Clackamas County leaders weigh in on Mark Shull s comments
Swearing-in ceremony called off as mayors, city councilors appalled by county commissioner s Facebook
Elected officials from across the Portland metro region are weighing in on statements made by County Commissioner Mark Shull on his personal Facebook account representing racist, transphobic, Islamophobic and anti-immigrant views.
Shull who took office Monday, Jan. 4, and was set to be sworn in Wednesday, Jan. 13 is facing harsh criticism from the sentiments he s espoused online, as well as calls for his resignation. Clackamas County spokesperson Kimberly Dinwiddie said recent threats of violence have led to the decision to cancel the swearing-in ceremony for Shull and newly elected County Board Chair Tootie Smith.
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We Asked Oregon Republican Lawmakers: Do They Acknowledge Biden Won? We also asked what they’re telling their constituents to do on Inauguration Day, when right-wing protests are planned in 50 state capitals and Washington, D.C. A right-wing protester holds a rifle outside the Oregon Capitol. (Justin Yau) Updated January 13 Last month, a dozen Republican state legislators asked Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum to join a Texas lawsuit that challenged the presidential election results in key swing states.
Editorial: An election myth becomes a violent mob
Updated Jan 07, 2021;
Posted Jan 07, 2021
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: A pro-Trump mob breaks into the U.S. Capitol on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Congress held a joint session today to ratify President-elect Joe Biden s 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. A group of Republican senators said they would reject the Electoral College votes of several states unless Congress appointed a commission to audit the election results. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Getty ImagesGetty Images
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The mob of violent Trump supporters storming the Capitol on Wednesday was nothing short of a national disgrace. Their hijacking of Congress was no protest, but rather a criminal act against American voters, values and institutions. That many carried the American flag as they sought to upend a defining aspect of our democracy – certifying the election of a president – gave this whole absurd, dangerous
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As of 12:45 AM PST January 7, 2021, after the congress read and accepted the results of the Electoral College declaring Joe Biden the President-elect and Kamala Harris the Vice President-elect,
these Oregon REPUBLICAN legislators (see below) indicated that they still
REFUSED to acknowledge that Joe Biden is the President-elect and Kamala Harris the Vice President-elect.
As of 12:45 AM PST January 7, 2021, after a
Trump
insurrectionists, anti-democracy vandals, anarchists, seditionists and domestic terrorists attempted a
violent coup as they stormed our nation s Capitol building,
these Trump loyalist collaborators and elected Oregon REPUBLICAN legislators (see below) indicated that they still
REFUSED to acknowledge that Joe Biden is the President-elect and Kamala Harris the Vice President-elect.
SALEM â Bobby Levy will replace Greg Barreto as District 58âs state representative in 2021, but they got a chance to collaborate before the end of Barretoâs tenure on a letter supporting the effort to halt the Electoral College vote in several key swing states in the 2020 presidential election.
Barreto and Levy signed a Dec. 11 letter from a group of GOP legislators to Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum requesting she join a Texas lawsuit that sought to block electors in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin from voting for President-elect Joe Biden.
The letter didnât sway Rosenblum, a Democrat, who joined 22 attorneys general in filing a brief opposing the lawsuit. On the same day the Oregon legislators sent the letter, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case, asserting that Texas didnât have standing to sue other states over their election systems.