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With county officials mailing ballots in just a few short weeks, leading environmental advocates are urging support for JeffMerkley: An open letter to our fellow Oregonians, In Oregon, we are ahead of the curve in forward thinking ideas to protect the environment. Our proud legacy is rooted in good ideas that become the envy of others across the nation, such as our bottle bill, universal...
The first lesson I'm learning in the world of political acting is that sometimes you get left on the cutting room floor. Yup, my early wake up call and hours - ok minutes - reading the teleprompter will never make the light of day. That said, JeffMerkley's ad about protecting a woman's right to make her own medical decisions is spot on. A woman's right to make her own medical decisions...
A record 101,000 Oregon students have requested financial aid for this academic year -- and the state's E-Board, the legislative emergency funding board, has voted to immediately inject $4 million in supplemental funding for student aid. The E-Board, which handles emergency funding requests between legislative sessions, includes House Speaker JeffMerkley and Senator Kurt Schrader (the...
The flow of newspaper endorsements running out of Washington state is off to aa slower start just to the south. But a possibly significant one did emerge today. The Eugene Register-Guard filed its endorsement in the U.S. Senate race, for Democrat JeffMerkley: “That background, with its invaluable international seasoning, combined with Merkley’s extensive legislative experience,...
The Daily Astorian says "JeffMerkley has the look of a winner." When Sen. Gordon Smith's challenger, JeffMerkley, walked into our conference room Thursday he had the look of a winner for the first time in this long campaign. Merkley spoke on a host of topics and in a depth that Gordon Smith does not exhibit. The Smith-Merkley race is close, and there is an...
AFSCME member Joe Baessler recently distributed leaflets in support of Senate candidate JeffMerkley. Stewart Acuff, special assistant to the president, is on the road for working families as part of the Labor 2008 political mobilization outreach, and sends us this dispatch from Oregon. As the nation's economic crisis deepens and the focus of voters shift from silly attack ads to America'...
... our money, piling up more government debt to shaky state finances under Oregon House Speaker JeffMerkley : A billion in additional debt under Merkley he just keeps borrowing, says the narrator. There are just a few things the ad doesn't mention. The Republicans who are paying for the airtime have a president in the White House who proposed the Wall Street rescue plan,...
... Main Street from the greed of Wall Street. If we don't do this I know our economy won't work.'' JeffMerkley , via the AP: Merkley said the bill would help Wall Street executives who created the financial crisis in the first place, while doing nothing to end the failure of oversight that allowed the problems to continue unabated for years. "We cannot ignore the suffering on...
Today's the final day of the third quarter - which means it's time for another federal fundraising deadline. If you're considering a donation to JeffMerkley or Kurt Schrader, today's a great day to make it. Why? Because this is the final quarterly reporting deadline of this election - and the numbers that are reported by those two campaigns will drive the decision-making from national...
... , a Republican, voted in favor of the rescue plan despite facing a tight race against Democrat JeffMerkley , who was airing ads lambasting Smith and the trillion dollar blank check for Wall Street even before the Wednesday vote. In Minnesota, Democrat Al Franken attacked Republican Sen. Norm Coleman s support for a plan that he called the exclamation point on eight years of the...
Oregon AFL-CIO President Tom Chamberlain reports on a debate today that sets the record straight on the Employee Free Choice Act. On the same day that anti-union forces launched another full-page attack in Oregon on U.S. Senate candidate JeffMerkley for his support of the Employee Free Choice Act , national Air America radio host Thom Hartmann set the record straight about the legislation....
... In fact, political guru Stu Rothenberg has moved the Oregon Senate race to “lean takeover” for JeffMerkley (D) . Nationally, most polls show Barack Obama with a narrow lead after trailing a couple of weeks ago. Could there be a similar trend in Senate contests? Stay tuned, and check back frequently. This compendium will be undated almost every weekday. Full polling data after the...
... foolishness may depend on how you view Smith and the bailout.) Certainly his Democratic opponent, JeffMerkley, was quick to pounce : “I commend Ron Wyden for standing up for taxpayers and doing what is necessary to restore accountability on Wall Street. The easy thing to do would have been to vote yes on this bill. I have dedicated much of my life to advocating for consumers and...
"My opponent, in opposing the rescue plan, has shamefully placed his partisan ambitions ahead of the retirement, financial and economic security of the people he seeks to serve and once again has demonstrated his willingness to leave Oregon's rural communities behind," Smith said. He was referring to Oregon House Speaker JeffMerkley, a Democrat who has denounced the bailout as a giveaway...
"My opponent, in opposing the rescue plan, has shamefully placed his partisan ambitions ahead of the retirement, financial and economic security of the people he seeks to serve and once again has demonstrated his willingness to leave Oregon's rural communities behind," Smith said. He was referring to Oregon House Speaker JeffMerkley, a Democrat who has denounced the bailout as a giveaway...
