My state, mentioned also in the article, enacted some really great protection laws for workers dealing with heat. It took an unprecedented, record-breaking heat dome for it to happen. But at least it happened.

Got me sweating faster than the glacial melt…

Records show that timber companies and their trade groups have given Steiner $24,000 since 2020, most recently a $1,000 December donation from Weyerhaeuser, a major forestland owner. Golden’s financial disclosures list only one check from a timber company in his career, and the records show he gave the $500 to a nonprofit focused on restoring forests.

Steiner told ProPublica that her bill — cosponsored by one other Democrat and two Republicans — had nothing to do with campaign contributions and that Oregon’s history of cutting timber taxes is “only partially relevant to this particular conversation.”

“You can make an argument that we’re letting them off easy, or that we’re giving them the big tax break,” Steiner said. “And I’m gonna say, I don’t know, you may be right. It’s a bigger conversation.”

I will never not be angry at how little it takes for a politician to sell out their constituents. $25k over 3 years is apparently all it takes…