For the simple reason that voters don't like to deal with this. When I read something like this my first response is always this Hasso Herring's mastery of dumb suggestions: Are you sure? Because I bet that if you give Oregonians a vote on their state contracts with SEIU and OEA, the wage increase will go up. This kind of thing only makes sense if you're so disfranchised to be desperate. Which Oregon Republicans have good cause to feel. It's not going there way in this state. And yeah it may be Multnomah county's fault, but that doesn't change the outcome now does it? Look I get it Republicans in the state are frustrated.
1.) They're not San Francisco or Massachusetts Republicans, they are conservative.
2.) They feel desperate, because as the population size increases they lose more and more ground.
But this is not going to work. Empowering the people will not drive down the wage, if only because hard fought negotiating is required. The idea that a majority of Oregonians will somehow be unaffected should state services shut down is flat out ignorant. And ironically with the passage of Measure 5 directly altering school funding from county to the State, the Republicans tied their own noose with this. Everyone would feel a state shut down now. Every service is extremely dependent on State funding over county funding.
Somebody tell Hasso Herring he will always be the fat kid in school. And to quit trying to be anything else.
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