Oregon's secretary of state submitted her resignation on Tuesday after being scrutinized for working as a consultant for a marijuana company, during the same time her office conducted an audit on the cannabis industry. Shemia Fagan, a Democrat, announced her resignation on Tuesday, saying it will be effective on May 8. Once Fagan steps away,
Less than a month remains before the Nov. 8 election. That can only mean it’s time to trot out a book Jeff Golden wrote in 1971 and suggest a word that appears in it somehow makes him unfit for public.
Former Oregon House Speaker Tina Kotek, a Democrat running for governor, appears to have quietly moved her endorsement from an embattled state senator to the second page of her website.