Op-Ed: An Historic Turn. The Oregon Republican Party (ORP) is NO LONGER batshit crazy. The Oregon NAV voter who has been disgusted with the ORP is invited to register Republican, to "Come on down" to engage with a well run State Central Committee, to participate in helping choose the Republican nominee, to run against Tina Kotek for governor in the November general election.

In the year Connie Whelchel, ORP chair, has been on board, she like President Donald J. Trump, has appointed wisely, creating an in depth Cabinet, who have been working diligently to revitalize the Oregon Republican Party (ORP). Realization came that the infrastructure of the ORP was no where to be found, thus Connie focused on finding people who could begin building that infrastructure. 

What TPNW would describe as Connie's cabinet consists of seventeen chairs and co-chairs all focused on creating an infrastructure to utilize in the 2026 mid-term election then to have that infrastructure  grow into the future, the entire cabinet presented their work at the State ORP Central Committee meeting in Albany, Oregon on March 21, 2026.

The chair and all the seventeen chairs/co-chairs reported in the spirit and details one finds at a cabinet meeting of President Donald J. Trump. Out of the historic win of getting 250,000 referendum signatures in a month's time to be that beginning voice of Oregonians saying "No more new taxes", the very successful Yamhill County team, headed up by Beth Keyser, she is now the ORP Election Integrity Chair. 

The intent of "no more new taxes" is the citizen telling the legislature, to tell all those state government managers, to manage all those state government agencies filled with unelected failed employees, to get their organizational and legal duty skills act together. Transparency, integrity and a stellar work ethic is demanded by We, the People.

Those government managers also need to get back to work, get back into their government agencies, stop being at home where we the people have no oversight on unelected state employees and state managers. 

The historic and publicly embarrassing in-fighting in various county parties and in ORP itself previously, was stopped by taking away the document used as the trigger; which each competing Hatfield and McCoy used to keep the emotional roil going for years. The language in the platform. As the chair, Connie Whelchel, her cabinet and many other party members acknowledged, no one reads the Oregon Republican Party Platform. As the platform historically is simply the national Republican Party platform, that can be easily read by any citizen interested in reading it. 

With this new attention to detail and up-lifting spirits, the non-affiliated voter, the ones who have been disgusted with both parties might like to register Republican by April 28th for the May 19th primary where they can have a voice as to whom shall be nominated to run against Governor Tina Kotek. More young Republicans are now attending Republican meetings, and getting more involved. The March 21st ORP meeting was well attended, was well done. 

Good energy, thus former Republicans, now non-affiliated voters, might like to take a second look to see what they think. Former Democrats now NAV as well who were disgusted with their political party might like to give the new ORP a look, to see what they think. 

There might still be certain county party committee leadership who want to keep in-fighting going as before, as entrenched habits can be hard to change, but with the new strong leadership as the state level, it will be hard to keep that dynamic going, especially if former Republicans return from being NAV experience the commitment evidenced by this state leadership on March 21st.

March 22, 2026  

 

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Daycare Fraud has been going on since 2000. Billions of dollars since 2000.

Daycare Fraud has been going on since 2000. Billions of dollars since 2000. For 26 years it has been going on.  Billions. 26 years. And Washington State Attorney General, Nick Brown is not addressing the issue. 26 years. 

Fort Vancouver Regional Library got an A+ in all categories of Operation at the February 17, 2026 board meeting at the Cascade Library in Vancouver, Washington State

 

Fort Vancouver Regional Library got an A+ in all categories of Operation at the February 17, 2026 board meeting. During the budget report details, the AFSCME (sitting behind) and WPEA union Reps had long unhappy faces as did their members told to come, to hold signs saying, “Build a Better Board”. In all systems, per W. Edwards Deming, quality starts at the top. At the top in this A+ system is the board and are the board members sitting on that board, who then hired well, the current director of that library system, Jennifer Giltrop, (on the left), who then hired well, the current budget administrator on the right as well as all other excellent managers in each of the fifteen libraries in this system. Something to celebrate.  

However, unions, particularly, “public” unions are not focused on the public, not interested if a tax receiving public institution has an excellent report card of A+ in all areas of operation, balanced budget (actually coming in under budget), increased number of library cards, increased use of the library by all demographic populations, well run programs in all fifteen libraries in three counties, the public quite happy with their libraries. But not the unions.

The AFSCME representative sitting behind all the up-lifting reports looked unhappy. She had already done her public comment letting the board know how unhappy she was with the board. The WPEA was similarly unhappy. Why? Due to one word. The library system with their A+ Report Card on February 17^th 2026, reporting on happy patrons using the library, the unions had come to try to take down the sitting board members because of one word. These union representatives are not experts in the operation of the fifteen libraries within this system. They just had a few library workers come with pitchforks and torches (figuratively speaking) over one word in the library’s mission statement. They lined them up in the back of the meeting room and put on long faces during the up-lifting operation report from the director of the library system and budget administrator. Interested not, in good news. They put out the word on social media to come out and “fight”. Unions can’t hope to get new members and their members’ money through being happy about an operation that is ran well, thus they put out a let’s “FIGHT” poster, come and harass the sitting board members, be rude, sarcastic and ugly during the public comment period.  For what? One word. One word that is not in a mission statement document.

No union representative and no member of the unions making public comment for months identified what would happen to the fifteen libraries with that one word gone. The only explicit example, one commenter made was fear she wouldn’t get any large print books. She will get her large print books.

Now going into seven years is the desire by a minority of patrons and union members to bring back ugly men dressed up, made-up, heavy garish make-up, as sexualized clown women who want an audience of pre-school children. This reporter as well attended many of these board meetings witnessing this unrelenting push by a minority to have access to pre-school children. This group never comes to make public comments about protecting children from being groomed, groped, molested and/or raped. This group never complains there are books targeted to young children that show blow jobs being given.

The word “equity” appears to be a euphemism for the word “sex” related to this long on-going situation with the library. As long time commenter, Quill, expressed at this board meeting via the phone, he will be back (now for seven years) to get those kind of men back in the library to have access to pre-school children.

There was a board meeting in December 2023 where young people courageously spoke up about their trauma from having been sexually violated in their young lives, and they were accurate about the Catholic Church, the Boy Scouts, etc. This reporter, in taking her grandsons to the Gresham Library in Oregon had to always have eyes on them as a man had come into that library and exposed himself to children at that library.

 Instead of asking for programs and books supportive of healing from that kind of trauma, it’s been mostly one long seven year haul of trying to get those ugly men back into the library to have access to pre-school children.

NAMBLA’s (North American Man-Boy Love Association) slogan is “Sex before eight or it’s too late”.

“NAMBLA stands for the North American Man/Boy Love Association. It is a U.S.-based organization founded in 1978 that advocates for what it describes as consensual sexual and romantic relationships between adult men and underage boys (often referred to by the group as "man/boy love"). The group campaigns to abolish age-of-consent laws and seeks the release of individuals imprisoned for such relationships, framing these as issues of civil rights, anti-ageism, and opposition to what they call "anti-sexualism."

Now these union representatives are on the march to go “fight” at the Clark County Council meeting on February 18^th to demand that the council get rid of the board members they do not like.

The Ft. Vancouver Regional Libraries board of directors is a W. Edwards Deming board who hired well in hiring the director, Jennifer Giltrop, who then hired well managers at the fifteen library locations. W. Edwards Deming was the American who revitalized Japan after WW II with his system that “quality always starts at the top”, it cannot be delegated downward. Governor Gary Locke, in 1997, tried, was well-meaning, trying to bring that Deming quality to DSHS in state government, however, those top managers were having none of that Deming training, none of that in operating how DSHS would be run.

“William Edwards Deming (October 14, 1900 – December 20, 1993) was an American business theorist, composer, economist, industrial engineer, management consultant, statistician, and writer. Educated initially as an electrical engineer and later specializing in mathematical physics, he helped develop the sampling techniques still used by the United States Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. He is also known as the father of the quality movement, known as "Lean manufacturing" today, and was hugely influential in post-WWII Japan, credited with revolutionizing Japan's industry and making it one of the most dominant economies in the world.^[1][2] He is best known for his theories of management.^[3] “  (Wiki)

The Fort Vancouver Library system now is a high quality W. Edwards Deming system. Other systems might learn from the current board members of that system.

February 18, 2026