Your ORGOP: Urine & Hookers

Carla Axtman

Well, I guess we can't say they're not a colorful bunch.

Oregon GOP Party Chairman Art Robinson wants all the Josephine County urine to belong to him.

Nigel Jaquiss, Willamette Week, via Jeff Duewel of the Grants Pass Daily Courier:

Every household in Josephine County recently received a mailing from Robinson's Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine asking for samples to continue his research with metabolic profiling, which he believes could "improve our health, our happiness and prosperity."

People simply send a coupon included in the mailer to Robinson, and in return they receive a sample container and box to mail the sample to the Institute. "After the first couple of days we're very pleased with the results," said Robinson, who didn't reveal how many have agreed to send a sample.

So there's that.

And this, courtesy of Jeff Mapes at the Oregonian:

Oregon state Rep. Jason Conger, who is leaning toward a U.S. Senate candidacy, says he doesn't think the prostitution arrest of a big donor to his campaign will have much political impact.

James Bisenius, the founder and chief executive of a $3.2 billion hedge fund based in Portland, was one of nine men arrested in a Tigard prostitution sting last month. He's also been a big contributor to a handful of Republican candidates in the state.

Bisenius gave $25,000 apiece to Conger, of Bend, and to Rep. Mike McLane of Powell Butte, in March of 2012, and $50,000 to GOP gubernatorial nominee Chris Dudley in 2010, according to financial disclosure reports. Rep. John Davis, R-Wilsonville, received $10,500 last year as did John Ludlow, who was then running for Clackamas County chair.

Strip bars, urine and prostitutes, your GOP at work I guess. I just wish they'd stop trying to block stuff like birth control and science base sex education while they're letting their freak flag fly.

By Carla Axtman Sept. 12, 2013