Oregon GOP money machine fails to block life-saving farmworker protection rules

Three groups behind a recent attempt to block life-saving farm worker protections are big GOP donors, especially in Marion County.

Farmworkers are 20 times more likely to die from heat-related illness than other workers.

On a 104-degree day in late June of 2021, Sebastian Francisco Perez was found unresponsive by his coworkers, face down in a field in Marion County, Oregon.

The 38 year-old died while he and his crew moved an irrigation line on a St. Paul farm. Heat exhaustion & deh…