GOP chair urges Rep. Smith and Jenson to reject union support or quit
ORP CHAIRMAN TO REPS. SMITH AND JENSON: REJECT CAMPAIGN SUPPORT FROM UNIONS FOR VOTES IN SUPPORT OF TAX INCREASES Representatives should reject support or consider withdrawing from Primary Election
Portland, Ore. – Oregon Republican Party Chairman Bob Tiernan has released the following statement concerning the Primary Elections in Oregon House Districts 57 and 58:
“The passage of the corporate and personal income tax increases during the 2009 legislative session was unfortunately made possible by the support of two Republican Representatives, Greg Smith and Bob Jenson. The devastating impacts of these tax increases on Oregon’s economy are just beginning to be realized. To make matters worse, it has recently come to light that the same public employee unions who bankrolled the misleading pro-tax campaign are planning to provide monetary, consulting and grassroots support to Representatives Smith and Jenson in recognition of their votes in favor of the tax increases,†said Chairman Tiernan.
“I strongly urge Representatives Smith and Jenson to refuse any support or assistance from the public employee unions and their Democrat allies and provide the Republicans in House Districts 57 and 58 an explanation of how their recent actions and votes have represented their interests and the Republican Party they represent,†continued Chairman Tiernan. “Otherwise, I respectfully request that they consider removing themselves from the election for the Republican Party nominations for House Districts 57 and 58.â€
The filing deadline for Oregon’s 2010 Primary Election is March 9th.
After all, when you're so far ahead, purity is what counts!
Jenson and Smith raised taxes on Oregonians and are contributing to the continued failure of Oregon to keep business. They need to go for that reason alone.
It's not a purge, it's a flippin' necessary thing.
Dems are not popular, and they are going to lose seats. Guaranteed.
Give it up man, at this point no one believes you on this one.
You never miss a chance to criticize a Republican and never miss a chance to suck up to a Democrat.
Maybe, and that's a real slight if'fy maybe once a year you will say something positive about a Republican, but its exceedingly rare.
A chance to suck up to "Retired UO prof"?
You are there in an instant.
A Chance to knock Republicans, at even the slightest opportunity? You will drive five miles out of your way just as you did below to go off on me.
Look at your language, you never refer to Republicans as "my party" you always refer to them as "you guys" or something similarly distant.
I will never understand the liberal theory that pretending to be a Republican establishes some sort of intellectual credibility. It doesn't. All it does is establish the person as someone who either has a profound misunderstanding of what the party is about or a liar.
Take your pick but if you think this "I'm a wavering Republican" routine is fooling anyone, you are more out of touch than I thought!
As far as I'm concerned, anyone who pays any attention to PUKES like Smith & Jenson are wasting their time. The Eagle Eyes & Retire Oregon Professors of Oregon----who gives a crap about what they think about the Republican party or those of us CONSERVATIVES who should've "purged" the PUKES out a long time ago.
Smith, Jenson, Winters, Berger, and many others should have been sent packing a long time ago! (anyone remember Mary Gallegos?)
Any yeah I don't like tax raisers like Brucie boy Starr and Larry George either. Check out your DMV fees if you think I'm mistaken.
That's how you build your base! That's how you win elections!
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Might want to check the polls in between gorging on the public dime and check your stats. Democrats are in some pretty serious trouble.
I mean come on Wyden is polling below 50%
An incumbent Democrat senator below 50%?
That's unreal.
Oh yeah, and let's not forget health care.
Your union goon friends got their exemption from the health insurance tax and that was the kiss of death for the plan.
Republicans don't have to do jack - You guys are running yourself into the ground all on your own.
Might want to lift your head up from slopping at the trough Eagle Eye, BO is driving you guys straight off a cliff!
My God, you guys had control of the house and a filibuster proof majority in the Senate and had the first Democrat president to win with a majority of the vote in a generation.
And you can't even pass your signature issue because your guys are scared of losing their seats.
Quaking?
Looks more like running for the hills.
Buh Bye all you suddenly retiring Democrat senators, Buh Bye cap and trade. Buh Bye house and Senate majorities if you try and pull the nuclear option.
Oh yeah, you guys are doing great. One year and you screw up a lead like that, now that takes talent!
Oh wow, and how great are you guys doing back home in Oregon?
Look at how Ted got shut down when he came for the kicker money to slop you trough feeders.
Hmm, the publics apetite for raising taxes to slop you guys seemed to be gone less than 24 hours after the 66/67 vote.
Salem shut Ted down in a heartbeat over that one. Dem leaders even stated explicitly that they would lose their majority with that strategy.
They know which side their bread is buttered on. Raising taxes supposedly on the rich to pay for your union raise is easy. Raising taxes on everyone to slop you guys is a different matter obviously. At least thats what Salem told Ted.
Well, with all that, you seem to think you guys are on the upswing.
Good luck with that one pal.
Look to lose a lot of seats in November. Salem knows it, DC knows it, and apparently you are the only guy out there who doesn't.
Then again you also think you are a Republican!
After all, to come up with a statement like that you obviously have no concept about what the Republican party has been about in your or my lifetime.
You want higher taxes to slop you and your union buddies at the public trough. That's pretty much all you are about.
Sorry guy, the Republican party has never been about taxing the productive to pay for the sedentary.
If you ever actually were a Republican you obviously joined under a false apprehension.
You are a Democrat, and if you can think of thing one where you disagree with your parties platform and agree with the Republicans Id be willing to listen.
I don't think you can.
I have a feeling if I asked you that question in a bar point blank it would take you several minutes to come up with an example.
Saddam Hussein was "elected" by a virtually unanimous "vote." Did that mean the people loved him?
Oh, and why is it that when a bad idea wins by a small percentage, the liberals say "THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN" in triumph - but when a bad idea sees cratering support, like Obama care, the liberals say "THE PEOPLE JUST DON'T KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT THIS"?
If so then what is the purpose of pretending that the popularity of the tax measures was in question?
BO once was popular, not so much anymore. Health Care reform once polled well, now its in hospice. Democrats once were popular, now they stand a very real chance of losing the Senate.
Maybe those of us who have a propensity to characterize people by where they live or what they look like should purge themselves of the propensity to make such statements and move into the 21st century, or at least get out of the 19th.
See Bill's comment above.
My comment was more in reply to Dean aka vally p. Forgot to hit the "reply" button, my mistake.
You're funny. You ask a question then discount the reasonable answer without offering any support for your own position.
Nor do we leftists want to run your candidates or your lives. Your last Oregon governor left office in 1988, and you have an ex basketball player who has never been elected to anything as your likely next candidate. There are 200,000 more registered Democrats in Oregon than Republicans. You are way down in the House and Senate. Clearly you do not need any unsolicited advice.
"I guess we'll see when the election rolls around. I do believe the momentum is clearly with the Republicans."
We agree on both counts. But "momentum" can shift overnight, November is a long way off, and you are presently in a deep electoral hole. To the extent you continue to purge moderates from your party, I don't think that bodes well for your prospects. Most of the nation and state are neither left nor right. They are practical.