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What scandal in Oregon?
Via NRO
John Kitzhaber, the Democratic governor of Oregon was sworn into his fourth term of office just last month. But it seems highly unlikely he will be able to survive this month in office.
Last October, the Willamette Weekly newspaper published an exposé showing how the governor’s fiancé, Cynthia Hayes, was taking money as a private consultant to environment groups and then pushing their policies in her public role as “First Lady” of the state. Most infamously, she ordered state employees to follow a policy she was being paid $25,000 by an advocacy group to promote. Apparently, some of the money also wasn’t reported on tax returns.[…]
Such revelations have prompted Oregon senate president Peter Courtney and house majority leader Tina Kotek, both Democrats, to meet with Kitzhaber and urge him to resign. Secretary of State Kate Brown, who would take over the governor’s office in the event of a resignation, says she was ordered to return from Washington, D.C. on Wednesday for an urgent private meeting with Kitzhaber. Once she arrived, she was informed that he was not resigning but that he wanted to discuss a possible transition. Brown called the situation “bizarre and unprecedented.”