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And the winners for the 2 weirdest bills in Oregon's Legislature ...

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Joe Copeland

The Oregonian editorial board honors, so to speak, one Republican-sponsored bill and one that has all the earmarks of a bad Democratic idea -- only no one had the guts to put his or her name on it. One bill would -- in completely unconstitutional fashion -- outlaw Sharia law. The other would raise corporate tax rates if ... Oregon schools' graduation rates fell.

This is the first year for the tournament-style competition. Why don't other papers do this?

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Joe Copeland

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi