 KROGER VS. KROGER: This fall’s AG race. |
WINNERS
1. John Kroger, the Democratic nominee for state attorney general, wasn’t quaking in his loafers last week after learning the name of his Republican opponent: John Kroger. No Republican ran in the May primary, which let Kroger get the GOP nomination when 13,000 Republican voters wrote in his name. “Woo hoo!” we wish Kroger had said. “Gimme a terrorist fist jab!”
2. You don’t have to say you love me… All U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) needs to do to win the fawning praise of a certain Portland daily—not the Tribune—is say he has a plan. For evidence, see the June 22 Oregonian editorial on Wyden’s proposal for preserving Oregon’s old-growth forest and logging industry. The plan, as the paper notes, isn’t a bill yet. Take off the kid gloves, O.
3. The brand plays on. When Nau closed up its shops earlier this year, it looked like the progressively minded sportswear company was all but kaput. But as reported on WWire, Nau finalized a deal on Tuesday, June 24, to have like-minded Santa Barbara-based outdoors outfitter Horny Toad buy the bulk of Nau’s assets. The aim: to relaunch Nau as a separate—but very equal—brand sometime later this summer.
LOSERS
1. Instead of dumping more of his fortune into his increasingly pointless quest for the 5th District Congressional seat, Republican nominee Mike Erickson might give the money to charity instead. An Oregonian investigation this week provided even greater certainty that Erickson, who claims to be strongly anti-abortion, paid for a woman’s abortion in 2000.
2. Oregon’s faith healers got more unwanted notoriety following the death of another child in the Followers of Christ church. Neil Beagley, 16, died after shunning medical treatment for a blocked bladder. Clackamas County officials will probably not press charges against his parents, as they did against the parents of Beagley’s 15-month-old niece, who died at home in March from untreated illnesses.
3. Former Multnomah County prosecutor-turned-all-star defense lawyer Randy Ray Richardson—a.k.a. “R Cubed”—is in trouble again (see “Randy Richardson was a hotshot criminal defense lawyer. Now he needs one,” WW, May 28, 2003). After being acquitted in 2005 of bribery and witness tampering, Richardson faces new charges of aggravated theft and deception for allegedly helping cheat an elderly woman out of the title to her home.
4. Portland’s free wi-fi service, MetroFi, died last week after a long illness. No one attended the funeral. The Score missed the Evite, because we couldn’t get a signal.
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My understanding is that this is the SECOND time Tawny and her friends have used this story against Mike.
I am so upset as a woman that this story has recieved so much attention! If Mike were your SON seven years ago, what would you have advised him to do with Gold Digger woman playing Russian Roullette with Mike's intentions and using a pregnancy as the bullet?
Every woman knows how to use birth controll effectively especially those that have been pregnant before.
Shall we just promoting adding one more Single Mom to the heap or are we promoting loveless marriages??? I am confused which one.
I know that most people wouldn't admit to a reputation damaging relationship themselves. I am certain that most of us have been involved in situations we don't want out in the public.
This is an issue that if you are truely pure in your past THEN cast judgement! I say let's not make this issue a huge deal because, it's realy all about the drama of one woman who didn't get what she wanted and some friends that wanted to some notariety and need to find something else to do. ISN'T IT!
Manhattan is so much more advanced.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/20/congress.fossella/