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Bucking new law, 10 Oregon senators disqualified from reelection with boycott (www.oregonlive.com)

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[-] Pratai@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Hilarious!

[-] Encode1307@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

This article is from May. Why's it coming up now?

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

There's an N'Sync/Justin Timberlake joke in here somewhere 🤔

[+] Crackhappy@lemmy.world -6 points 1 year ago

Reading about the law that was passed, and now the aftermath of it, I'm a bit skeptical that this is a good thing. On the other hand, what other job can you just decide not to go to and do your work and it's totally fine? Is boycotting a bill or series of bills because you disagree with them protected speech? Perhaps not. It's just interesting to see this happening.

[-] Wenchette@lemmy.ml 58 points 1 year ago

If you disagree with the bill be a fucking adult, show up, do your job and vote no on that shit. These people are preventing votes from being taken and deliberately failing to show up for work, so fuck them

[-] TempleSquare@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

I mean, they still have the RIGHT to not show up.

They just don't have a right to still have a job.

[-] 001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean, couldn't they still "boycott" by casting a "present" vote? It's essentally the same thing but you get to keep your job.

[-] qprimed@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago

I suspect they are stopping a vote from even happening because the minimum percentage of legislators required to be there to vote (a quorum) is not being met. basically, they are throwing a tantrum, taking the ball and going home.

[-] 001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Quorum is usually 50% in most legislatures, I don't see how not attending is any way useful.... Ahh I just searched it, two-thirds quorum. So idiotic. Lazy person writing the state constitution just copied Indiana's racist constitution which just so happened to have the two-third rule so that's why they still have these stupid supermajority quorums. It's like a filibuster but instead of endless talking, they don't even need to attend at all. Just wow.

The measure addresses a quirk in Oregon’s constitution, left over from when the state’s founders copied about half the text from Indiana’s constitution in 1857. Indiana’s constitution contained an explicit ban on Black people living in the state, which appealed to Oregon’s founders, and it also required a two-thirds quorum in the House and Senate.

Lmao they got the highschooler attitude to homework way before our times!

Source: https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2023/06/14/oregon-democrats-float-new-proposal-to-change-quorum-laws-as-senate-republican-walkout-drags-on/

[-] qprimed@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

almost everything comes back to fear and hatred.

[-] DucktorZee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This is exactly what is happening

[-] Stern@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

In Oregon's case the Republicans had been doing their quorum dodge stuff for a few years to prevent progressive legislature and the citizenry got tired of it and voted this change in.

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