Tina Kotek: “This petition does nothing to help that, and it risks criminalizing common agricultural practices that are critical to…”

My heart is absolutely broken today, and our hearts will stay broken in the days and weeks ahead, and my daily prayers will be with this community, with the children, with the parents, and with the educators.

No community should experience this, no parent.

I just want us to get to a place in this country where we don't have to be doing those trainings and those protocols.

There is power and love in this park tonight. On behalf of everyone who lives in Oregon, I am so sorry for what you are experiencing today. No parent, no family, no community should have to have this kind of day.