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Oregon Republican Lawmaker Flips to Become a Democrat [View all]
https://www.newsweek.com/cyrus-javadi-becomes-democrat-leaves-gop-2127109Oregon 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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