Oregon Republican Lawmaker Flips to Become a Democrat

[USS_Dauntless]

https://www.newsweek.com/cyrus-javadi-becomes-democrat-leaves-gop-2127109

Oregon state Representative Cyrus Javadi has left the Republican Party to become a Democrat, he announced this week.

In a statement to Newsweek, Javadi said he "switched because the Republican Party abandoned the principles that drew me to it in the first place: limited government, fiscal responsibility, free speech, free trade, and, above all, the rule of law."

https://www.newsweek.com/cyrus-javadi-becomes-democrat-leaves-gop-2127109

[swong19104]

1. Fox in the henhouse?

Welcome to the team. But your role is to just vote with the caucus. Just like you did in the GOP. Anyone who has been a Republican should not be asked for any input or opinion.

[popsdenver]

2. Please

let this just be the start of a Blue Wave Movement to take back our country from the New Fascist Republican Party......

[ShazzieB]

5. Wouldn't that be something?

[popsdenver]

8. The entire Trumphumping CABAL

must not have kids or grandkids or purely ONLY care about themselves.........I fear the later is the truth...............

[Festivito]

3. Do Democrats have a program to deFoxify the newly awakened?

To be sure there will be a lot of lapses in his knowledge of what really happened.

[Trust_Reality]

7. Good question. Good point.

[BaronChocula]

4. An unsettling passage from the article

Since 2024, at least three other elected Republicans have left the party to become independents. Meanwhile, at least eight Democrats have left the party in the same time frame.

Most current republican policies are horribly unpopular, but it's still easier to be one, clearly. I think it's shameful to abandon decent values to become a conservative culture warrior.

[AllaN01Bear]

6. welocme to the brightg side. :)