in the middle of the long Oregon Primary
It is an election weekend — as that is defined, which means that this message gets to be trotted out.
In a nutshell the omnipresent question is “Why are you reading this?” The answer is, I don’t know… it popped up in my bloglines blogroll. Somewhere (where some) a whole mass of candidate volunteers are running around, or at a phone-bank, splitting out the differences between similar politicians and amping up one and amping down the other.
On a day where Barack Obama will hold sway with a massive rally at Waterfront Park, in the scorching heat, I find myself pondering Sam Adams. At some point it was decreed he would be the next mayor of Portland, and that is just how it will turn out to be. Now, I suppose the same thing happened with Jim Francesconi and that did not turn out so well, and the same thing was said with whoever Bud Clarke defeated and that did not turn out so well. But, with all due respect to Sho Dozono, the disruption that saw the decreed mayorial result derailed was pretty evident with all signs pointing to “nay” by now in those two previous elections. So, we prepare for the Totalitarian Regime of Sam Adams, whose only goal seems to punch all the great citizens of Portland into the ground with his Iron Hand. Odd how that works.
Anyway… Why are you reading this? Shouldn’t you be hanging up Nick Fish door hangers or something? (Or, for you Republicans in and around District 5 — figuring out what to make of that Erickson / Mannix mess. Jeez-uz Keerist!)