November 17, 2025 3:30 a.m. 

Last week, Republican candidate Congress in Oregon’s Fourth District, Monique DeSpain announced her unequivocal support and full endorsement of the effort to refer the state transportation tax and fees increases to the November 2026 ballot.

DeSpain said, “It’s time to give Oregonians their voices back”. DeSpain said, “I wholeheartedly support the grassroots effort to collect signatures and put these harmful tax and fee increases rammed through by Oregon’s out-of-touch elected officials on the ballot”.  DeSpain’s release said, “Voters should have the final say. As the cost of living continues to rise, our wasteful and incompetent state government keeps taking and wasting more from hardworking Oregonians while delivering less each year”.

DeSpain was critical of incumbent Congresswoman Val Hoyle regarding the issue. DeSpain said, “…Hoyle’s silence on these tax and fee increases hitting her own constituents is deafening”.

DeSpain said she is signing the petition and urges every Oregonian, “..who’s had enough…” to do the same.