Oregon State Legislature sent this bulletin frisday, november 22, 2023, by devadmin
The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has a Center for Legislative Accountability (CLA), which is the premier organization for holding lawmakers accountable. The CLA produces the longest-running conservative congressional scorecard. Their state program is the only one in the nation that scores all 8,000 lawmakers in the 50 states across every policy area.
Last week I received CLA’s highest score for the Oregon Legislature. I am honored to receive the award for the “Most Conservative Legislator in Oregon.” Only 7 Oregon lawmakers earned awards from CPAC for their conservative ratings of 80% or above, while 45 Oregon Democrat party lawmakers earned CPAC’s “Coalition of the Radical Left” award for ratings of 10% or below.
You can see their vote tally here: Oregon Lawmaker Scorecard or download the PDF guide.
My legislative record allows you to see some of the principles that motivate my thoughts. At the most fundamental level, my voting record aligns with our Founders’ vision for this so-called American experiment.
The big-ticket item is our unalienable rights. Every individual’s right to Life, Liberty and their own just pursuits should be a sacred, undebatable, unalienable, and indefeasible right. Yet, the Left often argues that when seeking the “common good” more importance should be given to the state than to individual people. We must never reject the idea that we have been endowed with rights that can never be stripped from us by a truly just government. Otherwise, our culture will fall prey to injustice under the guise of justice.
We all can clearly see the shortcomings arising from the false promises of the political elites. Whether they are tax and spend destructionists, defund-the-police anarchists, clean-energy hypocrites, big-government cronies, menstruating men, or drag-queen story-hour proponents their efforts will leave your family embattled in cultural turmoil, higher prices, more regulations, and fewer opportunities.
As “conservatives” we must fight for conserving and preserving the ideals of our founders’, our history, freedoms, education, logic, science, traditional values, culture and prosperity.
I appreciate you and your unfailing support for our Constitutional rights and freedoms. Thank you for standing with me as we continue our struggle to secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity.
If we don’t stand for rural Oregon Values and common-sense… No one will!
Regards,
Dennis Linthicum
Oregon State Senate – District 28