tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1437688200491675121.post4961817017572839751..comments2024-03-28T20:54:46.309-07:00Comments on Up Close, with Peter Sage: Jessica Gomez: Republican Candidate for State SenateUp Close: Road to the White Househttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03590477200706751934noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1437688200491675121.post-48099081127411901362018-05-26T23:09:32.040-07:002018-05-26T23:09:32.040-07:00What does Gomez stand for? NOTHING.
What will Gome...What does Gomez stand for? NOTHING.<br />What will Gomez fight for? NOTHING.<br />Gomez is an empty suit, with few skills needed for Salem.<br />Gomez got $100K from PACs in the primary for ONE reason. She's their water carrier. She doesn't represent the common man or Main Street. She represents PACs, special interest groups, and the Chamber of Commerce.<br />I know conservative republicans. I am one. Conservatives will abandon Gomez in the general election because she's not one of them, and they know it. Gomez is not a republican. Gomez is a documented flip-flopper on the issues. I won't vote for her. <br />16,000 Dems voted in the District 3 primary, while only 10,600 republicans voted. Dems are much better at getting out the vote. <br />Golden will get a high voter turnout of Dems in the general election, while Gomez will get luke-warm support, and she'll be lucky to get 40% of the vote in spite of spending a million dollars. I see Golden winning in a blow-out, 60% to 40%. BTW....Walden will beat his Dem opponent 60% to 40% in the general election as well.Curthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11544536341777512120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1437688200491675121.post-34155038562531833162018-05-26T19:28:50.822-07:002018-05-26T19:28:50.822-07:00Ho hun (yawn): the middle.Ho hun (yawn): the middle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1437688200491675121.post-24468945468400037832018-05-26T18:01:57.116-07:002018-05-26T18:01:57.116-07:00I myself am tired of the polarized perspectives th...I myself am tired of the polarized perspectives that pit people against each other in our community. It’s long overdo that we have a person who upholds unity and brings us the reminder that we are all in need of balance ou on issues needing attention! The old adage there is strength in unity, divided we are weakened applies! It’s long overdo to have a candidate who carries the awareness to hold both kindness and strength, to make a differencethat holds this perspective. She’ll have my voteAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1437688200491675121.post-74855852670428353102018-05-26T13:16:45.881-07:002018-05-26T13:16:45.881-07:00I'm relatively new to the left side of the as ...I'm relatively new to the left side of the as I sd lk, having abandoned the Republican Party when Cheney and his sockpuppet Bush lied us into a fruitless war in Iraq, which has still not recovered and from which Cheney personally profited economically. That said, Art Bzden has beautifully laid out all the reasons I would never vote for a Republican in a local or State Election.<br />Personally, I would like to see a really vibrant third Party, which the deplorable named Independent Party is not.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02822954084630539729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1437688200491675121.post-60921082655937097352018-05-26T12:47:01.884-07:002018-05-26T12:47:01.884-07:00COMMENT BY ART BADEN.
Art Baden is a retired insur...COMMENT BY ART BADEN.<br />Art Baden is a retired insurance executive living in Ashland. He and his wife are active in Democratic politics. I am posting this for him because he is having connection problems that keeps him from posting on his own:<br /><br />"And on our next State Senator’s first vote - with which party to caucus - there is no middle. Jessica Gomez presents an attractive and moderate facade, which, if we allow ourselves to be fooled by its glossy veneer, allows us to forget what is the nature of the Republican minority with which she would caucus. Putting aside those divisive social issues she characterizes as pointless wedge issues (a woman’s right to choose, a student’s right to a safe gun free school, an immigrant’s right to contribute to our society), the economic issues are just as informative.<br /><br />The Republican caucus and those who fund them (The Koch Brothers and their ilk) have no interest in tax reform that will shift the burden off of the working and middle class onto the wealthy and powerful. They have no interest in funding our children’s education in this State; rather they want to shift public education funding to the private schools to which they send their children. They have no interest in creating a health care system that serves the people, rather than their political contributors in big Pharma and the insurance industry. They have no interest in protecting our environment against the fossil fuel companies that fund them. They have no interest in a livable minimum wage for workers; rather they complain about over-regulation and do all they can to destroy one of the few institutions left that protects workers - labor unions. And they have no interest in allowing local communities to institute rent control, or in funding subsidized housing, so our young families can have an affordable place to live.<br /><br />They have one interest, protecting the wealth and political power of those who fund their campaigns. And hats off to them, they do a very effective job at that.<br /><br />If Jessica Gomez believes that she will be the agent for compromise, a bridge between the parties, she is naive; and naivety is not a quality I look for when choosing a legislator. And if she believes we’ll overlook the regressive policies of the Republican Party she so recently joined, there is one way to disabuse her of that notion.<br /><br />The Republicans in the State legislature will continue to obstruct the solutions that will help the majority of Oregonians, because that’s what is in the interest of their political contributors. Follow the money. What we need is a Democratic super majority in the State Senate that will find solutions that benefit the many, not the few. That’s why I’m voting for Jeff Golden in November."<br /><br />ART BADEN<br />Ashland, OregonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com