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Sen. Dallas Heard of Roseburg and Sen. Dennis Linthicum of Klamath Falls currently serve as the chair and treasurer, respectively, of the Oregon Republican Party as well as representing districts 1 and 28 in the Oregon Senate.
Senate Bill 865, introduced Wednesday by two Republican senators, would make them choose which office they want to hold.
The two-page bill would disallow a person from simultaneously holding an elected position in state government and serving as an officer in a state political party.
Violators would face a fine of $250 per calendar day. The bill has an emergency clause, meaning it would go into effect upon passage, and would begin to apply to violators seven days later.
Surrounded by LGBTQ community leaders and several supervisors, Honey Mahogany Thursday kicked off her bid to become the first transgender and first Black chair of the San Francisco Democratic Party at the Tenderloin site of the Compton s Cafeteria riot.
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At one, they summoned on-the-ground social media journalist Andy Ngo, who testified that Antifa-infiltrated cities regularly suffered what is tantamount to Trump supporters’ Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
At another hearing, Republicans grilled FBI Director Christopher A. Wray on what they see as the bureau’s indifference to Antifa’s marauding. Mr. Wray generally calls Antifa an “ideology” and not a national organization. A congressman said a committee has compiled a “binder” full of evidence of Antifa’s national coordination.
President Biden, during his campaign, called Antifa an “idea.” He blamed months of summer riots in protest of the police-custody death of George Floyd on “White supremacists.” The riots were carried out by a mix of Black Lives Matter supporters, Antifa and people exploiting the urban chaos.
2 Mar 2021
Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on Tuesday during a Senate hearing called out left-wing domestic violence over the summer amid an apparent attempt by Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) to use the January 6th Capitol breach to tie the political right to domestic extremism.
Grassley said he agreed that the violence at the Capitol on January 6th was a “desecration” that “disgraced our country,” and he called for those who broke the law that day to be prosecuted.
However, he said, to fully address domestic extremism, threats must be looked at across the political spectrum. “A narrow view of these matters would be intellectually dishonest,” he said in response to Durbin’s opening remarks at the hearing, which was on oversight of the FBI.