Quick follow-up: Republican Response on the Oregon Measure 66 & 67 Win
Oregon Republican Party officials are claiming that the Unions bought and paid for yesterday’s win. On the ORP/Oregon Republican Party’s website, their site shows how much unions spent on the campaign. However, they are missing one very important number: the ORP’s budget to kill 66 & 67. While Oregon unions put in about $3.7 million dollars in advertising dollars, the ORP put in more than twice that amount to try and stop them.
Kudos to the ORP for trying. Their taglines were pretty edgy – but still very deceitful. Oregon voters saw right through it all. Thank God.
Some examples:
* Stop Job Killing Taxes *
* Unions are Buying the Elections *
* Measures 66 and 67 will hurt Oregon’s economy and employment *
My favorite: A funky little animation/video they have on their website, titled: “It’s your Ox they’ll Gore”. I guess they were hoping it would go viral or something.
Anyway, I’m so glad that Oregon didn’t go down the way Massachusetts did…. Whew!
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I guess I'm just another tree-huggin', commie, Cheetos-eating, pajama-wearing, unemployed blogger.
I'm anxious and vainly optimistic about where the country is headed, and openly dreaded the day Bush ever came into political office...I''m not happy about having a party filled with spineless "oh we need to cherish the blue dog dems" ...but I'm also glad that we are finally moving away from the cliff we were all teetering on for the past decade.
What bothers me most is the fact that too few people today understand how incredibly dangerous our government has become or how unreliable and weak our news sources are. I'm not just talking about Fox. I'm talking about the bulk of the mainstream media. It's not liberal - and it's certainly not fair or balanced. My kind of news reporting was the kind I grew up in the 70s, and clearly remember a time when the so-called liberal media was all about reporting the cold, hard facts, filled with investigative journalism, and anchors or reporters who refused to do fluff pieces - like cats stuck in trees, water-skiing squirrels, and Darwin-award-winning idiots who would do anything to make themselves into a news story. Being a reporter meant something more noble than a fat paycheck. You did your job because you wanted to get the truth out there. Now? You're mostly smeared or called a tin-foiled-hat-wearing lunatic of you find out - and expose - any kind of government or corporate corruption.
The upside of today's kind of media? Bloggers are a new breed of journalists - ready to hit the streets...err digital webspace... and have helped get a president elected, and a fascist dictatorship out of power.
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