Legislative Alert: Oppose HB 2306 ‘Makes all County and City Offices non-partisan’

 

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Oppose HB 2306
‘Makes all County and City Offices non-partisan’

 

HB2306 – A bill that ‘Makes all County and City Offices non-partisan’ will be Introduced at the House Rules Committee on Monday February 25^th after 3:00 PM in Hearing Room 50. (see Hearing Agenda below)

If passed into law, this bill would force counties to hold non-partisan elections for county commissioners and city councils, limiting local control and limiting knowledge of party identification of candidates. This bill would limit the amount of information we have on candidates for office by not requiring them to identify with a party (or not) and run in a primary. This is a shot at the Republican Party, to which many local officials are members. This bill would diminish the role of the Party in electing County Commissioners and City Councilors.

Every County and City should be allowed to choose for themselves if they want to hold partisan elections.

We urge all County Chairs to ask their Republican County Commissioners and City Councilors, who are Republicans to come to the First Public Hearing to testify, and to contact Members of the House Rules Committee and urge them to oppose the bill.

Attend House Rules Committee Public Hearing

Monday February 25^th at 3:00 PM in Hear Room 50

Oregon State Capitol in Salem

Click to download the full text of HB 2306: http://www.leg.state.or.us/13reg/measpdf/hb2300.dir/hb2306.intro.pdf

Rules Office: 453  Phone: 503-986-1647
Date:  Monday-February 25
Time:  3:00 P.M.
Room: HR 50
Public Hearing and Work Session
	HCR 10		FIRST PUBLIC HEARING: Honors Consul General Gao Zhansheng for promoting and assisting person-to-person exchanges between Oregon and People’s Republic of China.
Public Hearing
	HB 2168		FIRST PUBLIC HEARING: Directs allocation to county general fund of certain proceeds from disposition of certain county property.
	HB 2306		FIRST PUBLIC HEARING: Designates any elective county or city office as nonpartisan.
	HB 2413		FIRST PUBLIC HEARING: Requires county clerk in county that maintains list of wedding officiants to include name and other contact information of wedding officiant as requested.
	HJR 2		FIRST PUBLIC HEARING: Proposes amendment to Oregon Constitution to authorize Legislative Assembly to refer measure merging two or more counties to voters of counties that are subjects of measure.
If you plan to submit materials to the committee, please send PDF electronically to the email address near the top of the agenda by noon the prior business day. For printed documents, please provide 15 paper copies to the assistant when you testify.
Persons making presentations including the use of video, DVD, PowerPoint or overhead projection equipment are asked to contact committee staff 24 hours prior to the meeting.
ADA accommodation requests may be submitted to employee.services@state.or.us or by calling 1-800-332-2313 at least 72 hours prior to the meeting time.

House Rules Committee

Membership:
Chris Garrett, Chair
Wally Hicks, Vice-Chair
Val Hoyle, Vice-Chair
Phil Barnhart
Vicki Berger
Michael Dembrow
Paul Holvey
Bob Jenson
Bill Kennemer

Staffing:
Erin Seiler
Zoe Larmer

 

Oregon Republican Party

Greg Leo
Interim Executive Director/Chief of Staff

Email: Greg@orgop.org

Website: www.oregonrepublicanparty.org

Mobile: (503) 804-6391

Main: (503) 595-8881

Mailing Address: PO Box 1586, Lake Oswego, OR 97035

Headquarters: 311 B Avenue, Suite S (Second Floor), Lake Oswego, OR 97034

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Keeping together is progress,

Working together is success”

                             Henry Ford 

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