{"id":6334,"date":"2011-11-10T00:00:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T08:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/10\/bonamici-wins-oregon-primary\/"},"modified":"2011-11-10T09:09:08","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T17:09:08","slug":"bonamici-wins-oregon-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/10\/bonamici-wins-oregon-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonamici Wins Oregon Primary!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The wait to determine who will be the Democratic nominee to replace David Wu as the Representative in Oregon\u2019s 1st Congressional District.&#160; Although she was not my first choice, I have no qualms that she will represent me well, if we can get her past the Republican nominee in January.&#160; Among the leading Democrats there were no bad choices.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"10Suzanne Bonamici\" border=\"0\" alt=\"10Suzanne Bonamici\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/10Suzanne-Bonamici.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"432\" \/>The Oregonian projects that Democrat Suzanne Bonamici and Republican Rob Cornilles have won their primary contests in Oregon&#8217;s 1st Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p>Early returns show the two candidates with strong leads over a <a href=\"http:\/\/gov.oregonlive.com\/election\/2011\/Congress\/guide\/\" target=\"_blank\">large field of candidates<\/a> vying to fill the Northwest Oregon congressional seat left vacant after Democrat David Wu was forced out of office in August following a sex scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Cornilles [Republican delinked], who owns a Tualatin sports marketing firm, was winning more than 70 percent of the vote over four other rivals.&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonamiciforcongress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bonamici<\/a>, a state senator from Beaverton, was winning about two-thirds of the vote in the eight-way Democratic primary.<\/p>\n<p>Both candidates now face a 12-week sprint until the Jan. 31 special election to fill the only current vacancy in Congress.&#160; The winner will serve the remainder of Wu&#8217;s term but will have to quickly turn around and run in May primary and in November as well to win a full two-year term\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2011\/11\/bonamici_cornilles_win_primary.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Oregonian<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Congratulations to Suzanne, who has distinguished herself as a warrior for consumer protection against criminal corporations, especially Banksters.&#160; Here is one of her ads.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_P4q6amiuAU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is the Republican opposing her for the seat.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d6st5hzzQYM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Rob Cornilles wants us to believe that he is progressive and moderate.&#160; Don\u2019t fall for that lie.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I happily endorse Suzanne Bonamici for Congress and have made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-esystems.com\/suzannefororegon\/donation.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">a donation to her campaign<\/a>.&#160; I urge all Oregonians to join me.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wait to determine who will be the Democratic nominee to replace David Wu as the Representative in Oregon\u2019s 1st Congressional District.&#160; Although she was not my first choice, I have no qualms that she will represent me well, if we can get her past the Republican nominee in January.&#160; Among the leading Democrats there <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/10\/bonamici-wins-oregon-primary\/' 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-6334","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\/6334","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=6334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}