Click here to create your personal news page. The news that appears on Mike Erickson will appear there and be constantly updated. You can then modify the page, share it with your friends, or export it and have it appear elsewhere.
You can also create a personal news page and follow the news that interests you by clicking on the tab labelled 'New page'.
At one time Republicans held some hope that they might just be able to pick up a few seats in Congress by winning in a few swing districts. And Oregon's Fifth Congressional District looked to be a good hope for the GOP after longtime incumbent Democratic Congresswoman Darlene Hooley made a surprising announcement that she would not seek re-election. Successful businessman and former Portland State...
What was that old line or political counsel (applicable elsewhere too), that when you’re in a hole, stop digging? A rather deep hole is what Oregon 5th District Republican candidate Mike Erickson was in even before this weekend’s Oregonian account of his travels to Cuba. (Description from Jeff Mapes’ blog: “The problem for Erickson is that [...]
With these people... Oregon Republican candidate Mike Erickson: Congressional candidate Mike Erickson took a six-day visit to Cuba in 2004 that he called a "humanitarian trip" to aid disabled Cubans oppressed by Fidel Castro, but the trip was instead a vacation that included bars, Havana cigars and the Tropicana nightclub. Erickson said he visited a medical center, met with doctors and attended a presentation...
Old Mike Erickson certainly is busy with his humanitarian projects. Driving damsels in distress to doctor's appointments, delivering food to needy countries -- the guy's a male Republican Mother Teresa, ain't he? "I never smoked a whole cigar" -- too farookin' funny. And of course, he never inhaled....
Under intense fire after being nailed for exaggerating his depiction of a 2004 pleasure vacation to Cuba as a "humanitarian trip", scandal-plagued GOP candidate Mike Erickson is firing back at the media, claiming that the voyage was "one-third" humanitarian: Erickson maintained on Monday that he brought 20 boxes of medical supplies and delivered them to clinics over two days. He estimated he spent...
The initial easy reaction to the Oregonian Sunday story about Mike Erickson’s Cuba travel may be either that it’ just a piling on, or too peripheral at this point to matter. But it may matter, some. The story in Sunday’s Oregonian is about trip that Erickson - now the Republican nominee in Oregon’s 5th U.S. House [...]
A friend of mine went to Cuba in 2004, at about the same time -- and I think actually on that famous trip taken by Mike Erickson, now the Republican nominee for the Fifth Congressional District. When my friend returned...
Meet Mike Erickson: Republican, US congressional candidate from Oregon, and a humanitarian with a keen interest in Cuba. Mr. Erickson is so worried about Cubans suffering that he traveled to Cuba in 2004 himself with medical supplies in hand...
When last we checked in with checkered GOP Congressional candidate Mike Erickson, he was busy denying allegations that he used to throw wild cocaine parties on his private yacht, claiming to have had no idea what cocaine looks like : "I've never used cocaine. I wouldn't know what it looks like," Erickson said, adding that he has never used illegal drugs or tobacco. That's as may be (though if it's...
Updating yesterday's post about Mike Erickson's (R-Viva La Revolucion!) February 2004 trip to Cuba, Erickson's claim that it was a humanitarian mission unravels in today's Oregonian story: Erickson said he visited a medical center, met with doctors and attended a presentation on the plight of the disabled. But travel documents obtained by The Oregonian, others who accompanied Erickson and representatives...
Lots of interesting stuff happening - despite the heat. (And that's not including the hot posts about Mike Erickson's "humanitarian" trip to Cuba, and Gordon Smith's opulent furniture.) I love this story. Allen Alley is trying to make a big damn deal about 100-mpg cars. (Not sure why. Congress controls CAFE standards, not the Oregon State Treasurer.) But while he's doing that, he's been twittering...
If the GOP's chances of winning the open seat of retiring Democratic Rep. Darlene Hooley took a big hit with the nomination of scandal-chased Republican businessman Mike Erickson (who was last seen harassing voters at county fairs), it looks like the dream is continuing to unravel further and further by the day. In the diaries, skywaker9 picks up the scoop from the Oregonian : In his campaign materials...
The O is reporting that Mike Erickson, GOP congressional candidate for the 5th CD, took himself a sweet little junket to Cuba in 2004. Despite the U.S government's rather draconian restrictions for travel to the island nation, Erickson was able to swing it for what he describes as a humanitarian trip to provide medical supplies and equipment to disabled people and poverty stricken communities. But...
Hmmm.... this is odd. PolitickerOR notes the astonishing similarity between an ad for GOP congressional candidate Mike Erickson and Alabama GOP congressional candidate Jay Love. Watch the two spots: So, now he's copying and pasting ads from other campaigns... fits in perfectly with his fake endorsements and the fake job on his resume. If it weren't for the millions of dollars he's injecting into his...
