GOOD AND HARD: Kate Brown counters Oregon GOP walkouts with sweeping executive order. Senate Republican leader Herman Baertschiger Jr. “said many rural counties oppose the so-called cap-and-trade concept. ‘It’s obvious Kate Brown is not Oregon’s Governor, she is Portland’s Governor, and as she promised, she is serving revenge, cold and slowly,’ he said in a statement.”

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): That state secession paper is heating up.