservatives got exactly what they wanted in eastern or, why gripe about it?

[delta07]

Let's please stick to the original topic instead of discussing national politics as that is not appropriate in the state forum.