The biggest problem Courtney has is having allowed his colleagues to subvert the intention of the short session, which was sold to the voters as one for housekeeping purposes and "tweaking" budgets.  Instead, they steamroll through major policy changes with virtually no public process with a smug Tina Kotek stating that there are "no restraints" in the law that created the short session.  

Just like Metro getting people to vote for elephant habitat and then using it for whatever they want, Salem got people to vote for the short session with reasonable arguments and then abused it.