Sen. Meek (D): Senate Pres. must resign over gas tax battle

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon
OregonWatchdog.com

Willamette Week is reporting that Oregon State Senator Mark Meek (D) is demanding that the Oregon Senate President Rob Wagner (D) resign.  You may remember that Senator Mark Meek last June refused to vote for the billion dollar gas tax/car tax plan.   Without his vote, the gas tax/car tax package died because the Senate needed a super-majority vote to pass taxes and Republican Senators would not throw their votes for such a massive tax package.

Now we are days away from Oregon Governor Tina Kotek calling lawmakers back into the Capitol for an emergency one-day Special Legislative Session to pass a smaller (but still huge) gas tax/car tax package.   As this is happening Senator Meek is demanding Senate President Rob Wagner to step down.  Senator Meek blames him for mis-managing gas tax debate as well as the 2023 Session where Republican Senator walked out over a protest of several extremely bad bills.

Taxpayers would agree with the mismanagement described situation.   This gas tax bill has been a disaster.  President Wagner should resign.

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