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Candidates – Elections 2016

The Source Weekly’s Endorsements for 2016 Candidates

The Source StaffOctober 19, 2016May 30, 2024

Governor Kate Brown The looming budgetary shortfalls in Salem are of epic proportion. The shortfalls in education, public infrastructure spending, the public employee retirement system (PERS) and health care obligations are a wake up call for good governance. It’s enough to make a voter want to hit the reset button—but that would be foolish. Gov. […]

Opinion

Democratic Primary Endorsement: Clinton

The Source StaffApril 27, 2016February 3, 2024

Many Americans will vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton because she is female. Our country isn’t leading in political representation by women and there is much progress to be made. However, there are many other reasons than gender to vote for the she-Clinton. As a dynasty candidate, there is plenty of chin wagging about her life […]

Opinion

Republican Primary Endorsement: Kasich

The Source StaffApril 27, 2016May 29, 2025

Ohio’s Gov. John Kasich is a hawk who served for 18 years in the U.S. House of Representatives before, at the urging of Republican party leaders, he ran for the office of governor in Ohio. He was re-elected to a second term in 2014 in a landslide vote, winning with a lead of 30 percentage […]

News

Bernie Sanders’ Secret Sauce

How a Vermont socialist improbably won key elections — and a national stage

Kevin J. KelleyAugust 12, 2015May 7, 2024

Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign is surging. In July, nearly 10,000 supporters gathered in Madison, Wisconsin, to hear the 73-year-old socialist senator denounce the Koch brothers and corporate greed. Another 7,500 came to hear him in Portland, Maine. He fired up a crowd of 11,000 in Phoenix, Arizona and, last week, proved as popular as the […]

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