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Posted on 01/31/2012 9:06:09 PM PST by SmithL
Democrats will hold onto an Oregon congressional seat left vacant when David Wu resigned in a sex scandal.
Democrat Suzanne Bonamici defeated Republican Rob Cornilles Tuesday night. With 69 percent of the vote counted, Bonamici led Cornilles 54 percent to 39 percent.
National Democrats poured more than $1 million into the Portland-area district, determined not to drop another safe seat after losing a New York district left vacant by Anthony Weiner, who acknowledged sending provocative text messages and resigned.
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Democrats and their allies pummeled him with television ads that attacked his business credentials and tried to align him with the tea party.
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In other news, dog bites man.
More proof that you can’t fix stupid.
Big night for liberals.
Her husband was the disgraced outgoing congressman Wu’s lawyer and she was still voted in!
You just can’t fix stupid!
Sadly, this district went moonbat in 1974 and has never looked back.
Completely...expected!!!
Heh.. Any district that close to a concentrated Democrat parasite nest (”city”) is always likely to go rat.
Let’s see what the final tally ends up being; we might have a rematch in November under slightly less Democrat lines.
An absolutely mismanaged campaign if there ever was one.
Pray for America
I’m so sorry to hear this.
Bray, I know you worked your heart out for Rob. Thank you for all you did!
We really need to start de-funding the unions the way Indiana & Michigan are. I’ve heard they’ve got 13 petitions (maybe more) ready for signatures to raise taxes here in OR. We need to have one limiting bargaining & stopping the state from collecting dues!
It was one of the worst run campaigns ever. They fought us every step of the way from going door to door including ordering people not to do it. We are looking forward to seeing what our percentages were compared to theirs.
Pray for America
i wasn’t there. But I can just imagine. Especially if the NRCC was involved. Or the RNC.
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