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By Nathan Thomas on April 16, 2013, 1:46pm
2013 may be remembered as the year that Democratic efforts to protect and expand voting rights re-asserted themselves. In just the past few weeks, Democratic legislation has advanced in at least four states - California, Oregon, Colorado, and Maryland - that would remove significant barriers to voting while protecting the integrity of our elections.
Republicans in all four states, naturally, oppose the efforts.
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By Dan Roth on February 22, 2013, 4:19pm
More Oregon students will now have access to high education under a plan put forward by Democrats in the state legislature. According to a press release, "Oregon House Democrats today unanimously voted in favor of legislation that will expand equity in tuition costs to all Oregon high school students, regardless of their immigration status." Eighteen Republicans voted against the measure.
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By Dan Roth on January 14, 2013, 4:18pm
After leading Oregon House Democrats back to the majority in last November's elections, Tina Kotek (D-Portland) was sworn in today as Speaker of Oregon's House of Representatives for the state's 77th Legislative Assembly.
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By Dan Roth on May 30, 2012, 2:42pm
Her personal heroes include Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to public office in the United States, and Eleanor Roosevelt, who spent her life fighting poverty and made history as the United States’ delegate to the United Nations. And should Democrats achieve a one-seat gain in this year’s state House elections, Oregon Representative Tina Kotek is poised to make history on her own: likely becoming the first openly gay Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives as well as the first lesbian in the country to hold that title.
