The Oregon state house passed a climate change bill that the Oregon Senate didn’t have the votes to defeat. So the GOP Senators left the capitol to deny a quorum.
The Governor said that he would send the state police to find the anti-democracy GOP Senators and return them to the capitol.
A least one anti-democracy GOP Senator said that he is armed and would shoot to kill if the State Police tried to make him a “political prisoner.”
Anti-Democracy militia groups expressed support for the anti-democracy Senator and promised violence against the state police and the state legislature. Some anti-democracy militia groups gathered at the state Capitol.
State police deemed the safety of lawmakers was threatened, so the Oregon state Senate cancelled its Saturday session.
