Lawmakers may gut Measure 99, slap voters (rumor)

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon
OregonWatchdog.com

Capitol rumors suggest that the Ways and Means Committee is adopting a HECC budget that undermines voter-approved Measure 99, a 2016 measure that dedicates 4% of lottery funds to Outdoor School. This voter-approved funding likely going to be put aside and the funds raided to pay for more General Fund expenses like the $30 billion Public Employee Retirement (PERS) pension debt.

Slapping voters by revoking their ballot measures is much like …

… when Democratic lawmakers voted to overturn voter-approved Measure 88 (ban on driver’s license IDS for illegal migrants).

… Voters rejected a billion-dollar sales tax by nearly 60% in 2016 (Measure 96). So the politicians created an even worse billion-dollar sales tax (HB3427) and passed it anyway.

… Oregonians voted to put the death penalty in the Constitution for Oregon’s worst murderers (Measure 6). The politicians voted to gut the death penalty without asking voters. They were able to cheat the Constitution by changing who qualifies for the death penalty, therefore setting 28 of 29 criminals free from being on death row.

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