Jennifer Baires and the Vander Kamp story
Yet another bullseye piece by Jen Baires on the whole Vander Kamp investigation documents story.
A big hat tip, as well, to OPB’s Emily Cureton Cook on this will he?/won’t he?/what the hell is going on here? roller coaster of a tale.
—Bruce Cummings
Election Deniers Have No Place in Oregon Government
This November voters will cast their votes for Oregon’s next Secretary of State. Second in line to the governorship, the Secretary of State is also the chief auditor of executive branch departments and is responsible for the administration of elections throughout all 36 Oregon counties. The Republican candidate, Dennis Linthicum, should be familiar to Oregon voters for his protest walkouts denying a quorum in the Oregon legislature stymying legislation proposed by the Democrat majority in Salem to protect access to reproductive care including abortion.
What voters may not know about Dennis are his views on the outcome of the 2020 election and efforts in some states to disqualify the former president from the ballot based on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. In a recent interview with OPB, Dennis stated, “I would not keep Trump off the ballot given the facts as I currently understand them. Some state secretaries identified Trump as the ‘leader of an insurrection.’ Since the claim of ‘insurrection’ is not supported by any formal, adjudicated response from the courts, the respective secretaries crossed the line for unbiased decision making and their decisions represent unacceptable behavior.” In the same interview, Dennis refused to answer the question, “Did Joe Biden win the 2020 election.” By refusing to accept the 2020 election outcome, Dennis reveals he is unfit to serve as Oregon’s next Secretary of State. Please cast your vote for Tobias Read.
— Joel Komarek
Bend City Council Camping Code Change
WHY?
Why do you propose to change the camping code to make life even more miserable for INTERNAL MIGRANTS in our community?
WHO?
Who bought you? The Chamber of Commerce, the tourist bureau, business owners, realtors, privileged power people, developers, police, INTERNAL MIGRANTS?
WIN/LOSS?
Who are winners in changing the camping code? Winners are the ones who bought you. Losers are INTERNAL MIGRANTS forced to relocate in blatant violation of human rights.
POLICE STATE?
Why are police empowered to resolve economic and humanitarian crises challenging INTERNAL MIGRANTS?
How do you justify spending tax money for constant police surveillance and displacement of INTERNAL MIGRANTS in a cruel, unjust and inhumane system?
ACTIONS?
Surely you can devise plans to help the poorest among us rather than punishing them. STOP creating systems that dehumanize people into INTERNAL MIGRANTS and herd them like cattle to places like the China Hat Concentration Camp.
RESPECT?
How can you make decisions that do not respect or help people struggling to survive? How can you respect yourself when your decisions negatively impact the lives of real people treated like INTERNAL MIGRANTS?
—Sue Bastian
A Critical Question
I appreciate the Source’s thoughtful interviews and candidate endorsements. However, this election cycle there is a critical question that has been neglected. From all Republican candidates I must hear one thing first and foremost: given that Donald Trump and his MAGA cult have eviscerated the Republican party and laid a clear roadmap to turning the United States into a dictatorship, can they give a full-throated denouncement of Trump and all he stands for? I need them to have concrete plans for standing against Trump and Project 2025, whatever the outcome of the General Election, and be able to articulate them. As an unaffiliated voter I want to be able to weight candidates on their own merits, but given their track record I must presume that any Republican candidate would be complicit in the destruction of our democracy, and without robust assurance to the contrary I could not vote for them. I encourage all my fellow voters to keep this issue in the forefront of their minds when casting their votes.
—Grace Ogawa
Letter of
the Week:
Thanks for the letter, Grace. Come on by for your gift card to Palate!
—Nicole Vulcan
This article appears in Source Weekly October 17, 2024.
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