Oregon County Votes To Join 'Greater Idaho' in Rejection of Progressive Portland - 8th to do so
Another county in eastern Oregon voted to approve a measure to join the "Greater Idaho" movement in response to progressive policies in Portland.
Sixty-three percent of voters in Harney County supported the non-binding Measure 13-18 as of Wednesday morning, Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) reported. It's the only countywide vote this year.
Harney County is one of 36 counties in the state and is ranked as the fifth-least populous with a population of 7,422, according to the 2010 census.
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Harney County votes for possible move to Idaho; longshot Greater Idaho movement keeps plugging away
Harney County voters on Tuesday showed their love for Idaho.
Ballot measure 13-18, which requires local officials to hold meetings about moving the small rural Oregon county into Idaho, passed with more than 63% of the vote. The unofficial results: 1,567 for and 917 against.
Harney became the eighth of Oregon’s 36 counties to vote for considering adjusting Oregon’s border to put much of rural eastern and southern Oregon in Idaho.
“Rural Oregon is declaring as loudly as it can that it does not consent to being misgoverned by Oregon’s leadership and chooses to be governed as part of a state that understands rural Oregon’s values and way of making a living,” said Mike McCarter, who heads Move Oregon’s Border for a Greater Idaho, which is behind the initiatives.
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