{"id":36707,"date":"2020-09-09T03:25:07","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T03:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=36707"},"modified":"2020-09-09T03:25:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T03:25:07","slug":"oregon-gop-submits-had-enough-vote-republican-statement-for-official-voter-pamphlets-it-wont-be-included","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=36707","title":{"rendered":"Oregon GOP Submits &lsquo;Had Enough? Vote Republican!&rsquo; Statement For Official Voter Pamphlets. It Won&rsquo;t Be Included."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Oregon secretary of state has rejected the government Republican Party&rsquo;s effort to include on official voter pamphlets a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/oregon-republican-party\/oregon-gop-state-party-chairman-files-complaint-over-blocking-of-voter-pamphlet-\/3446122622077345\/\">statement<\/a> challenging the state&rsquo;s Democratic leadership because it was allegedly submitted 29 seconds after the Aug. 25 deadline. <\/p>\n<p>The statement was named &ldquo;Had Enough? Vote Republican, &rdquo; and contained recent examples of Democratic management in the country, drawing attention to the &ldquo;unrestrained rioting, ruin, and violence in Portland, &rdquo; the state&rsquo;s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and its effect on small businesses, and the unemployment level.<\/p>\n<p>Laura Fosmire, a spokesperson for Republican Secretary of State Bev Clarno, told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/politics\/2020\/09\/oregon-republican-party-statement-wont-be-in-voters-pamphlet-elections-officials-say-it-was-filed-29-seconds-late.html\">Associated Press<\/a> in a statement this week: &ldquo;Anyone wishing to submit information to the Voters&rsquo; Pamphlet has two or more weeks to do so and we recommend evading &#8220;il wait for&#8221; the last minute for this reason.&rdquo;( According to Oregon Public Broadcasting, Clarno is the only Republican in statewide office, and was appointed to fill a vacancy that, by law, the Democratic governor had to fill with a Republican .) <\/p>\n<p>The Oregon Republican Party has denied that the voter pamphlet statement was submitted late, and has filed a complaint against the Secretary of State&rsquo;s office. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We can prove that it was submitted accurately and are taking legal action to challenge and procure a reversal of this horrible decision by the Elections Division, &rdquo; said Oregon GOP Chairman Bill Currier. &ldquo;The voters of Oregon are entitled to fair and impartial administration of our election system. Excluding the Republican voters pamphlet statement reeks of partisan discrimination.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We question the inexplicable delay in informing us of this abandonment and are deeply concerned about the motivation and planned of depriving voters of this information for such a momentous election, &rdquo; said Currier in a statement Thursday. &ldquo;If a bureaucrat in some decision-making role simply didn&rsquo;t like what our declaration said, this doesn&rsquo;t give them the human rights of silence us.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Hoar, communications administrator for the Oregon Republican Party, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/article\/2020\/09\/04\/oregon-republican-party-voters-guide-deadline\/\">OPB<\/a> that the online system to submit the voter statement was glitching the working day of the deadline, which obstructed the state party&rsquo;s ability to file. Fosmire, the secretary of state&rsquo;s spokesperson, has denied that flaws contributed to the delay, saying there weren&rsquo;t any and that the agency simply received the statement after the filing deadline.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Currier said on Thursday that Oregon was simply full of bureaucratic systems that don&rsquo;t work, such as the unemployment system, and accused the country of trying to blame citizens for its own omissions yet again. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If this decision is not reversed, the exclusion of the Oregon Republican Party proclamation would is tantamount to unequal, arbitrary, and capricious treatment of Oregon Republicans by a state agency. This care immediately harms the public interest and contravenes their civil rights. It is the selective silencing of certain voices, &rdquo; said Currier. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Had enough of being silenced? &rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Your voice, the voice of the people, must be heard now.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America&rsquo;s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural stores for report, opinion, and amusement. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>. <\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/oregon-gop-submits-had-enough-vote-republican-statement-for-official-voter-pamphlets-it-wont-be-included\">dailywire.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oregon secretary of state has rejected the government Republican Party&rsquo;s effort to include on official voter pamphlets a statement challenging the state&rsquo;s Democratic leadership because it was allegedly submitted 29 seconds after the Aug. 25 deadline. The statement was named &ldquo;Had Enough? Vote Republican, &rdquo; and contained recent examples of Democratic management in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5989,15891,21027,2109,18873,19472],"class_list":["post-36707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-oregon","tag-said","tag-simply","tag-state","tag-system","tag-voter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Portland-Riot1599621908.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}