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REP. WINGARD TO HOST LEGISLATIVE TOWN HALLS
IN WILSONVILLE, SHERWOOD
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HONORARY PAGE PROGRAM
The Honorary Page Program is available for students ages 12-18 and offers a one-day experience of the State Capitol.
 Honorary Pages get to see the legislative process first hand and shadow State Representatives.
The program runs from Feb. 10 to June 1. Please contact our office if you know a teen who would like to participate.
Devon Donahue and Rep. Wingard Thank you Devon for a great job! |
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TUNE INTO THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS
Representative Wingard's Committee Schedule:
Committee on Land Use
Tuesday & Thursday from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
House Committee on Consumer Protection
Monday, Wednesday & Friday from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
House Committee Agriculture, Natural Resources & Rural Communities
Tuesday & Thursday from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. | |
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Oregon government seems to have a misunderstanding of the word "Express".
In the Metro Area, we have a light rail train called MAX which stands for Metropolitan Area Express. However, the MAX doesn't go faster than 15 miles per hour and it stops at every station. In other places, this would be called a "local", not an "express".
Recently, TriMet began a new commuter train service from Wilsonville to Beaverton. They call it WES which stands for Westside Express Service. However, the train stops at every station and it takes 27 minutes to get from Wilsonville to Beaverton.
In November, 2007, voters were asked to approve Measure 49 with the explanation that it would address injustices in Oregon's land use laws and create an express lane for property owners to immediately build one to three homes.
According to The Oregonian:
"...it's working just fine if your definition of "immediately" is sometime late in 2010. That's when the state expects to finish processing the claims of about 4,500 property owners who elected the express route. Or thought they did."
As a member of the House Land Use Committee, I am determined to hold government in Oregon accountable to the people. House Leaders and Governor Kulongoski promised an "express lane".
I have a verbal commitment from the chair of my committee that the 2009 Legislature will deliver on that 16-month old promise.
If the promises of Oregon's leaders don't match their deeds, it should be no surprise to anyone to see voters express themselves in the next election.
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BILLS ON THE MOVE...
Firefighter Cancer Presumption
HB 2420 allows full-time firefighters to receive medical and disability coverage for the treatment of 11 cancers. Firefighters are exposed to numerous chemicals when fires begin burning up modern materials in homes and businesses.
I VOTED YES.
Improves Coordination of Land Use Decision Making Between State Agencies and Local Government
HB 2230 would make it easier for state agencies to get their permits approved. This is the first land use reform bill to pass the 2009 House and it prioritizes the needs of state government ahead of the needs of ordinary landowners. With thousands of Measure 49 claims still not processed, I could not support the decision to pass this bill first. I VOTED NO.
HB 2588
National Popular Vote
HB 2588 would award Oregon's seven electoral college votes to the presidential candidate who received the most popular votes in the national election. Proponent's argued that the measure would draw more attention to Oregon during presidential elections. I believe the opposite would occur. The national election reform I do support is called the Regional Rotating Primary System. I VOTED NO. |
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Celebrating National Women's Month
 Lola Greene Baldwin -- Superintendent of the Women's Auxiliary to the Police Department for the Protection of Girls (Portland, Oregon). She was the first municipally paid policewoman in the United States. On April 1, 1907, Lola Greene Baldwin, age forty-eight, was sworn in as the first woman police officer in the United States. (Four years before she could vote -in Oregon.) Her appointment arose out of public concern for the "moral and physical welfare" of families and children.
She worked to protect single, working women from various kinds of "big city" exploitation, especially in prostitution, which was relatively unregulated at the time. Her unit, the Women's Protection Division, made a priority out of protecting women from the effects of prostitution, rather than simply punishing them for it.
Many of Baldwin's innovative ideas in the area of community and preventative policing are still in wide use today. To learn more about Baldwin, read A Municipal Mother, by Gloria E. Myers, or visit Portland, Oregon's Police Museum in downtown Portland |
CONTACT & STAFF INFORMATION
Michelle Miller, Chief of Staff
Dallas Radke, Legislative Assistant
H474 State Capitol
Salem, OR 97301
(503) 986-1426
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