op Ed piece from a Seattle mom.

To add to the cluster foxtrot,  wa and or have quit prosecution of hard drugs, effectively legalizing them.

Yep. Oregon decriminalized (legit decriminalizing, not just not prosecuting) hard drugs in the 2020 election, only a few months after we left there and moved here to Texas.

Within months I was getting pictures of the place I called home for almost 39 years,  a suburb of Portland called Hillsboro, where Intel has all its Oregon manufacturing and research campuses at - which *was* in a conservative county with a great sheriff - with tent cities popping up. A gun shop / pawn shop I did a lot of business with was robbed of a shipment of handguns one night. They had a tent city right across the street from them between rail road tracks and a neighborhood. County commission decided to take the softheaded Portland approach to homeless camping, which promoted these dregs moving into neighborhoods, increasing the crime across the board.

Here we are 3 years after that election, they're having hard time recruiting cops. The SO in the county I lived in is now *starting* entry level deputies at $75,000, with top pay for a non-rank holding patrol deputy being $101k without overtime. The good sheriff is retiring this month (or maybe he retired on Halloween, I forget) and they've got a female taking over. I dont' mean to be sexist, but I've been seriously disappointed in every female sheriff and chief of police I've seen. I think its a sign that that area is going to continue going woke, and going further into the deep end of the idiot pool. Pat Garrett was a hell of a sheriff, strong 2A friend, and a voice of reason in the community. I have no idea who this chick is who is replacing him, she was apparently a chief deputy when I still lived there, but I've never heard of her. I had friends in that department. Her experience primarily lies in corrections, if I'm not mistaken, so I'm not really sure how hot she's going to be as a *law enforcement* officer, moreso than a corrections officer.

I feel bad for my family we left behind there, they're paying taxes that keep going to this crap and the democrats cheat their way to power. THey also Gerrymandered districts to prevent popular republicans from regaining office after being drawn out of the districts they historically had, and shocker, drew it so the democrats ensured they will remain in power.