Wikipedia:WikiProject Oregon/Government

This subproject is for topics related to Oregon state, local, and federal governance and politics.

Biographies of Oregon political figures (such as Governors, Senators, U.S. Representatives, state legislators, and state and federal judicial figures) are part of the People subgroup, so feel free to sign up for both projects!

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 * User:Jgilhousen
 * Katr67 19:56, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Pete 07:23, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
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 * AmplifyChristian 15:14, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
 * --Duff 01:50, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Äþelwulf Talk to me. 12:50, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Lestatdelc (talk) 09:26, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Jaredscribe (talk) 22:02, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Harimauhobbes (talk) 01:56, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Masohpotato 21 April 2023
 * PortlandSaint (talk) 10:09, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

Subproject priorities
Before prioritizing, a review of identified related categories, and a search for relevant existing Wikipedia articles must be undertaken to fill in the outline below. This will give us a snapshot of the current lay of the land, and presumably gaps and other problems will become more evident.

Work group banner
To identify an article as a government- or politics-related item, inserting directly in  on the article's talk page will add it to Category:WikiProject Oregon Government & Politics and display produce the following:

Category:WikiProject Oregon Government & Politics

Use of the tag will help us track and periodically review our inventory of articles.

Stub template
Using produces:

''This Oregon government-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .''

and lists the article in: Category:Oregon government stubs

Infobox

 * Infobox Government agency good infobox for state agencies

Oregon Government

 * Category:Government of Oregon
 * Oregon State Capitol

The Oregon System

 * List of Oregon ballot measures and ideally some history/background to go along

Notable legislation

 * Initiative and referendum: created due to unresponsive governor
 * Balanced budget incentives and return of excess revenue
 * The non-smoking act of ~1986
 * Requirement that laws be written in plain, nontechnical language
 * permissive voter registration
 * single subject requirement for constitutional measures (see Armatta v. Kitzhaber)
 * requirement that ballot measure "yes" vote always means a change and "no" means no change
 * Metro's Oregon City garbage burner attempt and the three amusing ballot measures which defeated it (~1982)

Legislature

 * Oregon State Legislature, current session: 81st Oregon Legislative Assembly
 * Oregon State Senate
 * Oregon House of Representatives
 * Oregon Legislative Counsel Committee made up of senators and reps and oversees:
 * Office of the Legislative Counsel (the agency)
 * The Legislative Counsel (the person)

Constitutional offices

 * Governor of Oregon
 * Oregon Secretary of State
 * Oregon State Treasurer

Other statewide elected offices

 * Oregon Commissioner of Labor and Industries
 * Oregon Superintendent of Public Instruction

Agencies, Boards and Commissions

 * See List of Oregon State Government Agencies (a virtual cornucopia of redlinks)

Judicial

 * Oregon Supreme Court
 * Oregon Court of Appeals
 * Oregon Tax Court
 * Oregon Circuit Courts

County governments

 * List of counties in Oregon

Municipal governments
(Primarily within the scope of Oregon Cities Subproject'', included here for completeness and so that they can ultimately be checked to see that municipal government information is included.
 * Category:Cities in Oregon - includes all of the incorporated cities in Oregon
 * List of cities and unincorporated communities in Oregon - all of the above plus many unincorporated communities

Federal government entities in Oregon

 * United States Congressional Delegations from Oregon
 * U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon
 * Bonneville Power Administration

Political Parties
(List of political parties in Oregon)
 * Democratic Party of Oregon - could use expansion
 * Oregon Republican Party - stub (and barely that)
 * Pacific Green Party - stub (needs expansion & cleanup)
 * Constitution Party of Oregon - stub
 * Libertarian Party of Oregon - stub

Elections
There's extensive coverage of recent elections, especially 2006: Oregon gubernatorial election, 2006, Oregon statewide elections, 2006,Multnomah County, Oregon election, 2006 and Portland, Oregon and Metro election, 2006.

Many individual candidate pages also include sections on specific elections.

I believe that, especially now that the election is over, information should be compiled from candidate pages into the more general pages listed above, and summarized more briefly on the candidate pages. I added tags to many of the gubernatorial candidate pages, to facilitate that process.

Also, the Multnomah County and Portland pages listed above should be merged.

-Pete 18:37, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

To be created
(In addition to red links above)
 * let's keep the individual politicians over there to avoid redundancy
 * Oregon Revised Statutes (redlinked at Oregon Blue Book) (stub as of 2006-12-18)
 * Gasoline Self Service Ban (ORS 480.330) (referenced in Filling station)
 * Oregon Citizens Alliance (stub tagged as needing references/sources since June 2006)
 * Oregon Tort Claims Act (redlinked at Village (Oregon)
 * Oregon Elections Division (referenced in List of political parties in Oregon)
 * Oregon Constitutional Convention - 1857, already has a category for those there.
 * 1897 Oregon Legislature (or something to that effect), see the notes at the bottom of this page for notability. (Or would this work better as a paragraph in the Oregon Legislative Assembly and/or Oregon House of Representatives article?) I think it might work best in an article along the lines of "History of the Oregon Legislature" that would cover some of the other notable sessions (see 1858-59) as I think in the other two articles it might look random all by itself.see this for a good outline, plus has info on Oregon System.

Needing attention

 * 1000 Friends of Oregon – Categorized as a charity; but founded by Tom McCall and mostly involved in advocacy (protecting natural resources by opposing development, often before governmental boards, etc.). Desperately needs expansion, and more accurate categorization.


 * Oregonians In Action – At least regarding Oregon Ballot Measure 37 (2004), this group forms the "opposite bookend" from 1000 Friends, on the issue of land use. More information about their history, philosophical bent, finances, and general influence would be very helpful.


 * Oregon Forest Resources Institute –  Categorized as a forestry trade organization, but is actually a state agency statutorily mandated to support and enhance Oregon’s forest products industry.

Finding Government articles needing attention

 * Category:Oregon government stubs

Resources

 * Oregon Blue Book "State Government Homepage" - Links to the three branches of government, elections, finance, and both the original and current Constitution. Good for fact checking, collecting data for infoboxes, or getting basic info for a stub or start on an article.