• State employees’ total travel cost taxpayers $40 million a year (world and local travel). The Oregon Lottery sent their marketing director to Europe to learn about online gaming. The trip helped the Director create the idea behind the failed “Orcade” project which created a public backlash for its gambling appeal to minors. The governor shut down the site and the Director resigned.
• Another state director (Psychologist Examiners Board) spent $10,000 traveling to meetings held in places like Disney World Florida and a resort in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
• In just one year, Portland Mayor Sam Adams traveled to Brazil, Spain, Germany, Japan, and China. This was often at taxpayer expense and to attend climate change summits and other non-mayoral related environmental conferences.