Incumbent Republican Commissioner David Dotterer wrote a response.
A constitutent wrote the following question to David Dotterer.
"Hi Dave, Where do you stand on the July 8th resolution which says the 2000 Mules Documentary is "irrefutable" proof?
She forwarded his response to me.
From David Dotterer:
I long ago learned to not pay attention to resolutions such as this. While I know of the resolution, I have not even read it. Resolutions accomplish nothing, they just make the people who passionately hold that particular position feel better."
Dave Dotterer
Peter Sage responded:
Yes, but there is one problem. You are a witness to something and cannot pretend that you don't see it and that others don't see how you respond. It is a dangerous lie that has infected a significant number of the people whose general political positions you hold, i.e. fellow Republicans. You are a leader. You hold a position of trust.
If you saw a colleague on the Board of Commissioners take a bribe to OK a land use decision you could say "I learned not to pay attention to bribes such as this." And if people saw you take that position, because they announced it in a press release, then the public would learn something terrible about the integrity of government in Jackson County. They would see you turning a blind eye to corruption, and the blind eye says it is OK, or at least not something you care to object to.
You are a Republican and ran for office as a Republican. Your own Jackson County elections office had a warning painted on its parking lot: "Votes don't count. Bullets next time." David, you cannot ignore this. What people think about the election puts county employees at some potential risk. You have a duty, but you are saying it is ok not to pay attention.
On my doorstep in about 2004 you were campaigning and I watched you show integrity when I asked if Muslims should be allowed to build a facility in lower Manhattan. I watched you hesitate, then say there there was no reason a Muslim facility should not be built in lower Manhattan. It was their right as Americans. If they fit the zoning, they had every right, just like Christians, Jews, or anyone else. That took courage. You likely guessed I would echo the then-loudest voices saying that they should be forbidden to be there. The easy thing would have been to go along with the Fox News viewers who were saying "No Muslims near the former World Trade Center." You did the right thing. You told the simple truth to a voter. You were educating me as to what it meant to be an American, but also educating me about you. I surprised you when I said "good answer." You were a City of Ashland Planning Commissioner then--a tiny appointed office. Now you hold a serious, high visibility partisan office. Your courage would matter more than ever now.
Great response, Peter, thanks for holding Dotterer to account for a feckless response to the irrational, anti-American, and unacceptable JCRC 6/8/22 resolution calling our free and fair 2020 election illegitimate - Unfortunately,I quote the JCRs.; "We reject the certified results of the 2020 Presidential election, and we (The JCRP) hold that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden was not legitimately elected." Are they embarrassed yet from their actions to undermine our democratic election which was adjudicated over 60 times and the big lie rejected each time, even by trumpian judges, and t rump's own staff and advisors, Does it feel good to turn the once responsible and worthily proud Republican Party into the trump cult ... for a traitor to our country and everthing we hold dear. To quote the villain of "PRINCESS BRIDE": "Unacceptable"!
Meanwhile, Comm. Roberts needs to stop using "whataboutism" to deflect from her non-answer to your question. There was never any serious Democratic effort to challenge the 2016 electoral college result; VP Joe Biden himself was the person who gaveled down that motion when Congress certified Trump’s election. Further deflecting, she waxes nostalgic about voting in person; apparently she would move us forward by taking us backward (part of making America great again?). I’m guessing Roberts is sympathetic with what Republicans have done in Arizona, Texas, and Georgia. It’s chilling to think that in 2008, she was Christine Walker's opponent for county clerk, garnering 40% of the county vote. Until recently, I assumed Oregon's system, long the model and envy of the other states, would endure without question. But our county clerk, as exemplary as she has been and as well regarded as she is across party lines, is 55 and won't be there forever. Who will local Republicans try to put into that office if they get the opportunity?