Watch your Wallet in Democrat Controlled Oregon
By Diane Linthicum
January 25, 2025
I’d like to express my heart-felt “Welcome” to the Trump administration because I believe that Trump and his no-nonsense team will bring much-needed common-sense solutions that work to Make America Great and Healthy Again.
In truth, Trump never matched the paint-by-numbers portrait of the evil dictator, fraud or felon. Apparently, playing those stories, was an endless attempt to place those images foremost in the minds of people throughout the US.
The American Left, academics, socialists, and oppression story-tellers were busy using Democrat-party power to influence the election. Fortunately because of the countless failures we have witnessed over these past four years people saw through their attempt.
Time will tell us how the story ends, but I’m thankful that our nation has come this far along the path. Red Dye #3 has now been banned from foods and additives, California is abandoning their efforts to remove the diesel trucking industry; Israel and Hamas apparently have a cease fire; the border will be secured, and there will be nearly one-hundred other executive orders for getting common-sense work done.
But I find myself wondering, “Where is the radical left taking Oregon?”
The mainstream media is constantly telling us, “With the three-fifths supermajority in both the Oregon House and Senate chambers, Democrats can raise revenue without any bipartisan support.”
Are the media projecting tax increases in your future? Are the media telling you that resistance is futile? Will the Democrat majority successfully tell their tales of woe and claw back your constitutionally guaranteed tax refunds? That alone is billions of dollars of refunded money coming straight back to your wallet; will the state waste that too?
Based on Gov. Kotek’s recent State-of-the-State address, it sounds like her designs include spending money and spending more money. Period. Federal money – woohoo! New Taxes – better! these won’t go away! Road Tolls – sweet! Increased Fees! – she’s got to cover increases in union wages and benefits.
The Capital Chronicle noted, “Her speech, like the first two years of her administration, focused primarily on housing, homelessness, mental health and education, with nods to climate change and speeding up the work of government.”
The Chronicle shows us that Gov. Kotek’s plan lacks definitive boundaries for determining deliverables; is missing scientific scrutiny; is tangled with clouded policy directions and is even harder to price accurately.
So… we will all have some tough work to do.
Pay attention, live well and stay strong!
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My best,
Diane Linthicum
Oregon State Senate – Elect – District 28
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Email: Daine4OR@gmail.com
By Dennis and Diane Linthicum
He joined Hughes Aircraft Co. just before we were married and was involved with data-structure design, management and implementation endeavors when processing power was slow and expensive.
I mention these things simply to note that just like today our past had its share of fake news and fear-mongering. The problems were real and needed solutions. But we must remember that government is rarely the right tool. Problems are more readily solved in free, unhampered markets rather than by confiscating vast sums of money from misled taxpayers for poorly conceived ideas.
This morning’s newsletter will be short as I express my Thankfulness, I also want to encourage you to spend time with your friends, families and loved ones as we will have plenty to do in the near future. Courage, Resolve and Virtue must be our watchwords because the opportunities, here in Oregon, will be tremendous.
In short, this is our opportunity to fix this Tasteless Gruel.
Again, oppression does not grow within a neighborhood. Jim Crow laws were not universal but were created in the Democrat south as a means to keep their evil and repugnant attitudes alive following the Civil War. Most states across the US never created these atrocious laws, but those pernicious few are deemed historical fact for the entire nation.
So, this is what it looks like online (hand-written markups are mine):
In the Secretary of State’s race, my opponent keeps telling us that he wants to increase access to voting. What’s left? It is like watching the political equivalent of Molière’s Tartuffe, or Dickens’ Mr. Pecksniff where everything is spoken, announced and reported with sleek imagery, beautiful words and high-minded principles while the substance of a thing is missing.
In Oregon there were three valid forms of ID: a drivers’ license, a drivers’ permit, or a State issued ID card. HB 4133 added another option, a valid Social Security number. But look at the actual wording and you will see that a SSN is not required, rather only the final four-digits are required.
Why then, would legislators demand useless data as a valid method of identification? Would you vote for any legislator that is not capable of recognizing the blatant problems with this legislation?
Fraud, or fair-play? Does this make sense? Does it match the rhetoric?
Thomas Jefferson wrote, “The God who gave us Life, gave us Liberty” and believed government should protect Life, Liberty and our own just pursuits for individual Happiness.
This is mainly because of the hard truths spilling from the news. These realities can no longer be ignored – inflation, housing, transportation, energy, food supplies, public-service degradation, forest management, air quality, immigration, organized crime, cartels, fentanyl, and behavioral health are all signposts that demand accountability.
This is more than an inconvenience because the confusion sown feeds fear and uncertainty in the public mind. This is quite palpable today and this confusion is getting fanned by the political elites in steering ‘consensus’ towards their projects, goals and/or proposals regardless of any flaws.
The media likes to tell us that the Harris team has it all wrapped up. But this too is puffery. Unfortunately, the majority party here in Oregon always falls for fake media news and think the same way. But they are all struggling against reality; they can’t defeat truth.
We can count housing units and ask, are we building a continual supply chain of new homes? We can measure the economy and ask, is Oregon inspiring private business entrepreneurship, full-time employment, real property rights and prosperity?
This is really just common-sense and believe me, on county-by-county basis this is very do-able. Look at the following numbers; look at the turnout in your county. How do we reach these people?
They put great stock in the necessity of personal virtues for freedom. Virtues like peace, patience, understanding, forbearance, and self-control were viewed as non-negotiable for remaining free from the chains of tyranny.
Together we can and will turn Oregon back to the common-sense values of hard work, freedom for small businesses and entrepreneurship, utilizing our abundant natural resources both productively and sustainably, and ensuring excellence and ingenuity in our educational outcomes.
We don’t need any more go-along, get-along, happy-camp Republicans who will ride along with the Four-Modern-Horseman of the Apocalypse – Tax, Spend, Regulate and Rule.
committee hearings. Many of these financial injustices have now become part of the fabric of our lives, but isn’t that the point? We have become so accustomed to, or so enamored with some program or another, that most of us don’t remember why it was done in the first place.
from fiction and propaganda. He was not willing to allow himself (or us as readers) to be led away by a, “weird mixture of the irresponsible, megalomaniacal ideas which erupted from German thinkers during the nineteenth century.”
Today, I’ll speak to one issue. I am endorsing one person as the best representative for District 28 in the battle for Oregon’s future – Diane Linthicum!
She is a skilled policy analyst and Diane has keen insight into the legislative process and is willing to, “Just say, No!” to detrimental policy ideas.
to account with regard to CxVid, I never made false claims or tried to sell any products, other than TRUTH. Yet, because my Newsletter referred to CxVid. And… in my next breath I mentioned the high possibility of fraXd. That was enough to get my account served up to Omnivore. This is nothing less than government control over what speech is acceptable and what is not. (… No, this isn’t just a private company exercising their private contract rights.)
These guys can’t define a woman and don’t know the difference between a heifer and a bull-calf. They have totally screwed up our education and criminal justice systems, increased homelessness, poverty, and drug abuse, and put the economy into the ditch. So, why not give them control of our thoughts, speech and language too?
Whether these actors are elected office holders, executive appointees, agency directors or only members of the bureaucratic army, everyone is just doing their job. They are happy to be employed. They don’t want to be cancelled. It’s better to keep your mouth shut than get into trouble. Everyone seems to be happy doing their job, doing the bidding from higher up…
The media outlets squabble about the possible shut-down because it is divisive. Regardless of which political party will face the hard facts of our nation’s fiscal future, the other party will continue to advance their programs. The threat of a government shut-down just adds repetitive rhetorical resonance to the meme-machines and allows the shouting to continue. What becomes clear is that without constitutional integrity it’s time to get a bigger manure-spreader for Congressmen and women.
But government money is never free. The regulatory requirements for using federal funds are rarely of practical or fiscally responsible natures. They always carry a political burden.
Republicans. However, it is still highly energized by money and the wholly inappropriate goal of sexualizing our youngest children and grandchildren.
Proponents for restoration of voting rights conveniently ignore that felons lose other civil rights as well, such as the right to sit on a jury, own a gun, obtain various professional licenses, work as a public-school teacher or a law enforcement officer. While these other civil rights are actually lost for a lifetime, the current restrictions on voting only remain in effect while the felon remains in prison.
We see powerful social engineers and academic policy pundits using statist power to exert public control without any limits or boundaries. These idealogues are willing to cancel, quarantine, and re-educate anybody who disagrees. In fact, F.A. Hayek, in his book, The Road to Serfdom (1944), notes that social and industrial planner Henri Saint-Simon, thought those who did not obey his proposed planning boards would simply be, “treated as cattle.”
