Seth Root

Currently @ORSenateGOP | Claremont Institute hack | @Angels fan | Opinions are my own

[Christine Drazan @ChristineDrazan]

Oregon's economy is in freefall and all Tina Kotek has offered struggling families is higher taxes and regulations that crush workers, jobs and small businesses.

More bureaucrats and meetings won’t solve this crisis.

On Day One, we're going to turn our economy around by getting government out of the way and empowering our job creators to stay and grow right here in Oregon.

[Seth Root @SethRoot1]

Oregon is currently facing housing and cost-of-living troubles, yet the city of Bend decided to increase housing costs and people's energy bills. #orpol #orleg

[KTVZ News @ktvznews]

Bend City Council approves Climate Pollution Fee on natural gas appliances in new homes https://t.co/WSWL3tZpaz

[Charles Correll III @_CharlesCorrell]

UFC 250 is hands down one of the coolest events to ever happen in D.C. Lots of love in the crowd for God, Country, and President Trump 🇺🇸

[Charles Correll III @_CharlesCorrell]

Gordon Wood was a great scholar because he took our Founders seriously. By chronicling their words, deeds, ideas, trials, tensions, and triumphs, he proved in so many ways that America is good, just, and worthy of our love.

[Seth Root @SethRoot1]

RIP Gordon Wood.

[Daily Caller @DailyCaller]

Pulitzer Prize-Winning American Historian Dead At 92 After Being Hit By Car: 'The finest historian of America's founding' https://t.co/qHRFXkwZKY

[Seth Root @SethRoot1]

Well, now LA gets to choose between a mayor who literally burned her city to the ground or a far-lefty in Raman. Unbelievable.

[Decision Desk HQ @DecisionDeskHQ]

Decision Desk HQ projects Nithya Raman wins the second of two spots in the CA Los Angeles Mayor Nonpartisan Primary

#DecisionMade: 7:57 PM EDT

[Seth Root @SethRoot1]

Put some respect on John Stockton’s name people!

[The Ryen Russillo Show @TheRyenRussillo]

The only player that Gary Payton feared was John Stockton

[Seth Root @SethRoot1]

In a time where Oregonians are struggling due to high cost of living, the Bend City Council is still going through and penalizing people who want cheap and reliable natural gas in their homes. Just irresponsible.

[Central Oregon Daily News @CODaily]

The Bend City Council is one step from passing a Climate Pollution Fee that would charge builders up to $3,000 for installing gas appliances in new homes. It leaves builders to decide whether to deal with the additional cost.
https://t.co/Y1xK2pOfIP

[Christine Drazan @ChristineDrazan]

Tina Kotek’s administration made $2.5 billion in accounting errors last year.

That’s not a simple rounding mistake, that’s bureaucratic incompetence. And this isn’t just a one-off, it’s a pattern. In 2024, they made $1.8 billion in accounting errors.

Tina Kotek wants to keep raising taxes on us, but her own administration can’t even keep its own books without billions of dollars in errors.

It’s time to fire Tina Kotek.

Read more: https://t.co/E7jtWquuYt

[Shelly Boshart Davis @BoshartDavisAg]

Oregonians didn’t reject Measure 120 because they “didn’t understand the message.” They rejected it because—for once—they finally saw what they were being asked to buy. That clarity came from the work House and Senate Republicans did in 2025 to drag the fine print into the daylight.

Now the Governor’s “transportation workgroup” is doing what almost every Salem workgroup does: obsess over public perception and spin instead of fixing the math. These groups aren’t about better **policy**; they’re about making bad policy more palatable so politicians can try the same tax hikes again with a new slogan.

Record numbers of Oregonians showed up to testify against the many iterations of Kotek's Gas tax because they DID understand it. This is what they knew that they couldn't afford:

- A never‑ending series of gas tax hikes, DMV fee increases, new payroll taxes, and many more ideas that didn't ultimately make it into the final bill Democrats rammed through.
- Cost overruns like the Abernethy Bridge and I‑205 improvements whose price tag has ballooned from $250 million to roughly $815 million, making it one of ODOT’s most expensive projects ever.
- Overpriced and mostly unnecessary curb cuts replacements that are pushing $2 billion.
- More money for transit systems that serve about 2% of Oregon commuters, drive around empty buses, and deliver 30 million fewer rides for people than before the pandemic and even before they started getting money out of your paycheck.
- Layers of climate and DEI bureaucracy that grow government payrolls instead of filling potholes or fixing bridges.

I disagree with the governor’s spin that voters just “didn’t get it.” The 83% NO vote was loud and clear: Oregonians are done writing blank checks for cost overruns, empty trains and buses, and agencies more focused on press releases than performance.

If the Governor’s workgroup wants to be taken seriously, it should start by cutting waste, ending pet projects, and demanding accountability for every dollar already on the table—before they ask you for another dime. Until then, I’ll keep standing with the Oregonians who saw through this package and voted NO.

I agree with the person who commented on the YouTube stream of the meeting yesterday: “Disappointing that this morning has been entirely framed as ‘getting the clueless public to understand our endless, righteous need,’ as if the issue is marketing and messaging, not math.”

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[Rep. Tom Cole @TomColeOK04]

I am so proud to congratulate a former fellow of mine, Mark Cruz, on his nomination to serve as the Director of the Indian Health Service under Secretary Kennedy at @HHSGov. Having seen his work ethic firsthand, I have no doubt he will serve in this position with integrity, professionalism, and diligence. He should be confirmed immediatley!
https://t.co/uvTlDUadUr

[David Bernhardt @davidlbernhardt]

Mark Cruz who was just nominated to be Director of the Indian Health Service will do an exceptional job! He should be promptly confirmed. https://t.co/YvcSywKi5w

[Seth Root @SethRoot1]

I would like another Rebel Moon sequel, but I can settle for this.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Zack Snyder is set to direct a remake of ‘ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK’.

(Source: https://t.co/KTureS6SLe)

[Preston Mann @Preston_Mann]

It seems like a new IP 28 story is popping up every day with this theme.

While it's true that IP 28 has collected more than the minimum number of signatures, that does not mean it "appears to have enough support" to qualify.

Petition signatures are subject to the verification process. The average signature validity rate dating back to 2020 is 79.9%.

That means IP 28 likely needs to gather no less than 146,650 signatures to have a shot. They have until July 2 to collect.

The highest number of signatures they have reported gathering in a single month is 10,524. If they continue to collect at that rate, they are more likely to miss the ballot than they are to make it. #orpol

[Christine Drazan @ChristineDrazan]

We're in a ditch right now, but we're in a ditch because of Tina Kotek and her leadership.

It's been all about her power and her control and it's left Oregonians with higher taxes and failed government.

This campaign is an opportunity to turn that around and I'm willing to work and fight for Oregonians.

[Seth Root @SethRoot1]

This is one of my favorites in the recent edition of the CRB. Highly reccomend people read this!

[Claremont Institute @ClaremontInst]

"Patriots have reason to wonder whether there is a politician (or comms team) in America today who understands and can articulate for his fellow citizens and the world the meaning of July 4, 1776."

Christopher Flannery turns to John Quincy Adams for an answer. Across six decades of public life, Adams treated the Declaration as the North Star of American politics, returning to it in Fourth of July orations from 1793 to 1839, each one a sustained argument that the principles of 1776 were the only legitimate foundation for government anywhere. His 1821 address gave us the famous line that America "goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy," though the speech itself was a defiant answer to British condescension and a defense of the Declaration as a beacon to all mankind. With the 250th anniversary of American independence approaching, Flannery argues that Adams's orations remain the standard against which our own public speech should be measured.

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[The Oregonian @Oregonian]

Drazan wins Oregon Republican primary for governor, will face Kotek in rematch

https://t.co/Sj1ACGqXaN

[KATU News @KATUNews]

MEASURE 120 FAILS: Oregon voters have rejected the transportation funding package, according to AP reporting. https://t.co/Cda3IJdDMZ

[Christine Drazan @ChristineDrazan]

🗳️The day is here and it’s time to get your ballot in!

I’m running to make Oregon the best state in the nation to buy a home, raise your family, start and grow your business and receive a world-class education.

This is our home and our families deserve so much better than four more years of Tina Kotek’s taxes and chaos. I won’t stop fighting for the Oregon we all know is possible. Because like you, I don’t quit.

Vote by 8pm today and find an official drop box location near you here: https://t.co/Q3bWqOwNcc

[Seth Root @SethRoot1]

It’s a REBEL MOON director’s cut kinda night.