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MHCO Legislative Update - 2016 Oregon Legislative Election

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Political Lay of the Land for Oregon Business Community in 2016 - It is Not Pretty

IP28 - Business Tax Initiative will be the big driver of this year's election.    May cost the business community $22 million to defeat.  Dilemma for business community is we may defeat IP28 but lose more seats in the Oregon House - in which case the Democrats would have a Super Majority and pass IP 28 in the 2017 Legislative Session.  They only need to pick up one more seat (flip a Republican seat to a Democrat) and they will have a super majority in both the House and Senate.  Financial resources will be tight because of IP28 - in the end the business community and the Republican caucus expect to only fully fund" four or five of the House seats "in play".  Priority will be to protect incumbents.

No one knows how the national ticket will impact Oregon Legislative races.  In the 2016 Oregon Primary Election Democrats turned out 66% of the vote