Originally Posted by
njtom
It's fine to speculate about what a political leader might do. But I think it's important, when reading news articles, to attempt to distinguish between fact and fiction. Generally speaking, I've found that a fact-based article will appear on both right and left websites, framed differently based on the site's agenda. In this case, I didn't find any indication of the bill in question on any leftist or centrist websites. And on the rightist websites, the wording was exactly the same on every site. It seemed to me quite likely that this was just a made-up article that got posted somewhere and then copied-and-pasted to all of the other sites.
I have no inside knowledge of the goings-on in the Oregon legislature, so I'm just stating my opinion.