Oregon Story of the Year so far

I must say, I'm surprised at what happened with the insane bill in the Oregon Legislature that would let homeless people camp anywhere they damn well please. The so-called "Right to Rest Act," promoted hard by the nopnrofit industrial complex, started getting some attention from CNN and Fox News, and right away the wingnuts on the far left started scolding the media for even talking about it, since it is not going to pass this session. "It's a nothingburger," "ginning up opposition," etc.

I call b.s. on that. The bill may not pass, but at last report they were still holding hearings on it in Salem. And the fact that somebody dropped thousands of dollars to enable Sisters of the Road to send out a direct mailer in support of the thing is certainly ample grounds for covering it.

This bill is important for several reasons. For one thing, it shows how extreme many of the "advocates" and "activists" are. The bill speaks for itself in sheer lunacy. But perhaps more importantly, the enlistment of supposedly nonpolitical 501(c)(3) organizations like Sisters of the Road to push the proposal shows how real, organized, and out of control the nonprofit industrial complex is. 

In any event, before it fades into the mists of voters' short memories, let us not forget the two geniuses in the Oregon House who actually sponsored this bill. They were right on the mailer that Sisters of the Road pumped out. They are Farrah Chaichi of Beaverton and Khanh Pham of southeast Portland. There does not seem to be a lick of sense between the two of them.

Don't forget what they've been up to. Vote for someone else next year. I would expect this from the snowflakes of Felony Flats, but you Democrats in Beaverton, come on. You can do a lot better.