What is with this candidate? I am baffled that she doesn’t even know which district she’s running in. She’s the SD19, not SD17 candidate. No wonder that she’s falling behind in the polls…her campaign just keeps making mistake after mistake. I just don’t know how she can beat Devlin when her campaign is so sloppy. Furthermore, Oregon has TWO fortune 500 companies, FWIW. Precision Castparts actually boosted into the F500 in 2008, and they continue to grow. (By the way Mary, Precision Castparts is on Macadam, just north of the district you are running in.) However, before PC made the list, Oregon has never had more than one (Nike) in the top 500. Nice fact checking. We might have had the presence of other large companies in the state, but only one based here. I am by no means trying to argue that Oregon’s economy is doing well because we have two Fortune 500 companies, but I’m not convinced Mrs. Kremer has a good grasp on Oregon business issues after reading this piece.

Sounds like wht we had in Repersetive district 30, He talked the same talk and got his clock cleaned by the democrat.

“I am perhaps a little different than most politicians running for office today. I want stable funding of schools and I want to work with the schools to ensure that those funds go to high impact priorities. We can’t ask our teachers to work in an environment where their very jobs hang in the balance of the next budget cut. ”

Lets keep feeding the beast; sister, that a brilliant idea. Funding is not the problem it is the education bureaucracy. Throwing more money is not the solution. When private Catholic schools can put out a similar education at 25% or more less than Oregon all funds budget per student, I say money is not the issue and just adding fuel to the fire.

“That’s why I am such an advocate for a healthy business environment and a growing economy – that’s the only way we can afford the schools we want and the opportunity our kids need so they don’t have to move out of state to find gainful employment. ”

Everything to serve the education pig. So are you saying you want more healthy business just so Salem can have more healthy sheep to shearer to feed the bureaucratic beats–vote for May? yea right.

Oregonians are overwhelmingly urban residents who subscribe to dreamy ideas about environmentalism. Their pursuit of these ideas has led them to regulate and tax out of existence most of the state’s former industrial base, and more and more of its ability to generate private sector employment.

Oregonians are still in general in favor of going down this path, leading towards a state in which the urban areas become basically old peoples’ homes, while the rural areas are silent and depopulated. There’s little point trying to talk them out of it or get in their way, that’s what they believe they want and they have the votes to get there.

The big unanswered question, of course, is who in this fantasyland future will be left to earn all the money required to pay these people as retirees the incomes they expect? Hip young bicycle messengers and graphic designers, they are looking at you!

Looks like the Griffith trolls are are in force! Here’s a clue, boys and girls: your candidate is in the WRONG PARTY!

Ooh, she made a mistake 1 vs 2 F500 companies. How did she vote on Measure 66?

First and foremost, we are spending over $12,000 per student in the Portland area. Very expensive baby sitting service. Second and very important, PPS teachers got raises in a climate of over 12% unemployment. They have an outstanding benefit package, including one of the highest paying retirement funds, ie, PERS, which is bankrupting the State. As with most candidates, Mary didn’t want to mention that. As PERS continues on, we cannot sustain it. Nor can we afford a government out of control, which seems to be the major problem in Oregon. I heard that the two Democratic candidates for Governor want to enlarge government and implement more taxes. Hey guys, ever heard of the state going bankrupt? 12% unemployment is huge. But it’s always the same, tax those working, instead of looking for solutions or cutting back on government jobs and people wonder why business is leaving? TOO MANY TAXES and too much government regulation. The federal stimulus money that came into Oregon for new jobs went to sustain – what else? Teachers and police. I believe that the Oregon budget was to cover that. Kulongoski was bragging about how many new jobs the money created. What a joke. So instead of new jobs being created, we gave raises to those in government already working. How much skin does the average worker (or unemployed people) have to give before the idiots that are running for office get it? Are most of you as sick of this as I am? I have had to live on a budget, unlike the State or Federal Government, who spend like drunken sailors. I have lived here all of my life and I have never seen such stupid, backward people as the ones running Oregon and the United States. Money problems? More taxes or hidden fees. Teachers need raises? More taxes or we get threatened that schools will close, skies falling. New business creation? Not on your life. Businesses are leaving the State and I don’t blame them. When is enough, enough? We don’t have government leaders that are working in the best interest of us. They work for the Unions (big $$) and government workers (votes). It’s going to get to the point that sooner or later we will all be working for government because there will be no business to hire people. We will be on unemployment, welfare, or Heaven knows what. And the best for last, Blumenhauer, Wu, and Wyden were touting about the new business that was coming to Oregon, remember the huge battery factory? WRONG. All lies. And the company is located in Norway. No intentions of coming to Portland. And you wonder about Government….