Dear Steve Novick,<\/p>\n
I am already sick of that line about “a fighter with a good left hook.”\u00c2\u00a0 Actually I was sick of it, if possible, the first time I saw it in that introductory Willamette Week piece, for no other reason than the realization that I would be inundated with the line every time your name comes up and with every campaign appearance.
\nI can’t say that solving the problem of my antipathy toward your campaign slogan is worth the multitude benefits of the line, I being just one person floating out in the ether.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps I am a bit tired at the moment, and perhaps that is the only reason I can say that I can’t for the life of me think of what clever line Gordon Smith could use to combat the line.\u00c2\u00a0 I suppose he can just say he hooked you or something, but coming from him it’ll come across as just mean.\u00c2\u00a0 So you have the “fighter with a good left hook” angle cornered.<\/p>\n
Just the same between you and I, if — say — Earl Blumenauer is running in the primary against you — or whoever — I’ll likely vote for him\/her simply to avoid several additional months of “Fighter with a good left hook” line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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