{"type": "article", "title": "Oregon Democrats wrote a gas tax, watched it get destroyed and now Jeff Merkley has a fight", "publisher": "Web Pulse", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/oregon-democrats-wrote-a-gas-tax-watched-it-get-destroyed-and-now-jeff-merkley-a", "original_source": "https://fortune.com/2026/05/23/oregon-gas-tax-merkley-brock-smith-senate-2026/", "published": "2026-05-23T16:30:38+00:00", "accessed": "2026-07-08", "id": "oregon-democrats-wrote-a-gas-tax-watched-it-get-destroyed-and-now-jeff-merkley-a"}