Cliff Bentz is a devotee of Donald Trump and Elon Musk and has handed over to the Trump administration the responsibilities that rightfully fall to the Article 1 branch of government, Congress. He has shirked his constitutional duties and enabled a fascist takeover of the United States, preferring the devastation wreaked by Elon Musk’s firings and cuts to agencies and departments of government that provide services to citizens and the world. He also favors the massive tax increase on American citizens in the form of the crushing global tariffs imposed by Donald Trump. (Trump has been justifiably criticized by economists across the political spectrum for being disturbingly ignorant about how tariffs work. His administration couldn’t even come up with a meaningful method for determining the tariff rates to impose. And in an inexplicable act of stupidity, they also imposed tariffs on uninhabited islands and on US Military bases, while forgetting to impose any tariffs on Russia..)
Bentz has bragged about his unconditional support for Trump and Musk. He needs to go.
District 2 has been represented by a Republican since 1981, though some of those representatives have been moderates. Greg Walden, who was more of a center-right Republican than Bentz, served the district from 1999 to 2021. The time has come for either a moderate, sensible Republican or a moderate Democrat (like Democrat Al Ullman who was elected to represent the district 12 times from 1957 to 1981.)