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Oregonians: Vote Yes on 66 & 67
Your ballot must be in by Tuesday, January 26

The bullet: 1) Oregon will move from the 3rd lowest corporate tax to the 5th lowest; 2) if you make more than $250,000/year, you'll pay a little more; 3) if you are unemployed, you are going to get a little help on your taxes; 4) we get to maintain basic services instead of slashing them with devastating consequences to our society.

Frequently Asked Questions About Measures 66 & 67

Our elected state legislature decided to fund services at a basic level with modest increases in taxes for some of Oregon corporations and the wealthiest Oregonians. Relentless right wingers continue to abuse the ballot initiative process by second-guessing the people we elected/hired. (Here's the definition of representative democracy.)

Oregon started the initiative process in the first half of the twentieth century to reform serious systemic government corruption. And it was successful.

Now it is used to empty the pocketbooks of teachers (the Oregon Education Association, Oregon's teachers' union, is always one of the leading progressive forces opposing retrograde ballot measures).

Vote Republican: You'll get what you deserve.

To take back our country:

1) Be informed

Blue Oregon

Daily Kos

Air America Radio

Huffington Post

2) Take action
Whether it's an e-mail, a petition, a phone call, a donation, holding a sign, going door-to-door, or making a donation -- do something. That's how we won in 2006.

MoveOn.org

Democracy for Oregon

Democracy for America

3) Talk liberal, own liberal. Refuse the right wing frame.

LiberalOasis

4) Remember why we fight

The Liberal Legacy
Consider a short and incomplete list of 20th-century liberal triumphs, all vehemently opposed by conservatives at the time...

W's record of failure and weakness.