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"A moderate by definition is one of three things; somebody who sits around and waits for a majority to form and then joins it, a conservative who is pro-choice, or a liberal."
-- Rush Limbaugh, June 5, 2001
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- GOP Rolls Out Late Candidate for OR Sec'y Of State. (KGW)
- KEZI Video: Rick Dancer Announcing He'll Leave KEZI to Run for Oregon SOS.
- Linn County: Michael Spasaro Files for Linn County Commissioner. (Albany Democrat)
- Bradbury Trims Number Of Candidates Allowed On Ballot. (SJ)
- Oregon Wild Wants Sen. Wyden to Make Logging Even Harder In Logging Bill. (Capital Press) [NO logging bill will ever be accepted by the environmental-whackos, no matter what compromising is done by loggers.]
- State To Draw Four Winners to Get $4,000 for College. (SJ)
- Hunter Wants Sen. Smith to Support [So-called} Bipartisan Bill to Save the Planet. (High Country News)
- Salem-Keizer: School District Violates Reserve Carryover Policy Again. (SJ)
- Kulongoski Admits Kevin Mannix Would Be Hard Congressional Candidate to Beat. (Oregonian)
- Mannix Filing Points to a Mannix Run for Fifth CD. (Willamette Week)
- Nat'l Republican Central Committee Fraud Scandal Hits Treasurer Reynolds. Audit Committee Chairman is Oregon's Greg Walden. (NY Daily News)
- Rep. Walden Says Supports NRCC Chairman Cole's Efforts to Identify Irregularities. (Union-Sun & Journal)
- SJ Report On News Anchor, Rick Dancer, Running for SOS.
- Immigration Rules Target Employers. (Thelma Guerrero-Huston, SJ) [Less editorial content than usual for our liberal-biased reporter, but couldn't resist SOME slant.]
- Spanish Classes Begin Next Week. (Thelma Guerrero-Huston)
- PORTLAND JUDGE AGAIN Orders Extra Water for Salmon. (Oregonian)
- State Should Drop Lawsuit, Contractor Says. Is the state ignoring the intent of the racketeering law approved by lawmakers? (SJ)
- Arlington's Risque Mayor Recalled. Racy MySpace photo made nat'l news. (Oregonian)
- Former DOJ Worker, Fiance Arraigned. (SJ)
- Tree Towns' Opposition Kills Bridge Fee Idea. (Oregonian)
- Harassment, Retaliation Lawsuit Filed Against Fred Meyer Chain. (SJ)
- Portland Is Falling Far Behind On Upkeep Of Infrastructure. (Oregonian)
- Biofuels Won't Drive Us Away from Emissions. (Student opinion, Daily Emerald)
- Kurt Schrader Enters 5th CD Race: Will He Be Only D? (Oregonian)
- Portland Is Falling Far Behind On Upkeep Of Infrastructure. (Oregonian)
- Council May Vote On Library District. (Albany Democrat)
- Ever-Burning Cigs Now to Be Snuffed. (Oregonian)
- State's Biggest, Rich Union Endorses Kroger In AG Race. (Willamette Week)
- Salem: Attn'y Gen'l: OR Schools Can Keep Marketing Pacts Secret. (Democrat Herald)
- Sen. Wyden a Democratic Superdelegate. But, won't make an endorsement because... (Jeff Mapes, Oregonian)
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- OR GOP Press Conference: Eugene KEZI's Rick Dancer Running for Sec'y Of State. (Red Guard)
- GOP to Host Weekly Standard Editor, Bill Kristol. (SJ) [Is the Dorchester Conference the same thing as the GOP? If so, then it is no wonder that the OR GOP is so unsuccessful. The Dorchester crowd is against the pro-life and traditional family values that are stipulated in the party platform. If the GOP considers itself the sponsor of this event, they have communicated to all GOP members that the party establishment routinely dumps on the PCP membership and their goals for the party. The OR GOP has left its members and annually expresses such at the Packwood founded Dorchester Conferences.]
- Willamette Week: GOP Financial Problems Hint Of Hypocrisy.
- BLAME PARTY OFFICIALS, Not Work, for OR GOP Financial Woes, Insider Says. (Harry Esteve, Oregonian) [Shannon is right.]
- Salem: Downtown Parking Time Limit Penalized 10, 970 Drivers In 2007. Two-hour limit: 1,195 spaces. Revenue from all parking tickets issued last year in the downtown area amounted to about $252,000...revenue from all parking tickets amounted to about $668,332 -- an increase of $10,650 from the comparable period in 2006. The city spends about $600,000 per year on parking enforcement... (SJ) [It's anti-business. The city would gain more financially if business was allowed to prosper without punishment. Even pseudo-liberal Ashland knows better than to penalize their small shops with parking meters. Eugene & Salem don't get it. Salem's having a Republican mayor apparently hasn't made enough difference.]
- Marylin Shannon Reacts to News about OR GOP's Being In Debt. Spokeswoman Brianne Hyder said the main cause of the debt has been a steep drop in donations. "The blame game at this point is not productive," Hyder said. 'What makes more sense is to make changes so it doesn't happen again." (Esteve, Oregonian) [The real reason is a steep drop in donations? Well why is that?
The Party has discouraged members who don't feel the state or national establishment of the party is on their side. Conservative factions KNOW that the party establishment wants to be rid of them and, at last, disregard the conservative platform. The party has historically supported their so-called "moderate" candidates and left high and dry their conservative candidates. The attitude among many GOP members is "enough already," we will no longer financially support being stabbed in the back.
The same has been true of the national party. Since 1996, conservatives increasingly began a DTCO (direct to candidate only) donation policy because laundering their money through the RNC got them candidates like pro-partial-birth abortion Christy Todd Whitman, who gave New Jersey seven liberal judges, who in turn gave the RNC Lautenberg instead of the Republican replacement. Those judges made a crucial decision against Republicans. It was a decision that would have ended no differently had a liberal Democrat been governor.
While the likes of Whitman were being given strong public and financial support, other superb candidates such as Linda Smith of Washington and Bret Schundler of NJ were left high and dry by the party establishment despite their superb records in their own states. When a truly conservative Republican was finally close to beating the RINO Arlen Spector, the establishment came out in support of Spector. Why should conservatives continue to reward the RNC for this kind of anti-Republican behavior?
The pattern of anti-traditional values of the party establishment may be deceitfully supported by insincere words, but their actions have spoken loudly. There has been a series of last straws since Reagan left office. In OR it was pro-abortion Ron Saxton who had given campaign contributions to Kulongoski when pro-life Kevin Mannix was running four years before. Just how much are conservatives supposed to ignore and for how long?
The latest national last straw for even more Republicans is being left with the liberal likes of John McCain. It is 1964 all over again when the Ford factions of the Party voted by the thousands to end any conservative Goldwater influence by voting for the socialist Lyndon Johnson. Once again the liberal factions of the Party are attempting to go in for the kill against its conservative membership with candidates like McCain.
Let the party liberals give financial support. They will not get it from conservatives.
They increasingly haven't been giving since, in 1996, Bob Dole announced that he hadn't read the party platform, never intended to read it and didn't care what it said.
Recently his politically powerful wife, NC senator, announced to the entire country that if the conservative Republican candidate did beat the far-left RINO, Lincoln Chafee, she absolutely would not support him.
OK. Fine. Enough! No more money from conservatives.]
- California's Hispanic-Gang Problems Have Hit Oregon. (Oregonian)
- Why You Shouldn't Be Afraid to Vote for John McCain. (Lars Larson)
- OR Legislators Score High In Pro-Environmental Group (Except Greg Walden). Very little difference between Senators Smith & Wyden. (Oregonian)
- Bill Lets OR Districts Charge for Full-Day Kindergarten. (KTVZ TV)
- Sen. Wyden Hawks Health Care Reform Proposal to Tuality. (Oregonian)
- OR House OKs Mortgage Reform Bill. Dems plus three Republicans favored. (Houston Chronicle)
- Bragging Rights Should Go to Gov. K. for Stiffer DMV Rules? (Oregonian) [How about Rick Hickey of Oregonians for Immigration Reform; or Lars Larson who did the groundwork long before Gov. K. did anything?]
- Walden Touts Diesel Program. (East Oregonian)
- WA County: Democrat's Change to Independent Makes for Three Candidates Running. (Forest Grove News)
- Sen. Smith Willing to Talk; Locals Would Like Control of Hagg Lake Dam. (Forest Grove News Times)
- Wyden: Feds Haven't Shown Need for Liquid Natural Gas Terminals In OR. (News Times)
- Kevin Mannix Getting GOP Heavyweights Support Not Received In Past Campaigns. (Oregonian)
- OR State Bar Dismisses Charge Of Misconduct Against Kulongoski. In a letter issued today, the Bar's general counsel Sylvia Stevens upheld a previous dismissal of the complaint, filed by Portland talk radio host Lars Larson and Newberg resident James Johnson. (Oregonian)
- Kulongoski Is Rid Of State Climatologist. Taylor said he believes climate change is a combination of natural factor and human factors. "I don't deny that human activities affect climate change," he said. "But I believe up to now, natural variations have played a more important role than human activities." Those views didn't sit well with Kulongoski...(Oregonian)
- Wyden Townhalling Around OR for Health Care Bill. "If an employer is paying someone $40,000 in wages and $10,000 in health care benefits, the employer would have to pay the employee the $10,000 in benefits," he explained, joking that the transfer would represent "the biggest wage raise in American history...." Wyden said he plans to spend most of 2008 building support for the proposal, with the hope that it can win approval in the new Congress that will be seated in 2009. (Mail Tribune)
- Conservatives Place Hold On Obama's Global Poverty Bill. (CNSNews)
- CA Senator Proposes Ocean Ranger Program. (RTT News) [Environmental-whacko [EW] police or sensible protection against crimes on the seas? EW orgs. support. ]
- MD Attn'y Gen'l Announces Support for Same-Sex Marriage. “Dismantling this final barrier to full citizenship for gay and lesbian citizens is a moral imperative and a logical, historical inevitability,” he said. (WA Blade -- Same-Sex Publication)
- (Record Searchlight)
- Associated Press Doesn't Mention Identity Thief an Illegal Immigrant. (Newsbusters)
- Grover Norquist, the CA Republican Party, and an Open-Borders Debacle Continued. (Michele Malkin)
- Far-Left Green Org. Rates McCain Lowest On Environmental Votes. (WA Post)
- Republicans for Environmental Protection Defends McCain's Strong [Green] Record. (News Blaze)
- NJ Gov. Would Sign "Gay Marriage" Bill, After Election. (Baptist Press)
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- CA: Homosexual Santa Clara Supervisor, Yeager, Praised for Obesity Bill. (Bay Area Reporter)
- CA Petition Signatures to Save Traditional Marriage. Deadline for signatures April 1st. (Protect Marriage.com)
- Pretty In Pink Homosexual Skiers Celebrate "Gay Ski Week" On Slopes. Mountain resort areas "welcoming LGBT visitors with open arms." (Bay Area Reporter -- Same-sex publication)
- State Dept. Lifts Ban On HIV-Positive Diplomats. The February 15 announcement came while President Bush was flying to Africa on a tour that would highlight the U.S. response to AIDS on that continent. (Bay Area Reporter -- Same-sex publication)
- Same-Sex, Bisexual Organization Wants Tax Dollars to Continue to Them. An agency that helps gay and bisexual Latinos on issues ranging from HIV to political asylum is saying if it doesn't get help from the city, it won't be able to survive.... Before the news conference, Jose Carlos Asencios – who also appears in drag as Garza – talked about how AGUILAS has helped him. Asencios, who's originally from Peru, said he was granted political asylum in the United States because of his homosexuality. (Bay Area Reporter)
- CA: So-Called "Religious Leaders" Rally for Same-Sex Marriage.
- Santa Clara County, CA: Openly Homosexual County Supervisor, Ken Yeager, Opposes FDA Ban Prohibiting Homosexuals from Giving Blood. (Bay Area Reporter -- same-sex publication)
- San Francisco Same-Sexers Launch "Decline to Sign" Campaign Against Pro-Straight Marriage Petition. (Bay Area Reporter -- same-sex publication)
- TX: Same-Sex Super-delegates May Hold Key In Dem Prez Race. (Bay Area Reporter)
- [Lesbian] Congresswoman, Tammy Baldwin, Touts Hillary's Health Care. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
- RI Mayor Excluded from Clinton Campaign Visit. (USA Today) [Homosexual publications conjecturing as to the real reason this homosexual mayor was excluded.]
- Same-Sex Web Site Slams Chelsea Clinton for Not Going All the Way On Same-Sex Marriage. (Dallas Voice)
- Same-Sexers Happily Note Exit Polls Now Counting Same-Sex Votes. New York and California were the only states in which this question was asked. (Gay.com) [Same-sexers want entire country to do the same.]
- Hillary Clinton Writes Guest Column In Same-Sex Publication. A Message to LGBT Americans: "I want To Be Your President." (Our Chart)
- Same-Sex Vote Split Between Obama, Hillary. Both campaigns have outreach efforts focused on the gay and lesbian community, which has proved potent when it comes to fundraising and get-out-the-vote efforts for Democratic candidates. (SF Chronicle)
- Small Newspaper Column Angers Same-Sex Group Over Clinton Slams. Fundraiser cancelled due to comments such as "steely-eyed lesbo -- -- from hell." (Newsday)
- SHELL OIL CEO Optimistic abut Oil Supply. (Nat'l Press Club)
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National/International News
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- OR GOP Press Conference: Eugene KEZI's Rick Dancer Running for Sec'y Of State. (Red Guard)
- GOP to Host Weekly Standard Editor, Bill Kristol. (SJ) [Is the Dorchester Conference the same thing as the GOP? If so, then it is no wonder that the OR GOP is so unsuccessful. The Dorchester crowd is against the pro-life and traditional family values that are stipulated in the party platform. If the GOP considers itself the sponsor of this event, they have communicated to all GOP members that the party establishment routinely dumps on the PCP membership and their goals for the party. The OR GOP has left its members and annually expresses such at the Packwood founded Dorchester Conferences.]
- Willamette Week: GOP Financial Problems Hint Of Hypocrisy.
- BLAME PARTY OFFICIALS, Not Work, for OR GOP Financial Woes, Insider Says. (Harry Esteve, Oregonian) [Shannon is right.]
- Salem: Downtown Parking Time Limit Penalized 10, 970 Drivers In 2007. Two-hour limit: 1,195 spaces. Revenue from all parking tickets issued last year in the downtown area amounted to about $252,000...revenue from all parking tickets amounted to about $668,332 -- an increase of $10,650 from the comparable period in 2006. The city spends about $600,000 per year on parking enforcement... (SJ) [It's anti-business. The city would gain more financially if business was allowed to prosper without punishment. Even pseudo-liberal Ashland knows better than to penalize their small shops with parking meters. Eugene & Salem don't get it. Salem's having a Republican mayor apparently hasn't made enough difference.]
- Marylin Shannon Reacts to News about OR GOP's Being In Debt. Spokeswoman Brianne Hyder said the main cause of the debt has been a steep drop in donations. "The blame game at this point is not productive," Hyder said. 'What makes more sense is to make changes so it doesn't happen again." (Esteve, Oregonian) [The real reason is a steep drop in donations? Well why is that?
The Party has discouraged members who don't feel the state or national establishment of the party is on their side. Conservative factions KNOW that the party establishment wants to be rid of them and, at last, disregard the conservative platform. The party has historically supported their so-called "moderate" candidates and left high and dry their conservative candidates. The attitude among many GOP members is "enough already," we will no longer financially support being stabbed in the back.
The same has been true of the national party. Since 1996, conservatives increasingly began a DTCO (direct to candidate only) donation policy because laundering their money through the RNC got them candidates like pro-partial-birth abortion Christy Todd Whitman, who gave New Jersey seven liberal judges, who in turn gave the RNC Lautenberg instead of the Republican replacement. Those judges made a crucial decision against Republicans. It was a decision that would have ended no differently had a liberal Democrat been governor.
While the likes of Whitman were being given strong public and financial support, other superb candidates such as Linda Smith of Washington and Bret Schundler of NJ were left high and dry by the party establishment despite their superb records in their own states. When a truly conservative Republican was finally close to beating the RINO Arlen Spector, the establishment came out in support of Spector. Why should conservatives continue to reward the RNC for this kind of anti-Republican behavior?
The pattern of anti-traditional values of the party establishment may be deceitfully supported by insincere words, but their actions have spoken loudly. There has been a series of last straws since Reagan left office. In OR it was pro-abortion Ron Saxton who had given campaign contributions to Kulongoski when pro-life Kevin Mannix was running four years before. Just how much are conservatives supposed to ignore and for how long?
The latest national last straw for even more Republicans is being left with the liberal likes of John McCain. It is 1964 all over again when the Ford factions of the Party voted by the thousands to end any conservative Goldwater influence by voting for the socialist Lyndon Johnson. Once again the liberal factions of the Party are attempting to go in for the kill against its conservative membership with candidates like McCain.
Let the party liberals give financial support. They will not get it from conservatives.
They increasingly haven't been giving since, in 1996, Bob Dole announced that he hadn't read the party platform, never intended to read it and didn't care what it said.
Recently his politically powerful wife, NC senator, announced to the entire country that if the conservative Republican candidate did beat the far-left RINO, Lincoln Chafee, she absolutely would not support him.
OK. Fine. Enough! No more money from conservatives.]
- California's Hispanic-Gang Problems Have Hit Oregon. (Oregonian)
- Why You Shouldn't Be Afraid to Vote for John McCain. (Lars Larson)
- OR Legislators Score High In Pro-Environmental Group (Except Greg Walden). Very little difference between Senators Smith & Wyden. (Oregonian)
- Bill Lets OR Districts Charge for Full-Day Kindergarten. (KTVZ TV)
- Sen. Wyden Hawks Health Care Reform Proposal to Tuality. (Oregonian)
- OR House OKs Mortgage Reform Bill. Dems plus three Republicans favored. (Houston Chronicle)
- Bragging Rights Should Go to Gov. K. for Stiffer DMV Rules? (Oregonian) [How about Rick Hickey of Oregonians for Immigration Reform; or Lars Larson who did the groundwork long before Gov. K. did anything?]
- Walden Touts Diesel Program. (East Oregonian)
- WA County: Democrat's Change to Independent Makes for Three Candidates Running. (Forest Grove News)
- Sen. Smith Willing to Talk; Locals Would Like Control of Hagg Lake Dam. (Forest Grove News Times)
- Wyden: Feds Haven't Shown Need for Liquid Natural Gas Terminals In OR. (News Times)
- Kevin Mannix Getting GOP Heavyweights Support Not Received In Past Campaigns. (Oregonian)
- OR State Bar Dismisses Charge Of Misconduct Against Kulongoski. In a letter issued today, the Bar's general counsel Sylvia Stevens upheld a previous dismissal of the complaint, filed by Portland talk radio host Lars Larson and Newberg resident James Johnson. (Oregonian)
- Kulongoski Is Rid Of State Climatologist. Taylor said he believes climate change is a combination of natural factor and human factors. "I don't deny that human activities affect climate change," he said. "But I believe up to now, natural variations have played a more important role than human activities." Those views didn't sit well with Kulongoski...(Oregonian)
- Wyden Townhalling Around OR for Health Care Bill. "If an employer is paying someone $40,000 in wages and $10,000 in health care benefits, the employer would have to pay the employee the $10,000 in benefits," he explained, joking that the transfer would represent "the biggest wage raise in American history...." Wyden said he plans to spend most of 2008 building support for the proposal, with the hope that it can win approval in the new Congress that will be seated in 2009. (Mail Tribune)
- Conservatives Place Hold On Obama's Global Poverty Bill. (CNSNews)
- CA Senator Proposes Ocean Ranger Program. (RTT News) [Environmental-whacko [EW] police or sensible protection against crimes on the seas? EW orgs. support. ]
- MD Attn'y Gen'l Announces Support for Same-Sex Marriage. “Dismantling this final barrier to full citizenship for gay and lesbian citizens is a moral imperative and a logical, historical inevitability,” he said. (WA Blade -- Same-Sex Publication)
- (Record Searchlight)
- Associated Press Doesn't Mention Identity Thief an Illegal Immigrant. (Newsbusters)
- Grover Norquist, the CA Republican Party, and an Open-Borders Debacle Continued. (Michele Malkin)
- Far-Left Green Org. Rates McCain Lowest On Environmental Votes. (WA Post)
- Republicans for Environmental Protection Defends McCain's Strong [Green] Record. (News Blaze)
- NJ Gov. Would Sign "Gay Marriage" Bill, After Election. (Baptist Press)
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- CA: Homosexual Santa Clara Supervisor, Yeager, Praised for Obesity Bill. (Bay Area Reporter)
- CA Petition Signatures to Save Traditional Marriage. Deadline for signatures April 1st. (Protect Marriage.com)
- Pretty In Pink Homosexual Skiers Celebrate "Gay Ski Week" On Slopes. Mountain resort areas "welcoming LGBT visitors with open arms." (Bay Area Reporter -- Same-sex publication)
- State Dept. Lifts Ban On HIV-Positive Diplomats. The February 15 announcement came while President Bush was flying to Africa on a tour that would highlight the U.S. response to AIDS on that continent. (Bay Area Reporter -- Same-sex publication)
- Same-Sex, Bisexual Organization Wants Tax Dollars to Continue to Them. An agency that helps gay and bisexual Latinos on issues ranging from HIV to political asylum is saying if it doesn't get help from the city, it won't be able to survive.... Before the news conference, Jose Carlos Asencios – who also appears in drag as Garza – talked about how AGUILAS has helped him. Asencios, who's originally from Peru, said he was granted political asylum in the United States because of his homosexuality. (Bay Area Reporter)
- CA: So-Called "Religious Leaders" Rally for Same-Sex Marriage.
- Santa Clara County, CA: Openly Homosexual County Supervisor, Ken Yeager, Opposes FDA Ban Prohibiting Homosexuals from Giving Blood. (Bay Area Reporter -- same-sex publication)
- San Francisco Same-Sexers Launch "Decline to Sign" Campaign Against Pro-Straight Marriage Petition. (Bay Area Reporter -- same-sex publication)
- TX: Same-Sex Super-delegates May Hold Key In Dem Prez Race. (Bay Area Reporter)
- [Lesbian] Congresswoman, Tammy Baldwin, Touts Hillary's Health Care. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
- RI Mayor Excluded from Clinton Campaign Visit. (USA Today) [Homosexual publications conjecturing as to the real reason this homosexual mayor was excluded.]
- Same-Sex Web Site Slams Chelsea Clinton for Not Going All the Way On Same-Sex Marriage. (Dallas Voice)
- Same-Sexers Happily Note Exit Polls Now Counting Same-Sex Votes. New York and California were the only states in which this question was asked. (Gay.com) [Same-sexers want entire country to do the same.]
- Hillary Clinton Writes Guest Column In Same-Sex Publication. A Message to LGBT Americans: "I want To Be Your President." (Our Chart)
- Same-Sex Vote Split Between Obama, Hillary. Both campaigns have outreach efforts focused on the gay and lesbian community, which has proved potent when it comes to fundraising and get-out-the-vote efforts for Democratic candidates. (SF Chronicle)
- Small Newspaper Column Angers Same-Sex Group Over Clinton Slams. Fundraiser cancelled due to comments such as "steely-eyed lesbo -- -- from hell." (Newsday)
- SHELL OIL CEO Optimistic abut Oil Supply. (Nat'l Press Club)
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