Political Coffee 2-26-25: Bad bill alert and submit testimony against giving bureaucrats power to raise taxes and ban legal products in HB2528, read bill and submit testimony here, submit testimony against HR3 that honors black drag queens, protest against the bad wildfire risk map, MC awards billions in contracts with no lobbying restrictions, second OR city drops DEI, Tulsi fires over 100 NSA employees involved in sick transgender sex chats, Apple decides to spend some of its 500B in OR after all, USAID blew your tax dollars on dumb Ukrainian projects, House passes budget resolution Trump wanted that is slightly higher spending than last year and Trump proposes fines and prison time if illegal aliens don't join registry

Bad bill alert: oppose giving bureaucrats the power to raise taxes and ban legal products in this HB2528: https://oregoncatalyst.com/84990-hearing-alert-kotek-bill-agency-power-raise-taxes-ban-products.html 

Make comment here: click on text at the top, read testimony submitted and then submit your own testimony against. https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/HB2528 

Also submit testimony against HR3 that honors black drag           queens: https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HR0003/Introduced 

Protest against wildfire hazard map at the Capitol yesterday: https://kval.com/news/local/protesters-say-oregons-wildfire-hazard-map-will-drive-down-property-values 

MC awards billions in contracts with no lobbying rules: https://www.wweek.com/news/2025/02/26/multnomah-county-awards-a-billion-dollars-in-contracts-each-year-without-lobbying-rules/ 

Apple decides to spend some of it’s 500B in new factories in Oregon after all. https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2025/02/25/apple-oregon-500-billion-prineville-data-center.html 

Second OR city stops DEI: https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/02/a-second-oregon-government-shuts-down-its-dei-committee.html 

Tulsi fires over 100 NSA employees involved in sickening transgender sex chats: https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1894640243598315912 

USAID blew hundreds of thousands on Ukrainian pet accessory and pickle maker projects: tip of the iceberg: https://thefederalist.com/2025/02/26/exclusive-usaid-blew-hundreds-of-thousands-in-taxpayer-slush-funds-on-ukrainian-pickle-maker-pet-accessories/ 

House passes budget resolution that is slightly higher spending than last year and basically no cuts, despite Democrat lies. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/breaking-down-gop-passed-fiscal-year-2025-spending/ 

Trump proposes fines and prison time for migrants who don’t join registry. https://archive.is/SpJF1