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The Roundup Podcast
by Jeff Eager
A unique take on politics, culture and our place in history by Jeff Eager, a lawyer, political consultant and former mayor. Sometimes funny, sometimes serious, The Roundup Podcast will make you think. oregonroundup.substack.com
Episodes
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La Mota Going Strong Under Kotek Tax Rules
In this episode, we focus on Oregon Roundup’s exclusive reporting on cannabis firm La Mota continuing to operate approximately 25 retail outlets in Oregon despite Tina Kotek’s 2023 tax rules that she said were intended to keep companies like La Mota with big state tax debt from obtaining an…
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Oregon First Lady Maintains Big Role
In this episode, we focus on Oregon Roundup’s exclusive reporting showing Aimee Kotek Wilson, Tina Kotek’s wife, continued to direct staff, set strategic policy direction, receive state police protection for events without Kotek and has an office in the Governor’s suite in the capitol. This is a...
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Oregon group home to dead in an Indiana ditch
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Newcast: Curry County Sheriff scandal
Curry County, Oregon Sheriff John Ward owns personally a building and a 31-foot RV a foundation told the IRS it donated to the Sheriff’s Office. Lots more detail in this video. If you’re into YouTube, check out and subscribe to the Oregon Roundup channel so you get our weekly newscasts, covering...
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Kotek's gas tax flops with voters
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FBI wades into OR coast standoff
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Oregon ground zero for simmering, violent Marxist revolution
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Why Oregon Medicaid fraud matters
Here’s our big, exclusive story from Monday with all the details and receipts regarding a company that hoovered up Portland homeless, made them apply illegally for Washington Medicaid, and kicked them out when they started asking questions. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this...
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Kotek responds to Congress on Medicaid fraud
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek responded recently to a letter from the House Energy and Commerce Committee asking the state for information on combatting Medicaid fraud, based in part on Oregon Roundup’s reporting on Uplifting Journey. Kotek’s press release talks about the Trump Administration, but…
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Three ways Dem tax vote bill undermines public process for partisan political gain
Here’s a link to SB 1599. Link to special committee created for the purpose of changing election date. My article on SB 1599 from earlier this week. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
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Wall Street Journal meets Oregon tax hike
The Wall Street Journal today published an op-ed I wrote about the transportation tax mess Tina Kotek and her allies find themselves in, and what it might mean for Oregon’s ruling progressive coalition. Here’s a link, which may be paywalled. Here’s a screenshot from the online print version: My...
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Desperate Dems want to move tax vote date
The Oregon legislative counsel’s office told Democrats yesterday they could not constitutionally repeal the tax now that it’s slated for a referendum vote. This after the same attorney in that office told State Rep. Ed Diehl earlier this month Democrats could repeal the tax and have it removed…
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Oregon Dem de Aragua
Since I recorded this video yesterday afternoon, The Oregonian reported Portland police confirmed the female shot by Customs and Border Patrol two days ago was previously arrested for prostitution in Washington County. Federal officials say she was affiliated with a Tren de Aragua prostitution…
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Oregon AG's Arizona Spring Break
Another video foray. Here’s the link to the KOIN story about Rayfield’s impending trip. Hope you enjoy! Jeff This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit oregonroundup.substack.com/subscribe
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Not-so-happy birthday, Oregon!
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Rep. Diehl: under the motor voter hood
Oregon State Representative Ed Diehl (R-Stayton) recently observed how the Department of Motor Vehicles will handle the revised motor voter process after disclosure that process led to the registration of upwards of 2,000 noncitizens to vote in oregon. Rep. Diehl returns to the podcast to share...
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Will Lathrop, Attorney General candidate
I last had Will on the podcast back in May 2023. We had a lot to catch up on as he charges toward the finish line in an extremely important race for Oregon’s future. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
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Oregon's unscientific gender push
Paul Terdal, a self-proclaimed liberal Democrat from the Portland area, worked for years through Oregon’s rigorous process to extend insurance coverage to kids with autism. He noticed the state applied a far less rigorous standard to what it calls “gender-affirming treatments,” including...
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The Republican a whisker from a Portland runoff
Brian Knotts, a Republican and first-time candidate, raised and spent around $1,200 in a blue eastern Multnomah County Commission district primary and is, as of Thursday night, within 30 votes of forcing a November runoff with his better-funded, better-known Democratic opponent. How’d he do it?...
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Campus chaos: Portland State Univ. student interview
I interviewed Portland State University senior Phillip Tobias yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon about the ongoing occupation of the school’s library. Phillip shares new details about the people still inside the library, violence and how the 2020-ish timidity of the university, local government and...
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Interview: Rep. Ed Diehl
State Representative Ed Diehl is a freshman who represents the outskirts of Salem and the Santiam Canyon cities of Detroit, Mehama and Idanha. I wanted to interview Rep. Diehl because he gets what’s going on in the Capitol and throughout Oregon. He’s going places in Oregon politics, or should be.…
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Monique DeSpain, candidate for OR's 4th Congressional District
Hi, Oregon’s Fourth Congressional District (Eugene and most of the coast) wasn’t on the national radar until its current occupant, Val Hoyle, ran headlong into a flurry of scandals (which we’ve assiduously covered here). Monique DeSpain, Republican, is running to unseat Hoyle, and has made waves...
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Interview: Rational in Portland's Kristin Olson
Check out Rational in Portland, Kristin’s excellent podcast about Portland’s travails, on any podcast streaming service. You can also check out her Twitter/X stuff here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
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Former top federal prosecutor on the failure of Measure 110
Billy Williams served as the top federal prosecutor in Oregon in the Obama and Trump administrations. Before that, he was a senior deputy district attorney in Multnomah County. In this interview, Billy explains why, as someone who has prosecuted crimes in Oregon for 31 years, he believes Measure...
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The sad state of Oregon journalism
In this episode, I interview Richard Cheverton, who along with Pamela Fitzsimmons writes the excellent Portland Dissent newsletter on Substack. Richard worked for newspapers in Chicago, Orange County and elsewhere before relocating to Portland over a decade ago. Richard shares his views about how...
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Christine Drazan and A New Direction
Hello and happy Tuesday. Right off the bat, I want to apologize for the poor audio quality of this podcast. It was recorded in my office with good equipment, but there must be some kind of operator (me) error occurring. It’s still very listenable, but sounds like Christine and I are talking in a...
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Interview: Max Williams leading Measure 110 reform effort
Max and I talk about Measure 110-backer Health Justice Recovery Alliance planning to pay for legislators’ travel to Portugal to learn more about that country’s decriminalization. Because I am not above self-promotion, I also brought up this article I wrote for National Review Online back in...
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New Poll: Measure 110 on the chopping block
Happy Friday, all. Today’s episode digs into a new poll that shows Measure 110 is on (very) shaky ground with the Oregon electorate, and in particular in some segments of the electorate one might not expect. Hope you enjoy it. Also, I am testing out Substack’s new transcription feature. A few of...
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Interview: Bev Clarno
Bev Clarno has held more elected offices for longer than any living Oregon Republican. She has served as Speaker of the Oregon House, state senator, a member of the George W. Bush administration and, most recently as Secretary of State of Oregon. In this interview, Bev provides unique insight…
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Blaming and "boofing": Oregon's bizarre and ineffective response to its drug crisis
Gov. Tina Kotek and U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer: Portland has a drug crisis and it’s not our fault. If you missed it, my piece on the allegations that Jesse Lee Calhoun may have killed four women in the Portland area after he was released early from prison and allowed to stay out of prison in spite...
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Multnomah County's "snorting kit" debacle
Happy Friday! Today’s episode is split into two parts: snorting and not snorting. Snorting: Multnomah County pauses plan to distribute paraphernalia, including “snorting kits” to fentanyl addicts. Secret Service closes White House cocaine investigation for lack of physical evidence. Not snorting…
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Why was Gavin Newsom in Bend?
Gavin Newsom visited Bend Saturday, July 1. Then Boise. Then Montana, then Salt Lake City and presumably back to California. Why? Politico “Gavin Newsom’s Red State Hustle” Biden teetering on the brink. Not great, Mr. Burns: Oregon public employees get big raise. This is a public episode. If…
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How a bill (maybe) becomes a law
In today’s episode, I interview Oregon lawyer and lobbyist Mike Freese of Romain Freese, LLC. Mike spearheaded the successful effort in the just-completed legislative to allow all Oregonians to pump their own gas. We talk about the background on Oregon’s ban on self-service, and how the political...
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Interview: Prosecutor Josh Marquis on the federal jury probing Oregon political corruption
Happy Juneteenth! I had retired prosecutor Josh Marquis back on the podcast to give provide context for the recent news that the U.S. DOJ has subpoenaed state records pertaining to former Secretary of State and cannabis business La Mota. How long have the feds been on the case? How likely is the...
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Oregon voters know Measure 110 stinks
Happy Friday, Rounduppers. In this episode of the Oregon Roundup Podcast, I dive into: * A recent poll by DHM Research showing that over 60% of Oregonians support recriminalizing hard drugs while continuing to target most state cannabis tax revenue at addiction treatment programs. I refer to my...
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Interview: Betsy Johnson
Before the interview, I talk a little about yesterday’s news that the Oregon Secretary of State has referred to the Oregon Department of Justice a criminal investigation into Nishad Singh, the putative source of a $500,000 donation to the Democratic Party of Oregon in October of last year. The...
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Tina Kotek visits eastern Oregon
The problem of nitrate infiltration of groundwater in Umatilla and Morrow counties is so serious and urgent, Kotek halted the work of the committee studying it to ensure it added a Spanish-speaking member. Despite snow pack 140% of normal, the drought persists and there’s going to be a heat wave...
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Interview: Will Lathrop, candidate for Oregon Attorney General
In today’s podcast, after some more of my ranting about the mess in the Oregon Secretary of State’s office, I interview Wallowa County native and Republican candidate for Oregon Attorney General Will Lathrop. Will and I talk about his time spent trying to enforce laws against child slavery in...
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Kotek has lowest approval rating of any governor in the country
According to Morning Consult, Oregon governor Tina Kotek has the lowest approval rating of any governor in the country. https://twitter.com/horvick/status/1648695465943375878?s=20 Anti natural gas “climate justice” organization Breach Collective lawyer Nick Caleb blocked me on Twitter after I…
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"Hug a thug" = more crime: Former DA Josh Marquis
Yo. This week’s guest is former Clatsop County, Oregon district attorney Joshua Marquis. Josh, a lifelong Democrat, spent his career on the front lines prosecuting criminals in Oregon. His view of crime in Oregon - from Measure 110 to Measure 11 to lenient prosecutors - is based on decades of...
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Special Guest Christine Drazan
I hope you enjoy the interview! Prior to the interview I mention my “Wyden received Bankman-Fried family money for over a decade” piece from yesterday. When I took the Oregon Roundup in its quasi-journalistic turn at the beginning of the year, it was this kind of piece I had in mind. Wyden’s ties...
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Conspiracy theories to which I subscribe
The U.S. Department of Energy now believes Covid more likely than not originated in a Chinese government lab. Jim Geraghty of National Review Online was way, way ahead of DOE on this. Here’s his latest, but also just Google “Jim Geraghty lab leak” and get really annoyed that people like Jim were...
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Oregon Scandalrama
Nishad Singh pleads guilty to federal charges including conspiracy to defraud federal regulatory agencies by pretending to be the source of campaign donations that were actually from other people.* *That’s a crime under Oregon law too. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with...
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A bunch of ominous stuff
In this episode we tackle this serious stuff: * The Biden Administration’s ominous pattern of pretending a national security problem is not a national security problem until it’s so obvious it’s a national security problem and then they react haphazardly to bad effect. * Multnomah County, Oregon...
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Let's try this again - Podcast with edited audio
So, I inadvertently sent out the unedited version of today’s podcast early this morning. Listen to this one instead! Sorry for the duplicate emails and for my technological ineptitude! Jeff This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus...
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Shemia Fagan thinks we're dumb
Fagan Files III: Since Fagan Files II (our series into the law-bending and partisan behavior of Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan with regard to activities in her agency’s Elections Division) there have been, as they say, developments. Fagan, having forced the resignation of her former...
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Who killed Mary Jo Kopechne?
There’s no guest this week, so it’s just Jeff left to his own devices. The results are predictably unpredictable. First, Jeff responds to some reader comments about yesterday’s piece on our coming crisis of population decline. Then there’s Oregon Treasurer Tobias Read pushing back on progressive...
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"It's a piece of cake" being homeless in Portland
Kevin Dahlgren, a veteran in homeless policy, homeless outreach and addiction and mental health counseling, took a video with his phone of a Portland homeless woman named Wendy saying, among other things, “it’s a piece of cake” to be homeless in Portland. The video went viral on Twitter (over 2...
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A Murder in Portland
If you’re like me, you didn’t know that a man named Mohammed Adan in June 2022 allegedly killed his girlfriend, Rachael Abraham in their children’s bedroom while their children were in the house. That Adan allegedly continued to stabb and beat Abraham even after she had died. That the children...
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Oregonians voting with their feet
Josh Lehner is an economist in the Oregon Office of Economic Analysis. In this episode, we discuss a wide range of topics about Oregon’s present and future, including the meaning of Oregon losing population between July 1, 2021 and July 1, 2022. Why are people leaving and what will be the…
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