Carla Axtman

Carla Axtman is a political animal and blogger. She started blogging in 2004 as a response to the malaise and frustration of progressive politics & politics on both the national & local levels. Carla specializes in online organizing and communications. Another politico recently referred to her thusly: "...a cross between a pitbull, a barracuda and a scorpion. ... She's ferocious."


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December 08, 2009John Minnis: "Inappropriate interactions" with a subordinate staff member
December 04, 2009OR-GOV: Chris Dudley apparently knows how to raise money.
December 03, 2009Will citizens really be heard? Washington County is about to find out.
December 03, 2009Ridenbaugh Press: Mary Starrett to run for Yamhill County Commish
December 02, 2009Are the Deschutes Co Commissioners letting Mark Nelson snooker them?
December 01, 2009I don't think those words mean what you think they mean
November 30, 2009Oregon's Justice System is just picking on poor Bill Sizemore
November 29, 2009Civil War? Not for me. My heart belongs to the Wildcats.
November 29, 2009Oh crap.
November 26, 2009The Grace in being grateful
November 25, 2009The new math or how Cascade Policy Institute needs a working calculator
November 24, 2009OR-GOV: Sizemore: Fool me...you can't get fooled again.
November 22, 2009Without a net: walking the tightrope of talking about race
November 19, 2009The point is they laugh at what you say.....
November 19, 2009OR-GOV: Steve Shields bows out
November 18, 2009OR-GOV: Steve Shields: All business
November 17, 2009Save-the-Media Saturday
November 16, 2009Journalism in Oregon: the new contradiction in terms?
November 14, 2009A week-long date with justice.
November 11, 2009The Curious Case of Anti-Tax-Fairness Lobbyists.
November 07, 2009Push Schrader off the fence: the trifecta
November 06, 2009OLCV prepares to step up their political game
November 06, 2009OR GOV: Chris Dudley debuts his shiny placeholder website
November 04, 2009OR-GOV: Frank Morse: Not so much on the Guv campaign thing
November 04, 2009Push Schrader off the fence, part deux
November 04, 2009Deschutes Co decides whether or not to pave paradise
October 31, 2009Why all is not lost at the Oregonian.
October 30, 2009Another lobbyist flip-flops on taxes
October 29, 2009Anti-tax-fairness lobbying group goes all hypocrite on us
October 26, 2009"End the scare tactics and get down to the facts"
October 26, 2009Schrader tweets: telephone town hall on Tuesday night
October 26, 2009Town hall fever in Clackamas County: Barton and Schaufler
October 23, 2009Push Schrader off the fence
October 22, 2009HD 43: The appointment in pictures
October 22, 2009Oregon Treasurer Ben Westlund undergoing cancer treatment...again.
October 21, 2009OR-GOV: Bill Bradbury, the exuberant liberal
October 21, 2009Hey anti-tax-fairness dudes, quit yer bellyachin'
October 20, 2009HD-43: The O endorses Collymore
October 11, 2009When the campaign to repeal Measure 36 happens.....
October 09, 2009Lies, Damn Lies and Jeff Kruse.
October 08, 2009Merkley and Wyden: Include the public option in health care reform, dammit.
October 06, 2009Word on the street: Stand For Children to endorse Collymore for HD 43
October 06, 2009In which Oregonians get an introduction to Kitzhaber's girlfriend
October 05, 2009SOS office has a new and kinda boring blog
October 03, 2009My big, fat crush on Oregon
October 02, 2009HD 24: Weidner's hole gets a whole lot deeper
September 30, 2009Hump Day Happenings: House, Senate and stinking it up in Roseburg
September 29, 2009Forbes: Oregon is a top ten state for business
September 27, 2009Christine Chin-Ryan: Why Oregon small businesses support the corporate tax measure
September 27, 2009Oregon is way better than Freedomworks and Americans for Prosperity give us credit for

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