{"id":2909,"date":"2008-05-18T09:14:32","date_gmt":"2008-05-18T16:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/05\/18\/in-the-middle-of-the-long-oregon-primary\/"},"modified":"2008-05-18T09:21:54","modified_gmt":"2008-05-18T16:21:54","slug":"in-the-middle-of-the-long-oregon-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/05\/18\/in-the-middle-of-the-long-oregon-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"in the middle of the long Oregon Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is an election weekend — as that is defined, which means that this message<\/a> gets to be trotted out.<\/p>\n

In a nutshell the omnipresent question is “Why are you reading this<\/em>?”\u00c2\u00a0 The answer is, I don’t know… it popped up in my bloglines blogroll.\u00c2\u00a0 Somewhere (where some) a whole mass of candidate volunteers are running around, or at a phone-bank, splitting out the differences between similar politicians and amping up one and amping down the other.<\/p>\n

On a day where Barack Obama will hold sway with a massive rally at Waterfront Park, in the scorching heat, I find myself pondering Sam Adams.\u00c2\u00a0 At some point it was decreed he would be the next mayor of Portland, and that is just how it will turn out to be.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, I suppose the same thing happened with Jim Francesconi and that did not turn out so well, and the same thing was said with whoever Bud Clarke defeated and that did not turn out so well.\u00c2\u00a0 But, with all due respect to Sho Dozono, the disruption that saw the decreed mayorial result derailed was pretty evident with all signs pointing to “nay” by now in those two previous elections.\u00c2\u00a0 So, we prepare for the Totalitarian Regime of Sam Adams, whose only goal seems to\u00c2\u00a0punch all the great citizens of Portland into the ground with his Iron Hand.\u00c2\u00a0 Odd how that works.<\/p>\n

Anyway… Why are you reading this?\u00c2\u00a0 Shouldn’t you be hanging up Nick Fish door hangers or something?\u00c2\u00a0 (Or, for you Republicans in and around District 5 — figuring out what to make of that Erickson \/ Mannix mess.\u00c2\u00a0 Jeez-uz Keerist<\/em>!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is an election weekend — as that is defined, which means that this message gets to be trotted out. In a nutshell the omnipresent question is “Why are you reading this?”\u00c2\u00a0 The answer is, I don’t know… it popped up in my bloglines blogroll.\u00c2\u00a0 Somewhere (where some) a whole mass of candidate volunteers are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}