{"id":6671,"date":"2012-01-07T00:13:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T08:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=6671"},"modified":"2012-01-07T00:29:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T08:29:07","slug":"oregon-1st-bonamici-leads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/07\/oregon-1st-bonamici-leads\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon 1st: Bonamici Leads!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The news is good for the people of Oregon’s First Congressional District.\u00a0 In the race to fell the seat vacated by former Rep. David Wu, endorsements for Suzanne Bonamici (D) are pouring in, and she has opened a wide margin in the polls over faux-moderate Rob Cornilles (R), as this article by Kari Chisolm demonstrates.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"6Suzanne-Bonamici\"Suzanne Bonamici announced a big suite of endorsements from public safety types – a bunch of county DAs, local firefighters unions, and former AGs.<\/p>\n

Not a lot of surprises there, except one: former attorney general (and UO president) Dave Frohnmayer.<\/p>\n

After all, Frohnmayer was the last Republican elected attorney general<\/strong> – and a Republican candidate for Governor in 1990.<\/p>\n

This year, Rob Cornilles has been desperately trying to convince Oregonians that he’s a nice, moderate Republican in the mold of Gordon Smith and, well, Dave Frohnmayer. But, of course, Cornilles previously bragged that he was “the original Tea Party candidate”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Frohnmayer’s endorsement of Bonamici is big. It should put a freeze the ongoing attempts by Cornilles to fundraise from those moderate business types that vote Republican but don’t much like the Tea Party and the right-wing social conservatives.<\/p>\n

Update: Also today, a new SurveyUSA poll<\/a> shows Bonamici with a 50-39 lead over Cornilles (2% each for the Libertarian and OPP candidates, and just 7% undecided)\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Blue Oregon<\/a>><\/p>\n

Here is one of Suzanne\u2019s ads.<\/span><\/p>\n