Five Counties Are Trying To Leave Left Wing Oregon And Become Part Of Idaho

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Five Counties Are Trying To Leave Left Wing Oregon
And Become Part Of Idaho







By Mike LaChance
Published February 25, 2021 at 1:37am








When you think of Oregon, you probably think of the left wing riots that
have been happening in Portland for months.

It’s easy to forget that it’s a big state and not everyone who lives there
is a left wing radical.

Some people there are sick of it, and are trying to make parts of the state
leave for Idaho.

It’s happening in five counties.

Five Oregon counties will ask voters in the next election whether they want
to detach from the deep-blue state and join neighboring red-state Idaho.

Move Oregon’s Border, also known as Greater Idaho, confirmed Tuesday that
the initiative to move swaths of largely rural eastern and southern Oregon into
Idaho qualified for the May 18 special election ballot in five counties: Baker,
Grant, Lake, Malheur and Sherman.

In Baker County, organizers far exceeded the 496 signatures required by
submitting 746, with the clerk reporting that 630 were accepted.
The county population is about 16,000.

“Oregon is a powder keg because counties that belong in a red-state like Idaho
are ruled by Portlanders,” said Mike McCarter, president of Move Oregon’s Border,
in a statement.

He cited the impact of Democratic Gov. Kate Brown’s novel coronavirus restrictions;
ongoing Antifa unrest in Portland; a state task force’s unsuccessful effort to
prioritize “Black, Indigenous and people of color” for novel coronavirus vaccines,
and what he described as the state legislature’s bias in favor of Portland over
rural communities.

“This state protects Antifa arsonists, not normal Oregonians, it prioritizes one race
above another for vaccines and program money and in the school curriculum, and
it prioritizes Willamette Valley above rural Oregon,” Mr. McCarter said.


Could this happen in other states?