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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July 28, 2010Metro: Bob Stacey rocks it on land use
July 27, 2010Mannix's epic initiative failure complete
July 27, 2010OR-GOV: Swing State Project moves Kitzhaber/Dudley race to "tossup"
July 26, 2010Dispatch from the Desert 3: A few parting thoughts
July 26, 2010Updated: Kevin Mannix cries over failing to get enough signatures
July 23, 2010Kevin Mannix cries over failing to get enough signatures
July 23, 2010Dispatch from the Desert 2: The good fight goes on
July 22, 2010Dispatch from the Desert 1: Netroots Nation is cranky
July 21, 2010Weird and Wacky polls in the field?
July 18, 2010Spanning the State: Viva Las Vegas Edition
July 16, 2010Oregon Senate Republicans: finally for raising taxes!
July 13, 2010Urban and Rural Reserves comment period for LCDC ends tomorrow
July 13, 2010Job creation: courtesy of your government
July 12, 2010Badass local bloggers take on KBR
July 11, 2010Spanning the State: Finding the muse, Edition.
July 08, 2010OR-Sen: Huffman's ties to big oil and junkets for judges
July 07, 2010LUBA reverses Hillsboro airport zoning
July 06, 2010Shawn Lindsay fails the first basic campaign test
July 04, 2010Spanning the State: Kiss my ass, George III Edition
July 01, 2010'Little Beirut': America's most patriotic city
June 30, 2010Tualatin Mayor: Announcing for fifth term on the same day housemate arrested for child porn
June 29, 2010If I were smart enough to reply to Kulongoski's economic austerity plan
June 27, 2010Spanning the State: Hammer and Ales Edition
June 22, 2010Maybe Lars will have these folks on his show, too.
June 21, 2010OR-Gov: Sifting through Dudley's defense of alleged child molester
June 20, 2010Spanning the State: Canis Lupus Edition
June 18, 2010Watersheds+Jobs, FTW!
June 14, 2010Metro approves urban and rural reserves after closed door meeting
June 13, 2010Spanning the State: Sunny skies make me feel good, edition
June 11, 2010Huffman: Oregonian is guilty of "blatant lies"
June 10, 2010OR-Gov: "Minor" parties find some mojo with fusion voting
June 09, 2010Post-Mortem: Yesterday's 12 State Primary
June 07, 2010Baker County seeing major flooding
June 06, 2010Spanning the State: Gleek addition
June 04, 2010If the BP oil spill were in Oregon
June 03, 2010PDX cafe owner shuns police
June 02, 2010Crying "uncle"!
May 30, 2010Spanning the State: Gloomy weather, gloomy state budget edition
May 28, 2010Oregon Realtors Association: Getting fleas
May 27, 2010OR-5: The only (sorta) competitive race in Oregon
May 25, 2010OR-Gov: The King of Wishful Thinking (or, Rasmussen says its tied)
May 24, 2010If you've lost Hayden Island, have you lost the CRC?
May 23, 2010Spanning the State: Blue Oregon Inaugural Edition
May 21, 2010WaCo Commission: lessons in bad faith
May 20, 2010Team Dudley needs to fire their fact checker
May 17, 2010A quandary: following up
May 16, 2010A quandary
May 14, 2010Earl pushes back on his non-opponent
May 12, 2010WA-Gov: Christine Gregoire on short list to replace Elena Kagan
May 10, 2010Andy Duyck: I get to break the laws I don't like

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