The Rainy Day fund

My God, they did it.

Despite continued prevarication by the right wing, the Oregon Legislature passed the Rainy Day fund.

No more firing teachers when the economy goes in the tank (that's when we NEED more educational opportunity), or cutting back on health and welfare services (that's when we most NEED these services, when there are no jobs).

A special thanks to those Republicans, in both the House and the Senate, who crossed party lines to do the right thing. That was tough, that was courage.

To Republicans who still say that capturing some of the $275 million of taxes owed and paid by mainly out-of-state corporations that would have been sent to California or Texas or Minnesota, we say you put ideology over the wellfare of Oregon and should be replaced.