A Prediction!!!!

 

I have praised them before and I will praise them again …

The folks at OhMyGov.Com come up with some great stories!

In a move that sounds like it was taken from either the pages of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 or the sands of an elementary school playground, Oregon Democrats tacked on (and later removed) language to a recent bill that would make a “yes” vote on a particular referendum be a vote against adopting the resolution and vice versa. 

I have learned over the years that bad ideas don’t die just once. They keep coming back and coming back and coming back.

If you scratched your head as you read the above language,  what it means is …  This was an attempt to put into law that a particular tax referendum would be worded so that a “No” would mean “Yes” and a” Yes” would mean “No”.

Legislators know there is a large number of voters who vote “No” on every referendum no matter what it is. So, let’s trick them.  It almost worked.

My prediction?

The seeds have been planted. This idea will come back.

Maybe not in Oregon …   but it will be back.

So, no matter where you live watch for it.