"Operation Chaos" in Oregon's 4th Congressional District

American Thinker ^ | March 10, 2012 | Debra Mullins

[epicurious]

A regional "Operation Chaos" may be brewing in Oregon's 4th Congressional District. On Tuesday and in time for the filing deadline, Matthew Robinson, son of Oregon's 4th District Republican Congressional candidate and physicist Art Robinson, announced he filed his candidacy declaration with state election officials and plans to run as a Democrat in the 4th District's May 22nd primary against 13-term incumbent Representative Peter DeFazio (D-OR).

DeFazio, a founding member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, has run virtually unopposed in the primary and general election since his election to the House in 1986. From 1988 to 2008, he received at least 61% of the votes cast during each general election. In 2010, in one of the most contentious Congressional elections in recent memory, DeFazio beat his closest challenger to date Republican Art Robinson, by a margin of 55%-44%. Robinson is running unopposed in this year's Republican primary.

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[epithermal]

Operation Chaos might have some merit. You will probably never be able to get a conservative in from the liberal-wacko Eugene district, but at least you would drain their funds. And since most libs will automatically vote for anyone with a D after their name, they might get confused and vote for Robinson.

[epicurious]

You are so right about Eugene. I live in its most liberal neighborhood by far, the area surrounding the U of O. If the surrounding rural areas can get behind the elder Robinson in the general election, he might have a realistic chance.

[epithermal]

I have family in Corvallis and they always have stories about the liberal-enviro-anarchist wackos at the U of Oregon in Eugene every time I see them at holidays. Eugene is a great place, but you do have to be able to tolerate the libs there.