An Oregon Democrat running for Congress in a swing district sponsored legislation that sent hundreds of thousands of dollars to a program that discriminates against U.S. citizens and offers down payment assistance to illegal immigrants.
In 2022, State Rep. Janelle Bynum co-sponsored <a href="https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2022R1/Measures/Overview/SB1579#:~:text=Directs%20Oregon%20Business%20Development%20Department,equity%20among%20disadvantaged%20individuals%2C%20families%2C" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate Bill 1579</a>, which implemented an <a href="https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2022R1/Downloads/MeasureAnalysisDocument/64140">Economic Equity Investment Program</a> &#8220;to award grants to qualified organizations that provide culturally responsive services to disadvantaged individuals.&#8221; One grant recipient was the Hacienda Community Development Corp., which offers $30,000 in down payment assistance in Oregon &#8220;only for people who are not American citizens,&#8221; The Daily Caller <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/08/21/hacienda-community-development-oregon-non-citizens-down-payments/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> last month. The bill allocated a $692,775 grant to Hacienda, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/08/24/us-news/first-time-homebuyers-in-oregon-get-30k-grant-americans-excluded/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Bynum <a href="https://www.janellebynum.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> she &#8220;knows how to fight for all Oregon families,&#8221; and her <a href="https://www.janellebynum.com/issues">campaign website</a> lists &#8220;addressing housing affordability&#8221; at the top of her platform.
&#8220;Too many Oregonians are priced out of their communities or unable to afford a home. That’s why in the state legislature, I worked on efforts to lower the cost of housing, protect tenants, and ensure low-income earners could pay their utility bills,&#8221; Bynum <a href="https://www.janellebynum.com/issues/addressing-housing-affordability-nbsp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a>. &#8220;I’ll continue to fight for housing affordability and remove red tape for housing construction in Congress.&#8221;
The Democrat&#8217;s policy page also focuses on addressing homelessness, &#8220;taking climate action,&#8221; and &#8220;lowering the cost of health care.&#8221; Bynum does not address the border crisis or illegal immigration on her campaign website. Her office has not responded to a Daily Wire request to comment on her support for SB 1579 and Hacienda&#8217;s down payment assistance for illegal immigrants.
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Bynum is in the midst of a competitive race for Oregon&#8217;s 5th Congressional District against incumbent Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, a Republican. Chavez-DeRemer blasted Bynum over her support for SB 1579 in a statement to The Daily Wire.
&#8220;Last year, Oregon had the second-highest percentage of unsheltered homeless in the nation, with more unaccompanied homeless youth than any other state,&#8221; Chavez-DeRemer wrote. &#8220;While I&#8217;ve been working toward commonsense solutions to improve housing access and affordability for our citizens, my opponent was busy pushing legislation that would only help noncitizens.&#8221;
&#8220;Doling out taxpayer dollars to illegal immigrants will only worsen the problem by taking away opportunities for hardworking Oregon families, limiting the current housing supply, and driving prices even higher,&#8221; the Republican added.
More than 180,000 illegal immigrants reside in Oregon, according to a 2023 <a href="https://www.fairus.org/sites/default/files/2023-03/oregon2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> published by the Federation for American Immigration Reform. The illegal immigration crisis cost Oregon taxpayers $1.47 billion last year.
&#8220;While Oregon families struggle to afford a roof over their heads, Janelle Bynum is giving illegal immigrants massive taxpayer checks to buy houses. Bynum has made her extreme agenda crystal clear — criminals and illegal immigrants first, law-abiding American citizens last.&#8221; National Republican Congressional Committee Spokesman Ben Petersen told The Daily Wire.
Republicans currently<a href="https://pressgallery.house.gov/member-data/party-breakdown" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> hold</a> a nine-seat majority in the U.S. House. Oregon has multiple House races that could be close in the 2024 election. Chavez-DeRemer flipped the 5th District from Democrat to Republican in the 2022 election. Bynum narrowly defeated Chavez-DeRemer in the 2016 and 2018 races for the Oregon House of Representatives.

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Swing District Dem Voted To Fund Down Payment Assistance For Illegal Immigrants

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The “transing” of America’s foster care system is under way, and Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz are totally on board. It doesn&#8217;t bother them that injecting trans ideology into foster care means that some vulnerable children are banned from finding new homes with loving families. It&#8217;s already happening. Just ask the Harmon family of St. Peter, Minnesota. 
My organization, the Conscience Project, has released a <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://youtu.be/GJ6C23vlkrE__;!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!1GW-6-FsGO7zxVgsbbrpiHbMr6lgxxVpPEee0qtsw31E7V5SzhruZEzKaKY91L7rDQR_7wB2hHYeenmjdpc$" target="_blank" rel="noopener">short video</a> documenting what Nancy and Jay Harmon had to endure. The couple has fostered around 50 children over the last 25 years. Nancy was a foster child herself. In December 2021 the Harmons took in three sisters aged 9, 10, and 11. The girls had suffered unimaginable abuse and neglect by their biological parents. Nancy recalls, for example, that when the water went out at the girls’ house, their biological parents “told them to collect rainwater.” At times, the oldest girl has claimed to be “nonbinary.”
In the summer of 2022, Nancy and Jay were asked by the adoption agency contracted by their county’s child social service department to consider adopting the girls. After much “prayer and reflection, given the girls&#8217; significant mental health and physical needs,” they agreed to adopt the girls. 
Several months later, as the Harmons waited for news of what they thought was a pending adoption, Nancy opened an email mistakenly sent to her by the adoption agency to the county. “When are we going to tell the Harmons that they’re not the right fit?” she read. Nancy was astonished. She reached out to county officials for clarification. She was told that it was because of her “religious beliefs.” 
What exactly are the “religious beliefs” that would render the Harmons incapable of a permanent relationship with the girls they had cared for over two years?
Nancy and Jay are devout Christians and hold to a Biblical understanding of the human person, made God’s image and as described in Genesis: “Male and female, He created them.”
The county argued that, in light of the oldest girl’s “gender nonconformity,” it was in the best interests of the children to find a more “affirming” household. A government official even suggested splitting up the sisters and asked if the Harmons would be willing to adopt just the two youngest ones. Nancy and Jay were incredulous.
It was only after the girls’ private psychiatrist recommended that the girls stay together that the county and the private adoption agency changed course and allowed the adoption to go through. In December 2023, all three girls were adopted by the Harmons.   
Nancy has also shared her family’s story as a <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://svm008.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/23-4169-Conscience-Project-Amicus-Brief.pdf__;!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!1GW-6-FsGO7zxVgsbbrpiHbMr6lgxxVpPEee0qtsw31E7V5SzhruZEzKaKY91L7rDQR_7wB2hHYec6GDIxs$" target="_blank" rel="noopener">friend of the court</a> in support of Jessica Bates, an Oregon mother of five who wanted to adopt two siblings under the age of 10. During training with Oregon’s family services, Jessica was told that she had to agree to &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; indoctrination as a condition to be certified to adopt through the state. When she objected, pointing to her Christian beliefs, she was told she was ineligible to adopt. Jessica’s <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://adflegal.org/case/bates-v-pakseresht__;!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!1GW-6-FsGO7zxVgsbbrpiHbMr6lgxxVpPEee0qtsw31E7V5SzhruZEzKaKY91L7rDQR_7wB2hHYeo2f7uc4$" target="_blank" rel="noopener">case</a> is currently before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, a court infamously known for toeing the progressive line.
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A tragedy was averted for the Harmons, but foster families like theirs continue to be targeted by ideologues. Let’s not forget that the Harmons live in Minnesota. Tim Walz’s Minnesota.
This spring, Governor Walz proudly signed into law <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF146&amp;version=1&amp;session=ls93&amp;session_year=2023&amp;session_number=0__;!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!1GW-6-FsGO7zxVgsbbrpiHbMr6lgxxVpPEee0qtsw31E7V5SzhruZEzKaKY91L7rDQR_7wB2hHYerUS7ix8$" target="_blank" rel="noopener">legislation</a> that encourages out-of-state, &#8220;gender non-conforming&#8221; children whose parents object to them receiving medical intervention to come to Minnesota. And Walz’s Minnesota is one of <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/foster_and_adoption_laws__;!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!1GW-6-FsGO7zxVgsbbrpiHbMr6lgxxVpPEee0qtsw31E7V5SzhruZEzKaKY91L7rDQR_7wB2hHYeIoVdoeQ$" target="_blank" rel="noopener">28 states</a> that treat gender identity as a protected class, and treat any failure to “affirm” a foster child’s supposed identity as discrimination.
Like Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris has been riding the trans bandwagon, to the detriment of vulnerable foster kids. The Biden-Harris administration, for example, recently finalized <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/04/30/2024-08982/designated-placement-requirements-under-titles-iv-e-and-iv-b-for-lgbtqi-children__;!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!1GW-6-FsGO7zxVgsbbrpiHbMr6lgxxVpPEee0qtsw31E7V5SzhruZEzKaKY91L7rDQR_7wB2hHYepVAmOw0$" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rules</a> that demand that states provide “designated placements” for foster children who identify as “LGBTQI+”.  These “providers”, the administration explains, are “specially designated to serve LGBTQI+ children because they have made a set of commitments and undergone training to better meet the needs of LGBTQI+ children.” The providers are ideologues, in other words. The rule will certainly limit the number of homes available to LGBTQ+-identifying foster children to those that are “affirming.” The progressive group Human Rights Campaign <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/unity-more-than-1-100-lgbtq-leaders-celebrities-and-influencers-representing-millions-sign-letter-in-support-of-vice-president-kamala-harris__;!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!1GW-6-FsGO7zxVgsbbrpiHbMr6lgxxVpPEee0qtsw31E7V5SzhruZEzKaKY91L7rDQR_7wB2hHYeQ1UT2yM$" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cites</a> these new rules in their effusive support for Harris’s presidential run. 
Nancy and Jay Harmon are wonderful people who have opened their home to children in need because of their Christian beliefs. Kamala Harris and Tim Walz think those same beliefs render them ineligible to do so. Is this the kind of America we want? Is this kind of America the Constitution permits? I don’t think so.
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Andrea Picciotti-Bayer is Director of the <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://conscience-project.org/__;!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!1GW-6-FsGO7zxVgsbbrpiHbMr6lgxxVpPEee0qtsw31E7V5SzhruZEzKaKY91L7rDQR_7wB2hHYeQoIFzhw$" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Conscience Project.</a>
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Paper people chain, books and judge’s gavel. Law, family politics and marriage legalization.

How Trans Ideology Is Infecting The Foster Care System

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court</a> ruled 6-3 on Friday that an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/oregon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oregon</a> city’s law restricting camping on public property does not violate the Constitution’s prohibition against enacting cruel and unusual punishments under the Eighth Amendment. 
Writing for the majority, Justice Neil Gorsuch <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-175_19m2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that the courts did not have the right to strike down laws enacted by the city of Grants Pass in response to the homelessness crisis. Gorsuch was joined by Justices Brett Kavanaugh, John Roberts, Samuel Alito, and Amy Coney Barrett, with Clarence Thomas writing a concurring opinion. 
“The Constitution’s Eighth Amendment serves many important functions, but it does not authorize federal judges to wrest those rights and responsibilities from the American people and in their place dictate this Nation’s homelessness policy,” Gorsuch wrote. 
Previously, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Grants Pass could not enforce its restrictions on sleeping on public property if the number of publicly available beds for the homeless was less than the number of homeless estimated in the area. The city’s laws, including fines of $295 for sleeping on public property, were challenged under the Eighth Amendment on behalf of a group of homeless people in the area. 
“Yes, people will disagree over which policy responses are best; they may experiment with one set of approaches only to find later another set works better; they may find certain responses more appropriate for some communities than others,” Gorsuch wrote. “But in our democracy, that is their right. 
“Nor can a handful of federal judges begin to ‘match’ the collective wisdom the American people possess in deciding ‘how best to handle’ a pressing social question like homelessness,” he added. 
Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Elena Kagan all dissented. 
“Sleep is a biological necessity, not a crime. For some people, sleeping outside is their only option,” Sotomayor wrote. “For people with no access to shelter, that punishes them for being homeless. That is unconscionable and unconstitutional.”
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Grants Pass Mayor Sara Bristol <a href="https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-homeless-camping-bans-506ac68dc069e3bf456c10fcedfa6bee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the Associated Press she was grateful for the court’s decision. 
“This lawsuit was about whether cities have a right to enforce camping restrictions in public spaces, and I’m relieved that Grants Pass will be able to reclaim our city parks for recreation,” she said. “Homelessness is a complex issue, and our community has been trying to find solutions.”
Cities across the country have grappled with how to handle increasing homelessness in recent years, with an estimated 582,000 homeless in 2022.

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SCOTUS Rules In Favor Of Oregon City’s Ban On Homeless Encampments

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An Oregon high school track coach claimed the school district terminated his contract because he pushed for the state to change the laws around trans-identifying athletes.
John Parks, head track and field coach at Lake Oswego High School just south of Portland, <a href="https://katu.com/news/local/lake-oswego-coach-says-district-ousted-him-after-pushed-change-in-transgender-athlete-law-osaa-track-field-peter-weber-john-parks-rob-wagner-mary-kay-larson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> a pair of letters to the executive director of the Oregon Student Activities Association and a state senator.
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Lake Oswego high school track &amp; field coach was terminated after demanding fair competition for his female athletes.
He&#39;s taken his team to the state championship 3 years in a row.
The problem is his stance was way too reasonable, so they ousted him.<a href="https://t.co/qYLfHwZ9Y1">https://t.co/qYLfHwZ9Y1</a>
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In his letters, which were written before and after the state championships in May, Parks argued that Oregon law, which currently allows trans-identifying biological males to compete with female athletes, is harming girls&#8217; sports.
Parks called for student sports in Oregon to follow the lead of other sports organizations like the International Olympic Committee that require hormone testing for trans-identifying athletes.
&#8220;My proposal to encourage transgender participation is to offer an open division that is so named so it doesn&#8217;t identify or discriminate but offers an opportunity to participate,&#8221; Parks wrote.
Parks said that part of his concern is for trans-identifying athletes themselves.
&#8220;I want them to be able to participate where they&#8217;re not booed,&#8221; Parks told KATU, adding that he saw the crowd boo a trans-identifying athlete who won a girls&#8217; event at the state championships.
The Lake Oswego School District&#8217;s communications director <a href="https://katu.com/news/local/lake-oswego-coach-says-district-ousted-him-after-pushed-change-in-transgender-athlete-law-osaa-track-field-peter-weber-john-parks-rob-wagner-mary-kay-larson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Parks is no longer employed at the district but did not give a reason, saying the district does not discuss personnel matters.
Parks is appealing the school district&#8217;s decision to terminate his contract.
&#8220;I&#8217;m going to fight now because I got wronged,&#8221; he <a href="https://katu.com/news/local/lake-oswego-coach-says-district-ousted-him-after-pushed-change-in-transgender-athlete-law-osaa-track-field-peter-weber-john-parks-rob-wagner-mary-kay-larson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> KATU. &#8220;I am &#8230; fighting for girls, I&#8217;m fighting for female sports, and I&#8217;m fighting that it be fair for everybody.&#8221;
&#8220;When you come to championship events, these things involve scholarships, they involve things that they have an unfair advantage in at the highest level when it comes to physical things,&#8221; Parks said. &#8220;We&#8217;re not talking about political. This is not a political issue to me and never has been.&#8221;
A petition to reinstate Parks as coach has already <a href="https://www.change.org/p/reinstate-coach-john-parks-as-head-coach" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gathered</a> more than 100 signatures.
Riley Gaines, former college swimmer and women’s sports activist highlighted Parks&#8217; situation in a social media post.
&#8220;He&#8217;s taken his team to the state championship 3 years in a row,&#8221; she posted on X. &#8220;The problem is his stance was way too reasonable, so they ousted him.&#8221;
Female athletes at high schools and colleges in several states have spoken out against competing against biological males, some arguing that they missed out on awards and scholarships after losing to their male competitors.
High school girls have also been injured playing with trans-identifying males. Last year in North Carolina, a female high school volleyball player <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/female-high-school-volleyball-athlete-suffers-serious-head-injury-after-transgender-player-throws-abnormally-fast-ball/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suffered</a> severe trauma to her head and neck after a trans-identifying male player spiked a volleyball that hit her head.

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High School Coach Says School District Ousted Him For Pushing Transgender Athlete Rule Change

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The Portland Association of Teachers, an affiliate of the state teachers’ union which has 4,500 members, reportedly created an anti-Israel and anti-America curriculum for children as young as kindergarteners that says Zionists are “bullies” and blames Israel and the United States for “settler colonialism.”
Journalist Christopher Rufo, the author of <a href="https://manhattan.institute/book/americas-cultural-revolution-how-the-radical-left-conquered-everything" target="_blank" rel="noopener">America’s Cultural Revolution</a>, <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/in-portland-the-intifada-begins-in-kindergarten" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published the information</a> and obtained the curriculum materials called &#8220;Teach Palestine!&#8221; Pre-kindergarten teachers are urged to use a workbook by the Palestinian Feminist Collective with a story of a fictional Palestinian boy named Handala who states, “A group of bullies called Zionists wanted our land so they stole it by force and hurt many people.”
“Students are encouraged to come up with a slogan that they can chant at a protest and complete a maze so that Handala can ‘get back home to Palestine’—represented as a map of Israel,” Rufo notes.
Other leftist tropes are urged for the pre-kindergarteners, including a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BFil0gN8Ql0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> stating, “I feel safe when there are no police,” and a <a href="https://www.wokekindergarten.org/teachpalestine/visualhistoryinstazine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slideshow</a> that salutes the First and Second Palestinian Intifadas. According to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Institute_for_Counter-Terrorism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">International Institute for Counter-Terrorism</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_in_the_Second_Intifada">during</a> the Second Intifada from September 2000 to February 2005, 887 of the 1,137 Israelis murdered in the attacks were civilians.
“The recommended resource list also <a href="https://www.wokekindergarten.org/teachpalestine/so-you-made-it-to-a-protest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">includes</a> a ‘sensory guide for kids’ on attending protests. It teaches children what they might see, hear, taste, touch, and smell at protests, and promotes photographs of slogans such as ‘Abolish Prisons’ and ‘From the River to the Sea,&#8217;” Rufo writes.
Once the children are in kindergarten through second grade, a <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTGX9wjjqX4S2Au0c8gFe5ir18Ex6Tw73pcezd5VQxj5hph0MJVHeQh-VqtQ6PCPa1QtQg2Woxe0_ue/pub">lesson</a>, “Art and Action for Palestine,” is provided to teach the children to “connect histories of settler colonialism from Palestine to the United States” and to “celebrate Palestinian culture and resistance throughout history and in the present, with a focus on Palestinian children’s resistance.”
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“75 years ago, a lot of decision makers around the world decided to take away Palestinian land to make a country called Israel. Israel would be a country where rules were mostly fair for Jewish people with White skin,” the lesson reads. “There’s a BIG word for when Indigenous land gets taken away to make a country, that’s called settler colonialism.”
Among the “suggested materials” are “keffiyehs, flags, and protest signs.” The curriculum also <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/user_files/user_files/000/098/772/original/All_Out_Palestine_Toolkit_3.0.pdf?fbclid=PAAaaGnQ7Ub7uar7rFqlTaVoBEH4SJ7X0yF-AZNoAjumR5BZW2DTVtVhlsTmY_aem_AbjMoHW4HB3HGHoSsk0D2LO9UewWamevwaDlwAtfE0NGXhxeLy1RXQdsvP7XKxsqtxQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">includes</a> a pamphlet called “All Out for Palestine,” which states, “STOP THE GENOCIDE! END U.S. AID TO ISRAEL! FREE PALESTINE!” The pamphlet refers to “Zionism‘s long genocidal war on Palestinian life,” adding, “End all US aid to Israel and nullify all joint US-Israeli agreements and collaboration in arms trade and policing.”
“The pamphlet includes chants that teachers can adopt in the classroom,” Rufo points out. “Some imply support for militancy and political violence: ‘Resistance is justified when people are occupied!’; ‘We salute all our martyrs! mothers, fathers, sons and daughters!’; ‘Justice is our demand! No peace on stolen land!’”

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Portland Teachers’ Group Offers Kindergarten Curriculum Teaching Anti-Israel Hate

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A pro-abortion woman physically assaulted a pro-life activist in Portland after she claimed that miscarriages are abortions and he disagreed.
As RedState <a href="https://redstate.com/bonchie/2024/05/29/watch-scary-scene-as-biden-rushes-a-reporter-and-shows-his-derangement-n2174791">reported</a>, the pro-lifer had a sign emblazoned “abortion is murder” when he was accosted by the pro-abortion woman, who was accompanied by her young daughter.
“Women are being airlifted from Idaho to Oregon right now because they can’t get life-saving emergency abortions,” the woman claimed. “Doctors are saying it’s only a matter of time before somebody bleeds out in a helicopter. Any day now it’s going to happen. We’re gonna have the first death on a helicopter of a woman being moved to Oregon for an abortion. Are you cool with that?”
“No, that&#8217;s very sad. What percentage is it of those women?” the pro-lifer responded.
“What do you mean what ******* percentage? All of them. That&#8217;s the only way they can get abortions, is by coming here,” the woman snapped.
“Every woman that&#8217;s getting an abortion is due to medical procedures?” he asked,
“No, most abortions are,” she claimed.
“No, they&#8217;re not,” he responded.
“My abortion was of a dead embryo. That&#8217;s most abortions,” she said.
“Okay, I&#8217;m sorry to hear that,” he answered.
Then she claimed, “That&#8217;s most abortions.”
“That&#8217;s not most abortions,” he countered.
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“Yes, it is, because have you looked at the statistics? Most abortions are clean-ups after miscarriages, and women can&#8217;t even get those. No, you&#8217;re a ******* moron because miscarriages are extremely common and most women opt to have&#8230;” she started.
“Miscarriages and abortions are different,” he pointed out. “What is an abortion?”
“No, a miscarriage is a medical abortion,” she insisted.
“No, it&#8217;s not. Let me educate you,” he offered.
That prompted the woman to take a swing at him and the woman filming the incident before he forced her to the ground as her daughter started crying.
“The woman is also lying about access to the medical procedure she describes,” RedState noted. “There is not a single state in the union that outlaws real doctors at real medical facilities from removing a baby&#8217;s body after a miscarriage.”
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Multnomah County, Oregon, District Attorney Mike Schmidt — who oversees the progressive bastion of Portland — lost his re-election bid on Tuesday night to a moderate candidate who promises to carry out tough-on-crime policies.
Schmidt, the George <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2024/05/multnomah-county-da-mike-schmidt-campaign-gets-boost-from-progressive-philanthropist-george-soros.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Soros-backed</a> incumbent, fell to Nathan Vasquez, who previously served as the Multnomah County deputy prosecutor under Schmidt. The leftist DA conceded on Wednesday with results showing that Vazquez had secured around 54% of the vote, Portland&#8217;s NBC affiliate KGW 8 <a href="https://www.kgw.com/article/news/politics/elections/multnomah-county-district-attorney-race-election-results/283-e5b76f7a-9497-488b-b432-08dc9deec27d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“It is looking as if I will not be serving another four years as Multnomah County District Attorney,&#8221; Schmidt said. &#8220;I have called Nathan Vasquez to congratulate him on his victory. While we do not always see eye to eye, I am committed to a smooth transition.&#8221;
On Tuesday night before the race was called, Vasquez said that he was &#8220;hopeful&#8221; that the direction of the community was about to change.
&#8220;This is a time where I think a lot of people in our community are looking for that belief, that hope, and I think tonight is going to be a change in that direction,&#8221; Vasquez told KGW 8. &#8220;And I really want to deliver that to our community in a way that feels positive and hopeful, so that everyone in this community feels included, everyone feels like they can have a safe community where they can go to parks, they can go down the street and can really enjoy this wonderful, amazing city and county that we live in, and I&#8217;m just so hopeful for tonight.&#8221;
Schmidt was elected in 2020, winning 77% of the vote. He started his role as the district attorney in August of that year, a term that began during the summer of the George Floyd riots that saw numerous businesses looted and vandalized and a police station <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/08/24/portland-protests-police-precinct-set-fire/3427950001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">set on fire</a>. One of Schmidt&#8217;s first acts as DA was to <a href="https://katu.com/news/local/multnomah-co-das-policy-on-protest-arrests-focused-on-property-damage-theft-violence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">institute</a> a new policy stating his office would not prosecute George Floyd demonstrators who were charged with certain crimes such as interfering with a police officer, disorderly conduct, criminal trespass, harassment, or rioting unless they committed “deliberate property damage, theft, or threat of force against another person.&#8221;
After the riots died down, Portland continued to face high rates of violent crime. Despite a decrease in violent crimes in 2023 in the city, the homicide rate in Portland remained higher than reported numbers prior to 2019, according to Oregon Public Broadcasting. Shoplifting arrests also skyrocketed by 88% in 2023.
Schmidt&#8217;s opponent Vasquez also promised to crack down on open-air drug use in Oregon&#8217;s largest city, a problem that has persisted since Oregon voters decriminalized possession of small amounts of drugs such as fentanyl and heroin in 2020. Last month, Oregon Democratic Governor Tina Kotek <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oregon-recriminalizes-drug-possession" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> a bill into law that again criminalized the possession of hard drugs.
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“The voters have made it clear that they are ready to take our county in a new and safer direction,&#8221; Vasquez <a href="https://apnews.com/article/portland-oregon-progressive-district-attorney-election-756eff76ca7391a18fd703417b788f94" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on Wednesday. &#8220;I am committed to ending open air drug dealing and drug use while helping connect individuals to treatment, to rebuilding the broken relationships between the DA’s office and the community, and to ensuring that victims are the number one priority of my office.&#8221;

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An Oregon high school boy who won the state championship in the girls’ 200-meter race on Saturday was booed by the crowd when he finished the race and again when he was crowned as the champion. The female competitors did not applaud Aayden Gallagher when he was crowned.
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Look at the girls on the podium applauding when 2nd place (the rightful winner) is announced. 
Then watch them when the boys name is announced. 
Stop saying girls are okay with this because they aren&#39;t. This is heartbreaking and deeply regressive. <a href="https://t.co/VmjeTtwgIk">https://t.co/VmjeTtwgIk</a> <a href="https://t.co/5o36MbMICD">pic.twitter.com/5o36MbMICD</a>
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Gallagher, a sophomore from McDaniel High School, <a href="https://www.runnerspace.com/gprofile.php?mgroup_id=44531&amp;do=news&amp;news_id=668884">finished first</a> with a time of 23.83 seconds at the OSAA championships in Eugene. Aster Jones, from Roosevelt High School, finished second with a time of 24.023 and Sophia Castaneda of Newberg High School finished third with a time of 24.41. Gallagher finished second in the 400-meter finals, missing finishing first by only .15 of a second.
Last Wednesday, Gallagher qualified for the state event when he finished first in the 400-meter preliminary event and second in the 200-meter preliminary event at the Portland Interscholastic League Championship semifinals, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/05/19/us-news/transgender-high-school-runner-in-oregon-booed-after-winning-girls-state-title/">reported</a>.
The Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA) <a href="https://www.osaa.org/docs/handbooks/osaahandbook.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a>, “The OSAA endeavors to allow students to participate for the athletic or activity program of their consistently asserted gender identity while providing a fair and safe environment for all students. As with Rule 8.2 regarding Duration of Eligibility / Graduation, rules such as this one promotes harmony and fair competition among member schools by maintaining equality of eligibility and increase the number of students who will have an opportunity to participate in interscholastic activities. This policy was developed in consultation with the Oregon Department of Education (ODE).”
“Once a transgender student has notified the student&#8217;s school of their gender identity, the student shall be consistently treated as that gender for purposes of eligibility for athletics and activities, provided that if the student has tried out or participated in an activity, the student may not participate during that same season on a team of the other gender,” the OSAA adds.
After Gallagher competed in the girls&#8217; varsity division at the Need for Speed Classic in Sherwood in mid-April, all 12 female Republican lawmakers in the Oregon State Legislature <a href="https://www.keizertimes.com/2024/04/25/republican-lawmakers-blast-policy-allowing-transgender-female-athletes-to-compete-as-girls/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">demanded</a> the OSAA change its policy in a letter to Peter Weber, the executive director of the association. They asked him to “provide a solution to the families seeking answers about why the OSAA doesn’t feel girls’ sports should be a safe space for biological females to compete and succeed.”

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The ex-Washington police officer who went on the lam Monday after allegedly killing his ex-wife and teenage girlfriend has shot himself while fleeing from law enforcement.
Elias Huizar, 40, was discovered near Eugene, Oregon, after the Oregon State Patrol located his vehicle driving southbound on I-5, the West Richland Police Department <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=747956870783789&amp;set=a.213965484182933" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> on Facebook. Police pursued the vehicle, and Huizar got into a minor crash, CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elias-huizar-manhunt-two-women-dead-child-abduction-washington-state-police/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Huizar and police exchanged gunfire before he was able to drive away again, with no one hurt. Huizar then crashed into another vehicle several miles away and was found dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, Oregon State Police Cpt. Kyle Kennedy announced Tuesday night, according to CBS.
After allegedly killing his ex-wife and teenage girlfriend, Huizar abducted his 1-year-old son, Roman, who was taken into custody by state troopers and is reportedly safe.
The murders and abduction occurred on the day that Huizar was due in court to face allegations that he raped a 16-year-old girl, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/23/us-news/armed-ex-cop-accused-of-killing-his-ex-wife-girlfriend-is-on-the-run-after-being-due-in-court-for-rape/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Huizar <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-cop-on-the-run-after-allegedly-killing-ex-wife-girlfriend-and-abducting-son-on-day-he-faced-child-rape-charges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allegedly</a> shot his ex-wife Amber Rodriquez at the William Wiley Elementary School, where she is listed as a paraeducator, on Monday afternoon. Last Friday, Rodriguez filed documents for a change in custody for the two sons she shares with Huizar, who are 5 and 9 years old, the Herald reported. It is unclear where those kids are at this time. The couple divorced in 2020.
The school went into lockdown. A resident who lives near the school told the Herald that he heard everything from his backyard, including 4-5 gunshots.
“I thought it was someone hitting something with a hammer. It didn’t sound like a gun. Then a woman came flying out here before the cops even got here and started screaming that someone was shot…” the resident told the outlet.
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The shooting occurred as school was being let out and students were getting onto buses or picked up by their parents. The Herald reported that parents abandoned their cars in the parking lot to flee as police officers began searching for Huizar.
Hours after the shooting, police searched Huizar’s home and found the body of another person, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=747439727502170&amp;set=a.213965484182933" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> the West Richland Police Department. While the police declined to identify the second victim except to say they were an associate of Huizar, the Amber Alert released by police suggests that the second victim is Huizar’s teenage girlfriend.
Huizar was also being investigated for allegedly raping a teenage friend of his girlfriend. Police were also investigating the legality of his relationship with his girlfriend. The age of consent in Washington is 16, and Huizar’s girlfriend is alleged to have been 16.
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Ex-Cop Suspected Of Killing Ex-Wife, Girlfriend, And Abducting Son Shoots Himself After Police Chase

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Oregon has made possessing small amounts of hard drugs a crime again after a failed experiment with decriminalization.
Governor Tina Kotek, a Democrat, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/oregon-drug-recriminalization-law-signed-governor-96e36ed60e999572bbf47c160b412a73" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> a bill into law on Monday that makes personal use possession a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail.
The new bill rolls back Measure 110, which was approved by about 58% of Oregon voters in 2020, and scrapped criminal charges for possessing small amounts of any drug, even hard drugs like fentanyl. The measure was the first of its kind in the country.
Instead of criminal penalties, offenders were hit with a maximum fine of $100 that was rarely enforced. Drug users could also get their fine dismissed if they called a hotline to get an addiction screening, but in the law’s first year, only 1% of people who received tickets for drug possession called the hotline, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-health/ap-oregons-first-in-the-nation-drug-decriminalization-law-faces-growing-pushback-amid-fentanyl-crisis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to state auditors.
In the years since Measure 110 took effect, however, the law has become increasingly unpopular as residents deal with public drug use in their daily lives.
Two years later, more than 6 in 10 voters said they thought decriminalization has made drug addiction, homelessness, and crime worse in Oregon, according to a May <a href="https://www.dhmresearch.com/oregon-voters-support-bringing-back-criminal-penalties-for-drug-possession/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey</a> from DMH Research. A combined 63% said they “strongly” supported or would be “somewhat” interested in once again criminalizing hard drugs.
Meanwhile, fatal drug overdoses in Oregon have spiked, driven by the fentanyl crisis.
The state is on track for 1,250 overdose deaths last year, <a href="https://www.opb.org/article/2024/01/28/data-show-overdoses-deaths-rising-in-oregon/#:~:text=In%202019%2C%20280%20people%20died,year%2C%20reaching%20628%20in%20June." target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to data that is still being compiled. This is a stark rise from the 280 people who died of an overdose back in 2019.
Some of the worst scenes of the drug crisis come out of Portland, where addicts shoot up daily in broad daylight downtown.
In September, the Portland City Council passed a ban on using hard drugs on public property.
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However, Portland&#8217;s new rules have been in limbo while drugs were still decriminalized at the state level.
Mayor Ted Wheeler, another Democrat, has expressed support for Oregon&#8217;s new law, which takes effect on September 1.
&#8220;People are exhausted from feeling like they’re under siege. They want order restored to their environment,&#8221; Wheeler <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/us/oregon-drug-law-portland-mayor.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Although the new state law brings back criminal penalties for drug possession, it also encourages law enforcement to establish programs to send drug users to addiction and mental health services rather than the criminal justice system if possible.

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The bar exam will no longer be required for people who want to practice law in Washington state, the state Supreme Court ruled last week, prompted by equity concerns.
In a pair of orders Friday, the Washington Supreme Court approved &#8220;alternative pathways to lawyer licensure,&#8221; the court <a href="https://www.courts.wa.gov/newsinfo/?fa=newsinfo.pressdetail&amp;newsid=50389" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a press release.
The decision follows recommendations made by the state&#8217;s Bar Licensure Task Force, which was formed in 2020 to examine the issue. The task force recommended getting rid of the mandatory bar exam in order to &#8220;advance the cause of diversity, equity, and inclusion.&#8221;
The task force found that the traditional bar exam &#8220;disproportionately and unnecessarily blocks historically marginalized groups from entering the practice of law.&#8221;
&#8220;In addition to the racism and classism written into the test itself the time and financial costs of the test reinforce historical inequities in our profession,&#8221; the task force <a href="https://www.courts.wa.gov/content/publicUpload/Supreme%20Court%20Orders/Orders%2025700B710%20and%2025700B711.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in its recommendations. &#8220;Despite these issues, data indicates that the bar exam is at best minimally effective for ensuring competent lawyers.&#8221;
Under the court&#8217;s new changes, Washington will create three &#8220;experiential-learning&#8221; alternatives to the bar exam.
Law school graduates will have to do a six-month apprenticeship under the guidance and supervision of a qualified attorney as well as take three more standardized courses.
Students still in law school must complete 12 qualifying skills credits and do 500 hours of work as a licensed legal intern. They must then submit a portfolio of this work to waive the bar exam.
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Law clerks who are not attending law school must also complete 500 hours of work as a licensed legal intern as well as meet certain benchmarks and complete standardized educational materials.
The state is also lowering the minimum score to pass the bar from 270 to 266, a lower threshold previously adopted during the pandemic. Those who do take the rigorous test will take a new, updated bar exam that &#8220;addresses many of the identified flaws in the current bar exam by focusing on real-world skills and practice&#8221; starting in summer, 2026.
The court is also calling for assessments and programs to help lawyers remain competent throughout their careers, not just when they are licensed. A timeline for all the changes is not yet set, but they will be implemented by the Washington State Bar Association.
Last week&#8217;s decision makes Washington the second state to nix the bar exam requirement after Oregon <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/careers/2023/11/09/oregon-approves-alternative-bar-exam" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made</a> the same decision for similar reasons in November.

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Mandatory Bar Exam Nixed In Washington State Over ‘Equity’ Concerns

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A parental rights group has filed a federal complaint against public schools in Portland, Oregon, for taking gender identity and race into account when disciplining students.
On Thursday, Parents Defending Education filed a federal civil rights <a target="_blank" href="https://defendinged.org/complaints/ocr-complaint-portland-public-schools-2/" rel="noopener">complaint</a> with the Department of Education against Portland Public Schools, criticizing the district&#8217;s new discipline policy.
&#8220;Portland Public Schools has enacted several concerning policies that treat students and educators differently based on race and gender identity,&#8221; including &#8220;disciplining some students and not others, solely based on immutable characteristics,&#8221; reads the complaint.
&#8220;Accordingly, we ask that the Department promptly investigate the allegations in this complaint, act swiftly to remedy unlawful policies and practices, and order appropriate relief,&#8221; the complaint says.
The new discipline policy is part of a collective bargaining <a target="_blank" href="https://www.pps.net/cms/lib/OR01913224/Centricity/Domain/56/Tentative%20Agreements%20Combined%2011.27.23%20PAT.pdf" rel="noopener">agreement</a> between Portland Public Schools and its unionized teachers, which ended a nearly month-long strike in late November.
When a student engages in “continuous disruptive behavior,” school officials must develop a “support plan” for the student that “must take into consideration the impact of issues related to the student’s trauma, race, gender identity/presentation, sexual orientation, disability, social emotional learning, and restorative justice as appropriate for the student,” the agreement <a target="_blank" href="https://defendinged.org/complaints/ocr-complaint-portland-public-schools-2/" rel="noopener">states</a>.
“Teachers in Portland Public Schools are encouraged to discipline students based on their race and it&#8217;s appalling,&#8221; said Caroline Moore, vice president of Parents Defending Education.
&#8220;The teachers wanted to amend the policy so desperately that they included the provision in their strike agreement. This is corrupt and un-American. I’m anxiously awaiting the U.S. Department of Education’s investigation into this district&#8217;s unlawful practices,&#8221; Moore said.
The new disciplinary policy also <a target="_blank" href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/portland-teachers-will-take-gender-identity-race-into-account-before-disciplining" rel="noopener">prohibits</a> suspending a student who threatens or harms other people. Those students may now only be removed from their classroom and sent to a “self-regulation space” within the school.
Previously, Portland schools <a target="_blank" href="https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/portland-public-schools-changed-suspension-policy-teachers-strike/283-57387413-23d3-46e9-aea7-c532fd91b37f" rel="noopener">could</a> suspend middle and high school students for at least five days for extreme cases of students causing physical harm or threatening violence. Now, through the union agreement, the district has expanded its rapid response teams, which are supposed to intervene early in these situations.
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The agreement replaces the term “unacceptable” student behavior with “continuous disruptive” behavior and refers to “support plans” rather than “behavior correction plans.”
Student discipline has been a growing concern in Portland’s public schools.
Portland teachers have <a target="_blank" href="https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/portland-public-schools-changed-suspension-policy-teachers-strike/283-57387413-23d3-46e9-aea7-c532fd91b37f" rel="noopener">said</a> they are seeing “more students in crisis” with mental health issues, which can lead to fights.
In response, the Portland school district has been working to beef up its “restorative justice” practices over the last two years. However, after the pandemic, the district saw a spike in requests for the district’s restorative justice services, highlighting the discipline issue.

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