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Political Coffee 3-3-25: Coffee Klatch tonight 6-8pm at Sparky's in Salem, Kotek's power grab gets trounced in hearing, SB702 flavor ban will cost OR 200M, 4% new tire tax hearing tomorrow, Good/bad bill alerts, rural domestic water well metering bill to be amended again, Clackamas County comissioner Ben West calls for audit of MC homeless services, poll shows 77% support for full examination of government spending, Wyden wants to create permanent envirnmental justice office in DOJ and leftist judges ruling will force SCOTUS to act
Kotek’s power grab gets trounced 9-1 in hearing: HB2528 https://oregoncatalyst.com/85157-koteks-powergrab-bill-hb-2528-trounced-9-1.html
SB702 hearing today at 8am: flavor ban costs the state 200M: https://oregoncatalyst.com/85161-sb-702-hearing-flavor-ban-cost-100m.html
4% new tire tax hearing tomorrow: road use that produces money that won’t go to roads: https://oregoncatalyst.com/85152-alert-hb-3362-tire-tax-nonroad.html
Good/bad bill alert: https://oregoncatalyst.com/85171-3-bill-hearings-cat-tax-tire-tax-flavor-ban.html
Rural domestic water metering bill to be amended…
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