https://ballotpedia.org/Oregon_Prohibit_the_Injury_or_Killing_of_Animals_Initiative_(2024

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Oregon was lost a while ago

Oregon has some of the best trapping rules and region the union. Oregon is the last stronghold on the west coast and we aim to keep it that way.

Especially Portland..

I never in a million years thought Colorado would turn communist

Even our fairly liberal farmers markets are urging their members to not sign the petition. IMHO this ballot measure won't even get to the voters. So a lot of worry over nothing.

Maybe but the fact that it is even a possibility is reason enough to prohibit ballot initiatives nationwide.

Ballot initiatives can work both ways. Conservatives are gathering signatures in Maine to reverse legislation adopting the popular vote in presidential elections. I will most definitely sign that.

I kinda agree with you Warrior. Ballot measures may have been a good idea at one point but they seem to have become a big darn nuisance. And in Oregon the folks collecting the sigs are paid!

If you go to crgeslist in Phoenix and look at jobs,,,,,,,they are hiring and have busses

same thing here in Michigan, all they have to do is go to the big city and they get there signature

This isn't the first election cycle in Oregon that that particular initiative has been tried.

Why bother with paying a game department if you are going to make decisions via ballot?

Democratic Mob rule versus a Representative Republic would be the surest, fastest way
to the death of our country as envisioned by our founding fathers.

But ballot initiatives in the hands of an ignorant electorate are a slippery slope.

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Absolutely

We're still trying to get a handle on medical Marijuana in Oklahoma that was a ballot initiative. We have more grows then shops to buy it at.

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Popular vote in presidential elections is not good. The population centers in each state will control the vote.

I hope if they get it thru they won't be able to kill mice and/or termites, after all they are Gods' creation too. I know it says pest but just what is is is is a pest.

I'd go further than that. The vote in the hands of an ignorant electorate is a slippery slope. Notice I wrote this ballot initiative is to REVERSE legislation that adopted the popular vote.

Yep, and most of the people pushing these ballot initiatives know it. While the originals can usually be passed with a simple majority (50%) they usually have a clause saying that they can't be overturned without at least a 60% majority, often a 2/3 majority. That way it is much harder for the electorate to overturn them if they actually wise up any after they see the results of their ignorant vote.