Posted on 11/03/2010 9:55:35 PM PDT by Anti-Hillary
Democrat John Kitzhaber stopped short of declaring victory Wednesday, but the vote count shows he will win a history-making third term as governor, and his Republican opponent, Chris Dudley, conceded defeat.
Once again, heavily Democratic Multnomah County played the crucial role in a statewide race by delivering enough votes to swing the tally toward Kitzhaber and away from Dudley, who was coming up just short in his bid to become the first GOP governor of Oregon since 1987.
(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...
He promised graft for the union, and guess what. Multnomah’s unions delivered.
I woke up to Jerry Brown and Boxer. I am sick to my stomach.
I want out of Oregon too, but is Seattle an improvement?
I’ve been thinking about Texas, or Oklahoma, or Pennsylvania.
Seattle sucks. Not to throw water on your fire, but people up there make moss covered boulders look smart. No, all kidding aside... It’s as bad there.
Sounds like time for an anti-union drive! We have 2 years folks!
I’m not positive, but I think Dudley would have to request a recount. Doesn’t look like it’ll happen..
The young idealists from Portland and Eugene gave Kitzhaber a squeaker. Hopefully a taste of 10% unemployment in the next 4 years will wise them up.
Almost my entire family is in Seattle...ergo...I go there all the time. We do business there because that’s where the money is.
If it weren’t for my family I’d be thinking about Texas.
And what with that 100% mail-in ballot, I’m sure the Rats have plenty of opportunity to “fix” any ballots that might have gotten, uh, “damaged” in the mail...
The funny thing is that he wants a sales tax.
It will be interesting to see if he actually introduces it. lol
This is the best shape that this state has been in a very long time!
This is not just Kitzhaber's idea because the same thing was a ballot measure in Washington States this election. It was defeated. I don't think the plan involved public workers but it was supported by the sheetmetal workers union. The same claim was made that the energy savings would pay the cost. (Maybe that is even true, but then it would also mean that the very oldest school buildings would never be replaced.) Perhaps the idea is going around and has come up in other states also.
Of course Kizthaber could not just implement this on his own. The state legislature would have to pass a bill.
That chart sort of reminds me of 1992 when the 3rd-party idiots gave us klintoon...
Be sure to stop by and pick me up when you leave, Aria. :)
Funny how every single down-to-the-wire race has magically gone to the Dem. Those last minutes votes always end up in the D column, for some odd reason. Hmm.
Well right there are the two things which trump the cruddy weather and the traffic (520 bridge shudder).
My husband left his job to start up his own business a couple years ago before the recession hit. He’s struggling to find clients now and is looking for full time IT work (yeah, I know, good luck with that). He’s sent a bunch of resumes out to places in the Portland metro/Vancouver area and now he’s beginning to send some out to places back east. I’m kinda hoping that he finds something in another state so we can get the heck out of dodge.
I seem to remember Wu stating that we need to spend the money to train all these IT workers and then we’ll get the economy going again. Well hello! We HAVE IT workers who are already trained and have years of experience who can’t find work! Stupid dems drive me crazy.
I’ll be honest, I love Oregon because it has no sales tax. I own a small independent retail shop and not collecting other people’s taxes is just alright with me.
But the writing is on the wall, Oregon doesn’t want small business and entrepreneurs. What they want is big government, big labor and big business squeezing the peasants.
God help you if you don’t toe their politically correct line and swear fealty to the educated elite masters.
I saw this coming, they just had to find out how many votes are required.
I hope the Oregon legislature can starve the beast for his term and turn the unions against him. He thought he was going to steamroll us for the unions and give them everything they wanted.
Screw them all!
We are already in debt and sinking quick, yet he does not think he has to do any more cost cutting.
I want to see him squirm like Obama and have a hissy fit in his cowboy boots.
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