For The Love of Politics
WW’s endorsement page-turner has all the candidates worth falling for this election.
July 1st, 2009
The Good, The Bad And The Awful | WW’s biennial ranking of metro-area legislators.40 comments
June 24th, 2009
The Adams Report | Fourteen fascinating things we learned from Attorney General John Kroger’s investigation.57 comments
June 17th, 2009
Ink-Stained Wretch | Matt Gone hated his ailing body. Then he drew on it.35 comments
June 10th, 2009
Down and Out in the City of Roses | WW’s guide to enjoying the summer, economy be damned.3 comments
June 3rd, 2009
Futurehaus | A local company is building a house you can heat with a blow-dryer.49 comments
May 27th, 2009
This Is Lents | Does this long-neglected neighborhood really need a new minor league baseball stadium?62 comments
May 20th, 2009
Undercover Jesus | A sweet-talking son of a preacher man has persuaded the City of Portland to become a partner with 500 churches. Here’s how.52 comments
May 13th, 2009
Eric The Enlightened | How a guru from Beaverton raked in millions as a New Age psychic.46 comments
May 6th, 2009
Best New Band 2009 | Portland’s music scene insiders pick their favorite breakthrough acts of the past year.44 comments
April 29th, 2009
Shuttered Portland | You sent us shots of a crucifix, painted toes, an infant and more.52 comments
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[April 30th, 2008]
Change. Experience. Change. Experience.
We’ve heard these two poll-tested words so often during the past month by candidates from the presidency on down that our hair hurts.
During that time, we’ve hauled political hopefuls into our office, grilled them with questions that were nasty, naughty and necessary (“Where would you cut the budget? What have you ever done to justify such a leadership position? How can you prove your independence? What kind of tattoo would you get?”) That’s all to give you, our dear readers, a clear sense of who deserves your support as you get your ballots this week for the May 20 primary. And while all of the candidates said they represent change, or experience, or both, we tried to delve deeper.
As we survey the current political landscape, we feel an urge to reach for the Maker’s Mark—a White House so venal it makes the Harding administration look like Lincoln’s cabinet, a Congress unfit to stop the war, a state Legislature that’s sat by while Oregon plummeted from its perch as a national innovator, and a city where “visioning” has become a verb.
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Yet our process of meeting these folks did give us an audacious sense of, can we say it? Hope.
Many of the candidates were smart, dedicated, earnest and convinced us they were willing to work hard for largely poor wages.
All in all, this election has been one hell of a novel. Here’s how we’d write the last chapter.
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