The LWVOR Legislative Action Team 2022 session priorities:
We are looking forward to 2023
In this era of COVID-19, we continue to protect democracy. Our priority emphasis was on health, safety, and providing safety net services to the most vulnerable. As employment opportunities improve, it is important to assure all workers have a safe environment with adequate pay to allow Oregon to also generate adequate revenue for essential services. Continued work on the climate emergency and addressing homelessness and other underserved communities is integral to Oregon’s future.
PROTECT DEMOCRACY by supporting campaign finance reform statutes to implement the M 107 constitutional amendment. Advocate for an independent citizen redistricting commission as in IP 34. Expand automatic voter registration and fund up-to-date, efficient and secure elections’ software.
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GENERATE ADEQUATE REVENUE for essential services while promoting equitable and progressive tax policy and addressing revenue needs due to COVID-19.
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ADVOCATE FOR ANTI-POVERTY PROGRAMS AND HEALTH CARE REFORMS by preserving adequate Medicaid funding to build on Oregon’s innovation to cover all kids and vulnerable adults. Focus on services for seniors, people with disabilities, and foster youth.
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SUPPORT STRATEGIES TO ASSURE HOUSING FOR ALL by increasing investments in rental assistance, affordable and homeless housing, preservation, new units and homeownership
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PROMOTE PUBLIC SAFETY MEASURES by seeking practical strategies to achieve police reform, revising mandatory sentencing of adults laws, and instituting gun safety measures.
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ADDRESS THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY by supporting Governor Kate Brown’s 2017-2021 Carbon/Climate Executive Orders, net zero greenhouse gas emissions before 2050 while ensuring environmental justice with a just transition for workers and impacted communities
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ADDRESS FORESTRY POLICIES around the Elliott State Research Forest and the Private Forest Accord. Support creation of an Environmental Justice Council. Engage in a statewide water conversation.
Printable version of our 2022 Legislative Priorities list.
Becky Gladstone, LWVOR President, and Alice Bartelt, LWVOR Legislative Action Chair, along with our team of volunteers listed below, are available to provide clarifications on League positions.
Call our office at (503) 581-5722 or directly contact portfolio chairs in specific areas listed below. LWVOR Action team members are experienced, unpaid volunteers. Our advocates focus on the broad areas of Climate Emergency, Governance and Protecting Democracy, Human Services, Public Safety, Health Care, Housing, Natural Resources, Education, and Revenue.
Advocacy Sub-Categories
Advocates year round for a variety of agency rules, policies and budgets that are consistent with the best available climate science and that will ensure a stable climate system for future generations. ( returning to < 350 C02 PPM and < 1.5 Degree Celsius warming by 2100). LWVOR supports the Our Children’s Trust/Crag Environmental Law Center state and federal lawsuits and we oppose expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure.
Contacts:
Portfolio Coordinator: Claudia Keith
Clean Renewable Energy and GHGE mitigation: Kathy Moyd
Climate Friendly Equitable Communities: Nancy Rosenberger
NWL Forestry : Josie Koehne
Efficient & Resilient Buildings: Kathy Moyd
Fossil Fuel Infrastructure LNG & NG: Shirley Weathers
Environmental Justice: Shirley Weathers and Claudia Keith
Our Children’s Trust : Claudia Keith
Climate Change Budget : Claudia Keith
Transportation: Vacant
Public Health: Vacant
Gun Safety And Justice Issues
Follows student success, early learning, career technical programs (CTE), PK-12 and higher education. We advocate minimizing barriers impacting education for children at risk or historically underserved and underachieving youth. We advocate for best mental health practices for teachers and students in an ever changing environment.
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Contacts:
Portfolio Member: Anne Nesse
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Contacts:
Portfolio Coordinators: Marge Easley
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Volunteers:
Justice Reform: Karen Nibler
Gun Safety: Marge Easley
Rights of Incarcerated People: Marge Easley
Governance issues include ethics, efficiency, citizen participation and access, public access law, and contemporary privacy and technology issues. Election policies include statutes and administrative rules, campaign finance, redistricting, and alternative voting methods.
Contacts:
Portfolio Coordinator: Norman Turrill
Election Security and E-Portal Advisory Board Rep, Becky Gladstone, Tom Messenger
Public Access, Paula Krane
Redistricting, Chris Cobey
Voting Methods, Barbara Klein
Works year-round on improved air quality, combating climate change, coastal management, clean energy, proper disposal of hazardous materials and solid waste, conservation, land use, parks, clean and abundant water supply for all, wetlands and other resource preservation, and budgets related to Oregon’s 14 natural resource agencies.
Contacts:
Portfolio Coordinator: Peggy Lynch
Air Quality, Kathy Moyd
Columbia River Treaty, Phillip Thor
Coastal Issues, Christine Moffitt
Drinking-Water Advisory Committee Representative, Amelia Nestler
Forestry, Josie Koehne
Hanford Cleanup Board Representative/Nuclear Waste, Marylou Schnoes
Land Use/Aggregate, Marge Easley
Northwest Energy Coalition Representative, Robin Tokmakian
Pesticides/Toxics, Amelia Nestler
Radioactive Waste, Shirley Weathers
Land Use/Housing, Water Issues and Natural Resource Agency Budgets, Peggy Lynch.
The broad social policy area includes adult corrections, judiciary, juvenile justice, public safety, health care, mental health, housing, and immigration: refugee, foster care, social services, and women’s issues. Actively lobbies for anti-poverty programs to help low-income and at-risk people move toward financial stability.
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Contacts:
Portfolio Coordinator:
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Many volunteers work in this area. Contact them specifically to collaborate:
Health Care: Shirley Weathers
Housing: Nancy Donovan and Debbie Aiona
Women’s Issues: Patricia Gardner
Immigration, Refugee and other Basic Rights: Claudia Keith
Addresses fair, equitable, and stable tax and revenue policies to adequately fund services and functions critical to Oregonians, including climate emergency investments. Consider extra revenue needs due to COVID-19 and wildfire for affordable housing and economic recovery for impacted small businesses, communities of color, and undocumented workers.
Contacts:
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