If I read it correctly, he is up for re-election in 2016.
The OR Rats have never been stupid.
They know that having him at the top of the ticket is a danger to both Blue Oregon and Hillary.
Time to throw him under the bus and appoint a known RAT without baggage.
Ummm...no. He is reelected to a 3rd term this past November, just like CA’s Brown.
The bigger story, aside from his GF’s shenanigans, is how the media were complicit in permitting Kitzhaber to pull out of campaigning and they let him get away with it.
He stopped campaigning when it broke about all these potential ethics problems to avoid the negative press. Local radio continued to lambaste him, but it wasn’t enough. Oregon is solid blue (Republican/Conservative) save for several small pockets of high liberal population...enough to spin this State Red as the Soviet flag. They not only a majority Dem component to both State Houses, but the Lib-popular Kitzhaber.
He should never have been elected regardless, IMHO, but the ethics questions were there BEFORE the election. Most of you are only reading about it now.
Correction: He is a danger to RED Oregon & Hillary.