Pandas that Kung Fu for affluent donors Lake Oswego way<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 From there, I hear the cries of “But Public Employees!!!”.
\nI’m thinking about the game of basketball.\u00c2\u00a0 I remember when I watched an NBA game or two, years ago, a commercial — I don’t know, someone rushing the rich people at court-side up to the news bleed section and the nose bleed section of “Real Fans” down court-side.\u00c2\u00a0 Clever, I suppose, in tugging at class issues.\u00c2\u00a0 The real money, both for the sports\u00c2\u00a0franchises and in terms of clientele, is up in the “Luxury Boxes” — ironically enough, with a better sight on the television screens than down through the window panes, but with much better food service than down below.<\/p>\nI thought about that when I read a breakdown of campaign happenings, probably in the Oregonian.\u00c2\u00a0 For the life of me, I can’t find the story, though.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s at a campaign junket.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s a cache of\u00c2\u00a0management and\u00c2\u00a0“blue collar” employees at a factory meeting and greeting.\u00c2\u00a0 He takes a few questions from some management types.\u00c2\u00a0 They ask him to fill in details about his Education Plan.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe Dudley answers with satisfaction, maybe he doesn’t.\u00c2\u00a0 He takes a question from the worker.\u00c2\u00a0 The question — “How do you think Coach McMillan is doing?”
\nThere’s a certain gloomy parable that can be extrapulated to the workings of modern politics from that showcase.<\/p>\n
Maybe there is something in his professional NBA career that is more appealing to the middle class “nose bleed” section.\u00c2\u00a0 Never the best player on the team, a valuable asset to many teams for various durations, his longevity in the league serves to note that he was one of the best 200 basketball players on Planet Earth, if closer to 200 than 1.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps this is more appealing than if he were Kobe Bryant.\u00c2\u00a0 When I looked him up on youtube several months ago, the video that popped up was of a commercial for the NBA with the tag-line of “Where Amazing Happens” — that “Amazing” being that Shaquille O’Neal dunked on him, and he threw a fit.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess we can all relate.
\nDown below that was some great performance he put in in a pivotal game for the New Jersey Nets.<\/p>\n
Today, I look “Chris Dudley” on youtube, and the various campaign spots and campaign related items have infiltrated to the top of the search.\u00c2\u00a0 This is appropriate, as it is the most important\u00c2\u00a0public item in his career right now.\u00c2\u00a0 Unfortunately this makes it harder to answer the following question, as I want this answered:
\nWhat is the first\u00c2\u00a0appearance Chris Dudley appearance for the Portland Trailblazers for Chris Dudley to tune up on youtube, and how far is it down the list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I saw cropping into view at “Crooks and Liars” an ad for the Gubernatorial bid of one Chris Dudley — the Republican candidate in Oregon.\u00c2\u00a0 Supposedly these Internet purchases\u00c2\u00a0are able to micro-target these ads to their respective audiences.\u00c2\u00a0 They have the state of Oregon down, and the interest in politics down.\u00c2\u00a0 Those are easy.\u00c2\u00a0 But […]<\/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-6791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6791","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=6791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6792,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6791\/revisions\/6792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}