Manning officially a 🟦Blue 🦅Falcon
James Manning is the chair of the Oregon Senate Committee on Veterans , maybe because he is a veteran himself. But despite being a member himself of a community being targeted for violence, he has kicked a civil rights bill out of his Veterans Committee. So the answer to the question I asked in December is Yes;
James Manning is officially a 🟦Blue 🦅Falcon.
“Blue Falcon” is an abbreviation, B.F. It would have been 👏bravo 🦊foxtrot, but that sounds too positive. Joe might have switched the bravo with blue and the fox with a falcon, but the BF is still the same. Manning is a buddy fµ¢ker.
Just wanted to clarify that bit for any Civilian Allies reading rn.
I was taught what a 🟦Blue 🦅Falcon was in Airborne School in early 2001. “Don’t fµ¢k your buddy by…” was the start of what must have been every exercise when I was a young paratrooper in training. What instructors were getting at was the fact that, when the aircraft doors open at 1200 feet and a few hundred miles per hour, everything that can go wrong, WILL go wrong. The nature of static-line parachuting was such that, at combat speed, your fµ¢k up is more likely to hurt the soldier behind you than yourself. Mess up just a little and your battle buddy might be paying the ultimate price…
Manning wasn’t even decent enough to tell me, or have his staff tell me, that he had kicked Senate Joint Memorial 1 back to be reassigned to another committee.
After being read into the 2025 Regular Session on Monday, January 13th, SJM1 was referred by Senate President Sen Rob Wagner to Manning’s committee on Friday the 17th. A week later, on the 24th, the bill’s only sponsor, Senator Kim Thatcher, contacted me to say SJM1 would have a hearing on Tuesday the 28th, effectively giving me three days to prep any testimony.
In the days following I got conflicting reports as to whether it would actually happen. SJM1 didn’t appear on the committee agenda, and Thatcher herself couldn’t confirm one way or the other. The Chair controls the committee and decides which business to conduct. On January 28th the Veterans Committee agenda read “SJM1 removed.”
During a February 4th work session, Manning punted military civil rights back to (civilian) Senate President Rob Wagner “for referral to another committee.”
It makes me wonder what he did in the military, because not fµ¢king yer buddy was a preeetty fundamental value when I was in service… Maybe I should get his ERB, see if I can make sense of his self-interested dereliction of his duty.
Any way, stay tuned for what I can figure out.
