Mary Starrett leads Mary Stern in the race for Yamhill County Commissioner by four votes.  The fifty or so write-in votes — and here I’d be curious to see a list to see which cartoon character came in third — fall the winner under fifty, and thus we have a run-off campaign.

Kari Chrishom fires off this shot.:
Mary Starrett — the once-perky TV host turned right-wing lunatic fringe activist. (No, really, she founded Oregonians for Life because she believed that Oregon Right to Life was insufficiently pro-life.)

It is a curious point of reference to describe her as “right – wing lunatic fringe” for a variety of reasons — and I’ll get to the main reason in a minute.  Mostly in terms of a sort of political tactic, I refer to how I heard a spokesperson for the “Rural Organizing Project” refer to how they get beyond anti-abortion politics as they talk to rural Oregonians who hold that as a hang-up.  It moves beyond that to the basic premise of a “wedge issue” — no Republican ever wants to actually overturn Roe v Wade, really, because then it’d blow their ticket to re-election.  In this, Mary Starrett agrees completely with just about any Pro-Choicer of the cynical nature of “Oregon Right to Life”, even if such groups do have that effect in … say, weird things are happening in Oklahoma, huh? — which always seem to suggest the purely cynical way the Pro Choice / Mary Starretts look at the organizations is wrong.

But again, go down the list in that article, if her views on an anti-abortion organization isn’t on the fringe, that doesn’t mean that her views on abortion are not  — and I remember seeing that article when it was published in the Oregonian — it does suggest a pretty good working relationship with two other groups.  For the life or me, “Believers Against Child Killing” struck me as an umbrella organization for one man.  The degrees of sepereration to, say, Kopp numbers to two — goes something like: Mary Starrett — deParrie — Kopp.   As I recall, deParrie was either the last caller in or the second last caller to Starrett’s local radio show, calling in to thank her for being about his only defender in the Media he has out there.  deParrie, it should be noted, had on the website for “Life Advocacy” a blurb touting it as the “First publication to explore the doctrine of Justifiable Homocide” — or something to that effect.  But I guess that is ust the kind of thing you’d expect with the Constitution Party — which deParrie left because it was too moderate — in a political party that has some strong adherence to notions of local control and federalism, he didn’t think the Mormons  in Utah’s Constitution Party were sufficiently committed to his issue.  He died of a heart attack immediately after giving his angry speech to the party.)

Try this then.

While looking at the weather online yesterday I stumbled upon this ; did you know that at least half of the voters in Yamhill County are “Fringe Lunatics” myself included ? In a article from Blue Oregon –
Yamhill: Mary Starrett takes four-vote lead; recount is next
Kari Chisholm
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I’ve posted the whole article so there will be no doubt as to what was said! So Miss Starrett from one fringe lunatic to another you have my support in the upcoming runoff!

It’s rare that a person saying they “stumbled upon” something actually “stumbled upon” the item.

Cue “Oregonlibertygirl”:

“I have a message. It’s a message from the Tea Party. It’s straight to the point and does not mince words. We are here to take our government back! ” Rand Paul
Watch out Mary Stern….the Tea Partiers have your number.
So, to clarify the situation:  Rand Paul is coming to take the government away from Jim Bunning, and Mary Starrett is coming to take the government away from Mary Stern.
Wait.  Is Rand Paul the #1 Tea Party accomplishment, and Mary Starrett the #2?

Other appeals?
What a cougar. Keep fighting the good fight.

Anyway, pushing aside the Constitution Party’s call for the – “The goal of the Constitution Party is to restore American jurisprudence to its Biblical foundations… The U.S. Constitution established a Republic rooted in Biblical law” — theocracy, and despite not being a member of the Republican Party, she became the defacto Republican candidate in a supposed non-partisan contest.

In light of various controversies — do they accept 9/11 Truthers for elected officials?  Actually the question isn’t so much that — I imagine a bit of a boomerang in my considerations for such things depending on positions being voted for — it is would large segments of the electorate who voted for her not make an issue if the liberal candidate had any alliance with 9/11 Conspiracy theories?
Also, if I recall right, she has a thing for wondering about Chem Trails.  That is arguably a hobby horse.   “Lunatic fringe” is an interesting label.

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