Oregon Republican state senators flee the state to avoid voting on a climate bill. CNN's Chris Cillizza discusses how their strategy to hide out until the end of the legislative session has worked before
For the last week, Republican members of the Oregon state Senate have been in hiding, fleeing the state rather than be forced to vote on a climate bill that would put a hard cap on greenhouse gas emissions. The goal? To run out the clock until the legislative session ends at the end of the month, robbing majority Democrats -- and the Democratic governor -- of a major priority.
How did we get here? Will the Republicans return? And is running away and hiding an effective way to deal with legislation you don't like? For answers, I reached out to Hillary Borrud, the state politics and government reporter at The Oregonian. Our conversation, conducted via email and lightly edited for flow, is below. .
In each episode of his weekly YouTube show, Chris Cillizza will delve a little deeper into the surreal world of politics. Click to subscribe! Cillizza: How did we get here? Was this fight -- and the hiding -- something that had been boiling for a while? Or did it just explode out of nowhere?Borrud: This climate bill was the biggest Democratic priority left to pass before the end of the legislative session, and there were rumors at least a week before the walkout that Republicans might go on another boycott.
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