Albany’s challenge of Oregon’s rules restricting free speech by public employees has failed. Indirectly that is what’s behind the action of the city council Wednesday to repeal the rain tax utility ordinance it had passed just last month.
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Tags: cost per thousand, free speech on elections, Public employees, secretary of state
Tags: cost per thousand, free speech on elections, Public employees, secretary of state
Punishing people for facts: It’s wrong
Speech control in the name of preventing electioneering by public employees. That’s the issue in the latest dispute over statements by public employees, and this time it involved Albany. The city council on Monday had a chance to be tough about it, but it chose a softer route.
Tags: Albany City Council, electioneering banned, Oregon Elections Division, Public employees, Secretary of State Kate Brown