Erase Oregon’s Congressional Stain
As the unbridled riot incited by a lame-duck president played out on the Capital steps, the nation and the world watched, aghast. The exercise of a legal and binding transfer of power based on the will of the people of our great democracy was physically and spiritually being violated. And for Oregonians, a group by and large steeped in the tradition of truth, in the aftermath of the siege on the lawful United States government, find themselves confronting a stubborn stain on the fabric of our State.
With an almost unanimous rebuke of the seditious attempt to overturn the will of the citizens of this country, only one member of the Oregon delegation refused to embrace the gravity and reality of the situation - newly elected Rep. Cliff Bentz, the sole Republican member. The great State of Oregon does not deserve the stain Rep. Bentz besmirched upon the democratic and socially responsible identity of our homeland. In a time where truth and integrity are at a premium in government, sending an Oregonian like Bentz, who surmises, “As far as judging the president, I don’t see how that’s very productive right now.” is a shirking of the very responsibility he was sent to Washington, D.C. to perform. There’s a reason we have three branches of government in this country, and now I wonder if Rep. Bentz can even name them.
To add insult to injury, Rep Bentz took up the fatally flawed campaign to challenge the will of the very people that sent him to Congress, in signing on to the effort to nullify the legal and binding votes of the Electoral College. While the spectacle of the failing Radical Right of the republican party droned on into the wee hours with copious amounts of political drivel being spewed from the mouths of the coconspirators of the day’s events, Oregonians are left with a real and urgent agenda. Do we sit back in our COVID exhausted quarantine and let Rep. Bentz continue his inept charade as an alleged public servant? Or do we, as a self-respecting people, rise up and demand immediate censure and a recall effort to remove this noxious weed from our political landscape. The district that elected Rep. Bentz has the responsibility to recognize the mistake and act on behalf of all tax paying Oregonians. The first Congressional act of Rep. Bentz being an embarrassment to both the will and rights of our citizens is tantamount to an act of sedition challenging the very foundation of an electoral process that sent Bentz to Congress in the first place. Are his votes riddled with the same fraud, he claims, bestowed on the president’s? Unlikely on either front.
The confrontation on the Capital steps leaves an indelibly repugnant mark on the country and our place in the world. Oregonians should absolve themselves from anything to do with this travesty of power abuse. We have the duty and vehicle to nip this disease in the bud. Law abiding Oregonians must dump Bentz before he wields his power and entitlement to further erode the democratic values of our great State.
Rep. Bentz and his republican party have historically “rigged” elections through a variety of tools that suppress votes, gerrymander boundaries, tap dark corporate money and blatantly trample fair and honest representation. They are neither for the people or by the people. They hide behind their little parodies about making America great while ignoring the policies and legislation that would move that notion beyond the hollow chant it has always been. There is no time like the present to roll up our collective sleeves and clean house. Apply the rule of law squarely on the heads of those masquerading as its sacred keepers. They are the fraud here and there is no shortage of real evidence to prove it.
Oregonians must join the nation in fixing targets on the heads of the eight senators and 139 representatives who attempted to question the will of the people and banish those pseudo lawmakers from public office, forever.
As the unbridled riot incited by a lame-duck president played out on the Capital steps, the nation and the world watched, aghast. The exercise of a legal and binding transfer of power based on the will of the people of our great democracy was physically and spiritually being violated. And for Oregonians, a group by and large steeped in the tradition of truth, in the aftermath of the siege on the lawful United States government, find themselves confronting a stubborn stain on the fabric of our State.
With an almost unanimous rebuke of the seditious attempt to overturn the will of the citizens of this country, only one member of the Oregon delegation refused to embrace the gravity and reality of the situation - newly elected Rep. Cliff Bentz, the sole Republican member. The great State of Oregon does not deserve the stain Rep. Bentz besmirched upon the democratic and socially responsible identity of our homeland. In a time where truth and integrity are at a premium in government, sending an Oregonian like Bentz, who surmises, “As far as judging the president, I don’t see how that’s very productive right now.” is a shirking of the very responsibility he was sent to Washington, D.C. to perform. There’s a reason we have three branches of government in this country, and now I wonder if Rep. Bentz can even name them.
To add insult to injury, Rep Bentz took up the fatally flawed campaign to challenge the will of the very people that sent him to Congress, in signing on to the effort to nullify the legal and binding votes of the Electoral College. While the spectacle of the failing Radical Right of the republican party droned on into the wee hours with copious amounts of political drivel being spewed from the mouths of the coconspirators of the day’s events, Oregonians are left with a real and urgent agenda. Do we sit back in our COVID exhausted quarantine and let Rep. Bentz continue his inept charade as an alleged public servant? Or do we, as a self-respecting people, rise up and demand immediate censure and a recall effort to remove this noxious weed from our political landscape. The district that elected Rep. Bentz has the responsibility to recognize the mistake and act on behalf of all tax paying Oregonians. The first Congressional act of Rep. Bentz being an embarrassment to both the will and rights of our citizens is tantamount to an act of sedition challenging the very foundation of an electoral process that sent Bentz to Congress in the first place. Are his votes riddled with the same fraud, he claims, bestowed on the president’s? Unlikely on either front.
The confrontation on the Capital steps leaves an indelibly repugnant mark on the country and our place in the world. Oregonians should absolve themselves from anything to do with this travesty of power abuse. We have the duty and vehicle to nip this disease in the bud. Law abiding Oregonians must dump Bentz before he wields his power and entitlement to further erode the democratic values of our great State.
Rep. Bentz and his republican party have historically “rigged” elections through a variety of tools that suppress votes, gerrymander boundaries, tap dark corporate money and blatantly trample fair and honest representation. They are neither for the people or by the people. They hide behind their little parodies about making America great while ignoring the policies and legislation that would move that notion beyond the hollow chant it has always been. There is no time like the present to roll up our collective sleeves and clean house. Apply the rule of law squarely on the heads of those masquerading as its sacred keepers. They are the fraud here and there is no shortage of real evidence to prove it.
Oregonians must join the nation in fixing targets on the heads of the eight senators and 139 representatives who attempted to question the will of the people and banish those pseudo lawmakers from public office, forever.
