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Friday, 11 August 06 ::
say it ain't so ben!
the news out of oregon last night, and today, is that ben westlund has dropped out of the governors race. *sigh* say it ain't so! but it is.
*sigh*
i have some pretty strong opinions about the current governor and his chance to win in november (and they aren't good). i have been known to get up on my soapbox and talk about why i don't think ted can win, but i'm not going to do that right now. i just don't think he can, and i personally believe that my party -- the one that i am a proud member of -- sold us out when they (unofficially, yeah right) supported him in the primary against pete sorenson and jim hill. i think jim edmunsen and neel pender sold us out in the face of fear. fear of doing what was right, fear of retribution? i don't know, i just know that the democrats of oregon got sold out, big time, when the dpo and its partners (NARAL, BRO, OLCV (yes! OLCV supported ted over pete -- who was an environmental lawyer)) got behind ted in the primary.
our country is in a place of fear. its coming out of it, but its still there. for some reason george bush has not been impeached for all the many things he's done (call me a whacky liberal, i don't care, impeach the fucker, he lied to us and is costing our country trillions of dollars, and costing the kind people of iraq thousands of innocent lives), and for some reason he got re-elected. what is that reason? i think its fear. fear not to do the right thing, fear to go into the unknown with a solution that is a better solution but the unknown. *sigh*
its that same fear, i believe, that caused BRO, NARAL, and OLCV not to get behind the man that best represented them, but instead behind the guy in power. TED IS BAD FOR OREGON. he can't win. and now dammit, Ben Westlund is gone. Damnit. Ben gave me hope. I knew that in a state as divided as Oregon, with a bunch of democrats so stuck in fear as Oregonian democrats (btw Neel and Jim -- you can't lead out of fear, and isn't that freakin' obvious?!?), that Ben was a good solution.
Will I be voting for Ted in the fall? Oh fuck no. Oh my god, NO. I'll be writing Ben Westlund in. Why? Because its the right thing to do.
posted by brooke at August 11, 2006 08:19 AM
