The House was Rocking!
Paulie Brading
House Speaker Dave Hunt was rocking at the Red Rock Cafe in Medford last night when he introduced the soon to be elected candidate Lynn Howe for State Representative in House District 5. Senator Bates complained about having to park three blocks away due to the high turn out at the Lynn Howe campaign kick-off. State House Representative Peter Buckley recalled the days when he was lucky enough to have a group of 20 turn out for an event. Well over 100 people jammed themselves into a charming venue to launch Lynn's campaign. Due to her hard work several organizations were well represented. After talking about her career as a nurse and as a public school educator she reassured the audience that they could trust her to do what is right on health care and public school funding. Some of her remarks centered on enabling Southern Oregon to have a greater level of influence in Salem. Then she brought down the house with her ideas for a stronger regional economy, creation of jobs and seemed to be serving up the idea of what I would call a sustainable valley. She completely understands that Southern Oregon can serve as an incubator to spawn additional companies to strengthen this regions economy.
It's harder to win in a swing county where we don't have 60 or 70% Democratic voters ready to line up and vote. We need every single registered Democrat plus NAV's and some Republicans to take the seat currently held by Rep. Sal Esquivel. Speaker Hunt ticked off Esquivel's votes. No on education. No on anti-bullying. No on children's health care. No on affordable housing. No, no, no. Who knew Speaker Hunt could take that long list of no votes and actually make it humorous?
Lynn Howe will have an Act Blue account up soon and a Face-book campaign page. We are going to have to saturate the media market as part of our strategy. As Lynn's campaign moves along it would terrific to have some of your statewide support.
Support Lynn Howe and help Jackson County become majority blue!
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Oct 27, '09
I am really looking forward to seeing Lynn elected. Congrats on such a great night. And best of luck keeping up the momentum.
Oct 27, '09
Medford and Jackson County are a "tough room" for D's, especially if Ashland isn't in the district. If Ms. Howe can pick off Sal Esquivel it will be a sign that the Republican party in Oregon (and throughout the nation outside of the south) has a long road back.
A road that they are currently going in reverse on.
8:59 p.m.
Oct 27, '09
If anyone can do it, Lynn can. She is hard working and an incredibly bright woman. It will be great to have her in the House.
Oct 27, '09
Glad to see serious attention to a Democratic legislative candidate in the 2nd Congressional District.
UPO---I would point out that not only Republicans have a long road, "If Ms. Howe can pick off Sal Esquivel it will be a sign that the Republican party in Oregon (and throughout the nation outside of the south) has a long road back.
A road that they are currently going in reverse on."
I suspect that if someone looked at the R, D, and NAV+ Other registration numbers for the past several years, one would find that the years when Democratic staffers would make strong statements to the effect that it wasn't worth running candidates in districts with "a lousy R to D ratio", those were the years when the NAV + other numbers went up and Democrats living in such districts wondered why bother if even their party did not support them.
Howard Dean's 50 State Strategy was the best thing that happened to Democrats in quite some time.
Oct 27, '09
LT, I assume you mean the CONTINUED serious attention on Democratic legislative candidates in the 2nd CD, since House Democrats won TWO of those 2nd CD seats in 2008 -- in Hood River and in Bend.
Oct 28, '09
Met Lynn at the DPO Summit in Sunriver. I'm afraid I couldn't give her good enough advice on how to reach out to young people, but she certainly seemed worthy and is someone I'd be glad to have in the house caucus.
Oct 28, '09
"Speaker Hunt ticked off Esquivel's votes. No on education. No on anti-bullying. No on children's health care. No on affordable housing. No, no, no."
That's typical rhetoric. Just because someone votes no on certain tax measures, that doesn't mean they're against children, education or healthcare.
8:57 a.m.
Oct 28, '09
That's typical rhetoric. Just because someone votes no on certain tax measures, that doesn't mean they're against children, education or healthcare.
If the highest priority of a state legislator is to never raise taxes...then that's a problem. Unless the goal is to completely tie up government and drown it a la Norquist, then that person is doing something fundamentally harmful to the citizenry.
This seems to be Esquivel's MO. If it's not then he's doing an awesome puppet show to the contrary.
Oct 28, '09
I voted for Lynn last go round as she was anything but Sal Esquival. However to get my vote this time she will need to be very clear on what her plans are for encouraging growth of private sector jobs in southern Oregon.
Oh, and Sal, who I am NO fan of, did vote "yes" on at least one tax increase - the fuel tax measure.
Oct 29, '09
nice :) not more to say than whatsuporegon
Oct 29, '09