A MAGA Trojan horse?
The Oregon Republican Party, a perennial font of incompetence, has got a shot at the governor's mansion this time around. And they're scoring a lot of points with voters by promising to address the humanitarian disaster on the streets of Portland.
And they have their candidate, Christine Drazan, all gussied up to look moderate.
But is she? If she's elected, will she really clean up the squalor on our streets? Will she really make headway against crime? Or will she instead spend her time hammering home Fox News talking points on abortion, guns, immigration, and fake voter fraud?
After Trump and McConnell, I would never vote for a Republican, for anything, ever. And no, as for this particular Republican, I'm not even tempted.
okay, then you forfeit the right to complain if TK is elected. Drazan has already said she believes Biden won the election in 2020. She's not an election denier.
ReplyDeleteUntil a week from now.
DeleteYou can dislike Trump and Mitch forever…..fair enough…….but continually announcing your lifetime refusal to consider any possible version of an Oregon Republican paints one into a very tight corner. Especially considering your understandable disgust regarding the current crop of Democrat leaders running our city and state. If Drazan is elected why don’t we all give her a chance to lead before predicting she will live on Fox News?
ReplyDeleteThank you
DeleteAfter Biden and Pelosi, I will never vote for a Democrat. Slim pickings indeed.
ReplyDeleteWell, Democrats are to blame for Portland.
ReplyDeleteI suppose if by some happenstance Gov Drazan does manage to get Portland cleaned up it seems Democrats be forever saddled with that blame and the Republican Gov will get the credit for fixing it.
But IMO Portland will keep sliding to being worse before it bottoms out. No matter who turns it around.
Oh come off it…
ReplyDelete…other cities have been here before; message from president Ford to NYC: Drop Dead!
Drazans for no answers and was mayor of Happy Valley that’s really a clack co unincorporated tax dodge w/separate schools like LO, McMansions & a Gresham address that they wish could be LO for felony flats pricing & unincorporated clack county rules or lack thereof sans Portland problems.
Her and her constituency is a joke snd once she gets in there the ‘end all future voting’ that her hardcore constituency is fine with if the results aren’t what they want is probably too hard to resist?
& no vision for Portland/homeless crisis anyway?
Drazen was mayor of Happy Valley while living in Canby? Good for her!
DeleteBut it does seem like a total ‘lay up’ with free campaign ads for the rural and suburban just taking photos of Portland streets, smug arrogant bureaucrats & sky high taxes w/worse less efficient cut back services in bad times regardless if it’s local govt or just bad times snd too many here taking past things for granted that worked ok in better times to just keep going / muddling & bumbling along?
ReplyDeleteCome on. Why not just give her a chance? What is there to lose? If she doesn't take care of things as promised, you can always switch it back in 4 years
ReplyDeleteI've heard that one before. It's never that simple.
DeleteIdk the republicans are kinda saying they’re just gonna cancel elections/ consider the results invalid & all elections thereafter for all offices?
DeleteGiven gov & Secretary or state are key positions to advance that vision of the future for all election results , no thanks?
That said, if you’re in a Dem deathstar state like CA, sorta OR, Chicago half of Illinois l, or NY machine politics, they face keep candidates / do their part to make all the choices bad or meaningless?
Kotec stinks, but I’d rather not foreclose future ‘choice’ even if those choices usually stink or don’t mean a lot?
Drazans part of the death cult snd got no answers, either…
Not that Kotek does, but idk that she’s going to yank all access do voting for all other offices which is definitely core republican agenda.
Either candidate is unlikely to calm down the fanning of the flames or bring more light than heat…
But yeah, suppression of gag reflex & nose holding is getting pretty epic to *try* to look past Kotec if she even wins/you gotta wonder if the dems wanna lose or happen to be in power in bad times in a ‘throw the bastards out’ mood/times (understandable?) for other & future office holder candidates or measures…
Delete30 years of Democrat rule and look where it has gotten us?
ReplyDelete^30 years of NAFTA, welfare reform & corporate consolidation & capture your mean, regardless of team blue or red or cultural affectation brand & face cards?
DeleteThe republicans are still into growth, empire building and scams and pet projects and causing pain for the ‘little guy,’ too, but lately they’re less puritanical scolds/every obnoxious thing about EU rules & taxes & machine patronage politics sans the services or safety net the dogshit brand that is the democrats does so well…
Make America Hungary again. Vote GOP.
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