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USS_Dauntless

(67 posts) Wed Sep 10, 2025, 11:52 AM Sep 10

Oregon Republican Lawmaker Flips to Become a Democrat

https://www.newsweek.com/cyrus-javadi-becomes-democrat-leaves-gop-2127109

Oregon state Representative Cyrus Javadi has left the Republican Party to become a Democrat, he announced this week.

In a statement to Newsweek, Javadi said he "switched because the Republican Party abandoned the principles that drew me to it in the first place: limited government, fiscal responsibility, free speech, free trade, and, above all, the rule of law."

https://www.newsweek.com/cyrus-javadi-becomes-democrat-leaves-gop-2127109

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Oregon Republican Lawmaker Flips to Become a Democrat (Original Post) USS_Dauntless Sep 10 OP

Fox in the henhouse? swong19104 Sep 10 #1

Please popsdenver Sep 10 #2

Wouldn't that be something? ShazzieB Sep 10 #5

The entire Trumphumping CABAL popsdenver Sep 10 #8

Do Democrats have a program to deFoxify the newly awakened? Festivito Sep 10 #3

Good question. Good point. Trust_Reality Sep 10 #7

An unsettling passage from the article BaronChocula Sep 10 #4

welocme to the brightg side. :) AllaN01Bear Sep 10 #6

swong19104

(521 posts)

1. Fox in the henhouse?

Reply to USS_Dauntless (Original post)

Wed Sep 10, 2025, 01:48 PM

Sep 10

Welcome to the team. But your role is to just vote with the caucus. Just like you did in the GOP. Anyone who has been a Republican should not be asked for any input or opinion.

popsdenver

(487 posts)

2. Please

Reply to USS_Dauntless (Original post)

Wed Sep 10, 2025, 02:03 PM

Sep 10

let this just be the start of a Blue Wave Movement to take back our country from the New Fascist Republican Party......

ShazzieB

(21,629 posts)

5. Wouldn't that be something?

Reply to popsdenver (Reply #2)

Wed Sep 10, 2025, 02:31 PM

Sep 10

popsdenver

(487 posts)

8. The entire Trumphumping CABAL

Reply to ShazzieB (Reply #5)

Wed Sep 10, 2025, 03:39 PM

Sep 10

must not have kids or grandkids or purely ONLY care about themselves.........I fear the later is the truth...............

Festivito

(13,788 posts)

3. Do Democrats have a program to deFoxify the newly awakened?

Reply to USS_Dauntless (Original post)

Wed Sep 10, 2025, 02:14 PM

Sep 10

To be sure there will be a lot of lapses in his knowledge of what really happened.

Trust_Reality

(2,241 posts)

7. Good question. Good point.

Reply to Festivito (Reply #3)

Wed Sep 10, 2025, 02:55 PM

Sep 10

BaronChocula

(3,345 posts)

4. An unsettling passage from the article

Reply to USS_Dauntless (Original post)

Wed Sep 10, 2025, 02:24 PM

Sep 10

Since 2024, at least three other elected Republicans have left the party to become independents. Meanwhile, at least eight Democrats have left the party in the same time frame.

Most current republican policies are horribly unpopular, but it's still easier to be one, clearly. I think it's shameful to abandon decent values to become a conservative culture warrior.

AllaN01Bear

(27,434 posts)

6. welocme to the brightg side. :)

Reply to USS_Dauntless (Original post)

Wed Sep 10, 2025, 02:43 PM

Sep 10

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