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This subproject is for topics related to Oregon state, local, and federal governance and politics.

Biographies of Oregon political figures (such as Governors, Senators, U.S. Representatives, state legislators, and state and federal judicial figures) are part of the People subgroup, so feel free to sign up for both projects!

Oregon Government SubProject members

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To sign up, please add your name to the list below.

Subproject priorities

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Before prioritizing, a review of identified related categories, and a search for relevant existing Wikipedia articles must be undertaken to fill in the outline below. This will give us a snapshot of the current lay of the land, and presumably gaps and other problems will become more evident.

Work group banner

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To identify an article as a government- or politics-related item, inserting {{WikiProject Oregon |government=yes}} directly in {{WikiProject Oregon}} on the article's talk page will add it to Category:WikiProject Oregon Government & Politics and display produce the following:

This article is supported by the Oregon Government & Politics Workgroup.


Use of the tag will help us track and periodically review our inventory of articles.

Templates

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Stub template

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Using {{Oregon-gov-stub}} produces:

and lists the article in: Category:Oregon government stubs

Infobox

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Oregon Government

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The Oregon System

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Notable legislation

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  • Initiative and referendum: created due to unresponsive governor
  • Balanced budget incentives and return of excess revenue
  • The non-smoking act of ~1986
  • Requirement that laws be written in plain, nontechnical language
  • permissive voter registration
  • single subject requirement for constitutional measures (see Armatta v. Kitzhaber)
  • requirement that ballot measure "yes" vote always means a change and "no" means no change
  • Metro's Oregon City garbage burner attempt and the three amusing ballot measures which defeated it (~1982)

Legislature

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Executive

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Constitutional offices

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Other statewide elected offices

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Agencies, Boards and Commissions

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Judicial

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County governments

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Ports and Service Districts

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Municipal governments

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(Primarily within the scope of Oregon Cities Subproject, included here for completeness and so that they can ultimately be checked to see that municipal government information is included.

Federal government entities in Oregon

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Political Parties

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(List of political parties in Oregon)

Elections

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There's extensive coverage of recent elections, especially 2006: Oregon gubernatorial election, 2006, Oregon statewide elections, 2006,Multnomah County, Oregon election, 2006 and Portland, Oregon and Metro election, 2006.

Many individual candidate pages also include sections on specific elections.

I believe that, especially now that the election is over, information should be compiled from candidate pages into the more general pages listed above, and summarized more briefly on the candidate pages. I added {{main}} tags to many of the gubernatorial candidate pages, to facilitate that process.

Also, the Multnomah County and Portland pages listed above should be merged.

-Pete 18:37, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Articles

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To be created

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; let's keep the individual politicians over there to avoid redundancy

(In addition to red links above)

Needing attention

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  • 1000 Friends of Oregon – Categorized as a charity; but founded by Tom McCall and mostly involved in advocacy (protecting natural resources by opposing development, often before governmental boards, etc.). Desperately needs expansion, and more accurate categorization.
  • Oregonians In Action – At least regarding Oregon Ballot Measure 37 (2004), this group forms the "opposite bookend" from 1000 Friends, on the issue of land use. More information about their history, philosophical bent, finances, and general influence would be very helpful.

Images needed

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Finding Government articles needing attention

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Resources

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  • Oregon Blue Book "State Government Homepage" - Links to the three branches of government, elections, finance, and both the original and current Constitution. Good for fact checking, collecting data for infoboxes, or getting basic info for a stub or start on an article.