Brown trying to pull one over on Oregon
quote:A judge has ruled that Gov. Kate Brown's administration has until 5 p.m. Friday to release about 250 bill proposals for 2019.
The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Marion County Circuit Court Judge Audrey Broyles ruled Wednesday, saying there's a significant public interest in the documents being disclosed.
The case centers on whether Brown and state agencies she oversees can keep bill proposals confidential while legislative lawyers are drafting legislation.
With Brown in a close re-election race against Republican Knute Buehler, she has avoided the topic of how she would pay for several of her policy proposals and whether she wants to raise taxes in 2019.
The bill requests could shed light on that.
Officials say the state plans to ask the Oregon Court of Appeals to halt the records release.
The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Marion County Circuit Court Judge Audrey Broyles ruled Wednesday, saying there's a significant public interest in the documents being disclosed.
The case centers on whether Brown and state agencies she oversees can keep bill proposals confidential while legislative lawyers are drafting legislation.
With Brown in a close re-election race against Republican Knute Buehler, she has avoided the topic of how she would pay for several of her policy proposals and whether she wants to raise taxes in 2019.
The bill requests could shed light on that.
Officials say the state plans to ask the Oregon Court of Appeals to halt the records release.
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Let me get this straight, Oregon wants to pass a bunch of proposals without letting the citizens know about the proposals?
Where's "the we the people in that"?0 -
quote:Originally posted by remingtonoaks
Let me get this straight, Oregon wants to pass a bunch of proposals without letting the citizens know about the proposals?
Where's "the we the people in that"?
They are commies at best.
No Need to bother the people.......................0 -
That ol' girl is an underhanded snake of the first order. 0 -
She is that. Lower eyelids and all. 0 -
Definition of a liar: A DEMOCRAT that pledges not to raise taxes. 0 -
How can you tell a democrat is lying?
Lips are moving.0 -
Wonder what we will see at 5 today. Bet Nothing and a Judge looking for a job. 0 -
A little more info and nothing released yet.
quote: Gov. Kate Brown's administration has until 5 p.m. Friday to release roughly 250 bill proposals for 2019, a Marion County judge ruled Wednesday.
"I do know that this is time sensitive," said Circuit Court Judge Audrey Broyles, referring to the fast-approaching Nov. 6 election. "There is a significant public interest in the documents being disclosed."
The case centers on whether Brown and the state agencies she oversees can keep bill proposals confidential while legislative lawyers are drafting legislation. With Brown in a tight reelection race against Republican Knute Buehler, she has avoided stating how she would pay for several of her policy proposals and whether she wants to raise taxes in 2019. The bill requests could shed light on that.
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Sarah Weston, a lawyer for the Oregon Department of Administrative Services, said the state plans to ask the Oregon Court of Appeals to halt the records release and reverse the Marion County court's decision.
"The request forms are fundamentally a communication between the client and the client's lawyer," Weston said. She cited a statute that says legislative lawyers may draft bills requested by agencies, if the governor signs off on them.
In previous years, Portland business attorney Greg Chaimov ? himself a former legislative lawyer ? had asked for the agencies' bill request forms and obtained them relatively quickly, according to his lawyer John DiLorenzo. The firm where Chaimov and DiLorenzo work, Davis Wright Tremaine, shares the information with its clients and friends free of charge, DiLorenzo said. Those entities often want to see what state officials are proposing so they can lobby against bills they dislike. In response to a reporter's question, DiLorenzo confirmed that one of Chaimov's clients is the business-allied political nonprofit Priority Oregon, which has been running attacks ads against Brown.
This year, the governor's office told Chaimov he would have to deal with the Department of Administrative Services, and that agency said it would not release the records because they were protected by attorney-client privilege.
The administrative department had also informed other state agencies in May that legislative concepts would "be temporally exempt from disclosure [under the Public Records Law] until Legislative Counsel has submitted bill drafts to the Governor's Office for final approval (this should be done by November 30, 2018)," DiLorenzo wrote in a court filing. He noted that would be well after the election.
"Although it is expected that agencies will have discussed legislative concept ideas with stakeholders, agencies are directed to treat this document as confidential and privileged and, accordingly, not to share the text of this form outside of state government before legislation is drafted and finalized," the department wrote, according to a court record.
DiLorenzo laid out several arguments against the state's claims that it could keep the records confidential, including that Oregon's public records law does not allow for a temporary exemption. And although state law allows legislative lawyers to draft bills for the executive branch, it is represented exclusively by the Department of Justice and therefore cannot have an attorney-client privilege with the legislative attorneys.
Even if Broyles agreed with the state that the executive branch has attorney-client privilege with lawyers for the Legislature, it would have waived that privilege by sharing the bill ideas with outside "stakeholders," DiLorenzo said.
Broyles ultimately agreed with DiLorenzo. "I cannot find that the Department of Administrative Services could have expected to form an attorney-client relationship with these state agencies and ... legislative counsel," Broyles said.
DiLorenzo said as soon as the state releases the records, his firm plans to post them online.0 -
quote:Originally posted by wpage
How can you tell a democrat career politician of any party is lying?
Lips are moving.
Fixed that for ya...0 -
Don't you understand...silly peasant you don't know how government works for you... we have to pass a bill so we can see so that we can show you what it is..... 0 -
quote:PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ? The Oregon Court of Appeals has allowed Gov. Kate Brown's administration to delay the release of more than 250 proposals for bills that could be introduced in the 2019 legislative session.
The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the court granted the stay Friday.
A Marion County judge ruled Wednesday that the governor's administration couldn't rely on attorney-client privilege to keep bill requests confidential until after the Nov. 6 election. Circuit Court Judge Audrey Broyles ordered the state to release the records by Friday afternoon, saying that doing so would be in the public interest.
The Court of Appeals granted the stay pending a decision on the state's appeal to that panel. The court found the appeal was filed in good faith and not an attempt to delay the release until after the election.
It also said it would not render a decision until after the election.
Really[?][V]0 -
courts just as crooked 0 -
Seems like a someone's covering up a "Lose, Lose" situation. 0
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