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The following was sent to Politics Co-Editor Betsy Hammond and Vice President Therese Bottomly of The Oregonian/Oregon live on January 24, 2025 at 12:55. Betsy [Hammond] (and Therese [Bottomly]), Sen Thatcher has asked me for comments on Senate Joint Memorial 1, which will have a committee hearing
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Oregon Legislative Concept (LC) 2984 has become Senate Joint Memorial (SJM) 1! The draft Oregon Legislative Memorial urging Congress to conduct public hearings on anti-military bias and improve enforcement of hate crimes protections for military families, was introduced by Senator Kim Thatcher and is now looking for Legislative sponsors.
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Originally published on November 5, 2024 by the Albany Democrat-Herald and the Corvallis Gazette-Times. Section 4712 of the 2009 Hate Crimes Prevention Act, known as The Soldiers Amendment, created criminal enhancements for Americans targeting military families “on account of their service.” But the Department of Justice has never
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On our phone call last Thursday, you said "“we cover state issues and local Portland area issues.” Indeed, the Oregonian reported on hate crimes when a veteran attacked an Iraqi restaurant in Portland in 2017. But the paper did not apply the same standard when it reported on a
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Attached is everything the Linn County Courthouse kept from the trial. He pled out, so the DA did not get to ask him his motivation. Then he was stabbed and didn't like the sentence the judge handed him; https://democratherald.com/news/local/crime-courts/albany-stabbing-victim-
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Betsy; The Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 included a section that extended protections to service members, called the Soldiers Amendment. In the Oregonian's prior reporting (including here and here), the military protections of HCPA have been ignored. Less than a year after the HCPA was passed, my
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AI Generated Transcript: BH: My name is Betsy Hammond and I'm the politics editor at the Oregonian. LMI: Okay. BH: I understand that you're an activist on behalf of yourself and other veterans trying to secure rights for for veterans and that you were the Oregonian
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The following was sent to Oregon Democratic Party staff and national committee members on Oct 22, 2024, at 2:30 PM. My name is Logan M. Isaac and I represent the Military Improvement Association. I’ve been working with Sen Ron Wyden’s office to get my rights enforced as
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On October 4, 2024, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) sent a Congressional Inquiry to Attorney General Merrick Garland, the second Congressional inquiry received by the Department of Justice about not enforcing the Soldiers Amendment. In November of 2019, (then-AG) William Barr and FBI Director Christopher Wray, who remains in
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The following was submitted by Representative James Hieb on September 27, 2024, to the Oregon Legislative Counsel, to draft a bill in the proper legal language. Until it is introduced in the Oregon Legislative Assembly, it is a Legislative Concept (LC). *UPDATE: Hieb was not reelected, so LC 2560 was
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Recorded on July 13, 2024, at Linn Benton Community College in my hometown of Albany, OR. I asked Senator Ron Wyden if he would look into why #GIJustice is Missing In Action. Transcript: Logan M Isaac: To be frank, I feel much like the first gentleman. But often when I
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Originally published by the Albany Democrat-Herald on July 2, 2024. July 2 is the 60th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, a landmark bill that seemed to realize Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream that his four kids would “one day live in a nation where