{"id":527301,"date":"2021-05-19T20:51:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T00:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=527301"},"modified":"2021-05-19T20:51:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T00:51:24","slug":"5-rural-oregon-counties-vote-to-consider-joining-idaho-to-escape-blue-state-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-rural-oregon-counties-vote-to-consider-joining-idaho-to-escape-blue-state-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Rural Oregon Counties Vote To Consider Joining Idaho To Escape Blue-State Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F5-rural-oregon-counties-vote-to-consider-joining-idaho-to-escape-blue-state-rule%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=527301&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3165.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A cluster of five counties in rural Oregon voted Tuesday to consider seceding from the state and joining Republican-controlled Idaho.<\/p>\n<p>Voters in Malheur, Sherman, Grant, Baker, and Lake Counties approved measures demanding county officials move forward with constituent demand to move the state\u2019s borders in an attempt to escape blue-state rule.&nbsp;Last year, Jefferson and Union Counties approved similar measures.<\/p>\n<p>Sherman, Jefferson, and Lake Counties lie along the eastern edge of the Cascade Mountains, while Union, Baker, Grant, and Malheur Counties are farther east. Malheur and Baker Counties border Idaho.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/news\/article\/move-oregon-border-greater-idaho-petition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Move Oregon\u2019s Border for a Greater Idaho<\/a> supports the efforts, which is an organization that hopes for Idaho to encompass the conservative parts of Oregon and northern California.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis election proves that rural Oregon wants out of Oregon,\u201d the organization\u2019s lead petitioner Mike McCarter said in a statement. \u201cIf Oregon really believes in liberal values such as self-determination, the Legislature won\u2019t hold our counties captive against our will. If we\u2019re allowed to vote for which government officials we want, we should be allowed to vote for which government we want as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As The Hill <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/554332-oregon-counties-vote-to-secede-to-idaho?rl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"7\">\n<p><em>Sherman County\u2019s ballot initiative required county commissioners to promote realigning the borders. The other four counties require commissioners to meet a few times a year to discuss the prospects of moving state lines.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite the will of the counties\u2019 voters, any decision to change state borders would have to be approved by both state legislatures as well as the U.S. Congress.&nbsp;The only other state lines Congress have approved changing were Kentucky, which took land from Virginia in 1792; Maine, which took portions of Massachusetts in 1820; and West Virginia, which was annexed from portions of Virginia by the Union during the Civil War in 1863.<\/p>\n<p>Oregon, more than half of whose residents live in the liberal Portland area, has repeatedly made headlines for backlash against the leadership of Democratic Oregon Governor Kate Brown during the pandemic. Most recently, many Oregonians bristled at the idea of making the state\u2019s mask mandates permanent. As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/thousands-of-oregonians-openly-hostile-to-democratic-governors-permanent-mask-mandate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"24.447031431898\">\n<p><em>Thousands of Oregonians are ripping a proposal to make the state\u2019s mask mandate permanent, flooding the state government with \u201copenly hostile\u201d comments on the idea.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Democratic Oregon Gov. Kate Brown\u2019s health department has proposed a permanent masking rule as the current regulations are set to expire next month. The proposal has received a record number of public comments \u2014 five times more comments than the previous record holder, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/oregons-coronavirus-rules-permanent-opposition\">Washington Examiner<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division, led by administrator Michael Wood, received 5,000 comments on the proposed rule before the public comment period ended.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe majority of comments were simply hostile to the entire notion of COVID-19 restrictions,\u201d Wood said. \u201cThe vast majority of comments were in the context of, \u2018You never needed to do anything.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/oregon-department-of-education-drops-50000-on-nikole-hannah-jones-1619-project-webinars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oregon Department Of Education Drops $50,000 On Nikole Hannah-Jones \u20181619 Project\u2019 Webinars<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cluster of five counties in rural Oregon voted Tuesday to consider seceding from the state and joining Republican-controlled Idaho.Voters in Malheur, Sherman, Grant, Baker, and Lake Counties approved measures &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312429,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3165.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"5 Rural Oregon Counties Vote To Consider Joining Idaho To Escape Blue-State Rule","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3165.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"5 Rural Oregon Counties Vote To Consider Joining Idaho To Escape Blue-State Rule","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}