Lake County Commissioner's Meeting

Come join us for our last Greater Idaho Meeting of the year in Lake County. The commissioners will be holding the meeting at 10 am on Wednesday, September 23 at 513 Center St. in Lakeview.  If you are not able to join in person, you can zoom in at the following link : https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84185606888

President of Greater Idaho, Mike McCarter, is planning on attending, so come on out and meet him and let your commissioners know you expect action on moving the border!

To date, 13 Eastern Oregon counties have passed Greater Idaho measures asking to look at moving the border. The Oregon Legislature has refused to move bills in either the House or the Senate moving this idea forward, and the Governor has ignored our requests for a meeting. Our movement believes that the best path forward for getting the border moved is in gaining federal intervention to compel Oregon to come to the negotiating table with Idaho. We have requested intervention from the Trump administration and are requesting Rep. Bentz to host a delegation of Greater Idaho leadership in Washington DC to discuss what that intervention could look like. So far, Rep. Bentz has refused our offer and has yet to even meet with us. We are asking our commissioners to request that Rep. Bentz would sit down with our team and advocate for his constituents who have voted for Greater Idaho. Lake County commissioners agreed to consider that action at our meeting in May. This meeting will be a great opportunity to ask them if they've made progress on that consideration. In addition, commissioners could ask for the Eastern Oregon counties association to put out a joint statement advocating for movement on the issue.

And remember you can always directly advocate for Greater Idaho by contacting Representative Owens and Senator McLane and letting them know you want them to ask Rep. Bentz to advocate for Greater Idaho, or reach out to Rep. Bentz' office and let him know directly what you want. You can contact those elected leaders at the following e-mails.

Rep.MarkOwens@oregonlegislature.gov

Sen.MikeMcLane@oregonlegislature.gov

https://bentz.house.gov/contact