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She says it’s an issue of “funding”. How can that possibly be when the SIA funds has $22 million?
Ron, the grift is up.
You and Tina have now been exposed for not protecting our kids.
After the October 15, 2026 Silver Rail Elementary shooting in Bend, parents have rightfully pushed for more on-site officers.
Local officials have noted cost (one additional SRO can run roughly $90k–$125k+ annually) and police staffing shortages as barriers.
Gov. Kotek has not committed to a statewide one-per-school requirement.
She says it’s an issue of “funding”.
How can that possibly be when the SIA funds has $22 million?
Bend has 8 SRO’s across 32 schools.
Ronald loves to point out how much republicans fail us at every point but inthe 2025 session, HB 2179 (sponsored by Rep. Jeff Helfrich, R) would have directed every district school board to adopt a policy providing an SRO or other law enforcement coverage for each school and authorized State School Fund money to help cover costs.
It died in committee. Other school safety bills died in committee as well.
City of Bend has an “Equity and inclusion manager”- salary range $126,000-$161,000 per year.
Community sponsorships (FY 2024-25): The “Cultural and Diversity Celebrations”category totaled about $58,200. Bend Pride Inc received $10,000 for the Central Oregon Pride Festival.
That’s just a handful of examples that democrats are choosing priority over kids safety.
Vote Kotek OUT!— Red Wave (@RedWaveOR) October 26, 2026Posted ·
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When a United States Senator and his wife conspire to steal a million bucks from taxpayers, you might think it would bring serious consequences.
When a United States Senator and his wife conspire to steal a million bucks from taxpayers, you might think it would bring serious consequences.
— Lars Larson (@LarsLarsonShow) November 6, 2026
https://t.co/4kaeheIcVY
And you’d be wrong.
Democrat Senator Ron Wyden claims to represent Oregon but lives 3-thousand miles away in New York.
Wyden’s wife inherited tens of millions of dollars and a New York bookstore chain started by her granddad.
When the pandemic hit, Nancy Bass Wyden lined up at the public trough to gobble up a million-dollar-plus loan.
PPP loans were supposed to save American jobs.
But the Senator’s wife Pink slipped almost all of her more than 200 employees. With the loan in hand, she brought 30 workers back…but a few weeks later, laid off half of them.
She never paid the PPP loan back, but she did make a six-figure investment in Amazon stock.
When Congress offered a second dip into the PPP loan pool, it banned Senators and their families from getting the money.
Nancy Bass Wyden now pleads ignorance of the law, even though she sleeps with the guy who wrote it. (Senator Wyden was, at the time, a senior member of the Senate finance committee.)
So, six years after they illegally took almost a million taxpayer bucks, all Wyden and wife have to do is pay the money back and a tiny fine.
Crime pays, at least for democrats.Posted ·
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Hokey Smokes!
This is long but a necessary read for all Oregon voters, especially those who aren’t necessarily well versed or knowledgeable of Tina Kotek’s way of governing. She was and is a terrible, vindictive person but more so to her own party members. I was a witness to all former Rep. Diego Hernandez writes here. This is a Democrat telling the truth about former Speaker now Governor Kotek. I just wish more of my former colleagues would be so brave. He is an honorable man. #orpol #orleg #orgov I’m not voting for Tina Kotek. I personally know Tina Kotek’s Leadership. I Experienced It. I’ve been watching Tina Kotek’s governorship and the growing frustration with her leadership, the staff turnover, the controversies, and the struggles to deliver on some of Oregon’s most pressing issues. And I can’t help but reflect on my own experience. I served four years in the Oregon House of Representatives under Tina Kotek’s leadership as Speaker. I worked directly with her. I experienced how she treated people who challenged her authority, disagreed with her decisions, or refused to fall in line. I was bullied, harassed, threatened, and politically targeted by Tina Kotek. I don’t say that lightly. I lived it, documented it, provided evidence and witnesses, and eventually testified publicly about it. And what I experienced says a lot about the kind of leadership I believe Oregon has been subjected to. —When Power Becomes a Tool for Control— I still remember one of my first meetings with Tina when I was newly elected. There wasn’t much interest in getting to know me, understanding the communities I represented, or discussing the policies I wanted to champion. Instead, I was told how much money I was expected to raise for the Democratic caucus and how my ability to advance legislation, secure committee assignments, and receive political support would depend on meeting those expectations. That was my introduction to legislative leadership. Now, I understand politics. I understand fundraising, negotiating, coalition building, and the difficult compromises that come with governing. I’ve participated in all of it. But there’s a difference between exercising political leadership and using institutional power to intimidate, punish, and control people. Over time, I came to experience Tina’s leadership as rooted in fear, coercion, manipulation, and political retaliation. The message was clear: Support what she wants, or risk losing what matters to you. And when you represent communities that have historically been excluded from political power, that kind of leverage can be particularly harmful. —The Day She Threatened My Career— In 2019, Tina was trying to pass controversial legislation changing Oregon’s public employee retirement system, commonly known as PERS. I disagreed with the legislation and refused to vote for it. That decision led to repeated pressure and threats. And during one of her escalating confrontations towards me, Tina told me directly: “I will make sure to end your career.” She threatened my legislative priorities, my political future, and bills I had worked hard to advance. In one of her final attempts to get me to change my vote, she said she was going to kill the legislation to restore access to driver’s licenses for undocumented Oregonians if I voted no. Think about that for a moment. A policy affecting thousands of immigrant families, people who needed to drive legally to work, take their children to school, and participate in everyday life, was being used as leverage to force my vote on an entirely unrelated issue. I wasn’t going to let that happen. Immediately after that threat, I called Rep. Teresa Alonso Leon, who was working with me on the driver’s license legislation, and told her what Tina was threatening to do. Teresa was courages and she told Tina that if she killed our driver’s license bill, Teresa would change her vote on PERS from yes to a no. With the vote already extremely close, losing another vote completely threatened Tina’s ability to pass the legislation. That changed the political equation. The PERS bill barely passed, but only after Democrat changed their vote from no to yes. That legislator had been called into Tina’s office and, from what I witnessed, emerged in tears, visibly distressed by the vote they felt compelled to make. Our driver’s license legislation survived thanks to Teresa Alonso Leon and eventually became law. But I never forgot what it took to protect it. What disturbed me most was how easily the needs of an entire community could become bargaining chips in an effort to control another elected official. And this was only one example of what I experienced. —When the System Protects Power— I eventually filed a formal workplace harassment complaint and provided evidence of Tina’s conduct, including contemporaneous messages, witnesses, and documentation of the threats. Tina worked hard to make sure the investigation never concluded or to come out and see the light of day, dragging far beyond the required time required by statute. People witnessed parts of what happened. I told colleagues about the threats immediately after they occurred, long before there was any formal investigation. The investigator even concluded that the evidence more closely supported my version of events. Yet the investigator reasoned that conduct potentially inappropriate in another workplace was different in the Legislature because politics is inherently contentious. Mind you that investigator is under the office controlled by Tina herself. These investigators work like prosecutors for her office. Essentially, the intimidation I experienced was treated as part of politics. The House Conduct Committee ultimately deadlocked 2–2 over whether her conduct violated workplace rules. That vote distinction matters to me. A complaint being dismissed by deadlocked doesn’t mean she didn’t violate the rules, yet that’s what was reported. In my experience, the legislative accountability system was deeply compromised by her political influence, institutional self-protection, and what I witnessed as the targeting of people she considered political enemies. My experience left me with profound concerns about whether those holding the greatest power could ever be meaningfully held accountable by a process operating within the same institutional power structure they could influence and manipulate. These systems were weaponized by Kotek against political opponents, including me and other legislators who challenged her leadership or refused to do what she wanted. Those concerns extend beyond my own experience. She had the power to initiate any investigation she wanted, when she wanted under the mandatory reporting rules, Tina herself initiated investigations through reports she submitted herself, while the process could obscure who had set the investigation in motion. I witnessed first hand the political exploitation of that authority. When political power influences who gets investigated, who gets believed, how conduct is interpreted, and who faces consequences, accountability itself becomes vulnerable to manipulation. And as a man of color, I am especially aware of how racial stereotypes, historical inequities, and systemic racism can make it easier for someone to be targeted, labeled, and presumed culpable. And how much more the consequences that come with such targeting. And that should concern everyone, regardless of political affiliation. —The Long-Term Cost of Leading Through Fear— Here’s what my experience taught me about leadership. You can get a lot accomplished in the short term through intimidation, political threats, transactional relationships, control over fundraising, and and the enormous leverage that comes with controlling legislative assignments and influencing state budgets. People will comply. They will tell you what you want to hear. They may even defend you publicly because their careers, priorities, relationships, or access to resources depend on maintaining your favor. That can look like effective leadership from the outside. But over time, that style of leadership begins to rot the very foundation of her leadership and the institutions, relationships, and trust upon which leadership depends on. Trust deteriorates. People become afraid to disagree. Independent thinking gets punished. Genuine relationships become transactional. Loyalty becomes a measure of usefulness rather than shared values or mutual respect. Eventually, the consequences become harder to contain. Unlike leadership rooted in respect, consistent values and, like that of Morse, Hatfield, Dellenback, McCall, Katz, Paulus, McNary, Courtney, Roberts, Carter, and other Oregon’s great leaders. When I see the turmoil surrounding Tina’s governorship, the departure of senior staff, the controversies over her decision-making and the questions surrounding her wife’s involvement in state government and the use of public resources to support that role,, and the growing frustration over the state’s direction, I recognize aspects of the leadership culture I experienced. I do believe how someone exercises power has consequences, especially when they become responsible for leading an entire state. A governor needs people who feel empowered to speak honestly, challenge decisions, identify mistakes, and offer different perspectives without fearing retaliation. You cannot build that kind of environment through fear. —Oregon Deserves Better Leadership— Yes, Tina Kotek has worked hard on some policies that I support. We have shared political priorities, and there are legislative accomplishments during her time as Speaker that deserve recognition. I can acknowledge those accomplishments while also speaking honestly about how she leads and what I witnessed. Political alignment should never require us to excuse hostile leadership that uses bullying, harassment, manipulation, or abuses of power from people on our own side. I’ve spent 15 years of my life working in communities where leadership is rooted in relationships, collective responsibility, restoritve justice, and the understanding that people deserve dignity, including when we disagree. I’ve also seen how political systems can reproduce the same harmful power dynamics that many of us entered public service hoping to change. Leadership requires making difficult decisions. Sometimes people will disagree with you. Sometimes you’ll lose votes, face criticism, or have to make compromises that disappoint people. That comes with the responsibility of public service. But threatening someone’s livelihood, political future, or the communities they represent because they refuse to surrender their independent judgment should never be normalized as the cost of doing politics. I know how damaging that kind of leadership can be. I live with its consequences long after leaving the Legislature. And while other people may have had different experiences with Tina, this was mine. I believe Oregon deserves leadership that builds trust rather than fear, earns loyalty rather than demands obedience, welcomes disagreement rather than punishes it, and understands that political power is a public responsibility rather than a personal instrument of control. I didn’t enter public service to be loyal to a political leader. I entered it to represent people, advocate for communities, and advance policies that improve lives. And no elected official, regardless of their title, party, or political power, should ever have to choose between their conscience and their career. That’s the kind of political culture I believe we should be challenging, including within our own political circles. And that’s why, based on my own experience, I don’t believe Tina Kotek represents the kind of leadership Oregon deserves and won’t be voting for her because we do need change, we need great leaders like the names I mentioned earlier. -Diego (I wrote this myself and not a.i. so please excuse all my grammatical errors)
— Bill Post 🇺🇸 (@TheBillPost) October 23, 2026Posted ·
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The people most convinced they are fighting fascism are the ones treating disagreement as a threat that must be shouted down or removed by any means necessary. Strange world we live in.
Oregon Campus ‘Anti-Fascists’ Scream ‘HitIer Youth!’ at Alex Stein TPUSA Open Debate, Get Arrested Before It Starts
They are not afraid of Alex Stein’s jokes or TPUSA’s talking points
They are afraid of an unfiltered conversation that lets students hear the other side.
Open debate is the threat; the NAZl rhetoric is the justification for shutting it down.
They do not see themselves as the authoritarians because they invert the definition.
Their side owns the moral high ground by default.
Therefore any restriction on their disruption is “fascism.”
Any conservative organization is “HitIer Youth” by category, not by evidence.
Police enforcing basic order are the brownshirts.
The same people who scream “no platform for fascists” will try to physically prevent a discussion
Then call the resulting arrest proof that the state is fascist.
It is classic projection
The tactics of intimidation and deplatforming get projected onto the people who showed up to talk.
Campus environments that spent years teaching “speech is violence” and “punch up by any means” produce exactly this behavior.
The irony is lost on them
Because recognizing it would require admitting that equating a comedian’s debate table with HitIer Youth is unhinged.
And drowning out speech while calling the other side the censors is the opposite of anti-fascism.
This is the same dynamic that has played out at other TPUSA stops:
> Disruption
>> Arrests for disorderly conduct
>>> Then claims that the speakers or the police are the real authoritariansThe people most convinced they are fighting fascism are the ones treating disagreement as a threat that must be shouted down or removed by any means necessary.
Strange world we live in. https://t.co/t12pnDLzpW— TaraBull (@TaraBull) October 28, 2026Posted ·
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Shithole City - Thanks, Ted.
The Oregonian: “A whopping 84% said they wouldn’t feel safe walking around downtown Portland at night and 61% said they felt the same way during the day.” https://t.co/w3NPXJ5bpV
— Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) October 15, 2022Posted ·
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“After the St. Helens acting police chief revealed that the district hadn't reported complaints for years…..”
“After the St. Helens acting police chief revealed that the district hadn't reported complaints for years…..”
— Tim 🇺🇸 Family First (@oregonduck101) November 19, 2024
People need to go to jail, they are abusing kids and getting away with no reporting it !!Posted ·
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@OregonYouth Authority director Joe O'Leary has been placed on immediate leave after it was revealed that the agency had staff who allegedly systematically groomed and s—xually abused children and young adults in state custody.
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— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) February 16, 2025OregonYouth</a> Authority director Joe O'Leary has been placed on immediate leave after it was revealed that the agency had staff who allegedly systematically groomed and s—xually abused children and young adults in state custody.<a href="https://twitter.com/joe_oleary_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">joe_oleary_ is a woke activist who also teaches… pic.twitter.com/B9KDvN0eWHPosted ·
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Why are [D]s providing safe harbor [safe zones] for ANTIFA to operate? Coordinated? Read the playbook.
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Wells Fargo lays off 50 more workers at its downtown Portland office
Wells Fargo lays off 50 more workers at its downtown Portland office https://t.co/rHYTzj0xxX
— Oregonian Business (@OregonianBiz) October 2, 2025Posted ·
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i am an Oregonian and you have never stood up for me. If you did Portland would be the place it once was. safe to be out at night in it and businesses not running away. you are shameful. Welcome to law and order
i am an Oregonian and you have never stood up for me. If you did Portland would be the place it once was. safe to be out at night in it and businesses not running away. you are shameful. Welcome to law and order
— P Sears (@p_s_ishere) October 11, 2025Posted ·
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