Eastern Oregon: the 51st state?

Can we join too??? I can not stand the socialist state of Portland. City folk deciding what is best for all of Oregon? We need property owners with more rights! Let's give each person a vote for every acre you own!

They should include everything south of Eugene into this proposal also. It seems everyone north of there runs the state anyway.

If only it could really happen! Without Eastern Oregon what would the Metro/Portland socialists have left to ruin. What would they boast about, homeless shelters? bridges for bikes? gay marriage? safe haven for illegal aliens? where would they send the garbage? whose property could be condemmed?

What a waste of space. I want that 30 seconds of my life back.

Tualatin property owner wrote:

Can we join too??? I can not stand the socialist state of Portland. City folk deciding what is best for all of Oregon? We need property owners with more rights! Let's give each person a vote for every acre you own!

Leave and take the entire stinking state of Oregon with you.

orbunker wrote:

If only it could really happen! Without Eastern Oregon what would the Metro/Portland socialists have left to ruin. What would they boast about, homeless shelters? bridges for bikes? gay marriage? safe haven for illegal aliens? where would they send the garbage? whose property could be condemmed?

Excellent, let the white trailer trash and their over breeding of trailer trash kids make their own state. They will have no education, no economy and can return to being hunter-gatherers eating berries and rabbits.

I would be very happy to get your kind off of the welfare rolls.

I like Oregon how it is. and if country people don't like the face that they're getting out voted then they should try to make they're voice be heard for whatever problem they're having.

the whole state of oregon is a bunch of douche bag tree huggers as a washington resident in my eyes you belong in california with the rest of the liberal meat gazers

Watch it, there's a gay-pride parade marching up a street near you.

Tualatin property owner wrote:

Can we join too??? I can not stand the socialist state of Portland. City folk deciding what is best for all of Oregon? We need property owners with more rights! Let's give each person a vote for every acre you own!

That is such a good way for people trying to start a life to get a fair shot......

Gresham Gresham OR wrote:

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Excellent, let the white trailer trash and their over breeding of trailer trash kids make their own state. They will have no education, no economy and can return to being hunter-gatherers eating berries and rabbits.
I would be very happy to get your kind off of the welfare rolls.

Thanks for making the point of Eastern Oregonians so well. A Portlander, truly believing that they are the intellegentsia, the enlightened, and the purveyors of all good things that the redneck clods in Eastern Oregon have been so graciously allowed by these arrogant maze-dwellers, shows the attitude that pretty much sums up the gripe that was initially aired with the lead-in article.

There used to be a single-panel comic blurb long ago entitled, "suspicions confirmed" that would illustrate clearly and with a good measure of sarcasm what most people probably already suspected but couldn't confirm. Applies here, methinks.

Thanks, hoss, for showing us what you really believe about the good, hard-working, level-headed, and way-to-sensible-for-you folks out here.

Grillone wrote:

I like Oregon how it is. and if country people don't like the face that they're getting out voted then they should try to make they're voice be heard for whatever problem they're having.

We work hard at getting our voice heard, and have been for the several decades that I've been around. We are outnumbered, you know. All that is asked is that the people in the Portland area, along the coast, and in the liberal university towns take the time to educate themselves on the needs and desires of those outside these enclaves. There is a growing belief on the east side that they simply don't care, and choose to run roughshod over a very sizeable minority.

I suspect that if it were the other way around, many of them would be playing the "tyranny of the majority" card.

We had an advocate in Salem for rural Oregon, but no money was given to make the office effective. So, guess what? Our governor eliminated the office because it was ineffective. Hello? There is now a movement underway to establish a rural voice through private funding. Sad situation.

There is a definite divide between the east side and the more densely populated areas, and also the other touristy places that seem to have gathered a lot of ex-Californians and too-radical environmentalists somewhere along the way.

It does appear to many of us who live "way out thar" that we are hearing a lot of "my way or the highway" rhetoric, often delivered with an air of superiority along with a good helping of disdain.

By the way, my messages are being tagged as from Sandy and points west, but my physical location is N.E. Oregon. My perspective is Portland born during WWII, Eastern Oregon raised.

Toker John's latest floozy was seen to be flopping around on the lawn last night like a fish out of water. She was in jail a few nights ago after having a knock-down, drag out, rock & roll party in the street with her old man. A restraining order issued by the courts will keep those two apart. While Toker John continues to offer a port for his stable of wayward lush, we can expect more entertainment funded by tax payers and entitlement programs that have enabled many idle hands. You may recall episodes past featuring the likes of Sot Beth, Luscious Pam the Psychotic Blackout Witch, Carol the Transient, and more. Despite a popular vote for family values, Toker John maintains fresh connections with his underground commerce and a history that predicts the future. With several casual humps under his belt, his oldest son is a murderous fugitive, no one knowing where he might be hiding out. Another son is currently in jail on a rape charge and his youngest daughter who had plans to visit this summer has been caught in her own life managed with drugs and alcohol. She can write about her summer vacation while curtsying to the courts with re-hab, community service, and other particulars assigned by the judge. His other daughters are noted for pushing baby carriages and juggling vouchers from WIC, also known as the Single Mothers on Food Stamps program.

Oregon and California are having a contest to see who can lead the nation off the deepest end.

Suddenly, the state of Texas seems normal and mundane.

The NBA has another torturous season planned for the Rose City. In a schedule that never seems to end, owners and operators are busy in the off season with prospects and trades while the players can be seen getting off by the busload at tattoo parlors and investing their winnings at local stripper bars.

Directors of television and radio media spared us further punishment by spurning the pro with marbles in his mouth and instead, turned to one of a dozen little tykes spawned by Satan himself. Cuddling a Tickle-me-Obama doll, little Osumare Bahiyah Chanua said she was happy to meet up with her father again and was eagerly anticipating another lackluster year for the Blazers.