"But there’s some consolation to be found in the fact that Oregon has a government that will do its best to implement public policy, good or bad, as honestly as it is able."

Snort!

Like it is doing now for the November 2016 voter-passed change to funding for K-12 education?

Or like the voter rejection of Measure 97 in November 2016? 

Or like its last two Governors have done by ignoring the Death Penalty law and refusing to either execute or pardon murderers?

Or like its AG did by refusing to defend the Oregon voter-passed marriage is one-man-one woman law?

Those "public policies"?