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VIDEO: Shocker: Oregon Town Council Votes Down A Motion To Recite The Pledge Before Every Meeting
MRC TV (Media Research Center TV) ^ | 6/28/2011 | Joe S.

Posted on 06/28/2011 10:39:44 AM PDT by blog.Eyeblast.tv

Mark this up as yet another knock against the pledge, which seems to be happening frequently as of late and particularly within the mainstream media.

In Oregon, the Eugene Town Council voted 5-2 against a motion to recite the pledge at the opening of every town meeting. There was a compromise allowing the pledge to be said 4 times a year but only on certain holidays. One council member who voted for the ban said reading the pledge was like reading the Communist Manifesto before every meeting.

Yes, you read that correctly on both counts. The compromise struck allows the council to recite it a whopping 4 times per year, and a member did liken it to reading the Communist Manifesto.

Take a look for yourself:

(Excerpt) Read more at mrctv.org ...


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: oregon; pledge; pledgeunderattack

1 posted on 06/28/2011 10:39:47 AM PDT by blog.Eyeblast.tv
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Eugene is the home of the University of Oregon. Their football team is the Ducks.

Would you honestly expect a town that is almost completely dominated by bleeding heart liberals and Marxists to insist the town council say the Pledge of Allegiance?

Get real.

2 posted on 06/28/2011 10:43:39 AM PDT by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
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To: blog.Eyeblast.tv

Eugene?? I thought they did already have reading from the Communist Manifesto.


3 posted on 06/28/2011 10:46:03 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: SatinDoll

Exactly. High concentrations of anarchists, eco-loons and other whackos in Eugene.


4 posted on 06/28/2011 10:47:54 AM PDT by dainbramaged (I lost my mantra around 1969.)
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To: blog.Eyeblast.tv

Eugene is Moscow on the Willamette. It’s the Northwest version of Berkeley and a homosexual power base. It’s almost as liberal as Portland.


5 posted on 06/28/2011 10:54:32 AM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: Bernard Marx

As soon as their taxpayer money is cut off they will disappear.


6 posted on 06/28/2011 11:00:41 AM PDT by squarebarb
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To: blog.Eyeblast.tv

Eugene is a wacko liberal town, like Portland. To be fair, some (not all) liberals in Portland at least, are not so easy to pin down. A guy I knew, very liberal politically, was not only an ACLU member, but an NRA life member as well. He described himself as a “Gun-toting, meat-eating, tree-hugging liberal”. We used to go shooting together at The Place To Shoot, an indoor firing range. He was a good shot, too, and had a CCW permit.


7 posted on 06/28/2011 11:01:11 AM PDT by AnAmericanAbroad (It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
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Portland and Eugene both are festering liberal pusstules that need to be lanced and drained.


8 posted on 06/28/2011 11:01:51 AM PDT by blasater1960 (Deut 30, Psalm 111...the Torah and the Law, is attainable past, present and forever.)
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They would prefer to pledge to Mother-Earth or Son of Mother-Earth, Algore.


9 posted on 06/28/2011 11:02:46 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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The entire west coast is lost to the communists - even Seattle has a statue of Vladdy Lenin in the town square.

These commie states should shut down all power plants and be forced to create their electricity with solar panels and windmills that they are trying to force on us.


10 posted on 06/28/2011 11:04:20 AM PDT by newfreep (Palin/West 2012 - Bolton: Secy of State)
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Never mind the pledge of allegiance;will they follow their oaths to uphold the Constitution?


11 posted on 06/28/2011 11:24:46 AM PDT by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
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To: blog.Eyeblast.tv

Eugene, Oregon? Probably not smart enough to remember the pledge.


12 posted on 06/28/2011 11:47:02 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Spent my college years (63-66) there, left and never looked back. The place was crawling with “Bell, Book & Sandal” by the time I finished. California infected the place I doubt it will ever recover. Some day expect the State of Jefferson to emerge from the bottom half of Oregon and the top third of California.


13 posted on 06/28/2011 12:04:55 PM PDT by Portcall24
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