A disturbing email I received this evening in my email;
Tell Oregon’s Leaders: Cancer Research can not be Held Hostage by the Columbia River Crossing.
Ask House Speaker Kotek, Senate President Courtney, Representative Buckley and Senator Devlin to state their commitment to considering the OHSU Cancer Research Center funding without the impediment of a tie to the Columbia River Crossing (CRC)
It’s easy! First send the following message by clicking the “Click Here to Send Email” link. Then, share this message with at least one friend via the facebook, twitter or email links provided.
“It has come to my attention that an effort to tie the CRC to the OHSU bond request is in the works. I believe that the funding of a $200 MM children’s cancer research center is important and should be considered without an impediment like the CRC tied to it’s outcome.
Will you please consider stating publicly that you commit that the CRC will not, in any way, be part of the OHSU bond request?
With kind regards.”
For far too many years, a new bridge has been held hostage to light rail with efforts to force Clark County to accept it, in spite of several rejections by voters.
Now, with support waning in the darkening hours of the Oregon legislative session, proponents are attempting to tie it to the Children’s Cancer Research Center?
How wrong can they be? How desperate are they that research into cancer in children is to be held hostage to an effort to force our community into accepting light rail?
Oregon Representative Katie Eyre wrote on her facebook wall,
“What does cancer, unhealthy kids with cancer and the CRC have in common? Nothing, unless you are Patricia McCaig heading up the CRC on behalf of the Governor, and wanting to exploit kids with cancer in order to build the CRC. Just learned that McCaig is attempting to tie the CRC bonding/funding on to the OHSU $200 MM cancer research center bonding bill. Make your stomach sick? Mine too. Let the Governor’s office know this is detestable.”
This isn’t just wrong, it is sickening, even for Democrats that a financially troubled light rail system comes before research in cancer in children.
Please, click the link at the bottom of this site and add your voice to others asking them to stand against this egregious effort at extortion.
Will Jim Moeller, Annette Cleveland, Sharon Wylie, Tim Leavitt, Steve Stuart, Paul Montague or any of the CRC proponents on this side of the river condemn this despicable act?
I’m not holding my breath.
