Are they authorized to use any force necessary?
Also, can bounty hunters join in the chase?
You can run, but you can’t hide…if these dolts think dealing with climate change is too expensive, look at the cost of ignoring it. There is one group you cannot fool - actuaries:
Deal with these sh*theads with extreme prejudice.
“So, instead of the Democrats putting efforts into finding bipartisan solutions, . . ."
Fleeing the state doesn’t sound like much of an effort to find bipartisan solutions, either. Unless Oregon GOPers just do things a bit differently, that is.
They should change the rules of the legislature to say if no quorum is obtained after 48 hours, the requirements for a quorum should shrink by half.
The following states welcome them…
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The State of Confusion
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The State of Corruption
No, you wouldn’t want to ruin the tactic. Democrats have used it in the past for good purposes.
It’s just hilarious that the Republicans picked such a bad topic to fall on their swords over.
Brave Serf Robbers ran away?
Sadly, they’ll still collect their pay.
Perfect example (and not the first time) of how the GOP isn’t interested in doing anything that doesn’t personally profit them.
Is it possible to keep them out of the state?
Make them pick up their paychecks in person. Or, not get paid.
Maybe someone else could do the job… that doesn’t have to run away and hide.
Maybe put out empty chairs for every absentee state senator and have a presentation regarding the negative impacts of climate change in each of their districts? If this is going to be a spectacle, might as well make it informative.
Chances are good that they represent districts that would be and are negativity impacted by climate change.
Oregon Republicans of not so many years ago like Mark Hatfield and Tom McCall were known as good stewards of the environment.
Goes to show you what 40 odd years of what Charles Pierce frequently refers to as prion disease.
Alas, your proposed rules change would probably require a quorum.
The symbolism of leaving the state is quite fitting, since the GOP will be increasingly reliant on oversized political weight of red rural states to block progressive legislation nationally.
Remember that the Democrats did the same back in 2003 to prevent a redistricting vote, http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/05/13/texas.legislature/
This is the second walkout this year. The first was over funding education and already existing retirement benefits for public employees (because taxes). The majority of Oregonians are concentrated in the Willamette Valley between Portland and Eugene, the rest of the state is VERY rural. As is happening elsewhere, rural areas have a disproportionate amount of political clout and tend to vote for the loudest man in the room (who on average, does not really represent their real interests)…
Yeah, Dems here in TX have done it a couple of times. I assume Oregon pays its legislators a per diem while in session - the obvious answer is to dock their pay while not present.
Democrats do this to protest undemocratic reforms, Republicans do it to encourage ruining the planet. Not good optics.
And, a cap-and-trade system is the bipartisan solution, since it was developed by Republicans as an alternative to direct regulation. It goes to show how Republicans aren’t interested in bipartisanship, only in forcing their most right wing, business oriented policies onto the nation at all costs.
This is “somewhat” reminiscent of when Texas Dems fled the state, to Oklahoma, in 2009 to deny state Rethugliklans a quorum to ram through Rorschach-inspired, Tom DeLay-designed congressional redistricting; I say “somewhat” because the Texas Dems were trying to preserve a representational government rather than trying to please a death cult. They were eventually found holed up in Ardmore, Oklahoma, when the Bush-era FAA illegally released the location of the minority leader’s private aircraft.
Fun Fact: In 1840 a young Whig legislator in Illinois by the name of Abraham Lincoln jumped out a second-story window to deny that state’s body a quorum. It’s a shame the Oregon Rethugliklans didn’t resort to similarly dramatic measures, preferably by jumping one-by-one from the top of the Statehouse’s 106’ dome.
ETA Oops! I now see @grokz beat me to it.