What the FUCK is with people in power anymore? It seems like more and more we hear about legislating by "executive powers". What's wrong with following the constitution and using due process?
Submit a fucking bill, let the legislators VOTE on it and hold them accountable for how they vote.

Oh wait, that's it. GOD FORBID they be held accountable for anything, God forbid the day they have to stand in front of the voters and explain why they voted the way they did.

Oregon's unelected governor Kate - screw the constitution - Brown laments over the “gun safety” bills that were defeated in the recent Oregon legislative session. “I will be working to develop legislation for the 2017 session and explore what might be achieved using my executive powers” she said at a press conference last week. When asked to clarify, she struggles to form complete sentences and unloads a string of “uhhh” and “ummm”, while trying to say she wants to keep guns out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them, which is already the law, which was further bolstered by the passage of SB941 in the 2016 session. So, really, she’s already legislatively accomplished such things.

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