Ex-Blazer, Chris Dudley, closer to Governor run with website
You know former Oregon Trail Blazer and NBA star, Chris Dudley, is closer to running for Governor when he posts a website, forms a committee and announces he is taking donations. The Chris Dudley website mentions, "By opening the Friends of Chris Dudley committee, I've taken the first necessary step toward determining how I can help, whether running for Governor or some other way. I'll make a decision soon and report back. One way or another, I intend to help change Oregon for the better."
Is this the candidate who can save Oregon?
Is this the candidate who can win?
Working with charities ought not correlate directly with good government. "Charitable" politicians have a tendency to donate billions of dollars of other peoples' money to help the poor and the needy via government run social programs. There's nothing Republican about government coerced charity.
So, what does Dudley have to offer as a Republican? So far, we know of nothing. He will need to change that before I would even consider voting for him.
This is a very bad sign for Chris Dudley's prospects. Here we are, 2009, with a tremendous amount of new energy in the conservative movement, just sitting there waiting for a candidate like Dudley to tap into.
And he is listening to lavey, who will undoubtadly counsel him to distance himself from anything conservative.
Lavey engineered Gordon Smith's loss by systematically ensuring that Smith, year in and year out, continued to give the middle finger to conservatives.
Dudley could be promising, but Lavey will destroy him. Guaranteed.