{"id":2966,"date":"2010-09-25T01:56:08","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T08:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2966"},"modified":"2010-09-25T01:56:08","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T08:56:08","slug":"chris-dudley-is-a-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/25\/chris-dudley-is-a-republican\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Dudley Is a&hellip; Republican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The more we see of Chris Dudley, the NBA benchwarmer now running to become Oregon\u2019s Governor, the easier it becomes to see that he\u2019s no different from other Republicans.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; margin: 2px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"DudleyWrong\" border=\"0\" alt=\"DudleyWrong\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/DudleyWrong.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"234\" \/> &#8230;Those damned waitresses, expecting to get money on top of the $8.50 an hour they&#8217;re bilking employers for. This is coming from an NBA pro, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueoregon.com\/2010\/09\/or-gov-dudleys-story-begins-unravel\/\" target=\"_blank\">evaded Oregon taxes<\/a> when he was playing for the Trail Blazers in the first half of the 1990s by &quot;moving&quot; to Washington State, even though he continued to live in his house in Oregon. He played the system well, though, keeping his car registered in Oregon and avoiding the high auto licensing tax in Washington. Chump change for an NBA starter [he was a sub], but illustrative of his political beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>That includes a pledge to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.oregonlive.com\/mapesonpolitics\/2010\/09\/seiu_tv_ad_draws_protest_from.html\" target=\"_blank\">cut the capital gains tax<\/a> <strong>from a top rate of 11 percent to 3 percent, further eroding already stretched to the limits state budgets<\/strong>. Given that his current job is as as financial adviser to the wealthy, including fellow NBA pros, this pledge isn&#8217;t too surprising. But it&#8217;s bad for Oregon. A new ad from the SEIU explains how.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<object width=\"660\" height=\"405\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gxx4eU-BHNA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6&amp;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gxx4eU-BHNA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6&amp;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"660\" height=\"405\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&quot;<strong>Dudley specializes in helping the very wealthy avoid taxes, so it&#8217;s no surprise that Chris Dudley&#8217;s plan for governor hands over $800 million in tax breaks for the wealthiest few<\/strong>.&quot;\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2010\/9\/24\/905043\/-OR-Gov:-Two-state-tax-evader-Dudley-offers-tax-cuts-to-the-rich,-bemoans-minimum-wage\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This clearly demonstrates that Dudley Do Wrong would goven for the exclusive benefit of criminal corporations and the richest 1%.&#160; That\u2019s what makes him a Republican.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more we see of Chris Dudley, the NBA benchwarmer now running to become Oregon\u2019s Governor, the easier it becomes to see that he\u2019s no different from other Republicans. &#8230;Those damned waitresses, expecting to get money on top of the $8.50 an hour they&#8217;re bilking employers for. This is coming from an NBA pro, who <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/25\/chris-dudley-is-a-republican\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-2966","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\/2966","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=2966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}