{"id":2787,"date":"2010-09-05T00:45:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T07:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2787"},"modified":"2010-09-05T00:45:07","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T07:45:07","slug":"kitzhaber-fights-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/05\/kitzhaber-fights-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitzhaber Fights Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"5oregon\"<\/a> Here in Oregon, the race for governor is closer than it should be.  Democratic former Governor, John Kitzhaber, has a strong public service record, while former Trailblazers bench warmer, Chris Dudley, has zero experience or qualifications and lived in Washington, when he played here, to avoid paying Oregon Taxes.  The only thing he has going for him is a big pile of corporate cash.  Kitzhaber, an old style politician, tried to run a gentlemanly campaign on the issues, but that\u2019s not how Republicans play.  Fortunately, Kitzhaber is fighting back.<\/font><\/p>\n

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John Kitzhaber’s political career in Oregon was characterized by his unwillingness to go negative against opponents. And just this cycle, he asked the Democratic Governors Association to pull an attack ad<\/a> against GOP candidate Chris Dudley. But with Charlie Cook moving the race<\/a> to toss-up category, and Dudley continuing to outpace in fundraising<\/a>, Kitzhaber seems to be ready to begin defining his opponent. This is a good start<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Here\u2019s the ad:<\/font><\/p>\n

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I can\u2019t say I like everything about Kitzhaber, but compared to Dudley Do-Wrong, he\u2019s a saint.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here in Oregon, the race for governor is closer than it should be.  Democratic former Governor, John Kitzhaber, has a strong public service record, while former Trailblazers bench warmer, Chris Dudley, has zero experience or qualifications and lived in Washington, when he played here, to avoid paying Oregon Taxes.  The only thing he has going […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}