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"It might as well have cooties. Hardly anyone wants to touch the thing, or get close to it," wrote Steve Rubenstein in a special column to the San Fransico Chronicle. According to Rubenstein many nonchain bookstores won't sell it, with one bookseller telling him, "Our customers ...
White House
Sarah Palin
Calvin Walsh grew up in Portland, went away from college and has returned recently to his hometown. He's been volunteering with the Multnomah County Democrats, and is someone I think highly of. The following incident speaks a lot about Calvin's character; I cannot say it would have shown the ...
Congress
Senators Harry Reid (D-NV) and Max Baucus (D-MT) have agreed to support a version of Senator Ron Wyden's Free Choice Act as an amendment to the health care bill moving through the Senate.
Wyden has long argued that the key to health reform is allowing millions of Americans the right to opt ...
Congress
Health care
Max Baucus
Harry Reid
Ron Wyden
A couple of days ago, Dave Frohnmayer made front-page news with a report he submitted to the State Board of Higher Education. In it, he suggested that Oregon's three largest public universities should adopt the OHSU model of autonomy. The state contributes a diminishing amount to ...
Congress
Ed Gillespie
Jeff Sessions
By Erik Fernandez of Portland, Oregon. Erik is the wilderness coordinator for Oregon Wild .
Congressman Kurt Schrader showed he knows how to get the job done in Washington DC by moving legislation at warp speed through the US House of Representatives.
Yesterday, the House passed ...
Congress
Kurt Schrader
I don't know how I missed this earlier, but Congressman Kurt Schrader had an insightful (and funny) comment at the Oregonian editorial board - as reported by the O's Jeff Mapes:
"I think Republicans offered up 100-some odd amendments and 25 of them made it into the health care bill... You ...
Congress
Kurt Schrader
(H/T to Daniel Powter )
Well, you need a blue sky holiday
The point is they laugh at what you say
And I don't need no carryin' on
You had a bad day
You're taking one down
You sing a sad song just to turn it around
You say you don't know
You tell me don't lie
You work at a smile ...
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Republican National Committee
blueoregon.com - 2 days ago
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In what may become known as a key
turning point for the Bill Bradbury's gubernatorial campaign, Vice
President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore announced his endorsement of Bradbury at this morning's sold out fundraiser at the Left Bank. While it ...
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OR-GOV: Al Gore endorses Bill Bradbury
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Swing State Project
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Despite my damn fine profile on him posted yesterday here at the big Blue O, Democratic candidate for Oregon Governor Steve Shields is dropping out.
I spoke briefly with Betsy Henning, Shields' campaign manager. Hennings said that they discovered during the process that Shields' skill set ...
Other
Ninety percent of Oregon's budget goes to schools, health care and public safety. But another critical piece -- and one of the reasons the Oregon League of Conservation Voters is strongly behind the campaign for Measures 66 and 67 -- is that the January ballot measures will ...
Congress
Charlie Crist
By Ivan Maluski of Portland, Oregon. Ivan is the Conservation Program Coordinator for the Oregon Chapter Sierra Club .
Last week, the Sierra Club, the Northwest Energy Coalition, and numerous other Oregon conservation and ratepayer organizations sent an open letter (pdf) to Governor Ted ...
Other
Over at the Cook Political Report, they've done their baseline report on the U.S. Senate race in 2010. Key excerpts:
Oregon is very difficult terrain for Republicans. Democrats hold an 11-point advantage in voter registration, 43 percent to 32 percent, while another 26 percent are ...
Congress
Republican National Committee
Ron Wyden
In comments made on MSNBC's Ed Schultz Show, Congressman Peter DeFazio wants President Obama to fire his top two economic advisers. At Huffington Post, Sam Stein has the story :
"We think it is time, maybe, that we turn our focus to Main Street -- we reclaim some of the unspent [TARP] funds, ...
White House
Peter DeFazio
Larry Summers
Timothy Geithner
Barack Obama
Huffington Post
When met in a somewhat noisy SW Portland coffee shop, Oregon gubernatorial candidate Steve Shields fidgeted with his beverage before we sat down to chat. His campaign manager Betsy Henning had scored us three comfy chairs in the back where we hoped it will be a little quieter.
As I ...
Other
OK, with everything else going on, this one's not exactly on the front burner. But one thing I'd like to know from the Guv candidates is how many chips they're ready to spend to reverse the 1990s initiative measure that commits every dime of gas tax and auto registration money to ...
Congress
It's a fairly regular occurrence. A couple times a year, some friend of mine will ask me to help them think about running for office. Usually, it's some random local office - and they want me to help them figure out what it would take to win.
Inevitably, I table that question, and ask the ...
Congress
Following up on yesterday's post about the state of the media in Oregon , the good folks at OPB and Portland City Club are way ahead of me.
This Saturday (November 21) in Portland, OPB and the City Club of Portland are holding a day-long conference called " We Make The Media ". The ...
Other
It ends where it began.
Back in June, when I first wrote about the sad saga of Sid Leiken, I wrote: "It's a pretty simple rule, actually. If you're a candidate for office, your campaign committee can't pay a business that you own to do work for them."
Yesterday, the state elections ...
Other
Iowa pioneered a common sense approach to reducing minority overrepresentation in the criminal-justice system. Major papers say Oregon should follow.
For the past 48 hours, I have been working with Rep. Wayne Ford (D-Des Moines, Iowa) to build momentum for passage of Racial Impact ...
Other
Dear Blue Oregonians,
When I was working for the Justice Department, I helped
start a tradition of celebrating Robert Kennedy’s birthday. When I left,
I promised to go back every year to continue the tradition. So I spend every November 20 in Washington,
D.C. Which usually ...
