Posted on 10/28/2019 11:10:43 AM PDT by Rio
U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and Oregon’s only Republican in Congress, announced Monday that he will retire in January 2021.
(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...
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Yet another House seat to have to fight and retain. As happy as some are that the RINOs are losing/forfeiting their seats, it increases the odds that the DEMs retain the House in 2021.
Let the pearl clutching begin!
Any guess as to which Party will replace him?
It’s a pretty safe conservative district.
Oregon, like so many states, is heavily Democrat-gerrymandered though you somehow never see Republicans running off to find a judge to overturn the partisan biased maps in those states.
Four of the 5 districts in Oregon are set up to elect Democrats and have done so for many years (as if 80% of the voters in Oregon are Democrats).
This is the one district which can/should elect a Republican, hopefully someone less of a squish than Walden (lifetime ACU rating: 75%).
That's good to hear.It's been about 40 years since that could be said about any Massachusetts district.
See Post #8
ALL politics is local.
If no one good is running
YOU RUN !
*** “ALL politics is local. If no one good is running. YOU RUN!” ***
That is my EX Brother-in laws District, He would be Excellent (Politically) but he has Health problems.
Given the Census is next year, could it become less conservative by the time 2012 rolls around?
Where is this? Eastern or western OR? What’s your opinion that a R will keep this seat? As your WA state neighbor, I view Oregon as so far left it’s spooky (sort of like the Seattle area here).
I expect Dennis Linthicum will run. Present State Senator, but has higher aspirations. He actually challenged Widen a few years back in the primary. VERY conservative.
WALDEN. not Widen.
Unlikely, since this district encompasses the desolate, dry rural side of the state. All the lefties live on the wet side of the Cascade Mt. Range along the Willamette River and I-5 corridor.
The state democrat organization will likely choke off funds for any conservative democrat that runs and install their own chosen candidate whereas the state RINO club will likely MYOB for fear of backlash from the county parties. There are more conservative counties than liberal ones in Oregon, but the liberal counties have most of the population, so they control statewide elections, but Reps are not voted on statewide but only by their district. So likely to be held by the R party, unless a complete moron wins the primary.
“township supervisors .....”
You’ll never encounter that language in eastern Oregon!
Whatever .... if good people don’t run ... and maybe get elected .... y’may as well call y’self northern california.
Then are you flipping to blue or is there a chance you’ll remain red-ish?
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