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Earlier this week, A Better Oregon, the political action committee working to place a $2.5 billion-a-year corporate tax increase on the November ballot, fired the first salvo in what's likely to be a long war between that group and the large corporations who would pay the tax.
A Better Oregon hammered Comcast, the cable giant who doubtless has its share of unhappy customers in Oregon.
But Comcast has long had close ties to Oregon Democrats.
Gov. Kate Brown made news in January 2015 when, as secretary of state, she recycled a Comcast lobbyist's letter in support of Comcast's desire to merge with Time Warner Cable.
Brown was then out of step with progressive critics who said the merger would create a quasi-monopoly, and her position was further undermined by her having previously accepted a total of $9,500 in campaign contributions from Comcast.
A Better Oregon has never accepted money from Comcast, but just about every Democratic lawmaker and both Democratic caucus political action committees have accepted money from the company—according to filings, at least $225,000 since Jan. 1, 2012.
That makes A Better Oregon's targeting of Comcast ring slightly hollow.
Here's the message the group emailed around the state this week.
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