The Oregon legislative counsel’s office told Democrats yesterday they could not constitutionally repeal the tax now that it’s slated for a referendum vote.

This after the same attorney in that office told State Rep. Ed Diehl earlier this month Democrats could repeal the tax and have it removed from the ballot. I wrote about that and my analysis of the legal question, with which legislative counsel now largely agrees, here.

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