Discussion for article #232918
Kitzhaber sounds like an idiot, assuming all this stuff is accurately reported by The Oregonian.
It’s interesting that major newspapers in Florida, New Jersey, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Texas, Wisconsin, Kansas, and other states governed by thoroughly corrupt Republican governors and their cronies haven’t all called for their resignations.
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If all that is true, then yes, he should resign.
She’s seems to be a bit younger than him, yes? 20 years, I see.
Question: how can she be the first lady if she’s still a “finance” after 12 years?
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Just move to NJ and become a potential 2016 candidate.
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Corruption by democrats always seems so boring. Where are the rolexes and the private jets and the encounters in airport bathrooms?
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Maybe his was hiking the Pacific Crest Trail?
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As an Oregonian, I can tell you the governor is not an idiot. Should any cronyism be made public? Yes. Should he resign, No. The Oregonian is gasping for air, and grasping for a way to keep their heads above water. This is a pathetic vendetta against a Governor who has a long record as a well motivated public servant.
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Cheyenneroll,
Yeah, the paper should disclose their ties and affiliations in the sense of fairness. Just because they say that the Gov can no longer be effective, it in no way means that its true. I doubt they ever really liked him.
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Nicely done – yes, the problem indeed is that she’s been a “finance” lately. Also a fiancé.
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Almost everything now known about Kitzhaber and Hayes was known before last November’s election. I and many others held our noses and voted for him over his Republican opponent Dennis Richardson.
The Oregon Republican party seems incapable of serving up a reasonably viable candidate. We’ve been treated to two radical right wing whack-o-birds, a former NBA player who showed his love for Orygun by moving to California shortly after losing and Richardson who once said that:
Women Should Not Control Their Own Bodies
“A woman relinquishes her unfettered right to control her own body when her actions cause the conception of a baby”
1990 Letter to the Editor, The Oregonian
Now that I’ve made the case for voting for Democrats in Orygun I’ll go on to say that I personally would be happy to see Kitz resign and go be happy with this Hayes person. His last four years were nothing but failure after failure.
Kitz has that look about him of an older man who is totally enamored and blinded by the younger female in his life. It’s sad for Orygun but it’s his life to live.
But thankfully he beat out Richardson. A Democrat, hopefully one who has a healthy and mature romantic life, will replace him.
As for the The Oregonian…our local paper was sold a few years back to a media company in reddest Tennessee, is now a tabloid and only a shadow of it’s former self. It’s lurched very far to the right. Dead fish refuse to be wrapped in it.
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The Oregonian calls for his resignation? Well we can safely assume it’s just right-wing propaganda, which is all the Oregonian, once a great newspaper, has become.
Most of this was disclosed before the election and we voted for Kitz anyway, He is a smart guy and has been a very good Governor for Oregon. He’s not a gun nut, he believes in universal health care, he believes in the basic dignity of all Oregonians.
Of course this paper wants to get rid of him. His caring doesn’t fit with their conservative values.
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Quoth Steve Novick, this is just the rantings of “some sorry Orange County right-wing publisher.”
Most of this was known, and much of what the Oregonian “unveils” occurred before there was an established relationship. There’s no evidence of actual corruption (no rolexs or chicken dinner weddings), an ongoing investigation, and Hayes no longer hold any paid position that influences public policy.
I don’t exactly love Kitzhaber. He should’ve paid a political price for being the only governor to unveil an insurance exchange that made heatlthcare.gov look good, but the lack of any viable state-wide opposition put forward by the Republican Party of Oregon (Arthur C. Robinson, chair) cancelled that out.
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IOKIYAR .
Eh?
This is good to hear.
I live in Oregon and if my memory serves e correctly, the endorsed that right wing crazy guy (tea party) from Southern Oregon. That says it all …
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Ahem…Dem.
I knew by the inflammatory writing but just needed the blanks filled in.
Thank you.
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“interesting”? This petty a level of corruption has NEVER bothered the Oregonian in a Republican administration. In it’s entire history, the ONLY times the paper ever backed a Democratic candidate were once during a World War and then when it concluded GW Bush and Crone Cheney had lied us into invading Iraq. Otherwise, it’s been GOPer turtles all the way up and down, no matter the corruption, incompetence or both.
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The Oregonian editorial board is correct.
What a barking prude YOU are!
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