Willamette Week has been performing some critical gymnastics not too long ago. Whereas the duvet story this week was a love letter to Portland, celebrating one of the best our metropolis has to supply, the main information tales of the week paint an image of our state wrapped in hard-elbowed politics.

There’s a battle brewing. A bunch referred to as Sincere Elections Oregon is squaring off towards Oregon’s secretary of state. Sincere Elections is attempting to get a measure on the poll that limits the quantity that one individual or group can donate to a candidate. However with a view to get that concept in entrance of voters, the reformers want Secretary of State Shemia Fagan to certify the language of the measure. Secretary Fagan took concern with the submitting and despatched the measure again to the drafting board.

The marketing campaign finance petitioners say one thing is rotten. They level to Fagan benefiting from labor unions writing large checks—one thing they wouldn’t be capable to do if this measure was handed. Fagan replies that the measure merely doesn’t observe the necessities established by legislation.

And that, my pals, is simply the start.

On this week’s episode of Willamette Week’s podcast, we interview reporter Anthony Effinger. Anthony tells us about this standoff, the place it’s at proper now, and solutions my questions concerning the issues that simply don’t add up.

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