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Tuesday, 7 November 06 ::
oh, its election night, of course i'm up.
well, its election night and i'm watching from afar the results in oregon, because that is what currently matters for me. funny thing, it was 6 years ago, on a day like today - election day - that this blog started. not the exact date, but the exact day. interesting. but thats another story for another day.
i'm sitting here rather dumbfounded at the measure results. measures 46 and 47 particularly. 46 is the campaign finance reform law that simply said we (oregon) can pass campaign finance reform laws. measure 47 is the measure that puts all the heavy campaign finance reform laws into place. the surprising thing? measure 46 is not passing, but measure 47 is. *blink* sorry, but my mind is just blown at that one. (a little back history - i worked, for 6 months, to get those measures on the ballot, before leaving to go work at LEAD). seriously, that just blows my mind. but i'm happy for the fairelections people that they are pulling something out. and yet i wonder how this one will play out in the courts. its currently unconstitutional in oregon for there to be any cfr laws, hence the need for the amendment. so, we'll see.
in other news, vicki walker is slightly ahead of jim torrey. not enough ahead that she can call it, i'm sure. she herself went to bed 6 years ago having lost her race for the state house, and when she woke up the next morning she'd won. all we vicki fans know that things can change dramatically overnight. i won't breathe easy on that one till morning. i'll bet she won't be either.
nancy nathanson has won. go nancy! i'm so happy for you to be going to the oregon state house. you are a good woman, and its been my pleasure to have gotten to meet you through LEAD. i'll be rooting you on from here in utah, hoping that your first term as a member of the house is everything you wanted it to be. i'm confident that you'll make the right choices for we - your constituents - and for oregon as well.
what else? oh yeah. ted kulongoski is winning. who hoo. :P yeah yeah, he's a democrat, but not one i was proud to (reluctantly) vote for.
and nationally. it looks like the democrats have taken the house. whoo hoo! go us. go democrats. i only hope they'll get a spine and start an impeachment of george w. bush. as the bumper sticker says - he lied and they died. i hope you sit at your bed everynight, saying your prayers, begging for forgiveness of your grevious lies. i hope you beg for forgiveness every night george w. bush. it makes me angrier and angrier every day that you lied and innocent people are dying. how does it feel to have that on your head? how does it feel to have the tragedy of a country on your head? of course you don't really know, because you are too scared to go see what you did. i hate your actions george w. bush. i hate them through and through. i don't hate you, but i hate your actions. you should go on tv and not only ask for god's forgiveness, but also the forgiveness of all those loved ones - americans and iraqis - who have lost someone. and you should ask for forgiveness from the rest of us. you really should. they are dying, and you, you sit around and justify. i'm sorry, but this war is one thing you should never ever justify.
okay. on that angry note. sorry about that. time for bed. i just have so much work to do, i simply can't believe it.
posted by brooke at November 7, 2006 11:03 PM
