"Both of these age limits have been set by the Oregon Legislature and approved by Oregon Governors who were selected by the people of the State of Oregon."

You are 100% wrong here Motleycrew.   How can you be so very ignorant of the infamous 1994 Measure 11 Oregon ballot measure?   Are you new to Oregon?   Or are you just too young to remember Measure 11??

Measure 11 was a citizens initiative approved by the voters of Oregon.   ==  It was not submitted to the voters by the legislature.  It was put on the ballot because there were people who believed that the legislature and governor were being too soft on crime, and were not doing enough.

So please don't put this on the legislature or the governor.   That is not at all true and is thus quite false.  Measure 11 was 100% the brainchild of Kevin Mannix, and no one else.