@Jeff_Eager Ghosts of Mark Hass and any other moderate D who OR organized labor decides to retire from politics. Live by the ballot harvest, die by the ballot harvest.
With the Winter Olympics kicking off tomorrow, consider this a little warm-up. 💪
President Reagan arm-wrestling in the Oval Office with Dan Lurie of Muscle Training Magazine.
@noahkaufmanmd For this to happen at scale, it must come from reform legislation. Our current system is the result of the accumulation of 80 years of federal law/regulation (including the tax code) directing how/when trillions are spent on healthcare. This stifles the bottom up until addressed.
@Jeff_Eager Non fungible dollars in the OR state budget become fungible at the whim of this Governor until they are reinstated as non fungible funds by an act of the legislature providing new tax revenue to solve the previous underfunding crisis caused by situational non fungibility.
@Jeff_Eager@TheAdamWaite This will likely be an all time example of one-party rule legislative/judicial deployment of “heads I win, tails you lose” procedural subversion, even exceeding the time when OR Repubs did a budget deal with Kitz but PERS spending reduction/reforms were struck down by OR S Court