Oregon: What if Gordon Smith appeared on Fox's 'Hole in the Wall'?

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OR: Jeff Merkley just needs a push

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Karen Minnis takes her money to the laundry

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Is Gordon Smith still running as a Republican?

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Bradbury's new title: Secretary of Stupidity?

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In Oregon, Hillsboro retired farmer and businessman Jeff Duyck was forced to drop his candidacy for House District 29 because it turns out elections officials led by Bill Bradbury, the Secretary of State, have been mistakenly telling him for years that he lives in the district.

The line separating the district runs through his 115-acre farm and Duyck's residence is on the wrong side of the boundary.

Whoops!

Oregon: Kroger for Senate?

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John Kroger loves telling everyone that he's "not a politician." But, recently he was caught telling some prospective supporters he wants to run for US Senate in six years because he doesn't think either Merkley or Novick have enough hutzpuh to take down Gordon Smith.

The Daily Kos touched on the idea of this way back in February:

Oregon is ripe for a genuine people-powered candidate. One name I'm hearing from locals is John Kroger, a former federal prosecutor who busted mafia kingpins and Enron execs. He's been a policy aide to Bill Clinton, Tom Foley and Chuck Schumer.

Oregon: Debating the Merkley/Novick Debates

In Oregon, we don't really need a official debate in the Democratic Primary pitting Steve Novick against Jeff Merkley for US Senate. Their bickering and arguing back and forth should do the trick. It reminds me of the old Monty Python sketch, where the man goes to the building and pays to have an argument.



Here's the sketch:



And here are some links:

Merkley responds to Novick on debates
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Novick ups the tone on debates
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OR-Sen: The Debate Over the Primary Debates
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Tiiiiimmmmbbbeeeeerrrrrr!!!!!!!!!

What are the republicans in the senate doing now to screw the good people of Oregon? Find out now only at PolitickerOR.com.

Senate drops timber payments from energy bill
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Future budget crisis insurance enclosed

Here is a link to today's cartoon over at PolitickerOR.

Education in Orgeon is underfunded because the state has absolutely no savings or rainy day fund for when the economy goes sour. Oregonians love getting money back from the government in the form of a kicker check, but they also cry foul that our schools are falling apart because we don't fund education from property taxes - they get their money from the general fund.

Since the kicker checks went out there have been numerous ads and columns on how and where you can donate your kicker money to the community. Here's a quote from a press release from the Oregon Center for Public Policy:

Oregon is the only state in the country with a law that automatically "kicks back" revenue to taxpayers when it exceeds the state's forecast for the two-year budget period by 2 percent or more. This year's kicker refund -- the largest ever at about $1.1 billion and 18.6 percent of taxpayers' 2006 liability -- is being sent out between now and December 15.

Here's the sketch:



Kicker sends message: “We don’t have the political will”
Oregon Center for Public Policy

Do we even have players on the practice squad?

Today's cartoon is from the great state of Oregon, and can be seen over on PolitickerOR. I'll let Wally Edge sum it up with the piece below:

Where in the world is the Oregon GOP?
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Giving Novick the hook

Here's a link to my first cartoon for PolitickerOR, a sister site of PolitickerNJ.

In Oregon, there is a Democratic primary for US Senate between Jeff Merkley, the state House Speaker and the Democratic establishment candidate, and Steve Novick, a leftist lawyer and Paul Wellstone kind of candidate. Novick is a thalidomide baby, stands 4’8” tall and has a hook instead of a left hand, something that he plays up on his campaign website, votehook.com.

Novick was in the race first, and the state/national Dems have pretty much picked Merkley. They’d like Novick out of the race, so they can concentrate on beating GOP Sen. Gordon Smith, but Novick doesn’t seem at all willing to go.

Here's the sketch: