{"id":3000,"date":"2010-10-01T02:30:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T09:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3000"},"modified":"2010-10-01T02:30:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T09:30:52","slug":"anonymous-republicans-attack-oregons-defazio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/01\/anonymous-republicans-attack-oregons-defazio\/","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous Republicans Attack Oregon’s DeFazio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Representative Peter DeFazio represents Oregon\u2019s 4th District.  He\u2019s an independent sort who votes what he thinks is right.  I don\u2019t always agree with him, but I\u2019d have no problem voting for him and now formally endorse him, were I in his district, which is normally completely safe.  This year, Republicans are flooding the TV with attack adds anonymously financed by the energy industry, because his opponent, Art Robinson, is what I call a pocket professor<\/em>.  That\u2019s an academic willing to sell his credentials to whomever fills his pocket.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"1defazio\" Congressman Peter DeFazio, D-4th District, said today that a political committee based in Washington had increased its purchase of TV time for commercials attacking him.<\/p>\n

\u201cConcerned Taxpayers of America\u201d increased its media buy by over $79,000 and has now spent more than $165,000 in support of Republican Art Robinson, DeFazio\u2019s campaign said from Eugene.<\/p>\n

Last week, DeFazio went to the group\u2019s offices in D.C. to find out who is behind the ads. The Washington Post reported and filmed the encounter.<\/p>\n

On Sept. 21, CTA began running what DeFazio calls a misleading television ad against him\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Albany Democrat Herald<\/a>><\/p>\n

The company sponsoring the add is just a money-laundering front for a Republican consulting firm.  Rachel Maddow has the goods on them and discusses it with Pete.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Is that shameless, or what?<\/font><\/p>\n

Let me remind you that the same day Republicans pledged greater transparency, they filibustered and voted unanimously against the DISCLOSE act, which would outlaw anonymous special interest ads.<\/font><\/p>\n

We need 100% public financing for all federal elective offices.  Why?<\/font><\/p>\n

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Corporations are NOT people!  Money is NOT speech!<\/font><\/strong><\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Representative Peter DeFazio represents Oregon\u2019s 4th District.  He\u2019s an independent sort who votes what he thinks is right.  I don\u2019t always agree with him, but I\u2019d have no problem voting for him and now formally endorse him, were I in his district, which is normally completely safe.  This year, Republicans are flooding the TV with […]<\/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-3000","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\/3000","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=3000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}