Raoul Picante

I'm a lifelong Democrat, but Kate Brown and Tina Kotek are anti-democratic zealots and are running roughshod over the Statewide Planning Goal #1 -- Citizen Involvement. Their HB 2001 bill (and others) is a complete power grab that would do away with all single-family neighborhoods in Oregon cities -- except subdivisions protected by CC&Rs.

The measure flies in the face of all the evidence, and would exacerbate, not help with housing affordability and climate change. It's also egregiously inequitable, placing all the burdens on poor and older neighborhoods.

HB 2001 is pure-and-simple a cloaked giveaway to out-of-area developers who covet land in single-family neighborhoods. I hope the Republican Senators stay out until the session ends on Sunday so HB 2001 cannot become law.

Citizens who believe in clean and democratic processes need to vote out both the "Trumpist" Republicans and the "Brown/Kotek" Democrats.

Paul Conte
Sunriver and Eugene