Five Oregon counties will ask voters in the next election whether they want to detach from the deep-blue state and join neighboring red-state Idaho.
Move Oregon's Border, also known as Greater Idaho, confirmed Tuesday that the initiative to move swaths of largely rural eastern and southern Oregon into Idaho qualified for the May 18 special election ballot in five counties: Baker, Grant, Lake, Malheur and Sherman.
TOP STORIES Fox News, OANN, Newsmax in crosshairs as Democrats push conservative media purge New Yorkers turn on Cuomo as aide's accusations speed stunning downfall Democrats ask Biden to cede authority on nuclear launches "Oregon is a powder keg because counties that belong in a red-state like Idaho are ruled by Portlanders," said Mike McCarter, president of Move Oregon's Border, in a statement.
The Move Oregon's Borders movement is batting.
"It's just the state government that we can't stand." Oregon Democrats control the governorship, all state constitutional offices and both houses of the state legislature.
Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney said that the Greater Idaho campaign concerns him, saying, "I hope we'd never look at that." "I don't think we would, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't act like it wouldn't happen, because if we act like it, then maybe we'll really sit down and really think real hard about this rural-urban divide," said Mr. Courtney, a Democrat, in a Dec. 7 interview on KATU-TV. Move Oregon's Border has a high bar to clear: Any state line reconfiguration would require the approval of the relevant state legislatures as well as Congress.
Move Oregon's Borders still has a presence on Twitter, MeWe, Parler, Gab and Telegram.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/feb/24/five-oregon-counties-vote-leaving-state-escaping-g/
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