Ya know, sometimes I wonder how this country has managed to last as long as it has. The latest little scenario to give me pause has taken place out in Oregon. It seems that Gov. John Kitzhaber, DEMOCRAT, has the authority under Oregon's constitution to pardon or commute the jail term and remit the fine of a man recently sentenced for committing that most heinous of crimes, the collecting of rainwater and snow runoff in reservoirs on his own property. But, instead, this douche bag governor seems to be only ducking for cover. Believe it or not, Gary Harrington of Eagle Point, Ore., was actually sentenced on July 25 in Jackson County Circuit Court to 30 days in jail and fined over $1,500 for violating a Oregon state law that says all water is publically owned--making the 3 reservoirs on his property used to house rainwater and snow runoff illegal.
Since this past Monday, the office of this most stellar of DEMOCRAT governors has been repeatedly contacted via both phone and email to inquire if the governor does, in fact, have any intention of pardoning Mr. Harrington or commuting his sentence. But the governor's office has not bothered to respond to any of those inquiries, choosing instead to simply ignore the matter because this gutless piece of dog squeeze hasn't the courage to defend his idiotic decision. Steve Buckstein, senior policy analyst at the Cascade Policy Institute in Portland, has said in an interview that he doesn’t think the governor would lift a finger to help Harrington out. “Well our governor, knowing what I know about him, would probably want to increase the sentence,” Buckstein said. “He wouldn’t want to pardon him. Our governor is a very big environmentalist.” In other words, he's your standard flaming liberal loon!
Anyway it seems that Article V, Section 14 of the Oregon constitution states that the governor "shall have the power to grant reprieves, commutations, and pardons, after conviction, for all offences [sic] except treason" and "to remit fines, and forfeitures." Bruce McCain, a former Oregon county sheriff, has said that he, too, thinks it is highly unlikely that this dipshit governor would intervene on Harrington’s behalf. “The governor in Oregon, like most states, has the authority under the state constitution to have a broad rage of commutations--they’re called clemency powers. The idea that the governor is going to intervene on this water thing is personally zero,” McCain said. McCain went on to say, “Oregon is a very liberal progressive state. He’s definitely in the corner of the environmental movement. I think this governor would be absolutely in favor of public ownership of the water.”
Mr. McCain added, “I don’t see this governor intervening on his behalf at all, in fact, the general consensus is--folks from the left and the right--that this guy got off easy; that there’s a lot of outdoors people who may not necessarily be in the total progressive environmental movement, but they’re still very, very concerned about the environment and the outdoors,” McCain said. Harrington must report to the Jackson County Jail next week, where he will begin serving his 30 day sentence. You know that an absolute imbecile like this could get himself elected says a great deal about the mentla capacity of those who reside in Oregon. Hell, for all I know Mr. Harrington could have, himself, voted for this guy as. In which case, I guess, he'd have no one to blame but himself for his being in his present predicament. I mean if he voted for this nut, he should have nothing to complain about.
Since I don’t live in the screwy state of Oregon, and would make a hasty exit stage left, if I was to ever find myself living in such a booby hatch, I feel comfortable in saying that it's a pretty sad day in this country when a citizen can land himself, or herself for that matter, in jail over something as stupid, and as trivial, as this. I swear, the left hand coast of this country is becoming more and more like another planet every single day. I'd ask, how you do suppose that things got so screwed up out there, but it's no different than anywhere else where folks are stupid enough to elect themselves some Democrats. States like this serve as being the perfect example for just how screwed up things can get when you elect clowns like this Kitzhaber. And you would think that that would be enough to clue people in, that this is not the way to go on a national level. And yet…here we are!
They don't generally get enough sunshine out there. Their brains are somewhat cloudy most of the time.
ReplyDeleteThat's a very polite way to put it.
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