Gov. Kitzhaber Puts On The Boxing Gloves to Face Down Oracle

The Sockeye:

Get ready for a fight. If past incidents are any indication, Oregon’s fight against tech giant Oracle—to retrieve taxpayer dollars lost on the Cover Oregon debacle—is about to get serious. Last week, Gov. John Kitzhaber asked Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum to move forward on a lawsuit to get back the money Oregon paid to Oracle to develop the Cover Oregon health care exchange website. In case you somehow missed it, Oracle spectacularly failed to deliver, despite getting $134 million from the state. Oregon is now ditching Oracle’s unusable mess of zeroes and ones and turning to the federal exchange instead.

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