Who is oregons governor

The governor proposes a two-year budget to the Legislature, recommends a legislative program each regular session and may also call special sessions. She reviews all bills passed by the Legislature, may veto measures she believes are not in the public interest and shall fill vacancies by appointment. The governor appoints judges to fill vacancies in judicial office, has extradition authority and may grant reprieves, commutations and pardons of criminal sentences. If the office of governor becomes vacant, the office passes, in order, to the secretary of state, state treasurer, president of the Senate and.

According to the law, a candidate must have been a resident of the state for at least three years before an election. Kristof voted in New York state in November A legal opinion by lawyers working for Kristof, first reported by Willamette Week newspaper, said Kristof has always considered Oregon his home, even though his job required him to live around the world. Kristof and his wife, Sheryl WuDunn — who also was a New York Times reporter — bought a acre property in Yamhill in and have worked the land and paid Oregon property taxes on it.

Hoffman also requested an independent investigation into leaks of Kitzhaber's emails to Willamette Weekly and The Oregonian. The state ethics commission suspended its investigation on February On February 11, local and national media speculated that Kitzhaber could resign from office. The head of Friends of Trees, Scott Fogarty, noted that the plans were tentative and saw no connection with ongoing ethics concerns. Late in the day on February 11, Kitzhaber issued an official statement denying that he had any intention of resigning: "Let me be as clear as I was last week, that I have no intention of resigning as Governor of the state of Oregon.

On February 12, multiple outlets reported that Kitzhaber told aides on the 8th that he would resign, requested Brown's return to Salem and met with legislative leaders on the 10th before reconsidering resignation on the 11th. Brown issued a statement in the mid-afternoon on February 12 saying that her return to Oregon on February 11 was requested by Kitzhaber but that when she returned and met with him, he asked her why she had returned to the state.

She described this back-and-forth as "bizarre. He asked me to come back to Oregon as soon as possible to speak with him in person and alone.

I got on a plane yesterday morning and arrived at in the afternoon. I was escorted directly into a meeting with the Governor. It was a brief meeting. I asked him what he wanted to talk about. The Governor told me he was not resigning, after which, he began a discussion about transition.

I informed the Governor that I am ready, and my staff will be ready, should he resign. Right now I am focused on doing my job for the people of Oregon. Wheeler made the following statement to The Oregonian:. He has accomplished many great things during his long career, and history will be kinder to him than current events suggest. Unfortunately, the current situation has become untenable, and I cannot imagine any scenario by which things improve. Oregon deserves a Governor who is fully focused on the duties of state.

I hope the Governor will do the right thing for Oregon and its citizens. A records request by Willamette Week and The order, sent by executive assistant Jan Murdock, asked for all messages in Kitzhaber's personal email to be removed from servers.

Several supervisors at the Department of Administrative Service's Technology Support Center refused to comply with the order. Any personal emails used to discuss government business would be considered public records according to the state's open records laws.

On February 12, Rosenblum ordered Hayes to deliver personal emails related to state business to The Oregonian following a public records request by the newspaper on December 29, Attorney Whitney Boise, speaking on behalf of Hayes, argued to Rosenblum that his client's emails were private because she was not a public official. This claim was rejected by Rosenblum's office, which issued the order based on the fact that Hayes worked "extensively on government matters.

Kitzhaber announced his resignation from the governor's office on the morning of Friday, February His resignation became effective on Wednesday, February In a statement to the media, Kitzhaber stated:. It is not in my nature to walk away from a job I have undertaken — it is to stand and fight for the cause. For that reason I apologize to all those people who gave of their faith, time, energy and resources to elect me to a fourth term last year and who have supported me over the past three decades.

I promise you that I will continue to pursue our shared goals and our common cause in another venue. I must also say that it is deeply troubling to me to realize that we have come to a place in the history of this great state of ours where a person can be charged, tried, convicted and sentenced by the media with no due process and no independent verification of the allegations involved.

But even more troubling — and on a very personal level as someone who has given 35 years of public service to Oregon — is that so many of my former allies in common cause have been willing to simply accept this judgment at its face value.

It is something that is hard for me to comprehend — something we might expect in Washington, D. I do not know what it means for our shared future but I do know that it is seriously undermining civic engagement in this state and the quality of the public discourse that once made Oregon stand out from the pack. Nonetheless, I understand that I have become a liability to the very institutions and policies to which I have dedicated my career and, indeed, my entire adult life.

As a former presiding officer I fully understand the reasons for which I have been asked to resign. I wish Speaker Kotek and President Courtney and their colleagues on both sides of the aisle success in this legislative session and beyond. And I hope that they are truly committed to carrying forward the spirit of bipartisanship and collaboration that has marked the last four years in Oregon.

On February 12, federal prosecutors issued a subpoena to the Department of Administrative Services for emails and records from Kitzhaber, Hayes and other members of the outgoing administration. The subpoena also sought records of payments to Hayes and her firm, 3E Strategies. All subpoenaed documents were presented to a federal grand jury scheduled to convene on March On June 16, , federal prosecutors ended the investigation into Kitzhaber and Hayes without pressing criminal charges.

The investigation involved the U. On June 20, , the Oregon Government Ethics Commission restarted its investigation, which had been suspended in February In November , the ethics commission released a preliminary report outlining four counts of state ethics violations. Commissioners rejected the agreement 7 to 1. On January 5, , the ethics commission unanimously voted that Hayes violated state ethics laws 22 times.

The Oregon Government Ethics Commission released a second report on February 14, , expanding Kitzhaber's violations of state ethics laws from four to seven counts of conflicts of interest, three counts of misuse of office for financial gain, and one count of improper gift receipt.

On February 16, the ethics commission voted unanimously that Kitzhaber committed 10 of the 11 ethics violations detailed in the report. Before the commission's vote, Kitzhaber acknowledged responsibility for 10 out of 11 alleged violations but disputed that he had used his public office for personal gain.

An appeal would go to the state Office of Administrative Hearings. If the results were still disputed, an appeal would go to the Oregon Court of Appeals and then to the Oregon Supreme Court. The age requirement does not apply to someone who succeeds to office under Section 8a of Article V. Details of vacancy appointments are addressed under Article V, Section 8a.

The state of Oregon has no formal office of the lieutenant governor. Instead, the secretary of state serves as the ex officio lieutenant governor and succeeds the governor if the latter dies, resigns, is removed from office, or is unable to discharge the office. After the secretary of state, the treasurer , the President Pro Tem of the Senate , and then the Speaker of the House shall follow in the line of succession.

An acting governor holds the office until the governor's disability is removed or until the next biennial election, when a special election shall be held. When the treasurer or secretary of state is the acting governor, an appointment is made for someone to fill the office of the treasurer or secretary of state.

Two-term Governor Tom McCall to was a newspaper, radio, and television journalist before entering politics. And before he became a U. Maybe Kristof can make that an Oregon tradition. It would be the biggest boost of federal aid to Amtrak since Congress created it half a century ago. Flynn said in an interview Monday.

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