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</div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">icn 11 22</font></div><div><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="blank" href="https://insideclimatenews.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7c733794100bcc7e083a163f0&id=b8d5598ccf&e=06876ede6b" style="color: rgb(142, 196, 77); text-decoration-line: none; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">&nbsp;Republican Leads in the Oregon Governor’s Race, Taking Aim at the State’s Progressive Climate Policies</span></span></span></a><br style="color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: Helvetica; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(142, 196, 77);"><font face="arial, helvetica neue, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: inherit;"><span style="color: rgb(3, 101, 48);">BY EMMA RICKETTS</span></font></span></span><br style="color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Environmentalists fear Christine Drazan will set the state’s emissions reductions targets back decades. She’s ahead in the polls, thanks in part to the presence of a third party, Democrat-turned-independent candidate.</span></span></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an 822</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">the founder of a neo-Nazi terror network comprised of former military service members who sought to create a base in Idaho appears to be talking to federal prosecutors about a potential plea deal.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Posting on Iron March — a now-defunct global online forum for accelerationist neo-Nazis — in 2017, Liam Montgomery Collins wrote, “I live in the Northeast, so I have a tightknit crew of ex-mil and security I train with. We do hikes, gym sessions, live firing exercises, and we eventually plan to buy a lot of land. Can’t really specify the name or details because it’s an inner-circle thing, but it will serve its purpose when the time comes.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Think of it as a modern-day SS,” Collins added, referencing the elite corps of the Third Reich under Adolf Hitler.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It was through Iron March that Collins met Paul James Kryscuk,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;an actor who specialized in a subgenre of pornography that is degrading to women of color and helped him build the<b>&nbsp;terror network that they called “BSN.”</b></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Collins entered the Marine Corps in August 2017 and recruited fellow Marine Jordan Duncan and Justin Wade Hermanson while stationed at Camp LeJeune in North Carolina.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 2020, Kyrscuk relocated from New York City to Boise, Idaho. Members of the network stalked Black Lives Matter members in Boise and held a live-fire training that attracted</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Joseph Maurino, an enlisted member of the New Jersey Army National Guard. Another member,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/accelerationists/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Joseph Zacharek</a>, joined the Lafayette, Ind. Police Department as a probationary recruit in the summer of 2020, and remained employed there for four months until he was doxed by an antifascist researcher and was fired.</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">In an Instagram chat on Oct. 1, 2020, Kryscuk and Duncan fantasized about shooting protesters in Boise</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, according to a federal indictment.</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Duncan: “How the BSNs finna be pulling up to chipotle after hitting legs.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kryscuk: “Death squad…. Assassins creed hoodies and suppressed 22 pistols.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Duncan: “People freaking tf out.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kryscuck: “About what?”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Duncan: “The end of democracy.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kryscuk: “One can hope.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">When the FBI raided Kryscuk’s home in Boise in October 2020, they found a </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">list of&nbsp;<b style="">assassination targets that included&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/power-grid/" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Black Lives Matter founders</a>&nbsp;Alicia Garza and Patrisse Cullors and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/accelerationists/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Oregon Gov. Kate Brown</a>,</b>&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">and a list of intersections that were consistent with power stations.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;The investigation revealed a plot to attack the power grid to create a blackout before undertaking an assassination campaign. A fourth Marine who joined BSN after serving in the same unit as Collins and Hermanson began cooperating with the authorities in October 2020, along with Zacharek, the former police officer, according to testimony by Naval Criminal Investigative Service Special Agent Chris Little.</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kryscuk and Collins were<b>&nbsp;initially charged with conspiracy to illegally manufacture and transport firearms&nbsp;</b>in October 2020. A superseding indictment the following month added Duncan and Hermanson as defendants. A second superseding indictment filed in June 2021 added Maurino as the fifth defendant. And in August 2021, a third superseding indictment expanded the charges to include conspiracy to destroy an energy facility.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kryscuk and Hermanson accepted plea deals earlier this year that include agreements to cooperate with the government’s investigation and testify against their codefendants.<b>&nbsp;In return for their cooperation, the two men could receive reductions from expected prison sentences of up to 15 years.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Collins was previously scheduled to be arraigned in the Eastern District of North Carolina on Sept. 6, but last week Chief District Judge Richard E. Myers agreed to push back the date to Nov. 1. The new date gives Collins and the government time to work out a deal.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a motion filed on July 27, Collins' lawyer, Elliot S. Abrams, wrote, “Undersigned counsel has been in discussions with the government about a potential resolution of this matter. These discussions have been fruitful and undersigned counsel requests this additional time to continue discussions with the government regarding non-trial disposition.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Duncan and Maurino, the two remaining defendants, are both currently scheduled to be arraigned in Wilmington on Sept. 20.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kryscuk’s sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 20 in Wilmington, while Hermanson’s sentencing is set for the Sept. 22 term.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="widgetheadline h1" style="margin: 25px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">o<a class="widgetheadline-text custom-post-headline" href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/oregon/" aria-label="Oregon just decriminalized all drugs – here’s why voters passed this groundbreaking reform" data-type="text" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" word-break="word-break" break-word="break-word" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">regon just decriminalized all drugs – here’s why voters passed this groundbreaking reform</a></font></h1><div class="social-author clearfix" style="margin-top: 10px;"><a class="social-authorname" href="https://www.alternet.org/author/the-conversation" data-type="text" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.4; display: inline; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The Conversation</font></a></div><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body css-listicle-body-2649465004" style="margin-top: 10px; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; margin-bottom: 15px; display: -webkit-box; text-overflow: ellipsis; line-height: 23px; -webkit-line-clamp: 3; overflow: hidden;"><div class="body-description"><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/scott-akins-1177515" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Scott Akins</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://theconversation.com/institutions/oregon-state-university-910" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Oregon State University</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/clayton-mosher-1186325" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Clayton Mosher</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://theconversation.com/institutions/washington-state-university-1640" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Washington State University</a>
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oregon became the first state in the United States to decriminalize the possession of all drugs on Nov. 3, 2020...</font></p></div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">has earlier demonization led to /made possible this war on thxgiving BS?</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tucker-carlson-becoming-foxs-news-side-assignment-editor" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tucker-carlson-becoming-foxs-news-side-assignment-editor</a></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Tucker Carlson, Fox News’ most influential prime-time star,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/fox-executives-have-decided-give-you-more-tucker-carlson" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">announced</a>&nbsp;on Monday that he would be taking on a bigger role at the network. Carlson claimed that he was discussing with Fox executives what he described as plans to “expand the amount of reporting and analysis we do in this hour across other parts of the company.” He told his viewers that “the people who run Fox News want more of it, not less.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>They are already getting it -- at the expense of the network’s putative “straight news” programs</b>. In the two days following Carlson’s announcement, those shows aired clips from his nightly “opinion” show at least 14 times. Fox “news” anchors and correspondents have incorporated clips from Carlson or his guests into packaged reports; used them as the jumping off point for panel discussions; and featured them in news briefs.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This drastic change in Fox’s typical programming habits suggests that the wall between the “news” and “opinion” side -- often touted by the network’s executives and defenders -- has become increasingly permeable. Carlson effectively served as Fox’s assignment editor over the last two days, with the network’s purportedly independent “news” side adopting his story selection and framing.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Fox executives know that Carlson is not a credible source for “news” content. The network lawyers won a court case by convincing a judge that no “reasonable viewer” should take him seriously.&nbsp;</b>He’s also a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/18/tucker-carlson-americas-new-moral-leader/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">notorious demagogue</a>, particularly on issues related to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlsons-descent-white-supremacy-timeline" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">diversity</a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tucker-carlson-praises-spanish-flu-anti-mask-rebellion" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">coronavirus pandemic</a>, and his “anti-Black rhetoric” has&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-insiders-fox-promoting-white-supremacy-and-hurting-black-americans" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">reportedly led to confrontations</a>&nbsp;between the network brass and its Black employees.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>But Carlson’s heightened profile during Fox’s “news” hours comes as the network&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-desperate-push-preserve-viewers-exposes-hollowness-its-news-side" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">tries to stave off far-right competitors</a>&nbsp;by promoting its right-wing prime-time hosts.</b>&nbsp;Over the last week, Fox “news” shows have featured on-screen promos, advertisements, and the equivalent of live ad reads for Carlson and his prime-time colleagues, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Tuesday and Wednesday, Fox’s “news” programs aired clips from those three “opinion” shows at least 17 times. Wednesday’s edition of the morning show&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">America’s Newsroom</em>&nbsp;was effectively a show about the previous night’s prime-time lineup, accounting for a whopping 10 of the segments over its three hours. Of those, seven came from&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tucker Carlson Tonight</em>, two from&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Ingraham Angle</em>, and one from&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hannity</em>.</font></p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--twitter-tweet paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field field--name-field-twitter-tweet field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tucker Carlson Tonight</em>&nbsp;clips were also featured twice on the Tuesday edition of America’s Newsroom, once each that night on the flagship evening broadcast&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Special Report with Bret Baier</em>&nbsp;and late-night show&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fox News @ Night</em>, and three times on Wednesday’s&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Outnumbered Overtime</em>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox is deploying its “opinion” shows during its “news” hours in two ways, airing both comments from the monologues of their prime-time “opinion” hosts and remarks from their guests.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Clips from the monologues of the prime-time “opinion” hosts accounted for five of the “news” side segments, four of which came on Wednesday’s&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">America’s Newsroom</em>, which separately highlighted all three of the hosts.</b>&nbsp;These segments show Fox treating its employees as de facto newsmakers whose opinions are inherently worth providing the network’s audience during its “news” hours. It’s also a way of giving those viewers more access to their favorite pro-Trump personalities -- lest they change the channel to one of Fox’s competitors.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chief breaking news correspondent Trace Gallagher, for example, anchored a news brief on Wednesday’s&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">America’s Newsroom</em>&nbsp;that seemed to have little purpose other than to tell viewers what Carlson thinks about coronavirus restrictions.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gallagher highlighted new limitations on private indoor gatherings that some Democratic governors have rolled out to slow the spread of the coronavirus during the Thanksgiving holiday and commented, “Tucker Carlson blasting the new measures.” He then aired a clip of Carlson saying on Tuesday night’s show, “Politicians have now decided they have total power over you. They can literally decide who comes to Thanksgiving dinner at your house and where they can stand. Well that's lunatic; it’s never happened in American history before." After pointing to some sheriffs who say they won’t enforce the measures, Gallagher concluded the segment.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">likewise, the anchors&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3913576" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">twice&nbsp;</a><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3913521" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">used a clip</a>&nbsp;from Ingraham’s Tuesday monologue attacking “the Thanksgiving police” to frame Wednesday America’s Newsroom segments about the new coronavirus restrictions.&nbsp;</font></p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Twelve of the “news” segments, by contrast, featured clips of guests on Carlson’s show.&nbsp;</b>Conservative guests could already expect softball treatment from Carlson when talking about the prime-time host’s particular grievances, like trans youth or the perfidy of social media companies. Now, their talking points are also driving and framing additional coverage on the network's “news” programs.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Wednesday’s&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">America’s Newsroom</em>, for example, anchor Sandra Smith&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3913336" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">repeatedly</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3913536" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">aired</a>&nbsp;comments that&nbsp;<a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/11/clackamas-county-leader-plans-to-celebrate-thanksgiving-dinner-with-as-many-family-and-friends-as-i-can-find.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Tootie Smith</a>, the incoming Republican chair of the board of commissioners of Clackamas County, Oregon, made on Carlson’s show the previous night attacking Gov. Kate Brown for tightening restrictions due to the coronavirus’s nationwide surge, including by limiting private gatherings.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“You look at what’s happening in Oregon, with this incoming Republican chair slamming these new COVID rules,</b>” the Fox anchor said during one of the segments. She then aired a video of the Republican telling Carlson that Brown’s actions were “a travesty” and “hypocrisy” because the<b>&nbsp;governor was going to “send the police into people's homes and&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">arrest them and fine them for having a Thanksgiving meal with their family.”</span></b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">that’s an overtly partisan and deeply questionable claim -- while&nbsp;<a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/11/oregon-gov-kate-brown-says-large-parties-could-trigger-fines-or-jail-time-during-coronavirus-freeze.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">violators</a>&nbsp;of Brown’s order could technically face jail time, the same set of penalties applied to violators of her stay-at-home order in March, and “authorities said at the time that they intended to inform people about the laws rather [than] issue punishments, and it’s not clear those penalties were ever applied.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Carlson didn’t push back of course, because he’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-surges-across-country-fox-propagandists-are-fighting-new-efforts" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">deeply invested</a>&nbsp;in poisoning the well for any efforts to prevent mass death from coronavirus -- which is the same reason he&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-tonight-local-news-broadcast-hell" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">decided to give airtime</a>&nbsp;to a county official who had a viral social media post in the first place. And Fox’s “news” side decided to prioritize her comments from Carlson’s “opinion” show and air them unchallenged, rather than highlighting an expert voice who could have provided insight into how to stay safe during the holiday.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Despite&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/trump-fox-feedback-loop-powering-assault-democracy" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Fox's best efforts</a>, the United States will soon be transitioning to a Democratic administration -- and the network is sending every signal that it intends to respond by allowing its craziest elements to run the show, influencing the network’s programming well beyond their own timeslots.</font></p></div></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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Earl Blumenaur&nbsp;(D-Ore.) released a joint statement Saturday evening condemning what they said were "egregious abuses of power" after the Trump administration deployed federal officers to Portland amid protests.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“As our nation mourns the loss of our colleague and beloved civil rights leader&nbsp;<span class="rollover-people" data-behavior="rolloverpeople" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><a class="rollover-people-link" data-nid="187935" href="https://thehill.com/people/john-lewis" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; position: relative;">John Lewis</a></span>, we are again reminded of the immense power of peaceful protest in the fight against racial injustice and police brutality," the congressional duo said.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Yet time and time again, the Trump Administration shows its lack of respect for the dignity and First Amendment rights of all Americans."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lewis, the longtime representative from Georgia, died Friday at the age of 80.&nbsp;A civil rights legend and champion of voter rights, Lewis was the youngest keynote speaker at the March on Washington and led activists across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. on "Bloody Sunday."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Protests have become&nbsp;widespread&nbsp;across the country following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis at the end of May.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While protesting has&nbsp;lessened in some cities, demonstrations have still been going strong in Portland, dominating the city's downtown area for well over a month.&nbsp;The demonstrations have, at times, led to damage of federal buildings,&nbsp;prompting&nbsp;<span class="rollover-people" data-behavior="rolloverpeople" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><a class="rollover-people-link" href="https://thehill.com/people/chad-wolf" data-nid="469004" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; position: relative;">Chad Wolf</a></span>&nbsp;— acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security — to send federal officers to the Rose City in recent weeks.&nbsp;</font></p><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-vpgt9t" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-vpgt9t" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wolf&nbsp;<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/507657-dhs-head-knocks-failed-response-by-officials-to-rampant-violence-in" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83, 193);">in a statement Thursday</a>&nbsp;described protesters as a "violent mob," though&nbsp;protests that&nbsp;night were reported to be mainly peaceful. The acting secretary was also on the ground Thursday to assess the damage to federal property in-person.</font></div><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-vpgt9t" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></div><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-vpgt9t" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oregon lawmakers have been against the federal intervention.&nbsp;</font></div><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-vpgt9t" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-vpgt9t" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler (D)&nbsp;tweeted Thursday that he made it clear to Wolf that&nbsp;"we do not need or want" assistance from federal officers.</font></div><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-vpgt9t" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;</font></div><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-vpgt9t" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"I told Acting Secretary Wolf that the federal government should remove all federal officers from our streets," <b>Gov. Kate Brown (D) also tweeted Thursday. "His response showed me he is on a mission to provoke confrontation for political purposes. He is putting both Oregonians and local law enforcement officers in harm’s way."</b></font></div><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-vpgt9t" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-vpgt9t" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reports Friday of federal officers, clad in unmarked military fatigues and driving unmarked vans, picking up and detaining protestors on raised more red flags and drew strong pushback from the state's congressional delegation.</font></div><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-vpgt9t" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Blumenauer, Sens.&nbsp;<span class="rollover-people" data-behavior="rolloverpeople" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><a class="rollover-people-link" href="https://thehill.com/people/jeff-merkley" data-nid="188283" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; position: relative;">Jeff Merkley</a></span>&nbsp;(D) and&nbsp;<span class="rollover-people" data-behavior="rolloverpeople" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><a class="rollover-people-link" href="https://thehill.com/people/ron-wyden" data-nid="188175" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; position: relative;">Ron Wyden</a></span>&nbsp;(D) and Rep.&nbsp;<span class="rollover-people" data-behavior="rolloverpeople" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><a class="rollover-people-link" href="https://thehill.com/people/suzanne-bonamici" data-nid="186433" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; position: relative;">Suzanne Bonamici</a></span>&nbsp;(D) asked Friday for the events to be thoroughly reviewed by DHS.</font></p><div class="incontent-plugin incontent-plugin-507985" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="incontent_widgets es_recommended_content" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px; margin: 30px -20px; clear: both; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 5px 15px 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; list-style-type: none; line-height: 1.2;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; display: inline; position: relative; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83, 193);">[<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/507976-federal-agents-deployed-to-portland-did-not-have-training-in-riot?utm_source=thehill&utm_medium=widgets&utm_campaign=es_recommended_content" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; position: relative; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83, 193);">Federal agents deployed to Portland did not have training in riot...</a></font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; list-style-type: none; line-height: 1.2;"><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/508036-house-democrats-ask-watchdogs-to-probe-federal-crackdown-on-protests?utm_source=thehill&utm_medium=widgets&utm_campaign=es_recommended_content" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; position: relative; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83, 193);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">House Democrats ask watchdogs to probe federal crackdown on protests</font></a></li></ul></div></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“DHS and DOJ are engaged in acts that are horrific and outrageous in our constitutional democratic republic,”&nbsp;<a href="https://www.merkley.senate.gov/news/press-releases/merkley-wyden-blumenauer-bonamici-call-for-investigations-into-federal-operatives-in-portland-2020" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.merkley.senate.gov/news/press-releases/merkley-wyden-blumenauer-bonamici-call-for-investigations-into-federal-operatives-in-portland-2020&source=gmail&ust=1595200182861000&usg=AFQjCNHLFa0CVxAZZNI60YaPU5mWE_jOEw" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83, 193);">Merkley said</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“First, they are deploying paramilitary forces with no identification indicating who they are or who they work for. Second, these agents are snatching people off the street with no underlying justification. Both of these acts are profound offenses against Americans," he said.</font></p><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-vpgt9t" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In their statement Saturday, Pelosi and&nbsp;Blumenauer said that the Democratically-controlled House would not tolerate the Trump administration's actions.</font></div><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-vpgt9t" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-vpgt9t" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We live in a democracy, not a banana republic," they said. "We will not tolerate the use of Oregonians, Washingtonians – or any other Americans – as props in&nbsp;<span class="rollover-people" data-behavior="rolloverpeople" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><a class="rollover-people-link" data-nid="261287" href="https://thehill.com/people/donald-trump" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; position: relative;">President Trump</a></span>’s political games.&nbsp;The House is committed to moving swiftly to curb these egregious abuses of power immediately.”</font></div></div></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4;" /></div></div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown</font></a></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Katherine Brown</b>&nbsp;(born June 21, 1960) is an American attorney and politician who is the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Oregon" title="List of governors of Oregon" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">38th</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Oregon" title="Governor of Oregon" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">governor of Oregon</a>. A member of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_of_Oregon" title="Democratic Party of Oregon" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Democratic Party</a>, she previously served in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_House_of_Representatives" title="Oregon House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Oregon House of Representatives</a>, in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_State_Senate" title="Oregon State Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Oregon State Senate</a>, and as&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Secretary_of_State" title="Oregon Secretary of State" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Oregon Secretary of State</a>. She became governor in February 2015 following the resignation of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kitzhaber" title="John Kitzhaber" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Kitzhaber</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Willamette_Week_3-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-Willamette_Week-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup>&nbsp;won the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Oregon_gubernatorial_special_election" title="2016 Oregon gubernatorial special election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">special election</a>&nbsp;the following year, and was&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Oregon_gubernatorial_election" title="2018 Oregon gubernatorial election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">reelected in 2018</a>. Brown is the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_first_LGBT_holders_of_political_offices_in_the_United_States" title="List of the first LGBT holders of political offices in the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">first openly bisexual governor in the United States</a>, the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_first_LGBT_holders_of_political_offices_in_the_United_States#State" title="List of the first LGBT holders of political offices in the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">first openly LGBT person elected governor in the United States</a>, and the second female governor of Oregon after&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Roberts" title="Barbara Roberts" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Barbara Roberts</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-telegraph-2016nov_5-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-telegraph-2016nov-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#Early_life_and_career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Early life and career</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#Oregon_Legislative_Assembly" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Oregon Legislative Assembly</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#Oregon_Secretary_of_State" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Oregon Secretary of State</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#Governor_of_Oregon" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Governor of Oregon</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#Criticism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Criticism</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#Personal_life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Personal life</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#Electoral_history" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Electoral history</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#Awards_and_distinctions" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">8</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Awards and distinctions</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#See_also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">9</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">See also</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">10</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#Further_reading" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">11</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Further reading</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">12</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life_and_career"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Early life and career</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Brown was born in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrej%C3%B3n_de_Ardoz" title="Torrejón de Ardoz" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Torrejón de Ardoz</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_Madrid" title="Community of Madrid" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Community of Madrid</a>, Spain, where her father was serving in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Air Force</a>, and grew up in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota" title="Minnesota" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Minnesota</a>. She graduated from&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mounds_View_High_School" title="Mounds View High School" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mounds View High School</a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arden_Hills,Minnesota" title="Arden Hills, Minnesota" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Arden Hills, Minnesota</a>&nbsp;in 1978.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup>&nbsp;She earned a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bachelor of Arts</a>&nbsp;in Environmental Conservation with a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_certificate" title="Academic certificate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">certificate</a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_studies" title="Women's studies" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">women's studies</a>from the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Colorado_Boulder" title="University of Colorado Boulder" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">University of Colorado Boulder</a>&nbsp;in 1981 and a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">J.D.</a>&nbsp;degree and certificate in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_law" title="Environmental law" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">environmental law</a>&nbsp;from the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%26_Clark_Law_School" title="Lewis & Clark Law School" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Northwestern School of Law</a>&nbsp;at&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%26_Clark_College" title="Lewis & Clark College" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lewis & Clark College</a>&nbsp;in 1985.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Oregon_Legislative_Assembly"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oregon Legislative Assembly</font></span></h2><div class="thumb tleft" style="float: left; clear: left; margin: 0.5em 1.4em 1.3em 0px; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 172px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kate_Brown_cropped.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="width" height="height" viewbox="%220" e="E" cg="Cg" id="%22smallbox%22" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%23000%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" d="%22M-1.499" h10.99v7.919h1.509z="h10.99v7.919H1.509z" h5.943v4.904h-5.943z="h5.943v4.904h-5.943z" c="C" g="g" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" user-select="user-select" none="none" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data" /></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kate_Brown_cropped.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="width" height="height" viewbox="%220" e="E" cg="Cg" id="%22smallbox%22" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%23000%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" d="%22M-1.499" h10.99v7.919h1.509z="h10.99v7.919H1.509z" h5.943v4.904h-5.943z="h5.943v4.904h-5.943z" c="C" g="g" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" user-select="user-select" none="none" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brown in 2008</font></a></div></div></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kate_Brown_cropped.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="width" height="height" viewbox="%220" e="E" cg="Cg" id="%22smallbox%22" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%23000%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" d="%22M-1.499" h10.99v7.919h1.509z="h10.99v7.919H1.509z" h5.943v4.904h-5.943z="h5.943v4.904h-5.943z" c="C" g="g" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" user-select="user-select" none="none" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brown was appointed to the&nbsp;</font></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_House_of_Representatives" title="Oregon House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Oregon House of Representatives</a>&nbsp;in 1991, filling a vacancy left by predecessor&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Judy_Bauman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Judy Bauman (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Judy Bauman</a>, who took an executive appointment.<sup id="cite_ref-wpost_8-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-wpost-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup>&nbsp;She was elected to a second term before being elected to the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_State_Senate" title="Oregon State Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Oregon State Senate</a>&nbsp;in 1996. Two years later she was elected Senate Democratic Leader; in 2004 senators made her the first woman to serve as Oregon's&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_leader" title="Majority leader" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Senate Majority Leader</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In July 2007 Brown announced that she would give up her seat in the Oregon Senate to be a candidate for&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Secretary_of_State" title="Oregon Secretary of State" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Oregon Secretary of State</a>&nbsp;in 2008.<sup id="cite_ref-sos_9-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-sos-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup>&nbsp;On May 20, 2008, Brown won the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Oregon_Democratic_primary" title="2008 Oregon Democratic primary" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">election for the Democratic nomination</a>&nbsp;for Secretary of State, and on November 5 she won the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_election#In_the_United_States" title="General election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">general election</a>&nbsp;by a 51–46% margin against Republican candidate&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Dancer" title="Rick Dancer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Rick Dancer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Bajko_10-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-Bajko-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Oregon_Secretary_of_State"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oregon Secretary of State</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Coming into office, one of Brown's priorities was to perform rigorous performance audits to help balance the budget. In 2008, for every dollar the State spent, performance audits returned $8 in cost savings. In 2010 Brown reported she delivered $64 in cost savings and efficiencies for every dollar invested in the Division.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2009 Brown introduced and passed House Bill 2005 to crack down on fraud and abuse in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initiative_and_referendum" class="mw-redirect" title="Initiative and referendum" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">initiative and referendum</a>&nbsp;system. It gave the Secretary of State more power to prosecute fraud and enforce the constitutional ban on paying per signature on initiatives.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup></font></p><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 222px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kate_Brown_accepts_an_award.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="width" height="height" viewbox="%220" e="E" cg="Cg" id="%22smallbox%22" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%23000%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" d="%22M-1.499" h10.99v7.919h1.509z="h10.99v7.919H1.509z" h5.943v4.904h-5.943z="h5.943v4.904h-5.943z" c="C" g="g" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" user-select="user-select" none="none" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data" /></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kate_Brown_accepts_an_award.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="width" height="height" viewbox="%220" e="E" cg="Cg" id="%22smallbox%22" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%23000%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" d="%22M-1.499" h10.99v7.919h1.509z="h10.99v7.919H1.509z" h5.943v4.904h-5.943z="h5.943v4.904h-5.943z" c="C" g="g" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" user-select="user-select" none="none" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brown accepting an award from the&nbsp;</font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Military_Department" title="Oregon Military Department" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Oregon National Guard</a>, June 2014</font></div></div></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Brown also implemented online voter registration. As of March 2010, a year after its introduction,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Public_Broadcasting" title="Oregon Public Broadcasting" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Oregon Public Broadcasting</a>&nbsp;noted nearly 87,000 Oregonians had already registered online to vote.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2009 the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspen_Institute" title="Aspen Institute" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Aspen Institute</a>&nbsp;named Brown as one of 24 "Rising Stars" in American politics and awarded her a Rodel Fellowship. The program is a two-year fellowship designed to break down partisan barriers and explore the responsibilities of public leadership and good governance.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In October 2012&nbsp;<i>StateTech</i>&nbsp;magazine highlighted Brown's use of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad" title="IPad" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">iPad</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet_computer" title="Tablet computer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">tablet</a>&nbsp;technology to increase accessibility for voters with disabilities. In 2011 Oregon became the first jurisdiction in the country to use this technology to help voters with disabilities mark their ballots.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In January 2015 Brown submitted a letter to the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission" title="Federal Communications Commission" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Federal Communications Commission</a>&nbsp;(FCC) in support of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_purchase_of_Time_Warner_Cable_by_Comcast" title="Attempted purchase of Time Warner Cable by Comcast" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">purchase of Time Warner Cable by Comcast</a>&nbsp;that had been almost entirely ghostwritten by&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast" title="Comcast" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Comcast</a>, a company that has made a total of over $10,000 in donations to her past election campaigns.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Governor_of_Oregon"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Governor of Oregon</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On February 13, 2015, Governor&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kitzhaber" title="John Kitzhaber" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Kitzhaber</a>&nbsp;announced his pending resignation amid a public corruption scandal; Brown succeeded him on February 18, since the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Oregon" title="Constitution of Oregon" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Constitution of Oregon</a>&nbsp;identifies the secretary of state as the successor when the governor leaves office prematurely.<sup id="cite_ref-Willamette_Week_3-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-Willamette_Week-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Brown named Brian Shipley, a lobbyist for&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Health%26_Science_University" title="Oregon Health & Science University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Oregon Health & Science University</a>&nbsp;and former deputy chief of staff to Governor&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kulongoski" title="Ted Kulongoski" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ted Kulongoski</a>, as her chief of staff.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup>&nbsp;She appointed&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Atkins" title="Jeanne Atkins" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jeanne Atkins</a>&nbsp;secretary of state.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Upon taking office, Brown announced that she would extend the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moratorium(law)" title="Moratorium (law)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">moratorium</a>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment" title="Capital punishment" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">executions</a>&nbsp;her predecessor had enacted.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup>&nbsp;She also signed a "motor voter" bill she had championed while secretary of state, to automatically register voters using their driver's license data.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In July 2016 Brown signed HB3402, which raised the maximum speed limit to 70 MPH on I-82 and sections of I-84 and US-95. Previously the maximum allowed speed limit allowed on Oregon highways was 65. This bill also raised speed limits on non-interstate highways in eastern Oregon from 55 to 65.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Oregon law required a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Oregon_gubernatorial_special_election" title="2016 Oregon gubernatorial special election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">special election in November 2016</a>&nbsp;for the two years remaining in Kitzhaber's unfinished term as governor. By April 2016 Brown had raised over $800,000 for her campaign in 2016 alone, while her closest Democratic primary competitor, Julian Bell, had raised $33,000. She defeated Bell, Chet Chance, Kevin M. Forsythe, Steve Johnson, and Dave Stauffer for the Democratic nomination.<sup id="cite_ref-candlist_24-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-candlist-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup>&nbsp;She won the general election against&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Republican_Party" title="Oregon Republican Party" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Republican Party</a>&nbsp;nominee&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Pierce" title="Bud Pierce" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bud Pierce</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Party_of_Oregon" title="Independent Party of Oregon" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Independent Party</a>&nbsp;nominee Cliff Thomason,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_Party_of_Oregon" title="Libertarian Party of Oregon" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Libertarian Party</a>&nbsp;nominee James Foster, and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_Party_of_Oregon" title="Constitution Party of Oregon" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Constitution Party</a>&nbsp;nominee Aaron Donald Auer, receiving 51% of the vote.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In January 2017 Brown named Nik Blosser<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a></sup>&nbsp;her third chief of staff after the resignation of former chief of staff Kristen Leonard.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup>&nbsp;In June 2017 Brown signed into law the Oregon Equal Pay Act, which sought to reduce the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_pay_gap" title="Gender pay gap" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">gender pay gap</a>&nbsp;by banning employers from using job seekers' prior salaries in hiring decisions.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In November 2017 Brown announced she would run for her first full term as governor the following year.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a></sup>&nbsp;She was&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Oregon_gubernatorial_election" title="2018 Oregon gubernatorial election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">reelected in November 2018</a>, defeating Republican&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knute_Buehler" title="Knute Buehler" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Knute Buehler</a>&nbsp;50.0% to 43.9%, with Independent Party nominee Patrick Starnes, Libertarian Party nominee Nick Chen, Constitution Party nominee Aaron Auer, and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Progressive_Party" title="Oregon Progressive Party" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Progressive Party</a>&nbsp;nominee Chris Henry taking the remaining votes.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In a November 2018 budget plan Brown proposed a 30-year plan to limit Oregon's greenhouse gas emissions via a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emissions_trading" title="Emissions trading" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">"cap-and-trade"</a>&nbsp;system.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[31]</a></sup>&nbsp;In 2019, after a measles outbreak in Oregon, she urged parents to vaccinate their kids. "Holy smokes, this is basic science," she said.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[32]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On June 20, 2019, Brown authorized state troopers to search for and return 11 Republican State Senators after the Oregon Senate ordered the Sergeant-at-Arms to compel the senators to attend a Senate session. The senators had left to prevent a quorum in the Senate and thereby block the passage of a sweeping climate-change bill.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[33]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[34]</a></sup>&nbsp;The Oregon State Police (OSP) said that Brown had "given a lawful directive which OSP is fully committed to executing."<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[35]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Criticism"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Criticism</font></span></h2><table class="box-Criticism_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-criticism" role="presentation" style="margin: 0px 134.594px; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 10px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(242, 133, 0); border-image: initial; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251); box-sizing: border-box;"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image" style="border: none; padding: 2px 0px 2px 0.5em; text-align: center;"><div style="width: 52px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><img alt="Ambox scales.svg" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Ambox_scales.svg/50px-Ambox_scales.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="50" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Ambox_scales.svg/75px-Ambox_scales.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Ambox_scales.svg/100px-Ambox_scales.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></font></div></td><td class="mbox-text" style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; width: 986px;"><div class="mbox-text-span"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This article's&nbsp;<i>Criticism</i>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<i>Controversy</i>&nbsp;section&nbsp;<b>may compromise the article's&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view" title="Wikipedia:Neutral point of view" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">neutral point of view</a>&nbsp;of the subject</b>.<span class="hide-when-compact">&nbsp;Please&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view#Article_structure" title="Wikipedia:Neutral point of view" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">integrate the section's contents</a>into the article as a whole, or rewrite the material.</span>&nbsp;<small class="date-container" style=""><i>(<span class="date">November 2018</span>)</i></small></font></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="box-POV plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-POV" role="presentation" style="margin: -1px 134.594px 0px; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 10px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(242, 133, 0); border-image: initial; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251); box-sizing: border-box;"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image" style="border: none; padding: 2px 0px 2px 0.5em; text-align: center;"><div style="width: 52px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><img alt="Unbalanced scales.svg" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Unbalanced_scales.svg/45px-Unbalanced_scales.svg.png" decoding="async" width="45" height="40" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Unbalanced_scales.svg/68px-Unbalanced_scales.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Unbalanced_scales.svg/90px-Unbalanced_scales.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="354" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></font></div></td><td class="mbox-text" style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; width: 986px;"><div class="mbox-text-span"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The&nbsp;<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view" title="Wikipedia:Neutral point of view" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">neutrality</a>&nbsp;of this section is&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV_dispute" title="Wikipedia:NPOV dispute" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">disputed</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact">&nbsp;Relevant discussion may be found on the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Kate_Brown##" title="Talk:Kate Brown" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">talk page</a>. Please do not remove this message until&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:POV#When_to_remove" title="Template:POV" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">conditions to do so are met</a>.</span>&nbsp;<small class="date-container" style=""><i>(<span class="date">November 2018</span>)</i></small><small class="hide-when-compact" style=""><i>&nbsp;(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Learn how and when to remove this template message</a>)</i></small></font></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Brown was integral in rounding up votes to pass a bill in 2003 reforming Oregon's Public Employee Retirement System and then voted against the reform bill in order to preserve her ties to organized labor. Many of her colleagues went on to lose their seats due to backlash from labor unions.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_36-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-:0-36" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[36]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As Secretary of State, Brown faced further political backlash when she said she had made a mistake in the scheduling of the election for Labor Commissioner between Democrat&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Avakian" title="Brad Avakian" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Brad Avakian</a>&nbsp;and Republican&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Starr" title="Bruce Starr" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bruce Starr</a>. An early election would have favored Starr, but as the election approached, Brown changed her mind and scheduled the election for November, helping Avakian win the race.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_36-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-:0-36" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[36]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Brown has been criticized for ousting a number of high-level public officials.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-37" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[37]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">She has been accused of mismanaging Oregon DHS Child Welfare in audits published in January 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[38]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-39" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[39]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[40]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-41" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[41]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-42" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[42]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[43]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-44" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[44]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Brown faced an investigation into brokering an agreement&nbsp;— in exchange for campaign contributions&nbsp;— between&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike,Inc." title="Nike, Inc." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Nike</a>&nbsp;and unions that withdrew a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_transparency" title="Corporate transparency" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">corporate transparency</a>&nbsp;initiative from the general election ballot in 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-45" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[45]</a></sup>&nbsp;Nike founder Phil Knight contributed over $1 million to the campaign of her Republican opponent.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-46" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[46]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Personal_life"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Personal life</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Brown lives in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahonia_Hall" title="Mahonia Hall" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mahonia Hall</a>&nbsp;with her husband, Dan Little. She has two stepchildren, Dylan and Jessie. She is&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisexuality" title="Bisexuality" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">bisexual</a>&nbsp;and is the country's first openly bisexual statewide officeholder and first openly bisexual governor.<sup id="cite_ref-Bajko_10-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-Bajko-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SoSwin_47-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-SoSwin-47" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[47]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-48" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[48]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown#cite_note-49" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[49]</a></sup></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><p><a href="https://www.apnews.com/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.apnews.com</font></a></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">S<span style="background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);">ALEM, Ore. (AP) —&nbsp;<b>Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said Monday that she’s ready to use her&nbsp;</b></span></font></p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>executive power to lower carbon emissions following a nine-day Republican walkout</b>&nbsp;that&nbsp;</font></span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">derailed landmark climate legislation and embroiled the state in a political crisis pitting liberal cities against rural residents.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.75rem 0px; overflow-wrap: normal; width: 720px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Democratic governor said she wants to move forward through the executive branch if lawmakers can’t approve meaningful climate legislation. She directed her staff to go back to rural communities and industries over the next few months to find points of compromise on what would be the nation’s second statewide cap and trade program.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.75rem 0px; overflow-wrap: normal; width: 720px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brown will present lawmakers with proposed “modifications” to the plan but is prepared to take the matter into her own hands if she still can’t find a path forward in the Statehouse.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.75rem 0px; overflow-wrap: normal; width: 720px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Working on legislation is my preferred approach,” she told reporters. “However, given the uncertainty that now permeates Oregon’s political system, I am also directing my staff and agencies to explore alternative paths.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.75rem 0px; overflow-wrap: normal; width: 720px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two representatives for the Senate’s Republican caucus didn’t immediately respond to emails seeking comment on the governor’s plans.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.75rem 0px; overflow-wrap: normal; width: 720px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The proposal caps climate-changing emissions and requires businesses to buy or trade an ever-dwindling pool of pollution credits or “allowances.” California has a similar program.</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx many vid</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div>
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</div><div><b>Climate Bill Oregon Republicans Fled to Avoid Is Dead, Senate President Says</b></div><div>&nbsp;Olivia Rosane&nbsp; 4 hours ago POLITICS</div><div>The Oregon Senate Chamber. Cacophony / CC BY 3.0</div><div>Six days after Republican Oregon Senators fled the state to avoid voting on a bill to address the climate crisis, the Senate president declared the bill dead.</div><div>
</div><div>"What I'm about to say I say of my own free will. No one has told me to say this," Senate President Peter Courtney said Tuesday, as NPR reported. "HB 2020 does not have the votes on the Senate floor. That will not change."</div><div>
</div><div>His announcement earned instant condemnation from supporters of the cap-and-trade bill, which would have reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 45 percent of 1990 levels by 2035 and 80 percent of 1990 levels by 2050. <b>Those inside the gallery stood up and turned their backs on Courtney as he spoke, </b>Oregon Public Broadcasting reported.</div><div>
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</div><div>Tony</div><div>@TonyOEC</div><div>&nbsp;This just happened. NOT ONLY is it about other bills but it’s about #HB2020 too and not giving in! #ORleg #ORpol #PassCEJ!!</div><div>
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</div><div><b>Outside the Senate, protesters began to chant "Hey hey, ho, ho, President Courtney has got to go."</b></div><div>
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</div><div>Dina Le Roux</div><div>@DinaRoux</div><div>&nbsp;We’re not ok with your decision Peter Courtney #ORpol #orleg #ClimateActionNow&nbsp; https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1yNxavVYrnjKj …</div><div>
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</div><div>See Dina Le Roux's other Tweets</div><div>Green group Renew Oregon Executive Director Tera Hurst said in a statement that the group had counted enough votes to pass the bill.</div><div>
</div><div>"This is the biggest failure of public leadership in Oregon in recent memory," Hurst told reporter Claire Withycombe.</div><div>
</div><div>Democrats needed 16 of 18 members to vote yes in order for the bill to pass, Oregon Live explained. Senator Betsy Johnson had officially opposed it and Senator Arnie Roblan had voiced concerns about its impact on gas prices. Senator Laurie Monnes Anderson, who was pushing for concessions on behalf of Boeing, a major employer in her district, was said by Capitol sources to be the third no vote, though environmental groups said she had told them she would vote yes.</div><div>
</div><div>Senate Majority Leader Ginny Burdick, who supports the bill, agreed with Courtney's assessment of the vote count.</div><div>
</div><div>"As the person who counts the votes, my personal sense is that the votes were not there," she told Oregon Public Broadcasting.</div><div>
</div><div>However, if Courtney's announcement is a concession, it is unclear if it will succeed in bringing the Republican Senators back to work. This is partly due to the fact that the bill, which has already had a final reading, is now scheduled for a vote. To avoid this, the Senate could vote to send it to committee or postpone it indefinitely, but both actions would require a quorum, meaning at least two fugitive Republicans would have to return, Oregon Live explained.</div><div>
</div><div>"I still have caucus members who are worried if it's on the floor, it'll get called up and, boom, it's passed," Republican Minority Leader Herman Baertschiger Jr. told Oregon Public Broadcasting by phone Tuesday. "Unfortunately we've been told a lot of things this session that didn't happen. The trust element is extremely low right now."</div><div>
</div><div>Courtney urged Republicans back so they could tackle other pending bills dealing with public safety, education and plans to strengthen rules against sexual misconduct in schools and improve Oregon's child welfare program. If pending bills are not passed before the session ends June 30, they will be wiped from the record and would need to be reintroduced in a special session, according to Oregon Live.</div><div>
</div><div>"Senate Republicans have blocked a bill that provides a better future for our state and for our children, and the tactics they employed to do so are not just unacceptable, but dangerous," Oregon Governor Kate Brown said in a statement reported by Oregon Live.</div><div>
</div><div>She urged the absent Senators to return.</div><div>
</div><div>"Are they against climate change legislation or are they against democracy? If they are not back by Wednesday afternoon, we will know the answer," she said.</div><div>
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</div><div><b>@OregonGovBrown</b></div><div><b>&nbsp;Are Senate Republicans against climate change legislation or are they against democracy?</b></div><div>
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</div><div>The bill would have been the second of its kind to pass in the U.S. after California and would have capped emissions and auctioned off pollution allowances per ton of carbon dioxide. Climate activists expressed concern about the national implications of events in Oregon.</div><div>
</div><div>"Essentially, democracy doesn't exist in Oregon right now," meteorologist and Grist writer Eric Holthaus Tweeted. "If Republicans in other states are watching, which of course they are, and attempt to mimic this tactic, no election matters anymore."</div><div>
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</div><div>Eric Holthaus</div><div>?</div><div>@EricHolthaus</div><div>&nbsp;This is a fucking disgrace.</div><div>
</div><div>In Oregon, Republicans fled the state to avoid voting on a climate bill and threatened physical violence against the state police if they attempted to bring them back to the capitol.</div><div>
</div><div>And Democrats just let them get away with it. Shameful. https://twitter.com/LaurenDake/status/1143567669431418881 …</div><div>
</div><div>Lauren Dake</div><div>@LaurenDake</div><div>Sen. President Peter Courtney to Republicans: We do not have the votes for the cap-and-trade bill. #orleg #orpol</div><div>
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</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Oregon Statehouse Shut Down After Lawmakers Team Up With Right-Wing Militias</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While leaving the statehouse before the walkout, one Republican senator implied that police who pursued them should be ready to die: “Send bachelors and come heavily armed.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kelly Weill</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reporter</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Updated 06.22.19 1:37PM ET / Published 06.22.19 1:12PM ET&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">REUTERS</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Oregon’s statehouse shut down for safety concerns on Saturday. But the threats weren’t coming from anonymous trolls or foreign fighters—they were coming from the state’s Republican senators, who have teamed up with right-wing militias to threaten violence over a climate change bill.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Eleven of Oregon’s Senate Republicans fled the state this week to avoid a vote on a bill that would cap greenhouse emissions. The group,&nbsp;<b>believed to be hiding in Idaho,</b>left the state senate with too few lawmakers to hold a vote. But the move is more than a legislative maneuver. The missing senators have partnered with right-wing paramilitary groups to threaten violence, should they be brought back to Oregon.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The state senate had scheduled sessions on Saturday, but cancelled them after reports of several militias’ two-day “Rally to Take the Capitol” this weekend.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“Oregon State Police has recommended that the Capitol be closed tomorrow due to a possible militia threat,</b>” a spokesperson for the senate president told the Associated Press on Friday night.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The trouble started this month, when state Senate Democrats advanced plans for a bill that would cut carbon emissions. Modeled after a similar policy in California, Oregon’s proposed cap and trade bill would restrict fossil fuel emissions, particularly for the industries that create the most pollution. The bill’s proponents say it’s part of a plan to cut emissions by 80 percent by 2050. (Climate scientists and the European Union call for effectively eliminating carbon emissions by 2050, in order to prevent out-of-control climate change.)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But Oregon’s state Republicans weren’t on board, citing increased expenses for Oregon residents and businesses. This week, every Republican in the state senate walked out, rather than vote on the bill.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[THIS IS GETTING CRAZY</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Armed Militias Rush to Help Fugitive Oregon GOP Lawmakers</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Will Sommer]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Walkouts are not unique to Republicans. Democrat lawmakers fled their states in 2003 and 2011 to prevent votes on redistricting and curbing union rights, The Daily Beast previously reported. Oregon has a long history of senate walkouts, including a four-day walkout in May, when Republicans refused to vote on a tax package that would fund schools. They returned to session with the agreement that they would not walk out again.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But this walkout also came with violent threats. Multiple senators are believed to have fled to Idaho, with right-wing militias flocking to their aid. While leaving the statehouse before the walkout, Republican Sen. Brian Boquist implied that police officers who pursued them should be ready to die. “Send bachelors and come heavily armed,” Boquist warned police in a televised interview shortly before his walkout. “I’m not going to be a political prisoner in the state of Oregon. It’s just that simple.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">State police said they were aware of Boquist's remarks, but were not commenting on them. Boquist and his colleagues are supported by several right-wing militias that made more explicit threats.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>After Oregon Gov. Kate Brown called on state troopers to return the lawmakers to the capital, the paramilitary group the Oath Keepers suggested violence against her.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Gov. Brown, you want a civil war, because this is how you get a civil war,” the Oath Keepers wrote on their public Facebook page. Beneath the post, Oath Keeper fans suggesting hanging, arresting, or taking up arms against Brown.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Idaho militia insiders previously told The Daily Beast that paramilitary members in Oregon and Idaho had “mobilized” in defense of the Republican lawmakers, and that they were willing to die for the legislators. One leader compared the situation to the 2014 Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation, in which members of a right-wing militia led an armed standoff inside a wildlife sanctuary building. The standoff ended with the death of a militia member.</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oregon makes reg automatic/opt out?</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/03/16/oregon_automatic_dmv_voter_registration_passes.html" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/03/16/oregon_automatic_dmv_voter_registration_passes.html</font></a></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); letter-spacing: -0.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-top: 30px !important;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">GOV</span>.&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">KATE</span>&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">BROWN</span>:</strong>&nbsp;Absolutely. What can I—what can I think otherwise? Is it about the governor wanting to run for the U.S. Senate? Or is it about President Trump wanting to protect Mar-a-Lago? I don’t know the answer to that, because Secretary Zinke hasn’t returned our calls. … There was absolutely no input from governors, coastal governors. We had no clue that this was coming, and we had no opportunity to express our outrage. We are outraged. This is absolutely unacceptable. There has been no drilling off the Pacific Coast for three decades.</font></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px; letter-spacing: -0.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">AMY</span>&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">GOODMAN</span>:</strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;So, that’s Oregon Democratic Governor Kate Brown. Today,<b>&nbsp;Roy Cooper, the governor of North Carolina,</b>&nbsp;just went ballistic. He said, “We jut into the ocean.” He said, “Many of our towns and cities have already said they do not want this offshore drilling,” that the BP oil spill costs dwarf their annual budget.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Professor Subhankar Banerjee, is this actually an opening right now, Zinke exempting Florida? Because of the outcry of not only Democratic governors, like Brown and Cooper, you’re talking about the governors of New Hampshire, of Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland, South Carolina, Georgia are enraged.</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p>