Democrats in Oregon aren't too bad, I could almost get behind them. My two Senators, Wyden and Merkley, have been doing some good things. Wyden has been pushing hard on the Senate Intelligence committee to expose the NSA programs. I'm surprised they haven't targeted him yet. He must be pretty clean. Merkley has pushing for filibuster reform and getting in the craw of establishment Democrats and Republicans. He keeps pushing Reid hard and I like to see that in a freshman.
Governor and the state House and Senate are fairly moderate. They just had a special session where they managed to push through a compromise "Grand Bargain" deal that takes a whack out of public union pensions and raises corporate taxes some. It manages to boost some early funding for schools and reduce long term costs for the state, while giving pissing off anti-tax folks and public union leaders and getting a grudging ok from business leaders. Not perfect, by any means, but nice to see something meaningful get pushed through with support by both parties. Given that, I tend to vote Democrat in-state. There are some Republicans who are decent though. Unfortunately, they really don't have anyone with leadership ability at the top and no real vision for what the party could be. It's a pity, really. Oregon used to have some really worthwhile Republicans. We'll see if it comes around again. Cheers, Judah On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Justin Scott <[email protected]>wrote: > > > I also believe that Libertarians, much like the Tea Party, have a > > fundamental dislike of government that makes it pretty much impossible to > > govern effectively. You can't really hate your job and do it effectively. > > There must be some positive vision of the power of your office and I > think > > that they fundamentally lack it. > > Indeed, that's a good way to sum in up. I used to be a Big L, card > carrying member of the LP but I'm actually registered republican now > (believe it or not) but vote independent of party affiliation. > > > -Justin > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:367794 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
