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I was at a "Get to know your candidates for governor" meeting at Tri-County Gun Club tonight, where Sam Carpenter, the leading GOP candidate for Governor of Oregon gave a talk and answered questions. One of the major topics of course was IP 43.
He made an interesting point: IP 43 might be the best thing to hit the ballot this coming November for those of us against infringement of our gun rights. What?!? The point sounds counter-intuitive at first, but his thought on it is quite interesting. I'm paraphrasing, but it was something like this:
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Don't be concerned about IP 43 making it onto the books. If it makes it to the ballot, it is going to cause an overwhelming influx of GOP voters to vote this coming November. They'll be coming out of the woodwork. The ballot measure will most certainly be defeated, and even better, other initiatives and candidates will also receive votes that wouldn't have otherwise. He quoted a statistic that the turn-out percentage for voting of registered GOP voters in Oregon in various other counties can be underwhelming. (I don't remember exactly but I think Sam said it was something as low as 34% of registered GOP party members have been actually voting.) He's been making the rounds around Oregon, and everyone he's meeting is screaming about IP 43. Outrage is high. Registrations are up. More people will be coming to the poles (i.e. mailing in ballots).
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According to Sam the progressive Left is very concerned about IP 43, because it's going to cause such an uproar that many of the other leftist agendas are also going to be hit really hard due to the additional Conservative voter turnout. Legislators are fearful about the fate of other leftist-sponsored issues and other leftist initiative petitions, all because of IP 43 being an unfortunate catalyst.
It makes sense to me...
He made an interesting point: IP 43 might be the best thing to hit the ballot this coming November for those of us against infringement of our gun rights. What?!? The point sounds counter-intuitive at first, but his thought on it is quite interesting. I'm paraphrasing, but it was something like this:
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Don't be concerned about IP 43 making it onto the books. If it makes it to the ballot, it is going to cause an overwhelming influx of GOP voters to vote this coming November. They'll be coming out of the woodwork. The ballot measure will most certainly be defeated, and even better, other initiatives and candidates will also receive votes that wouldn't have otherwise. He quoted a statistic that the turn-out percentage for voting of registered GOP voters in Oregon in various other counties can be underwhelming. (I don't remember exactly but I think Sam said it was something as low as 34% of registered GOP party members have been actually voting.) He's been making the rounds around Oregon, and everyone he's meeting is screaming about IP 43. Outrage is high. Registrations are up. More people will be coming to the poles (i.e. mailing in ballots).
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According to Sam the progressive Left is very concerned about IP 43, because it's going to cause such an uproar that many of the other leftist agendas are also going to be hit really hard due to the additional Conservative voter turnout. Legislators are fearful about the fate of other leftist-sponsored issues and other leftist initiative petitions, all because of IP 43 being an unfortunate catalyst.
It makes sense to me...