Posted on 02/14/2003 7:02:15 AM PST by Stand Watch Listen
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:05:14 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Oregon is one of America's more liberal states. It has voted Democratic in every presidential election since Ronald Reagan and has not elected a Republican governor in 20 years. But in a Jan. 28 referendum the people of Oregon voted 54% to 46% to cut state spending by $310 million rather than raise income taxes by 0.5% to balance the budget.
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