Multnomah County Republicans

[THIS POST SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS OFFERING LEGAL ADVICE.  IN THE CURRENT POLITICAL CLIMATE, ANY CITIZEN'S ARREST MAY BE CHALLENGED AND COULD RESULT IN SUBSTANTIAL LEGAL LIABILITY FOR REASONS EXPLAINED BELOW.]

Our own Leo Stratton has posted video of the Lake Oswego screamer.  In light of apparent decisions by local police forces to “stand down” when anti-Trump agitators like the screamer interfere with public displays of support for Trump, questions have arisen as to the scope of authority for those assembled to act in lieu of the police.  This memorandum reviews the pertinent law.

Oregon law provides that “[a] private person may arrest another person for any crime committed in the presence of the private person if the private person has probable cause to believe the arrested person committed the crime.  A private person making such an arrest shall, without unnecessary delay, take the arrested person before a magistrate or deliver the arrested person to a peace officer.”  ORS 133.225(1).  Given that police are typically present, it is easiest to deliver an arrested person to an observing officer, but it is also conceivable that delivery to a sympathetic judge (if one could be identified) would also be useful.  See ORS 133.030 (“magistrates” means judges).

This is a speech I got about halfway into before the anti-free speech fascists in Lake Oswego succeeded in shutting us down at March 4 Trump.  Unfortunately, I didn't get to the most important part:  what we need to do to help President Trump and help America.  We'll have to try harder next time.

The motto of the Texas Rangers was “one riot, one ranger”.  The motto of the Portland Police appears to be "with more than 800 policemen and reinforcements from the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Department, and the State Police, we can’t do anything because we are outnumbered and concerned about officer safety”.  We doubt that heavily-armored SWAT teams really fear for their safety when faced with a handful of unarmored anarchists with bats and their snowflake fellow travelers.  We don’t think the police force on the street is made up of cowards.

The battle of the soul of the Trump Administration now begins.  Only time will tell whether this Administration will bring real reform to lift unreasonable shackles of government from the rural West or adopt the Bush Administration’s policy of neglect.  As always, the result will depend on people.  Whom Trump chooses to occupy the thousands of Federal offices, the inhabitants of which are presently eating out the substance of rural America, is critical.

Oregon Republican Party Chairman Bill Currier issued a statement late Friday urging Secretary of State Jeanne Atkins to cease making statements that effectively suppress Republican votes. Her recent remarks to the media "mischaracterize the State Party’s efforts to reactivate inactive Republican voters across Oregon and openly encourage them to ignore calls from the State Party providing information on how to get a ballot and vote."

On October 30, 2016, the Oregonian published Leonard Pitts’ syndicated column in which he stated that he did not want the Republican Party to be defeated;

“I want it immolated.

“I want it razed to the foundation, reduced to a moonscape, left unlivable even for cockroaches, much less newts. I want it treated like boot heels treat ants and furnaces treat ice cubes, treated like a middle-school basketball team playing the '71-'72 Lakers.

“Defeat is not enough. Let there be humiliation. Let there be pain.”

Republican presidential nominee Donald J Trump will debate the democrat nominee for the third time on Wednesday!  Join us to watch the debate at Mekong Bistro!  Enjoy food and drinks (no host) in the big room while we watch the debate on multiple screens.

What: Presidential Debate
Where: Mekong Bistro 8200 NE Siskiyou Portland OR 97220
When: Wednesday evening October 19th.  Debate begins at 6 pm.

One simple lens through which to view the upcoming state-wide measures is that Democrats are endorsing nearly all of them, and it should therefore come as no surprise that Republicans are suggesting that you vote no against nearly all of them.  Below we describe and analyze Measures 94-100.

Republican presidential nominee Donald J Trump will debate the democrat nominee for the second time on Sunday!  Join us to watch the debate at Mekong Bistro!  Watch the 90 minute debate, enjoy food and drinks (no host) in the big room with multiple screens.

What: Presidential Debate 
Where: Mekong Bistro 8200 NE Siskiyou Portland OR 97220
When: Monday evening October 9th.  Debate begins at 6 pm.

We had so much fun the first time.  We must do this again! Once again, in the days leading up to the debate the Donald is on the campaign trail while Ms Clinton is resting up.

Portland is back in national news again, for all the wrong reasons.

A Multnomah County, Oregon, judge had some pretty pointed things to say about who he thought was responsible for a murder, with the murderer standing before him awaiting sentencing. This being Oregon, you've probably guessed that the judge wasn't lecturing the murderer himself. That's right, he blamed the guns for the murder.

I'll give you a moment to pick yourself up off the floor.

Judge Kenneth Walker doesn't want you to think he's anti-gun, though. He's clearly read the United States Constitution. After all, when he finally finished his rant, he said, "But it is a right of people in this country to own and possess them, and I will not say anything to affect that right."

Check out the full rant by clicking here

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"Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party" is showing at four different venues in the Portland area on Friday 7/22 and Saturday 7/23!!!  How wonderful!  Thank you, everyone, who worked to locate this documentary in our area. Theaters include Regal Fox Tower Stadium, Regal Division Street Stadium 13, Cinemark Century Clackamas Town Center, and Regal Bridgeport Village Stadium 18.  Friday night, after the showing at the Clackamas Town Theater showing, stop in to the Claim Jumper Restaurant on the other side of the Mall for a nightcap and to visit with other republicans who viewed the movie.  Most important, please see this documentary on opening day weekend!  That ensures a good run.   Movie times for Friday and Saturday are as follows:

Multnomah County Republican Party wants to welcome a new batch of PCPs to our precinct organization.  We have plenty of room for many hands to make light work for us all including some leadership positions.  

Thanks to the newsletter from our Oregon State Senator Doug Whitsett who is serving on the “Joint Interim Committee on Department of Energy Oversight,” we have a high level look into the spending of taxpayer money on green energy programs.  

What an amazing exciting time to be republican.  Never in my lifetime have I seen such huge crowds gathering to a republican candidate.  Having republican voters so excited about their candidate has been invigorating.  The crowd sizes even in the numbers that the liberal news media was willing to report were impressive.  Night after night Donald Trump was meeting with thousands of Americans.  It felt like a wave of excitement was sweeping through America.

This July 22nd the long awaited Dinesh D'Souza video "Hillary's America: The Secret History Of The Democratic Party" is set to be released to a limited number of theaters.  If you want to see this documentary on opening day weekend, we will need to be contacting our local theaters and asking if they will be showing it.  If the large chains such as Regal Cinemas and Cinemark are paying attention to the past economic success of past Dinesh D'Souza's documentaries, they would be showing this film.