 Oregon
Senator Whitsett on Oregon Water adjudication,
Part 1 of 2, 11/8/09, YouTube
Video.
Oregon
Senator Whitsett on water adjudication, Part 2 of 2,
11/8/09 YouTube Video |
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How
Oregon Spends Money, Whitsett newsletter 1/13/12 |
Restoration of sustainable timber
harvest on federal forest lands,
Oregon Senator Whitsett, posted to
KBC 12/29/11. "These
unprecedented forest fuel loads have
been the direct cause of
uncontrollable wildfires that have
consumed millions of acres of Oregon
forest lands, and ironically,
millions of acres of Northern
Spotted Owl habitat." |
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The Endangered Species Act Fundamental Flaws, by Senator Doug Whitsett 12/12/11. "...These provisions have allowed the intent, implementation and outcomes of the Act to be hijacked to serve the greed and exploitation of preservationist factions both inside and outside of government agencies...In spite of the expenditure of billions of tax dollars, the species recovery rate is less than 1.5 percent." |
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Unemployment Report, Senator Doug
Whitsett 12/5/11.
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Christmas Shopping, Senator Doug
Whitsett 11/29/11 |
Oregon's unsustainable spending addiction, Oregon
Senator Doug Whitsett Newsletter 11/20/11 |
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Senator Doug Whitsett speech regarding the KBRA and Klamath dam destruction at Yreka's public listening session put on my Department of Interior on 10/20/11. "The Draft Environmental Impact Statement does not appear to mitigate that 20 million cubic yards of sediment. The Department apparently proposes to simply blow the dams and let nature take its course, washing all that sediment downriver. They appear to consider this option as a “grand experiment” to see what actually happens. That amount of sediment is equivalent to about 2 million ten yard dump truck loads of silt, sediment and organic muck. To put that amount into perspective, lined up head to tail, 2 million dump truck loads of river muck would stretch about 12,500 miles…..about half way around the planet." |
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Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett Newsletter: Department of Interior Dam Removal Public Listening Session 10/21/11. "..event was attended by between three hundred and four hundred people...Fifty two people, or seventy two percent, spoke in opposition to dam removal...my responsibility to listen to the people that have I been elected to represent is much more important than my private opinion. Two thirds or more of those people have been consistently voicing their strong opposition to dam removal (since 2009 poll) for well more than two years. I will continue to try to represent those peoples’ judgment so long as I am privileged to represent them in the Oregon Senate." |
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Klamath dam removal and turbidity double standard, Senator Doug Whitsett newsletter, posted to KBC 10/14/11. "How can we justify dumping the equivalent of two million dump truck loads of sediment into the Klamath River to expedite the politically correct demolition of hydroelectric dams, while at the same time citing and prosecuting foresters, agriculturalists and recreationalists for stirring up a little sediment in their pursuit of family entertainment?" |
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Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett Newsletter On Communications 10/17/11
Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett newsletter 9/30/11 |
Outcomes of last summer’s public employee labor negotiations, Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett 9/24/11 |
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Conservative Policy Summit, 9/3/11 Newsletter by Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett. "...The Summit provided those of us who represent the people of Southern Oregon the opportunity to listen to the concerns of the community and business leaders and to discuss the potential solutions that they suggested. The primary purpose of the Medford Summit was to identify governmental barriers to private sector job creation and to recommend appropriate ways to remove those obstacles..."
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Whitsett files for third term Oregon Senate District 28, 9/22/11. "Doug Whitsett has officially filed with the Oregon Secretary of State's office for re-election to the Oregon Senate, District 28 (all of Klamath, Lake, Crook, and parts of Deschutes and Jackson Counties)."
HERE for KBC's Senator Whitsett Page
It is unfortunate when dire predictions become reality, Senator Doug Whitsett Newsletter 8/27/11 |
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Klamath dam removal and turbidity double standard, Senator Doug Whitsett newsletter, posted to KBC 10/14/11. "How can we justify dumping the equivalent of two million dump truck loads of sediment into the Klamath River to expedite the politically correct demolition of hydroelectric dams, while at the same time citing and prosecuting foresters, agriculturalists and recreationalists for stirring up a little sediment in their pursuit of family entertainment?" |
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Whitsett files for third term Oregon Senate District 28,
9/22/11. "Doug Whitsett has officially filed with the
Oregon Secretary of State's office for re-election to the
Oregon Senate, District 28 (all of Klamath, Lake, Crook, and
parts of Deschutes and Jackson Counties)." |
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Oregon
Forest Mismanagement, Senator Doug Whitsett 9/16/11.
"...left is an area of nearly 600 square miles mostly
dominated by standing, gray, dead snags...no effort has been
made to salvage this timber for any use. |
Economic Records established during Obama administration, Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett 9/10/11
Taxes, Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett 8/19/11 |
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Federal Management of Oregon's Forest Lands, Senator Doug Whitsett Newsletter 8/12/11. "federal district court ruled that the owl was threatened under the Endangered Species Act and that nearly unlimited critical habitat was required to preserve the bird from extinction...Oregon’s annual timber harvest from federal lands plummeted from 60 percent to 12 percent. Nearly 300 timber mills closed and more than 30,000 family wage jobs were lost." |
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Labor Relations by Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett 8/7/11 |
Oregon Legislative Budget, Senator Doug Whitsett, posted to KBC 8/2/11 |
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On Oregon DUIs,
Newsletter by Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett 7/22/11 |
Senator
Doug Whitsett newsletter, Oregon Education, 7/16/11 |
Whitsett true spokesman for rural Americans, H&N letter to editor by Vaudine Cullins, Alturas, posted to KBC 7/7/11 |
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Senator Doug Whitsett newsletter 7/8/11. "Oregon is a national leader in home mortgage foreclosures, our annual per capita income trails the national average by more than $3,500, our functional unemployment remains above 20 percent and 750 thousand Oregonians are using food stamps. Yet Senate leadership flatly refused to even hold hearings on bills that were thoughtfully designed to promote growth in private sector jobs...Three fourths of our timber mills are closed down, and more than 30,000 family wages jobs are destroyed. These two bills would have created more than 4,300 jobs, as well as $100 million in state and local government revenue." |
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Taps were played for future of Oregon's natural resource
based economy, Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett, posted to
KBC 6/19/11. "Thursday in Pendleton, TAPS were played for
the future of Oregon’s natural resources based economy, and
the private sector jobs they sustain. The Oregon
Environmental Quality Commission (EQC) adopted, by
Administrative Rule, new Oregon water quality standards for
human toxics that are ten times more stringent than anywhere
else in the United States...Compliance
...will be virtually impossible. In many situations the new
standards exceed the normal background levels..." |
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The
Oregon
Legislature
adjourned
Sine
Die
Thursday
afternoon,
Senator
Doug
Whitsett
6/30/11 |
Why were new jobs bills
killed? by Oregon
Senator Whitsett, posted to
KBC 6/16/11 |
One billion one hundred million
dollars! by Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett 6/3/11 |
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Senator Whitsett Newsletter:
"This week the Ways and Means
General Government Subcommittee
restored funding to two programs
sponsored by the Department of
Revenue that provide rent
payment assistance to low income
elderly Oregonians.
Both programs had previously
been eliminated in Governor
Kitzhaber’s Recommended Budget."
6/10/11 |
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Senator Doug Whitsett Newsletter
5/20/11. "We
believe that more than 20,000 private sector family-wage jobs would be created
by the passage of three bills currently stuck in the Senate Environment and
Natural Resources Committee... neither the committee Chair nor the Senate
President has allowed any of these bills even the courtesy of a hearing...Being
allowed to use their fair share of excess River water would spur a renaissance
in Oregon’s economy creating more than 16,500 jobs and adding more than
$750,000,000 per year to our state economy." |
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Whitsett Newsletter,
5/26/11, Estate Taxes
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Oregon's Regulations Oppress Jobs,
May
2011 Newsletter for Oregon State
Senator Doug Whitsett, District 28,
posted to KBC 5/17/11 |
Oregon's economic forecast, Oregon
Senator Doug Whitsett newsletter 5/12/11. "...our
state has no more private sector jobs than
it did in the year 2000. Moreover, our per
capita income continues to fall behind the
national average and the rate of negative
change is accelerating." |
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Oregon's medical liability, Senator Doug
Whitsett newsletter 5/6/11 |
Oregon Senator Doug
Whitsett, 4/29/11 newsletter on
constitutional right to bear arms;
"Three important handgun bills were
passed by the Oregon House of
Representatives with wide bipartisan
support..."
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Public employee
compensation, Senator Doug Whitsett
newsletter 4/21/11
Oregon school funding by Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett
4/15/11 |
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Taps for future of Oregon's natural resource based economy,
Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett, posted to KBC 6/19/11 |
Oregon,
perennial national leader in unemployment, poverty, hunger,
homelessness and despair
by
Senator Doug Whitsett 4/8/11
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Oregon
Senator Doug Whitsett on the Environmental Protection Agency
3/31/11. "They
calculate the regulations would cost $4,500 in annual loss
of income for an average family of four and the loss of 2.5
million jobs over the next twenty years." |
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Oregon Unemployment
Benefits
by Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett
3/24/11 |
Oregon's
creative financing plan, by Senator Doug Whitsett 3/21/11 |
Judge's decision unfairly
punishes ranching community, Statesman Journal, written by Senators Ted
Ferrioli, Doug Whitsett, Frank Morse and Fred Girod 3/17/11 |
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Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett:
More job killing rules from ODEQ 3/11/11. "The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is in the process of adopting the most restrictive water quality standards in the nation...These new rules have the potential to profoundly affect the fiscal soundness of businesses, agriculture and forestry in the state. They may be expected to have an extreme negative effect on Oregon’s future job growth and economic recovery...the scientific relevance of these studies is at best pathetic and at worst criminally negligent." |
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Senator Doug Whitsett March 4, 2011 Newsletter. "Ethanol production currently comprises just 8% of the US demand for vehicle fuel, but it requires 40% of the US corn crop to produce...About a tenth of the world’s production of cereal output is projected to be used for ethanol production if all of the world’s present targets for ethanol are to be met. The certain result will cause food prices to rise from 15-40% worldwide. Millions of humans will go hungry on a global scale as food prices are driven out of their reach due to biofuels production." |
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Governor
Kitzhaber’s
demand to
suppress the
speech of
Oregon
public
employees,
Senator Doug
Whitsett
newsletter
2/25/11 |
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Oregon
Senator
Whitsett's
bills
addressing
livestock
predators:
wolves,
coyotes,
cougars,
posted to
KBC 2/25/11 |
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Where is the
outrage, 2/11/11 by Senator Doug Whitsett |
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Governor Kitzhaber’s
Recommended Budget, Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett, posted
to KBC 2/5/11 |
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Environmental Advocacy groups destroying Klamath
agriculture, speech by Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett,
KFLS radio, posted to KBC 2/4/11. "I
believe that is time to recognize that folks such as
Glen Spain,
Craig Tucker and
James Honey do not speak for the interests of either
the irrigators, or the people, of the Upper Klamath
Basin. Isn’t it time to recognize the obvious “divide
and conquer” actions that are being used so successful
in destroying both the unity, and the economies, of our
communities? Why do we continue to extend credibility to
these folks?" |
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Governor Kitzhaber’s
Recommended Budget 2/4/11 |
Our
Government Spending Crisis 1/21/11 |
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Costly Unfulfilled Government Promises, Senator
Doug Whitsett, posted to KBC 1/8/11. "Sixteen
years of green energy promotion has netted less than
two percent green jobs, has drained billions of
dollars and innumerable family wage jobs out of our
private sector economy, has insured exponentially
higher utility rates into the future, and has
created the pathway for the destruction of the
hydropower infrastructure that is the economic
engine of the Northwest." "The direct result is the
current effort to destroy the PacifiCorp
hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River as well as
the impending assault on the Lower Snake River Dams.
The Bonneville Power Administration is currently
charging its utility ratepayers more than $975
million each year for salmon mitigation. The total
amount of environmental charges on your BPA utility
bill exceeds 40%." |
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Oregon
Senator Whitsett on Public Trust, transcript
from Whitsett's 11/30/10 speech on KFLS |
Oregon State Economic Status, by Oregon
Senator Doug Whitsett, posted to KBC 11/30/10 |
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Look Ahead by Senator Doug Whitsett, H&N, posted
to KBC 1/2/11
Senator Doug Whitsett newsletter 10/13/10 |
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Alternative to tax and spend government, by
Senator Doug Whitsett 8/2/10 |
State Sen.
Whitsett says ‘sue them,’
H&N 6/9/10 |
Oregon
Senator Doug Whitsett District 28 Newsletter
posted to KBC 6/23/10 |
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PRESS RELEASE: Senator Doug Whitsett wins challenge of
ballot title, 4/30/10 |
Whitsett vs. Kroger, 4/30/10. "The Oregon
Supreme Court ruled
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Oregon Integrated Water Resources Strategy, by
Senator Doug Whitsett, District 28 4/16/10 |
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Uncontrolled Governance by Senator Doug Whitsett,
posted to KBC 4/3/10 |
Senator (Whitsett) questions science behind
pollution rules,
H&N 3/18/10 |
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Klamath County Drought Declaration Request: letter to
Governor Ted Kulongoski from Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett
3/11/10 |
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March
Economic Forecast, by Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett
2/8/10. "Projected
state revenue income from general fund tax collections and
lottery fund profits is projected to be down by more than $190
million since the December 2009 forecast. The projected
reduction in state revenue since July 1, 2009 is more than
$400 million. Moreover, the 2009 fourth quarter report was the
seventh consecutive month of job losses and declining revenue."
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2010
Oregon Legislature by Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett
2/26/10 |
Oregon Ballot Measures and Taxes, by Oregon Senator Doug
Whitsett, posted to KBC 2/7/10 |
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AUDIO: KMED
Bell Meyers interview
with Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett 1/21/10 regarding KBRA/Klamath
Agreement regarding Rogue Valley and water rights,
"the tribes and environmental
community can only sue the Klamath Project for their water
after they have made every effort has been made to shut down
Rogue Valley diversions and every other irrigator outside the
Project." |
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Follow the Money,
by
Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett 1/14/10
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Oregon State Employee Compensation, posted 12/3/09, by
Senator Doug Whitsett |
Politics won in
legislative efforts to deal with taxes, by Senator Doug
Whitsett, H&N 11/1/09. |
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Draft
Klamath Hydroelectric Settlement Agreement,
by Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett,
10/2/09 |
Financing Environmental Lawsuits, by Oregon Senator Doug
Whitsett, 10/21/09 Newsletter
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What will dam removal mean in the future? H&N
letters 10/6/09. Senator Doug Whitsett:
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Oregon Senator
Doug Whitsett newsletter 8/28/09. "Throughout
that ever escalating spending binge, where the increase
averaged a compounded thirteen percent, our State has
consistently been a national leader in unemployment, poverty
and hunger. More than one out of every six Oregonians is now
using food stamps to feed their families..." |
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State, local Republicans oppose removal of dams, H&N
7/31/09. |
Oregon Senator
Doug Whitsett Newsletter 6/29/09 |
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The Governor’s
Proposed Oregon Emergency Jobs Program, Senator Doug
Whitsett Newsletter 6/18/09 |
How local
legislators voted, H&N, posted to KBC 7/30/09 |
Action Alert, SB 519A posted 6/13/09.
"...this
bill is an arbitrary obstruction of the rights to free speech
for only one group of Oregonians..." |
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Today was a Billion Dollar
Tax Day in the Oregon Legislature
Democrats pass $733 million
in tax increases on small and family owned businesses,
6/11/09 |
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Democrats
prepare for historic Billion Dollar Tax Week,
6/8/09
* 2009 Tax
Bills before the 2009 Oregon Legislative Assembly |
Proposed 2009-2011 Revenue Package,
6/4/09. "The result is an estimated reduction
of 10,747 private sector jobs."
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Oregon
Senator Doug Whitsett Newsletter 5/29/09.
"The
passage of SB 76 will start the process that will result in
the largest dam removal since World War II, and the largest
planned dam removal project in the history of mankind. It
represents the first domino to fall in the destruction of the
hydroelectric project
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Talent
Irrigation District's loss of their 30,000 acre foot
diversion, which includes the KBRA citation, 1/23/09.
Senator Whitsett and Craig Tucker, "as the Agreement is
currently written, then the water right, instream water right
for the Klamath River, that would be transferred into the
river, would be have a priority date considerably better than
the Talent Irrigation District's diversions from Hyatt Lake
and Howard Prairie, and I can't see how they couldn't have a
call on that water." |
Newsletter: Republicans propose budget
that protects core services without increasing taxes
5/13/09 |
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A Plan
for Oregon's Transportation,
Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett Newsletter 5/10/09. Whitsett Page
HERE. |
Oregon Senator
Doug Whitsett Newsletter, posted to KBC 5/7/09 |
Oregon Senator
Doug Whitsett Newsletter 4/26/09. Legislative hash,
Plaintiff's Fairness Act, Oregon's first tax on water. |
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Testimony of geologist Gail Hildreth Whitsett on SB 76,
Klamath Dam Removal Bill, posted to KBC 5/14/09 |
Oregon Senator Doug
Whitsett Newsletter 4/17/09: Tea Party, National Debt, and
wilderness reserves |
Fuzzy Government
Math, Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett Newsletter 4/10/09 |
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Oregon Senator
Doug Whitsett 4/3/09 Newsletter:
PacifiCorp’s Proposal for
Higher Rates.... |
Oregon's Water
Resources Threatened,
Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett newsletter 3/27/09.
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Oregon Banks in Our
Economy,
Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett Newsletter 3/20/09 |
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New taxes and
fees proposed for Oregonians, Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett
Newsletter 3/13/09. |
Oregon is on the Wrong Course,
Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett newsletter 3/6/09. "
The manipulation of energy costs through public policy simply
violates the civil rights of those who must choose between
heating their homes and feeding their children." |
Oregon Senator Doug
Whitsett newsletter, Budget and Revenue: "The
reductions in funding for the Judicial Branch of government were
so severe that they will result in the closure of all state courts
every Friday from March 13, 2009 through June 30, 2009..."
2/27/09 |
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Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett Newsletter 2/20/09.
"Explanation of the Budget Forecast,"
"Contemplated Closure of Kingsley Field." |
*House Bill
2157: The $96 Million Tax Increase,
Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett
Newsletter 2/13/09. "...your Oregon legislature raced to pass
legislation that unilaterally prohibits Oregonians from
benefiting from that stimulus package." |
Senator Doug
Whitsett newsletter 2/6/09: Klamath dam demolition,
destination resorts, real estate transfer tax, and stimulus
package. |
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