Remember those eleven Republican senators that walked out of the Oregon Capitol to kill a cap-and-trade bill earlier this year? It turns out that bailing on one’s legislative post is a fineable offense – so the Democratic senate leadership has now levied a $500 a day fine, per missing senator. That’s $3,500 per senator.
However, the offending senators will be getting $3,000 each to pay their fines from The Stand with Our Senators Political Action Committee. The PAC raised $42,000, and spent $34,629, and had $5,000 on hand as of Tuesday.
The PAC’s largest donor was 2018 failed Republican gubernatorial candidate Knute Buehler, at $5,000.
Other large contributors included logging and construction firms.
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