Background checks passed by Oregon Legislature!

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2. Right wing is trying to respond by trying to recall my State Senator Chuck Riley...

.... who was one of two State Senators to win the two newer seats in the State Senate along with two other state senators.

http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/04/gun_advocates_hit_three_oregon.html

This looks like an orchestrated campaign by the gun rights lobbyists to try and have a separate "mini" election to undo the Democratic Senate Majority there and also go after Legislature seats as well. We should be working with local Democratic Parties to respond to this properly and put such efforts of trying to get petitions signed for these recall in the trash heap where they belong. I guess many of them are PO'd that Bloomberg, in an effort to push for this kind of legislation, put a lot of money in to Chuck Riley's campaign that helped him win this seat in a close race in November.

Chuck Riley was the one hit hard on this, and busy me wasn't aware of this until I got a phone call from someone doing a "poll" that towards the middle started to be loaded questions obviously trying to take quotes out of context and trying to connect different things together in ways that one couldn't really answer intelligently with a simple "rating" answer. I told the pollster, who didn't know how to speak English too well half way through it that I didn't think the questions were fair questions to ask and refused to answer any more and hung up.

Apparently Riley got caught in a gotcha moment when he probably worded a response to a question on a Supreme Court ruling on slavery the wrong way, and made it easy for the righties to quote him out of context to make it sound like he supported slavery. This could be a big problem. I've met and talked to Chuck many times, and I really don't believe he's the jerk he's being painted out to be.

http://www.oregonlive.com/mapes/index.ssf/2015/04/oregon_state_senator_says_he_d.html

Be prepared for this onslaught from the right like I wasn't with the phone call I was answering last night. Fortunately, knowing Chuck, I could sense that this quote was taken out of context, and said so before hanging up.

If they really start to get serious about this, perhaps we should also put out recall petitions against some of the extreme Republicans in the State Senate too, to equalize the numbers of people that might come out in this election if it were to happen and slap these bums down and tell them to STFU.