Creating municipal broadband - take next step NOWSubmitted by DavidDelk on Wed, 11/21/2018 - 12:38 Oregon Progressive Party supports Internet service as a right in the 21st century. It should be regarded as a public utility just like water or electricity instead of a huge profit century for very large multi-national corporations. Everyone without regard to income or economic status should have the same ability to access Internet service.
We can create a public municipal broadband system in Multnomah County with your help. Municipal Broadband PDX is asking that you call Portland city commissioners with this ask: “Support providing $100,000 for a feasibility study for developing a municipal broadband utility”.
Multnomah County Board of Commissioners approved $150,000 for a broadband study earlier this year along with the communities of Gresham, Troutdale, Fairview, and Wood Village. Portland is the last Multnomah County city to approve. City of Portland council will announce a decision on Nov. 26, 2018, so your action is needed now.
More details, talking points and ways to make this contact are here. Why we won't withdrawSubmitted by DavidDelk on Tue, 11/06/2018 - 01:35
We were asked recently to withdraw our Progressive Party candidate by Oregon governor. This is our explanation for our refusal to do so.
Thanks for your note and your heartfelt plea for us to withdraw Chris Henry from the governor's race. We won't do that. Chris Henry would need to do that; even if he did, his name would still be on the ballot and he would still get votes.
Note that those votes are not stolen from Kate Brown. The Democrats do not own our votes; they need to earn them. While many Democrats are progressive people and we might elect to support them (thinking about Bernie Sanders who had the Progressive Party endorsement for Pres or some candidates for state legislature) but that would only be because they have taken stands which support a non-corporate agenda, especially by supporting limits on campaign contributions. I know that Kate likes to talk about her support for limitations but far as we can tell, she did the least possible while she was Secretary of State and during her time as governor to actually enact any. We note that environmentally she does not take strong stands in favor of addressing climate change (she has yet to oppose Jordon Cove LNG or to be a strong advocate for removal of diesel trucks on our roads, or for the inclusion of forests and agriculture in the carbon energy jobs bill). She bargained with Nike and the unions to not increase corporate taxes when enough signatures had been collected to qualify for the ballot. Therefore, voters did not get to weigh in on the question. She is not the kind of leader we need.
Lately, note that every election cycle the same argument is made. You need to support so-and-so; if you run a candidate against so-and-so you will ensure that the other so-and-so will win and the world will collapse. Then, win or lose, after the election democrats fail to support election reforms like proportional representation or ranked choice voting, which would solve the problem and allow everyone to support and vote for the candidate(s) they really want.
We as a party will continue to run candidates. We will not accept blame for the failures of other parties. And we will not remove our candidate for governor.
Most expensive governor race by 33%Submitted by DavidDelk on Tue, 10/30/2018 - 00:23 Oregon elections awash in special interest money. Just look at the governor race. This race is spending 50% more than the last most expensive governor race. WOW! Time to limit campaign contributions.
Update on Oregon Governor Race Engulfed in Record-Breaking Tidal Wave of Money
Brown and Buehler Spending Now Over $30 Million Total, Smashing Previous Record of $20 millionOregon is one of only 5 states with no limits on political campaign contributions; the others are Alabama, Nebraska, Utah, and Virginia. One result is this year's record-breaking spending by candidates for Governor of Oregon. Both candidates are relying upon huge contributions that would be illegal in 40 other states.
As of 7 days ago, the Kate Brown campaign has reported raising $13.9 million, while the Knute Buehler campaign has raised $16.5 million. Both campaigns have raised only 10% of its funds from contributions of under $200. Progressive Party candidate/ballot measure recommendationsSubmitted by DavidDelk on Mon, 10/22/2018 - 21:34 2018 Ballot Measure RecommendationsSubmitted by info on Sun, 10/21/2018 - 17:23
LOCAL MEASURES
Number
Subject
Description
Vote?
Measure 26-200campaign finance reformPortland Campaign Finance Reform (limits on contributions and taglines on ads)YES
Measure 26-201carbon taxPortland Clean Energy InitiativeYES
Measure 20-290voting method reformLane County STAR VotingYES
STATEWIDE MEASURES
NumberSubjectDescriptionVote?
Measure 102HousingAffordable housing projects funded by city and county bonds need not be government ownedYES
Measure 103TaxesBans taxes on groceries (café meals, all food)NO
Measure 104BudgetExtends 60% majority vote requirement in Legislature to more types of bills raising or reducing revenueNO
Measure 105ImmigrationRepeals law against use of state resources to apprehend persons violating federal immigration lawsNO
Measure 106AbortionProhibits public funds from being spent on abortionsNO Moses Ross & Dan Meek Discuss Campaign Finance ReformSubmitted by info on Sat, 08/18/2018 - 18:45 Let all the candidates debateSubmitted by DavidDelk on Mon, 07/30/2018 - 02:29 David Delk, Chair of the Oregon Progressive Party, was published by The Oregonian, calling for TV stations and universities sponsoring gubernatorial debates this fall to include all three major party candidates, Democrat Kate Brown , Republican Knute Buehler and Patrick Starnes, the candidate of the Independent Party of Oregonian
The letter:
Oregon is the only state with three major political parties -- Democrats, Republicans and Independents. In the primary election, each of these parties selected a candidate for governor. The public looks forward to hearing debates between these candidates.
Despite our desire, one of the candidates is being left out. Independent Party candidate Patrick Starnes has not been invited to debate alongside Democrat Gov. Kate Brown and Republican Rep. Knute Buehler in two widely-viewed TV station debates and one public university debate.
I cry foul. The system is rigged. And it has been for too long. The Independent Party candidate needs to be included. Who knows, maybe if he is heard, we might get more than the 30 percent turnout we had in the primary elections.
Or perhaps the Democrats and Republicans do not want a candidate whose primary issue is getting big special interests out of our elections to have a platform.
All gubernatorial debates should include at least all the major party candidates.
David Delk, NE Portland
These are the major upcoming debates. Please any and all and insist that at least all the major party candidates be invited to participate.
Children First for Oregon will host a debate in Portland in either late September or early October.
KOBI-NBC TV will host an October 4th debate in Medford.
KGW-NBC TV will host a debate in Portland during the week of October 8th.
KATU-ABC and Portland State University will host a debate in Portland on October 15th Our Jason Kafoury Debates Lars Larson on Campaign Finance ReformSubmitted by info on Tue, 07/10/2018 - 14:57
We can create a public municipal broadband system in Multnomah County with your help. Municipal Broadband PDX is asking that you call Portland city commissioners with this ask: “Support providing $100,000 for a feasibility study for developing a municipal broadband utility”.
Multnomah County Board of Commissioners approved $150,000 for a broadband study earlier this year along with the communities of Gresham, Troutdale, Fairview, and Wood Village. Portland is the last Multnomah County city to approve. City of Portland council will announce a decision on Nov. 26, 2018, so your action is needed now.
More details, talking points and ways to make this contact are here. Why we won't withdrawSubmitted by DavidDelk on Tue, 11/06/2018 - 01:35
We were asked recently to withdraw our Progressive Party candidate by Oregon governor. This is our explanation for our refusal to do so.
Thanks for your note and your heartfelt plea for us to withdraw Chris Henry from the governor's race. We won't do that. Chris Henry would need to do that; even if he did, his name would still be on the ballot and he would still get votes.
Note that those votes are not stolen from Kate Brown. The Democrats do not own our votes; they need to earn them. While many Democrats are progressive people and we might elect to support them (thinking about Bernie Sanders who had the Progressive Party endorsement for Pres or some candidates for state legislature) but that would only be because they have taken stands which support a non-corporate agenda, especially by supporting limits on campaign contributions. I know that Kate likes to talk about her support for limitations but far as we can tell, she did the least possible while she was Secretary of State and during her time as governor to actually enact any. We note that environmentally she does not take strong stands in favor of addressing climate change (she has yet to oppose Jordon Cove LNG or to be a strong advocate for removal of diesel trucks on our roads, or for the inclusion of forests and agriculture in the carbon energy jobs bill). She bargained with Nike and the unions to not increase corporate taxes when enough signatures had been collected to qualify for the ballot. Therefore, voters did not get to weigh in on the question. She is not the kind of leader we need.
Lately, note that every election cycle the same argument is made. You need to support so-and-so; if you run a candidate against so-and-so you will ensure that the other so-and-so will win and the world will collapse. Then, win or lose, after the election democrats fail to support election reforms like proportional representation or ranked choice voting, which would solve the problem and allow everyone to support and vote for the candidate(s) they really want.
We as a party will continue to run candidates. We will not accept blame for the failures of other parties. And we will not remove our candidate for governor.
Most expensive governor race by 33%Submitted by DavidDelk on Tue, 10/30/2018 - 00:23 Oregon elections awash in special interest money. Just look at the governor race. This race is spending 50% more than the last most expensive governor race. WOW! Time to limit campaign contributions.
Update on Oregon Governor Race Engulfed in Record-Breaking Tidal Wave of Money
Brown and Buehler Spending Now Over $30 Million Total, Smashing Previous Record of $20 millionOregon is one of only 5 states with no limits on political campaign contributions; the others are Alabama, Nebraska, Utah, and Virginia. One result is this year's record-breaking spending by candidates for Governor of Oregon. Both candidates are relying upon huge contributions that would be illegal in 40 other states.
As of 7 days ago, the Kate Brown campaign has reported raising $13.9 million, while the Knute Buehler campaign has raised $16.5 million. Both campaigns have raised only 10% of its funds from contributions of under $200. Progressive Party candidate/ballot measure recommendationsSubmitted by DavidDelk on Mon, 10/22/2018 - 21:34 2018 Ballot Measure RecommendationsSubmitted by info on Sun, 10/21/2018 - 17:23
LOCAL MEASURES
Number
Subject
Description
Vote?
Measure 26-200campaign finance reformPortland Campaign Finance Reform (limits on contributions and taglines on ads)YES
Measure 26-201carbon taxPortland Clean Energy InitiativeYES
Measure 20-290voting method reformLane County STAR VotingYES
STATEWIDE MEASURES
NumberSubjectDescriptionVote?
Measure 102HousingAffordable housing projects funded by city and county bonds need not be government ownedYES
Measure 103TaxesBans taxes on groceries (café meals, all food)NO
Measure 104BudgetExtends 60% majority vote requirement in Legislature to more types of bills raising or reducing revenueNO
Measure 105ImmigrationRepeals law against use of state resources to apprehend persons violating federal immigration lawsNO
Measure 106AbortionProhibits public funds from being spent on abortionsNO Moses Ross & Dan Meek Discuss Campaign Finance ReformSubmitted by info on Sat, 08/18/2018 - 18:45 Let all the candidates debateSubmitted by DavidDelk on Mon, 07/30/2018 - 02:29 David Delk, Chair of the Oregon Progressive Party, was published by The Oregonian, calling for TV stations and universities sponsoring gubernatorial debates this fall to include all three major party candidates, Democrat Kate Brown , Republican Knute Buehler and Patrick Starnes, the candidate of the Independent Party of Oregonian
The letter:
Oregon is the only state with three major political parties -- Democrats, Republicans and Independents. In the primary election, each of these parties selected a candidate for governor. The public looks forward to hearing debates between these candidates.
Despite our desire, one of the candidates is being left out. Independent Party candidate Patrick Starnes has not been invited to debate alongside Democrat Gov. Kate Brown and Republican Rep. Knute Buehler in two widely-viewed TV station debates and one public university debate.
I cry foul. The system is rigged. And it has been for too long. The Independent Party candidate needs to be included. Who knows, maybe if he is heard, we might get more than the 30 percent turnout we had in the primary elections.
Or perhaps the Democrats and Republicans do not want a candidate whose primary issue is getting big special interests out of our elections to have a platform.
All gubernatorial debates should include at least all the major party candidates.
David Delk, NE Portland
These are the major upcoming debates. Please any and all and insist that at least all the major party candidates be invited to participate.
Children First for Oregon will host a debate in Portland in either late September or early October.
KOBI-NBC TV will host an October 4th debate in Medford.
KGW-NBC TV will host a debate in Portland during the week of October 8th.
KATU-ABC and Portland State University will host a debate in Portland on October 15th Our Jason Kafoury Debates Lars Larson on Campaign Finance ReformSubmitted by info on Tue, 07/10/2018 - 14:57