Democrats have launched a new website, You Don’t Know Dudley.com, attacking GOP gubernatorial candidate Chris Dudley. It’s a peculiar mix of new stuff, old stuff and some just plain silly stuff.
“Do you know Dudley?” asks the site, which was paid for by the Democratic Governors Association. “Do you see eye-to-eye on the issues that matter most? Take our quick survey and find out.”
The interactive “survey” asks readers to respond to a series of questions and then provides answers designed to put Dudley in a bad light. For example, it points out that Dudley is “still open to [oil and gas] drilling off the cost of Oregon” (old news) that Dudley lived in Washington while playing for the Portland Trail Blazers to avoid paying Oregon income tax (new news), that he “actively campaigned for George Bush who, as you may remember, drove our national and state economy into a ditch” (old news) and that “he’s done everything possible to avoid debating” his Democratic opponent, John Kitzhaber.
Some of the sting was taken out of that last accusation on Friday, when the Dudley campaign announced their guy would be willing to take part in four debates with Kitzhaber this fall. Details still have to be worked out.
The silliest accusation the new site makes is that Dudley – a professional investment advisor in Lake Oswego – “actually wanted to go to work on Wall Street.”
Although Dudley didn’t end up on Wall Street, the site adds, “his firm invests [for] and advises ultra-wealthy clients, while Dudley advocates for huge tax cuts for the wealthy.”
I’m still trying to figure out what to make of that. Financial advisors don’t normally work for poor clients. And attacking the man not because he works on Wall Street but because he supposedly wanted to work on Wall Street is really a stretch.
This article appears in Aug 19-25, 2010.
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The democray’s are once again trying to use class envy while the republican’s lie and say they will lower the defecit,it’s all B.S. and designed to keep us divided and make us think we have a choice.The elitist banksters are running this country and have been since Wilson signed the federal reserve act in 1913.Every war since then,and some before were started by them for profit and to run up the national debt.Research it yourself.The Rothschild’s,Rockefellor’s,J.P.Morgan,Brezinski,House,Kissinger,C.F.R.,Trilateral commision ,for starters.
I’m pleasantly surprised, Miller, you are being somewhat fair! Although Dubya wasn’t the only one who drove our economy in the ditch. There are many out there who get credit for that one!!
Is that really you Bruce? I believe this is the first open minded blog you have posted. Kudos to you!
HBM
You commie, socialist. politically correct fascist, neo-nazi, extreme far-left…
Oh, wait…I can agree with you this time.
Never mind.
Until the next time…
You commie, socialist. politically correct fascist, neo-nazi, extreme far-left…
love her! She says it like it is. Did anyone hear her talk about measures 66 & 67 on Talk of the Town? It turned out exactly as she predicted. Just months after they PASS, guess what is being cut that was supposed to get ALL this money from ALL those business owners NOT paying taxes. The schools!!
“Is that really you Bruce? I believe this is the first open minded blog you have posted. Kudos to you!”
I call ’em like I see ’em. When I call ’em your way you say I’m “open-minded.” When I don’t call ’em your way you call me every name in the book.
That’s okay, I’m used to it.