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Political observers say there may never have been so many ex-governors running for their old jobs again, The New York Times reports in a story that also features Oregon's John Kitzhaber.
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Bill Sizemore, the veteran initiative activist now running for governor, says he wants a quick trial on tax evasion charges to have the matter "behind him" before the May primary.
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A new poll shows the two tax measures on the Jan. 26 Oregon ballot have more supporters than opponents. But support for each measure is below 50 percent and there is a large bloc of undecided voters.
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What does it mean that one side in the tax fight ran advertising during the Civil War game and the other didn't?
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Deny members of Congress government-run health care until they pass health-care reform? That's what Democratic Rep. Earl Blumenauer of Portland has in mind.
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blog.oregonlive.com - 43 hours ago
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The Republican politicians supporting Chris Dudley for governor
are painting in a hopeful portrait of where the...
maybe-candidate is philosophically.
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What GOP supporters hope Dudley to be
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Former Trail Blazer Chris Dudley is off to
a fast start raising money for a governor's race...
he hasn't formally entered. Dudley, who appears likely to enter the race for the Republican nomination, has raised more than $340,000. That's more than any ...
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Dudley has impressive cash haul to start campaign
Mary Starrett ran a colorful third-party race for governor in 2006. Now she has lowered her sights and is trying for a seat on the Yamhill County Commission.
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Your intrepid blogger appears in a TV commercial. And a former Salem lobbyist figures in the story.
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Scott Lively, a former top official of the Oregon Citizens Alliance, is back in the news. He and two other anti-gay activists who spoke in Uganda in March sparked a move in the Ugandan parliament to pass a law that could require life imprisonment and in some cases the death penalty for gay sex.
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Scott Murphy
Oregon's Democratic members of Congress, with one exception, did not embrace President Obama's decision to send more U.S. troops to Afghanistan. But they're not talking about trying to block the military buildup.
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President Obama's words may come back to haunt fellow Democrats in the Oregon Legislature who passed two tax measures now headed to a Jan. 26 election. Opponents of the tax hikes are using Obama's talk against raising taxes in a recession in their TV advertising.
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The Federal Election Commission has decided not to look into charges that the Democratic Party of Oregon violated federal campaign finance laws relating to ads featuring now-Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., during last year's Senate campaign.
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blog.oregonlive.com - 36 hours ago
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There's an art to putting together the letter
from a dairy farmer that arrived in the homes...
of most Oregon voters in the last few days opposing the tax increases. It's carefully crafted to look like it's a homespun personal letter.
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Another Nelson letter hits its mark
The tobacco industry continues to side with Republicans in the Oregon Legislature. Philip Morris has just handed over $27,000 to two key GOP legislative campaign funds.
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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is under harsh scrutiny for granting clemency nine years ago to the suspect in the killing of four Lakewood, Wash., police officers on Sunday.
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Mike Huckabee
The teachers union has given pro-tax forces $300,000 to ramp up their campaign in favor of Measures 66 and 67. The campaign backing the tax measures on the Jan. 26 ballot have also released a new ad on the internet.
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The Dutch government is moving toward adopting Oregon's experiment with mileage fees as a replacement for some other vehicle taxes.
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Ted Kulongoski
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If we're going to debate about whether President Barack Obama is "America's first Pacific President," we need to talk about Herbert Hoover, who spent much of us boyhood on the West Coast in Oregon.
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blog.oregonlive.com - 11 days ago
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Bill Sizemore wasn't happy about what the chairman
of his party, Bob Tiernan, had to say about...
his candidacy for governor.
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Tiernan brushes off Sizemore call for him to resign
