As the agency prepares for layoffs, the House Republican leader chastises the department’s director.
By Nigel Jaquiss
Oregon Journalism Project
House Minority Leader Christine Drazan (R-Canby) reacted strongly to an email
sent to agency employees last week in the wake of the Legislature’s failure to pass a transportation funding bill.

In her response on July 2, Drazan was combative: “Stop the gaslighting and do your job, director Strickler,” she…