Why do Democrats not want to give the citizens of Oregon a direct vote on something this important?
GOP lawmakers walk out after Oregon climate bill advances
Republican senators slipped out of the Oregon State Capitol on Monday, preventing the state Senate from convening in an attempt to doom a bill aimed at stemming global warming.
The walkout was a repeat of action the GOP took last year to kill similar climate change legislation, a maneuver that prompted threats of having state police forcibly return lawmakers to the Statehouse.
The walkout threatens to derail the main legislation that Democrats had hoped to pass during a 35-day session: A bill to limit greenhouse gas emissions that threaten the planet.
Moonbat governor Kate Brown had a hissy fit
A visibly angry Brown denounced the boycott as undemocratic.
“If they don’t like a bill, then they need to show up and change it or show up and vote no. They should make their voices heard rather than shut down state government,” she said at a news conference.
Even if they vote no the legislation passes
Several Republican lawmakers were present earlier Monday as a legislative panel rejected a proposed GOP amendment to put the climate issue on the ballot in November. Instead, the Joint Ways and Means Committee approved the bill, sending it to the Senate floor fora vote.
The bill itself is all about cap and trade, instituting all sorts of taxes and fees and such, which will all just be passed down from the companies hit to the consumers. If you hit the fossil fuels companies, the cost of gas and oil go up, which means everything goes up, including food, clothes, housing, you name it.
Why don’t the Democrats want the citizens to vote on this directly? They usually love putting measures on the ballot.
