A service of the Taxpayer Association of Oregon Foundation.
The University of Oregon spent $24,000 to bring in a sex columnist, Dan Savage, to town to give a speech about sex. His speech included information about the sex lives of people who wear gorilla suits. The $24,000 speech provided in-depth intellectual insight — especially when Mr. Savage responded to one student’s question with “F***…
$940,000 in Portland rate dollars to build an exorbitant “Water House” a modern role model house for water usage. It was soon later sold off for $395,000.
About $15 million was wasted by the Employment Department on new failed software.
A former Clackamas County tourism officer was found guilty of gross misuse of tax dollars and using the County credit card for exorbitant personal use. Starla Schur used County funds to fly her and friends all over America including Florida, North Dakota & California. She used funds to help pay for her daughter’s wedding. The…
It will cost taxpayers $7.3 million to replace the Portland Morrison Bridge Deck two years after it was done. The deck was so defective it could not be repaired and had to be replaced. “Oregon is nation’s biggest user of street fees.”
A judge has ruled that the Dept. of Labor forcefully coerced two Oregon farmers to pay a fine before they were found guilty. It began when the DOL accused two Oregon blueberry farmers of not paying their workers properly. They told the farmers that if they refused to pay $220,000 and waive their right to…
Last May, Oregon paid $900K to settle claims with two former high-level employees, $600K to the employees and $300K to their respective attorneys. Oregon agreed to pay $450K to Rob Killgore, the former head of Oregon Corrections Enterprises, after he filed a wrongful termination suit seeking $1.5 million. Rather than go to trial, the state…
Oregon has already paid out more than $1.1 million in legal fees in its fight against Oracle, the company that built the failed Cover Oregon health exchange, and the battle has only just begun. The state is suing even though it had full control and ignored numerous audit warnings. One former Cover Oregon official was…
During the two-week government shutdown, 4,400 federal workers in Oregon applied for unemployment benefits. This allowed many to collect both an unemployment check and a federal paycheck for missing pay for when the shut-down was resolved and back payments were made. Oregon happily doled out $830,000 in these double dipping unemployment benefits, yet it was…
Not a single Oregonian has been enrolled in Obamacare’s “Cover Oregon” website despite the spending over $82 million in tax dollars. Oregon was one of the first to start early on the website and was awarded the third largest federal grant to build the exchange, yet now it is among the worst in the nation.…