“The sad reality here is PERS is an orchestration of thievery by democrats in positions of political leadership”
PERS is a bipartisan debacle. 
PERS was begun in 1945, a little over 70 years ago.  In that 70 years Oregon has had 16 governors, 8 democrats and 8 republican.

http://www.oregon.gov/pers/section/general_information/history_8_6_2012.pdf
http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/doc/recmgmt/sched/special/state/overview/20090009persadov.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_Oregon