Last evening while I'm out on my back deck grilling up some truely delicious steaks and corn on the cob, a young woman knocks at my door wanting to speak with me.
She's carrying a clipboard with petition sheets. She's also rather pretty and dressed casually--just revealing enough to not be slutty.
The young woman then asks me if I'd be willing to sign her petitions to create term limits in Oregon and to create a rainy day fund.
Rainy day fund?
She assures me that in fact the one petition creates a rainy day fund in Oregon so that when the state budget becomes too tight--this new initiative will create a fund for the legislature to use.
I asked to see the petition.
Sure enough, she's carrying the TABOR petition.
I asked her where she learned that this initiative would create a rainy day fund. She tells me that its from Don McIntire and its on his website if I'd like to check it out.
I assured her that I'd seen it and that I'd read the text of the initiative in its entirety. I also explained to her that McIntire had been forced to tell the Oregonian that his initiative doesn't create a rainy day fund. He's been lying to her..and getting her to lie for him in order to get signatures.
Or as we've stated here at LO: Don McIntire is a lying asshole.
Her sig gathering partner then joined us and we essentially had the same conversation.
I asked them if they live in Oregon. They affirmed this to be the case. I asked them to please go home and read the text of the initiative and look for the words "rainy day fund". I assured them they wouldn't find it.
And then I gave them information I have here at my house on TABOR and its effect on state budgets.
I doubt anything I've done here changed much. Those two are just a couple of folks trying to earn some money.
McIntire is manipulating them and the initiative system to lie to Oregonians. They're just pawns in his game.