Les AuCoin is a retired, nine-term U.S. congressman, the first Democrat in Oregon history to win in Oregon’s First District (1974). At the time Les left the Congress, he was 85th in overall seniority, dean of the Oregon delegation, a Democratic whip at large, and a senior member of the House appropriations committee and its defense and interior subcommittees. He served two terms in the Oregon legislature, the second, at age 32 (a record), as House majority leader. He is a Pacific Northwest newspaper columnist and former public radio commentator and professor of political science at Southern Oregon University in Ashland.
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| June 22, 2015 | Do I ever have a George Bush story for you! |
| January 23, 2014 | My pal, Rep. George Miller, the liberal lion |
| January 17, 2012 | Suzanne Bonamici Meets the Wayne Morse Test |
| December 22, 2011 | The Fatal Link Between Indefinite Detainment & Obama's DNA |
| November 29, 2011 | Bonamici versus the Chameleon |
| November 25, 2009 | If They Had Real Guts, They'd Tax Us For This Troop Buildup |
| November 16, 2009 | Open Letter To Harry Reid |
| November 06, 2009 | WW Comes Out With Same Gore-Kitzhaber History I Reported |
| November 06, 2009 | Subtext Of Gore's Endorsement: Gotcha Back, Kitz! |
| November 05, 2009 | The Cloakroom Meaning of NJ And Virginia |
| October 14, 2009 | "Bring Them Home" |
| September 29, 2009 | Good goddamn job, Jeff! |
| May 12, 2009 | Pam Knowles For Portland Schools |
| March 19, 2008 | It's Obama for me |
| January 01, 2008 | The war within Charlie Wilson |
| April 07, 2007 | RFK on Viet/Iraq |
| April 02, 2007 | What if Iran were next? |
| March 31, 2007 | Keith Burns, lion-hearted (1927-2007) |
| March 29, 2007 | Faith-based Defense |
| March 23, 2007 | Tom Eagleton's last words |
| March 22, 2007 | The Gay Rights Antidiscrimination Bill, Cira 1973 |
| February 05, 2007 | Countering China's anti-satellite weapon |
