10.22.06

Ballots are in the mail. We have never before faced an election where one of the main candidates for president has vowed to destroy your Second Amendment rights.

The stakes in this election are the highest they have ever been, and while there have been plenty of candidates who were opposed to gun ownership, never before has a major party candidate campaigned on a platform of eliminating a constitutional right.

It is absolutely essential that you return your ballot in this election. Not only does the office of President hang in balance, but the future of Oregon does as well.

Oregon consistently ranks at the bottom of nearly every metric, and the Democrats who control Salem have vowed to come back and make sure Oregon ranks at the bottom for the preservation of gun rights.

Please don’t sit this one out. Our candidate ratings have been up on our website for some time, but if you have not seen them please visit this link before your fill out your ballot. A change in just three House seats could mean the difference between protecting your right to keep and bear arms… and turning Oregon into another California.

This may be the most important election in your lifetime, so make sure your ballot is safely returned and make sure your friends  and family understand the crucial nature of this vote.

And please, if you have not already done so, consider a contribution to the Oregon Firearms Political Action Committee. We are, even at this late date, helping good candidates in their races. You can help with a contribution that may not cost you a dime.

Contributions to political action committees may qualify for a tax CREDIT so you may be able to donate and take the amount of your donation off any taxes you owe Oregon. For details on how this works, please see this link.

To contribute to OFFPAC and help us elect supporters of liberty, please use this link and check “Political Action Committee” in the Donation Category drop down menu.

Thank you.

04.25.16

Tomorrow is the last day to register to vote in the May Primary elections. If you are not registered, are not sure if you are registered, or are not registered in a political party, please visit this site right away. You simply cannot sit this one out.

The other side will do anything to get their vote out, anything.  We must get our people to fill in their ballots and protect our rights.

While there are some uncontested primaries, there are many contested ones as well and they are important races.

We have updated our Candidate Ratings and encourage you to make use of them. If the candidates in your district have not responded, you should ask them to do so. Keep checking back as the election gets closer as we will continue to update the ratings as late responses come in.

There are some great people running in contested primaries. People like Kathy Lamberg in the 14th House District and Mike Nearman in the 23rd House District.

In Oregon’s 5th Congressional District, currently held by Democrat Kurt Schrader, all the Republican Candidates have expressed pro-gun positions, but we feel the strongest is Colm Willis.

Your vote matters. Your rights hang in the balance. Please take action this election and remember, Oregon Firearms Federation Political Action Committee has been able to help good candidates in the past because of your generous support.

If you have not already done so, please consider a donation to OFFPAC so we can continue to help solid pro-gun candidates. Your donation may qualify for a tax credit and could cost you nothing. Please see this page for more information.

To make a contribution use this link and be sure to pick “Political Action Committee” from the “Donation Category” drop down menu.  We are facing billionaire opponents and every penny counts.

02.26.16

Yesterday the Oregonian reported that the Williamson/Barker bill to add more restrictions to your ability to purchase a firearm was likely dead in the Senate.

The bill uses a totally fabricated “loophole” to allow the State Police to deny you a purchase (with no justification) even longer than they can now.

The reality is that the current law which allows, (but does not require) a gun dealer to transfer a firearm after three business days have “elapsed” contains a safeguard, not a “loophole.”  The purpose of the safeguard was to address the kinds of problems we see in Oregon every single day, where qualified buyers are delayed and denied by the Oregon State Police for no reason.

As we have said over and over, adding time to these delays (the original bill would have allowed the delay to be forever) could very well be a death sentence to a person whose life was in jeopardy.

An amendment that was offered by Republican Sherrie Sprenger, which would have offered some small protection to victims of domestic violence, was immediately shot down by Chair Jeff Barker and the rest of the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee.

The bill was sent to the House floor where it passed with the absolute fewest number of votes needed. Three Democrats joined all the House Republicans who voted no.

Within minutes the bill was read in the Senate and assigned to the Senate Rules Committee.

As you may know, the Democrats in the legislature have been doing everything they can to ram through complex and dangerous bills in a short session that was never intended for this kind of legislation.  The Republicans have been doing all they can to slow down the worst of these bills.

So now the rumor is that the Senate President, Peter Courtney, does NOT want to have HB 4147 come to the Senate floor for what will surely be another divisive battle, especially not in an election year.

But make no mistake.  This bill is not officially dead, and in the past Courtney has revived bills that were officially dead, given them a new bill number and tried to slip them through in the closing moments of the session.  We have no reason to think he won’t try it again.

The future of this bill is now in the hands of Courtney.  We have seen him pull or condone shifty moves in the past.

Please contact him and tell him to keep HB 4147 off the floor.

Talking points:

There is no “Charleston Loophole”  The killer in Charleston got his gun because of a long series of mistakes on the part of law enforcement, not because of the 3 day safeguard.

The people who will be hurt most by this bill are the victims of domestic violence who need a firearm NOW. Abusers and mass killers have plenty of time to plan their acts and acquire whatever weapons they want to use.

The State Police do a terrible job now of conducting background checks and ignore most requests for corrections unless a gun friendly legislator calls them. Gun owners in Democrat districts are on their own.

Gun dealers already have the discretion to not complete a transfer, and many won’t. But it makes no sense to tell a dealer he cannot complete a transfer of a firearm, to someone he knows well, for up to 15 days. 

It is common for the OSP to delay a transfer for someone one day, and approve one the next day while the original delay is still in effect. The system simply does not work and the people of Oregon should not be punished for the failure of the state’s system.

Courtney can be reached at 503-986-1600, or by email at:  sen.petercourtney@state.or.us

The anti-rights extremists are doubling down to push this bill through.  Courtney needs to hear from you today.

02.19.16

HB 4147, Jennifer Williamson’s attack on victims of domestic violence was scheduled for a vote on the House Floor today after being bumped off yesterday’s schedule.

The bill is now scheduled to be heard Monday. That gives us a few more days to keep up the pressure.  If this dangerous bill passes, the most vulnerable members of our community, victims of stalkers, predators and domestic abusers, will be forced into an even worse system than the one they suffer with now. A woman who fears for the safety of herself and her children will be told she has to wait at least ten days to get a self defense firearm but she could be denied indefinitely if she cannot find a sympathetic gun dealer.

This time delay could be a death sentence.

Please use the automailer below to send a message to the legislature to vote NO on this terrible bill. A copy of the message follows:

Dear Legislator:

I hope I can count on you to protect the victims of domestic violence. If HB 4147 passes, women who are in danger from stalkers and domestic predators will be at the mercy of a flawed system that can literally deny them protection forever.

Currently, gun dealers have the option, but not the requirement, to provide a life saving firearm to a domestic violence victim after three days if the OSP background check fails. The sponsor of this bill has testified that the check provides false delays 95% of the time!

This is dangerous and unacceptable and puts the most vulnerable at great risk. Extending that delay achieves nothing but creating more fear for people who have nothing to protect themselves but a paper restraining order.  Please don’t buy into the misleading narrative that these victims can simply “borrow a gun from a friend.”  Very few people have friends willing to lend them a firearm especially now with the vague and confusing language of SB 941, which puts all gun owners at risk. Gun dealers should have to option of transferring a firearm to a person they know. Protect victims of domestic violence, vote NO on HB 4147.

02.15.16

House Bill 4147 will be voted on in the House as early as tomorrow.

As you know, this bill is one more incremental attack on gun owners and another slap in the face to the most vulnerable Oregonians.  Rest assured, it is simply a stepping stone for more regulations and restrictions that the anti-gun majority in the Oregon Legislature have promised.

The deciding vote to pass this bill out of committee was cast by Chair Jeff Barker, who in the past has been a supporter of gun rights. Not only was he the deciding vote to move the bill to the full House for a vote, he was the deciding vote against an amendment that would have provided a small degree of protection to the victims of domestic violence.

Please, if you have not already done so, use the automailer at the bottom of this alert to tell legislators to vote “NO” on HB 4147.

And if you already have, please consider doing it again. It is just that important.

02.05.16

UPDATE …. THIS BILL HAS BEEN SCHEDULED FOR A “WORK SESSION” ON WEDNESDAY.

As you know, HB 4147 was not acted on yesterday in the House Judiciary Committee. This bill will allow the Oregon State Police to deny you a lawful firearms transfer indefinitely. ( As in forever.)

Currently both Oregon and Federal law have safeguards for people who are unjustly prevented from purchasing firearms due to errors by the Oregon State Police.

Oregon’s safeguards are minimal and insufficient and every year thousands of Oregonians are denied their rights because of the flawed background check system and now the Democrats in the Oregon legislature want to remove even those small protections.

A “hearing” was held on the bill and out of staters were flown in by anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg to promote this attack on your rights, but no vote was taken.

We MUST pull out all the stops to prevent this bill from becoming law. The bill’s own sponsor has admitted the system does not work. She has testified that 95% of people who are “delayed” are delayed with no justification. Yet now she wants them delayed forever.

Currently, the FBI, upon whom the Oregon State Police rely for information on background checks, is not even conducting investigations of  improper and unfounded delays.  So, if you are trying to buy a firearm and the State Police have bad information on you, you could very well be out of luck.  This kind of abuse is exactly why we have always opposed this prior restraint on a fundamental right.   This dangerous bill has a very good chance of passing and only you can stop it. The Chairman of the Committee, Jeff Barker, who has always voted pro-gun in the past has indicated he is prepared to vote for this bill and pass it out of committee. This is a very bad sign.

Please contact your legislators with the pre-written message below:

Dear Legislator,
House Bill 4147 would allow the Oregon State Police to prevent the lawful transfer of a firearm forever. The bill does not contain a single safeguard for people who are delayed on a firearms background check with no justification.
Current law has carefully crafted and seriously considered protections to prevent a faulty system from denying a person’s rights. They are not “loopholes.” They are safeguards. Small safeguards.
If you wonder why people are so distrustful of government intentions, this bill will explain it all.
The sponsor of the bill has testified that 95% of the people who are delayed by the State Police are delayed in error. If the person who is promoting this attack on our liberties admits this, what more do you need to oppose this dangerous legislation?
If people in your district were denied the right to vote because the Secretary of State had a faulty program, would  you explain that it was just a small inconvenience and they should not object to waiting six months or a year to exercise their rights?
If not, you must oppose this legislation.

02.02.16

That’s how Floyd Prozanski described his own vendetta driven, anti-gun bill after he and other legislators received thousands of emails and calls opposing it.

Proving that your activism really does matter,  Prozanski has shelved his Soviet style bill and is saying it’s dead…for now.

Keep in mind, Ginny Burdick has already announced her plans for an even worse bill some time in the future, but for now it looks like your efforts have derailed their plans to use secret accusations from malicious people to crush your gun rights.  Great job and thank you.

Now we really need to double down on our efforts to kill HB 4147. This is Jennifer Williamson’s bill that will use the errors in the background check system as a way to deny gun rights to Oregonians. Under her bill if you are delayed on a purchase, no matter how qualified you are, a dealer may not allow you take possession until, (and if) the OSP gets around to giving you permission. And they can take literally forever.

Ironically, Williamson has publicly acknowledged that the system is flawed and “there’s nothing we can do about it.”  She has also expressed her “shock” at how many background checks are run, clearly displaying her disdain for lawful purchases.

Williamson’s bill would eliminate your ability to get a gun if the State Police cannot accurately conduct a background check, which is all too often a reality.  If they cannot do their jobs, you lose your rights with no recourse.  Naturally, that’s the goal. Williamson does not approve of people buying guns at all, so she hopes to use the flaws in the system to prevent you from exercising your rights.

To Williamson, every right is a “loophole” that must be closed, and every attack on your liberties is “common sense.”  It’s the perfect leftist scam, build a system that doesn’t work, force people to be subjected to it and then punish them when the system fails.

Williamson has claimed that “only” 1800 people are going to have their rights taken away but even then admits that (according to her)only about 500 would actually be prohibited persons.  But the Oregonian has reported that last year over 8000 people had their 2nd Amendment rights put on hold and of those 95% should not have. Even those numbers seem low.

So we have to stop this.  As you know, HB 4147 is currently scheduled for a hearing this Thursday at 3pm in the House Judiciary Committee. UPDATE. THIS MEETING HAS BEEN MOVED TO ROOM 50 IN THE BASEMENT OF  THE CAPITOL

The Chairman of the committee is Jeff Barker who has been pro-gun in the past so it is troubling that he is hearing this dangerous and disingenuous bill.  Please contact him and the other members of the committee and demand that they not use a broken system to take away your gun rights.

If you can come to the hearing to testify, please do. If you cannot, you can send testimony in PDF format to committee assistant Catherine Heaton catherine.heaton@state.or.us

Chairman Jeff Barker can be reached at 503-986-1428 or by email at Rep.JeffBarker@state.or.us

Contact info for all the House Judiciary Committee members is available here.

The message is simple,

Dear Representative,

The Oregon background check system is faulty. Every year thousands of people’s rights are infringed as a result of the inability of the OSP ID unit to accurately complete the mandated “check.” 

It makes no sense to further punish those people by removing the one small safeguard the law allows for people who are the victims of a broken system.

02.01.16

The Senate Judiciary Committee has changed the location of the hearing on the Prozanski’s secret accusation bill.

SB 1551 is currently scheduled to be heard on Wednesday Feb 3 at 8am, however the location for that hearing has changed.

The new location will be in HR 50 which is in the basement of the Capitol.

Hearings are moved to that room when they expect a larger than usual turn out, which means it’s likely that the Democrats will be busing in anti-gunners to push this dangerous and unconstitutional bill.

If you can come and testify please do. If you cannot, written testimony can submitted in PDF format to committee assistant Kristi Arrington. kristi.arrington@state.or.us

SB 1551 allows certain persons, including family members, school personnel and medical professionals to make an accusation that you are having a “mental health crisis” so your right to acquire a firearm is taken away.  Accusers are not required to have any mental health credentials and some can make a report without ever having met you.  You are not allowed to know your rights have been taken, by whom, or for how long.

SB 1551 does away with due process and cripples your gun rights based on secret accusations by unqualified reporters whose only agenda may be to prevent you from exercising your 2nd Amendment rights.  Please make your voice heard.

1.28.16

As we  have told you, the Democrats are racing through the anti-gun bills as quickly as they can.

The two worst gun grabbing bills have already been scheduled for hearings in the first days of the session. These are some of the most dangerous bills ever introduced.

SB 1551, Prozanski’s Soviet style, secret accusation bill is scheduled for a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Feb 3 at 8am in Hearing Room 343 in the Capitol.

Under this bill a person with no mental health credentials, who may have never even met you, can take away your  right to acquire a firearm with an anonymous call to the State Police. You are not informed your rights are gone, you are not allowed to know who made the accusation and you are not allowed to know how long your rights are suspended.

You have no true, practical way to have your rights restored and your accuser can renew their accusations against you as often as they want.

This committee is controlled by Floyd Prozanski, the person responsible for the bill. Contact info for members of the committee can be found here.

On the House side, HB 4147 will be heard in the House Judiciary Committee on Feb 4 at  3pm in Hearing Room 343 at the Capitol.

This bill prohibits transfer of a firearm without the approval of the Oregon State Police, removing the only safeguard against errors made by the OSP during background checks.

Currently a dealer may transfer a firearm to a buyer after three days if the State Police issue a delay. This bill will prohibit that and allow the OSP to delay you literally forever.

The background check system is a total failure. We recently learned of a buyer who was approved for a gun transfer in January while still being delayed for a gun he tried to buy last November. Qualified people are routinely delayed or denied with no cause as a result of the OSP’s faulty system.  This bill will eliminate the one small safeguard they have.

We cannot stress enough how dangerous these bills are. After the passage of SB 941 the Democrats are now trying to screw down the vise on gun owners and only you can stop them.

The fact that HB 4147 is being heard in the House Judiciary Committee is especially alarming since the chair of that committee has always been pro-gun and chairs usually do not schedule bills they don’t plan to vote for.

Contact info for the House Judiciary Committee can be found here. Please call or email the members of both these committees as many times as you can.

Tell the Senate Judiciary Committee “NO on SB 1551” and the House Judiciary Committee “NO on HB 4147” or use our automailer to send a pre-written message to any or all legislators.

Act now, they are ramrodding these liberty smashing bills through to limit public input. Please make your voice heard today.

For updates and changes on committee schedules use this link.

01.23.16

Michael Bloomberg’s noose is tightening around the necks of Oregon’s gun owners.

We have received the draft copy of another bill to take us one more step towards the complete ban on the private ownership of firearms. (This now has bill number HB 4147 and was introduced by Jennifer Williamson.)

Now that most private transfers of firearms are illegal, anyone attempting to buy a gun is totally at the mercy of the Oregon State Police ID unit. Without their permission, you may not exercise your “right” to acquire a firearm, even as a gift from a friend.

Virtually not a day goes by that we don’t hear from someone who has been delayed or denied without cause by the bureaucrats in the ID unit.   Until now, gun buyers at least had the safeguard of being legally allowed to take possession of the firearm after three days if they had not been officially “denied.”  Under this proposed legislation, even that safeguard will be stripped away.

Under LC 263 if the OSP choses to delay your purchase, you are simply out of luck. They may delay it forever. 

The OSP ID Unit has made it their policy to ignore or stonewall any effort to correct faulty information that leads to delays and denials. We hear from people regularly who cannot get their calls returned and thus have their rights eliminated until the ID unit gets around to investigating the delay or denial.

The ATF has suspended processing appeals by people who have been denied without cause.

If the proposed legislation becomes law there may very well be simply no way to legally acquire a firearm. And that’s the point.

As with the bill proposed by Floyd Prozanski to allow secret, false accusations to strip away your rights, this bill allows the state to simply bypass the Second Amendment.  And let’s not forget that there are times when the background check unit is simply shut down with “technical issues.”

The surge in attempted gun purchases, along with the mandate that “person to person” transfers require an OSP background check, has increased the number of transactions the OSP is processing and, along with the increase in transfer requests comes an increase in false denials.

Each of these denials requires that a State Trooper be dispatched to the gun store or show where the transfer is being attempted.  This is greatly straining already stressed police resources while still resulting in virtually no arrests of real criminals.

The legislature convenes  on February 1. We are quite sure there will be other bills attacking your rights. The Democrats in control are totally beholden to Bloomberg’s money and he intends to get his money’s worth.

Be prepared for a very difficult and dangerous short session. 

Every effort will be made to rush these bills through with as little public input as possible.  We will need everyone showing up for hearings on short notice. Rest assured, as he has done in the past, Floyd Prozanski will inform the anti-gunners well in advance of  hearing dates before the public is allowed to know.  Your participation has never been more important.

If you don’t know who your local legislators are, you can find them at this link.  Make sure they are hearing from you.

01.12.16

We have received a preliminary copy of one of the most dangerous pieces of anti-gun legislation we have ever seen.

While the concept was first floated by Ginny Burdick, there may be other legislators behind it.

This bill eviscerates due process and turns Oregon into a Soviet style collection of secret snitches!

Basically if someone makes a claim that you are, in their opinion,  experiencing a “mental health emergency” you lose your right to buy a firearm!

Included in the list of people who can make that accusation against you are such mental health “experts” as a college history professor, your boss, or an aunt you have not seen in 20 years!

Once the accusation has been made, it’s your problem to get your rights restored!

You are not even allowed to know who made the accusation and you are not informed that your rights have been taken away unless you attempt a firearms purchase! You are not allowed to know how long the “hold” on your rights is!

The person who made the accusation is immune from any liability for making the accusation that takes away your rights.

People will be able to make fabricated accusations against you online!

We cannot stress enough how dangerous this proposed bill is.

We have no doubts this will not be the only attack on your privacy and liberty. Governor Kate Brown and leftist legislators have already stated they want more gun control passed in the short 2016 session.  If the past is any indication, efforts will be made to ram this bill through with as little discussion as possible.

Your rights are in the cross hairs. If this bill becomes law, you are guilty until proven innocent.

Just imagine a woman whose dangerous husband has threatened to kill her. She wants to buy a gun for protection, but a “family member” ( the husband?) makes an anonymous accusation, online, that she is experiencing a “mental health emergency” and now her rights are gone! Not only will she be unable to protect herself, she will have to jump through impossible hoops to “prove” she is not mentally ill!

We have run into some downright evil legislation before, but this is beyond anything we have ever seen.  Have a doctor who does not like guns? Your rights are gone.  Have a boss who’s mad at you? Your rights are gone. Have a crazy cousin who thinks no one should have a gun? Your rights are gone. Of course, this bill has an “emergency clause” to make sure the people of Oregon cannot stop it at the ballot box!

We will have more on this bill if it moves through the legislature, but we wanted you to know that the battle is on even before the session has started.  We are going to need all the help we can get for what promises to be a very ugly 2016. Please consider any contribution you can afford to help us reach as many people as possible. Any one of us can become a victim of this kind of outrage. You can help OFF here.

12.09.15

Not waiting until the 2016 Legislative session starts in February, the House and Senate Judiciary Committees will be meeting jointly on Dec. 17th at 9am in Hearing Room “F.”

In an email to Legislators today, anti-gun zealot Floyd Prozanski said:

Colleagues,

In the wake of the senseless shooting at Umpqua Community College on October 1, House Judiciary Chair Rep Jeff Barker and I have called a special joint meeting of the House and Senate Interim Committees on Judiciary. The goal of this hearing is to provide an opportunity for examination and discussion on the state’s role in preventing and responding to these acts of violence. It is also an opportunity to look for areas where we, the Legislature, can make changes so our homes, schools, and communities are safer. Topics will include threat assessments, prevention efforts, mental health services, on-site security options, coordinated law enforcement responses, and community and victim services.

As mass tragedies impact every town, school, and community, we’d like to extend an invitation to you to participate in the hearing. It will begin at 9am on Thursday, December 17, and will be held in Hearing Room F at the Capitol.

An agenda for this hearing will be posted later today.  If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Judiciary Counsel Channa Newell at (503) 986-1525 or channa.newell@state.or.us.

Given his history attacking your rights and killing every pro-gun bill that comes to his committee, you can rest assured that this hearing will go well beyond “threat assessments” and be used as another launching pad for gun restrictions.

Please take a moment tell your legislator that you do not want the actions of murderers and terrorists to be used as an excuse to erode your rights.

You can find your legislator using the “Find Your District and Legislators” link on this page:https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/  or you can use our automailer. Text of the mailer and the mailer form follow:

I strongly urge you not to allow the Legislature to use the murders at UCC and the terrorist attacks in California as an excuse to restrict my right to protect myself. We will never become stronger by disarming good people.

Please act today.

08.19.15

In an email to her mailing list dated Aug 17th, Val Hoyle made some claims that require a response.

So we are going to address her comments in the order she made them.

Let’s start with this quote:

“Friends, 

In the 2015 legislative session I was proud to sponsor SB 941, requiring background checks on all private gun sales. Despite the fact that almost 80% of Oregonians support this legislation, a number of right wing extremists attempted to recall me from office.”

First it’s interesting to note that Hoyle claims “almost 80% of Oregonians support this legislation.”

During this entire debate, the anti-rights zealots have claimed that “86% to almost 90%” of Oregonians support it, depending on whose stats you were reading. In some cases a single organization would quote different numbers on different places on their website. So it’s telling that Hoyle now claims “almost 80% support it.”  Are the numbers dropping, or is Hoyle, like the rest of her duplicitous fellow travelers, simply pulling numbers out of …the air?

24 County Boards Of  Commissioners opposed this legislation, with many of their members traveling to Salem to testify in opposition. Since its enactment, several have said they won’t spend a dime to enforce it.  Many sheriffs have opposed it saying it served no law enforcement purpose and several have said they won’t enforce it. How this works out to be 80% (or whatever number they are using today) simply defies logic.  But logic means little to people like Hoyle who will tell any lie to achieve what they are paid by out of state billionaires to achieve.

Here is the next quote from Hoyle’s email:

“After losing their recall attempt, these extremists responded by sharing my personal cell phone number with their supporters, which led to a number of rude and aggressive voicemails. Even after being condemned by the Oregonian for this vicious attack, they continued to share my number and support these harassing calls.”

Hoyle is channeling fellow rights basher Floyd Prozanski here. By which we mean, she is simply lying, something she and her cronies do with utter shamelessness.

The “extremists” she refers to was actually one guy in her district who was outraged that she would attack the rights and privacy of gun owners by pushing a bill that most Oregon Sheriffs and County Commissioners opposed, while claiming it was “commonsense” and supported by practically the entire state. The person in question is just a hard working guy who stepped up for others at great personal expense to himself. But the biggest lie of all is when she accuses him of sharing her “personal cell phone number.”  He never shared her cell phone number. She is lying. Period.

Her number was shared by OFF in a alert you can see here. No one, anywhere, including the Hoyle Recall Campaign, and OFF, (neither of which are associated with each other except for a small financial donation OFF made to the campaign) EVER “supported” harassing calls. That is a bold, repulsive lie.

The Val Hoyle Recall Committee didn’t give out her number. But Hoyle, like all the gun grabbers in Oregon, never, ever let’s the truth get in the way of a fundraising campaign. To people like Hoyle, lying is simply more profitable than telling the truth.

And while it’s clear that Hoyle orchestrated the Oregonian article with the willing sycophant who authored it, it’s quite a stretch to say the Oregonian “condemned” anything. If they do, they should do it on their editorial page as the Gazette Times of Corvallis did. But more on that in a minute.

So let’s now move on to the next quote in Hoyle’s shameless grab for money in her bid for Secretary of State:

“That’s where you come in!

A number of my supporters are standing by me and fighting back by pledging to donate $25 dollars for every harassing phone call that I receive!

Join these individuals and let the Oregon Firearms Federation know that their bullying tactics won’t work and that you support background checks by clicking here and donating $25 today!  

Thank you for your support, and for continuing to fight for Oregon.

All the Best,

Val

Oregon State Representative

House District 14

West Eugene/Junction City”

This is where things get truly pathetic.

First, Hoyle is obviously hoping that her supporters are idiots. If they are going to donate $25.00 for every “harassing” phone call Hoyle gets, she clearly has a massive incentive to simply invent the number of calls she is getting like she invented the number of people who support her dangerous, privacy invading bill. But on the other hand, Val Hoyle supporters are clearly suckers, so maybe she is on to something. If we were going to raise funds that way we’d go about it more honestly. We’d say, “For a donation of $25.00 we’ll send you Val Hoyle’s cell phone number. For $50.00 we’ll send you Hoyle’s number and personal email address.”

Which brings us to the next issue.

Hoyle is so upset that people have her number that she got a flunky on the payroll of the Oregonian to write a story about it. But there are so many things wrong with Hoyle’s outrage.

First of all, Val Hoyle is an elected official. She not only answers to the people who voted for her (people who may have been conned by the NRA endorsement she received through skillful deceit) but to all Oregonians who are now saddled with a law she pushed through, that attacks their rights and expands harassment by the State Police ID unit.

So her anger at hearing from voters is totally unjustified. You make laws that hurt people, you don’t get to hide from them.

But the fact the media wants to run away from and Hoyle wants to conceal, is that there was never a time this number should have been treated like it was privileged information. Many people conduct all their business from their cell phones and use them as their primary means of communication.

Hoyle never published a phone number on the legislative website where people could reach her outside of Salem, but she DID provide her number to us.

The fact is, Hoyle called me, Kevin Starrett, during the last election. She called my cell phone, a number I had never given her. I don’t know who she got it from and in fact, prior to her call to me, I had never shared a single word with her.

She was calling while still posing as a pro-gun Democrat asking for help defeating a measure being bankrolled by…Michael Bloomberg. The Measure was Measure 90. This would have changed Oregon’s voting system to allow for the “top two” vote getters in any election to run for the office.

That was the very first time a single word have ever been exchanged between us.  After taking her (unexpected) call I received the following email from her dated 10.15.14. (Reproduced below as received.)

____________________________________________________________________

Kevin,

Thanks for taking my call the other day. Just wanted to let you know that Bloomberg put 1.5 million into the Top Two primary (see link). Whatever you feel about the policy, you’ve got to wonder what he stands to gain in buying a change in our election system. 

Call me if you have any questions. 

All the best 

Val 

541.221.9162

https://secure.sos.state.or.us/orestar/cneSearch.do?cneSearchButtonName=search&cneSearchFilerCommitteeId=17001

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The link above was part of Hoyle’s email.

As you can see, the email includes her phone number. Nowhere does it say “Cell Phone”. Nowhere does it say “Please don’t share.”

But now, after hearing from the people she stuck it to with her Bloomberg paid for bill, Hoyle is outraged at our “bullying” tactics. And of course, she’s trying to cash in.

Hoyle and her cronies have the full force of Bloomberg’s billions on their side. Even after passing SB 941 with his money, millions are being spent to promote it with deceptive TV ads.  Why spend millions to promote something you already passed? Is it because people are starting to figure out what a scam the bill was?

Even The Gazette-Times, in the article mentioned above, said (just before attacking OFF with a re-report of the misreporting done by the Oregonian)  : “We never have been convinced about the need for the new law, which we believe does nothing to keep guns out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them. In fact, we suspect the main result of the new law will be to create an additional hassle for law-abiding gun owners.”

Hoyle is a fraud and a liar, and now she is using her lies about pro-gun people to pump up her coffers. Imagine what kind of Secretary of State she’ll make.