I'm a lifelong Democrat and, as such, am embarassed that this bill received partisan Democratic support in the House.  It is, in my opinion, as elitist bill; backed by the "big hitter" economic interests and will use tax dollars to benefit only a very small segment of Oregon's residents.  I've vociferously opposed it in all forms and, when the state's Democratic party leadership and legislators back such a bill,  it, sadly, makes me think I must be really "out of step" with Oregon's "new" Democratic Party.  The Democratic Party was once the Party of  the "little guy", the working class and the middle class Americans, and the under represented, "underclass of America".   This bill benefits none of them.  It's a statewide example of "trickle down" economics.  Tax dollars trickle down out of the pockets of Oregonian taxpayers into the pockets of the wealthy and powerful.

If that's what the Oregon Democratic Party is all about today, I'm truly an anachronism.