So how did a thread about the collapse of the former strong and brave and bi-partisan Republican Party attempting a recall of a Democratic Governor turn into a thread about all sorts of other crap?
The Oregon Republican Party has become a pale and shallow rump of a former Moderate/Liberal 'Pub Party that not only dominated Oregon politics for decades with legendary names such as Mark Hatfield and Tom Mccall, and is now retreating to a party of cheaters and hoaxers who prey on the resentment of "Downstate Oregon Voters" using themes such as Guns, Gays, and God, not to mention the traditional Goldwater/Reagan Republican resentment on issues like "property rights" (Which in Oregon generally involve property rights of large timber companies with massive acreage of forests combined with the owners of the high rise real estate properties in Metro PDX).
Many downstate Republican Oregonians despite Kate Brown, whom they see as a "Gun-Seizing Socialist, extremist environmentalist, dominated by Metro Portland, slave to the Democratic Politicians in Salem".
Reality is that the Oregon Republican Part dug their own grave when they allowed the Oregon Citizens Alliance (OCA) to take over the Oregon Republican Party and the statewide brand, on a platform of homophobia and religious extremism....
Initially the strategy of blaming Urban Environmentalist for the Collapse of the Oregon Timber Industry appeared brilliant within the context of Oregon Politics.
Breed the resentment because of decades of over-cutting and non-sustainable forest practices.
Big timber companies such as Georgia-Pacific , Weyerhaeuser, Louisiania-Pacific, had long been shifting operations to the Southeast and Appalachia after raping the forests of the PacNW.
The Millworkers of Oregon saw the writing on the wall, but within "logging country" and among small family owned mills the argument that "radical environmentalists" were the cause of the decline of the Oregon Timber Industry created an argument that many downstate Oregon Republicans exploited back in the late '80s to the mid '90s.....
Lies are are lies.... Spotted Owls don't nest outside of Walmart parking lots like Denny Smith claimed back in '90 (OR-CD-05 (R) )....
Decline of $$$ to local small town and rural downstate Oregon Communities because of the Timber compensation program that Bill Clinton approved under "Option 9" (Least favorable from the Oregon Environmentalist perspective) expired. Meanwhile Oregon changes it's provision of resourcing for Ed so it's not based upon property taxes and school districts so that HS students in places like Sweet Home and Cottage Grove can have PCs in the classroom....
https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/timber_industry/#.XTVUG-hKjIUhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana-Pacifichttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Citizens_AllianceCurrent crop of OR-Pubs are a bunch of nutters....
They got wiped out in Metro PSX in '18.... massive swings in Metro Salem....
Even parts of Southern and Eastern Oregon should be giant red flags for Oregon Republicans....
Instead they are like Ostriches, bury head in sand, stick with the 'Pub leader, support crazy policies on a wide variety of issues, and somehow don't understand why the vast majority of Oregonians don't subscribe to their political positions....
Next tactic.... "Lets recall Kate Brown" (Why?).
I was actually surprised Kate won by the margin she did in '18, considering what I know about Oregon politics....
IDK why the OR Pubs are trying this stunt, but it's not going to work.... Whatever Crystal Meth / Sativa or Indica Mix they have in their Blunts it's not going to play well in Oregon, where we are a State that prides ourselves on clean politics....
Please---- anyone and everyone that is rambling on this thread bcs of ntl politics don't post unless you have something to say about Oregon politics....
50% of the Posts on this thread are crap and irrelevant to anything involving Oregon Politics.... so take your s**t and debates elsewhere unless you have something real to say about my home state of 40+ yrs....
