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    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/u…

    Eleven of Oregon’s Senate Republicans fled the state this week to avoid a vote on a bill that would cap greenhouse emissions. The group, believed to be hiding in Idaho, left the state senate with too few lawmakers to hold a vote. But the move is more than a legislative maneuver. The missing senators have partnered with right-wing paramilitary groups to threaten violence, should they be brought back to Oregon.

    The state senate had scheduled sessions on Saturday, but cancelled them after reports of several militias’ two-day “Rally to Take the Capitol” this weekend.

    “Oregon State Police has recommended that the Capitol be closed tomorrow due to a possible militia threat,” a spokesperson for the senate president told the Associated Press on Friday night.

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    • "...one Republican senator implied that police who pursued them should be ready to die: “Send bachelors and come heavily armed.”" ...PonyBoy
    • https://www.thedaily…PonyBoy
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    • These punks need to be put in their place. Period. The last standoff shouldn't have been allowed to happen, just encourages this stupidity.formed
    • They should be treated as terrorists.formed
    • i guess there's a reason they just can't vote against it. but damn, these guys should be arrestedGnash
    • 'send bachelors' - what a bunch of dicksGnash
    • Minority Republicans want the cap-and-trade proposal aimed at dramatically lowering the state's greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 to be sent to the voters for ap
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    • proval instead of instituted by lawmakers.
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    • Wisconsin Democrats relied on the same strategy in 2011 in the hopes of derailing then-Gov. Scott Walker's (R) anti-union agenda.
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    • politics and so much drama. but i think in this case the reps doing the right thing by letting such rules at least be voted upon.
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    • tactics legal, and juvenile but part of the game, and need no threat of violence
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    • I don’t get why they don’t just vote against it. I guess I’m not understanding the processGnash
    • think fine line quorum stuff. filibuster style tactics
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    • I hate to say it but a Civil War would be preferable to giving this shit a free pass every time. We have to stop Pelosi-ing our democracy away.CyBrainX
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