Despite GOP hopes of repeating last year’s New York 9th District upset, Democrats retain control of Oregon 1st District.
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Democrat Bonamici defeats GOP hopeful Cornilles for Rep. Wu’s Oregon seat
Meanwhile, away from Florida : “Voters in northwest Oregon will learn who will represent them in Congress as a special election wraps up Tuesday, more than a year after the first public sign of trouble for a congressman who would eventually resign in a sex scandal. Ballots are due by 8 p.m., in county-run drop boxes, and election officials say they’ll release the first results at that time.” The Republican candidate for the seat, Rob Cornilles, often hears that he resembles comedian Stephen Colbert. So he’s now embracing it in a funny video to close the campaign: Keep reading this post . . .
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Robert Colbert – Er, Cornilles – For Oregon’s 1st District!
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, intent on reversing 2010 election losses, is taking no chances in its attempt to hold onto an Oregon district in a special election to replace 12-year incumbent David Wu.
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Democrats Spend Big to Maintain Seat
Democrat Susan Bonamici and Republican Rob Cornilles fight for disgraced Wu’s 1st Oregon district seat.
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Former Rep. David Wu’s Oregon district faces special election Jan. 31
In Oregon, they vote entirely by mail, and ballots are due Tuesday, January 31, in their special election. Republican Rob Cornilles is on the air with this ad: Keep reading this post . . .
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Oregon’s Special House Election Enters Its Final Week
In Oregon, they vote entirely by mail, and ballots are due Tuesday, January 31, in their special election. Republican Rob Cornilles is on the air with this ad: Keep reading this post . . .
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Oregon’s Special House Election Enters Its Final Week
File this story under “world’s dumbest criminals.” This one’s a doozy. Three thieves broke into an Oregon man’s shed and stole tools, two safes with approximately 50 to 60 lbs. of silver and jewelry inside and a coin collection worth thousands of dollars. However, instead of cashing in on the full value of their ill-gotten goods, the thieves first headed over to the nearest Coinstar machine and tried to exchange the coins for cash. A Coinstar machine. Thousands of dollars worth of rare, valuable coins. No joke. Did they at least get a sizable payout? Nope: they got a whopping $450. Making matters worse, police say one of the thieves is the son of the man they robbed. “The crooks were idiots, just simply an idiot,” said Dan Johnson, Sr., the owner of the coins. Deputies said Dan Johnson, Jr., along with two other suspects, broke into the outbuildings on Christmas. Yes, Dan Johnson Jr. robbed his father on Christmas day, stole jewelry, silver and his coin collection and then tried to jam the coins into a Coinstar machine. See the FOX 12 Oregon update: “To not know the value of what they had taken, just to get pocket change for it. Makes me feel good he was a stupid person and didn’t realize what he had,” Johnson said. Yeah, he’s talking about his son. This guy. The Coinstar machine wouldn’t take some 500 silver quarters the burglars had stolen; they carted those off to the bank, KPTV reports. Luckily, Johnson has been able to recover portions of his collection. Once the theft was reported, the bank contacted Johnson and returned the coins. As for the ones they put in the machine, Johnson — with the help of some friends — has been able to recover portions of his collection by going through the coins deposited in the Coinstar receptacle. “It was an inheritance, which made it even worse because I lost an inheritance that was meant to go forward for my children and grandchildren,” he said. And it’s safe to say that Johnson is just a little peeved with his son (who’s still at large) and has no problem with the idea of Jr. being put behind bars. “I feel much better and I’m hoping that they’ll be off the street for a long time. I don’t want them to be around anybody else,” Johnson said. (h/t Newser )
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After Thieves Rob Man of Valuable Coin Collection, Guess What They Did Next…
One small American town offers lessons that the whole of America needs at the moment. REVIEW of “The JOB Messiahs” a history of the Port of Coos Bay in Oregon There has been a lot of space dedicated on this blog documenting the failed economic development efforts in Coos County paid for at taxpayer expense and
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A book for our times
Miley Cyrus, Occupier Poster Girl by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 She’s perfect. Miley Cyrus, Hollywood’s perpetually half-dressed wild child with an insatiable appetite for attention, jumped in front of the Occupy Wall Street bandwagon this week. The young Disney mogul unveiled a YouTube anthem hailing the aimless, anti-capitalist protesters. Smells like opportunistic teen queen spirit. Like so much of the warmed-over, Big Labor-underwritten Occupy movement, Miley’s musical tribute to its foot soldiers is a worn-out derivative remix. She took “Liberty Walk,” a year-old single; spliced in video footage of union marchers carrying carbon-copy “TAKE BACK OUR DEMOCRACY” signs; tossed in random scenes of global discontent from London to China to San Diego to Salem, Oregon; slapped on a treacly dedication to “the thousands of people who are standing up for what they believe in” (like, whatever that is); stirred; auto-tuned; and released: “Sayin’ goodbye to the people who tied you up/ It’s a liberty walk, walk/ Feelin’ your heart again/ Breathin’ new oxygen/ It’s a liberty walk, walk/ Free yourself, slam the door, not a prisoner anymore!” Somehow, all the Occupier outbreaks of lice, public defecation, property destruction and rape got left on the cutting room floor. Hipsters are horrified by the Hollywood hijacking. To borrow a favorite Occupier phrase, they rained “downtwinkles” on the starlet. One Occupy activist prominently distanced herself from Hannah Montana, Teen Revolutionary, and issued a challenge . Priscilla Grim, an Occupy flack, told the website TMZ that while Miley’s music video “‘rocks’ in spirit … she doubts the singer has the guts to actually hit the streets.” Grim dared “Ms. Cyrus” to “fight on the front line of economic civil rights” and join the agitators at Los Angeles City Hall. Will Miley put her Louboutins where her vocal cords are? With an estimated net worth of $120 million, the radical chic poseur is no dummy. While her video stokes anti-police hostility and anti-bank rage, she and her managers can safely raise their figurative fists with one hand while inking new corporate deals with the other. One YouTube commenter decried Tinseltown’s “cynical ploy”: “This is disgusting. Another celebrity cashing in on the Occupy movement for their own profit. First (rapper) Jay-Z selling T-shirts and giving no money to the movement and now this. It might be different if she was giving all the profits from this song to the movement, but she’s keeping all of it for herself. I am an active member of Occupy — and on behalf of the movement I would like to say f**k you Miley Cyrus and f**k you Jay-Z. You are blood-sucking scum!” That’s just a bit harsh. After all, diehard Occupiers themselves are hawking photos, documentaries and all manner of assorted swag from one coast to the other, while live-streaming their nocturnal, police-obstructing parties over corporate airwaves. They’ve opened bank accounts with the same companies their masked peers have vandalized. Their union elders are cutting deals with the same retailers they besieged on Black Friday. In so many ways, Miley and the Occu-mob are a match made in heaven. Vacuous. Hypocritical. Entitled. Vain. Nihilist. Exhibitionist. Coddled. Forever adolescent, treating life like an endless “Party in the U.S.A.,” and demanding that everyone else pay for it.
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