{"id":9274,"date":"2012-10-29T12:17:31","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T19:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9274"},"modified":"2012-10-29T12:25:43","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T19:25:43","slug":"in-oregons-4th-the-choice-is-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/29\/in-oregons-4th-the-choice-is-clear\/","title":{"rendered":"In Oregon’s 4th, the Choice is Clear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter DeFazio (D-OR) is a progressive icon in Oregon\u2019s 4th Congressional District.  He us up against a shill for Banksters, hedge fund managers, and polluters spending more $millions in secret corporate campaign cash than we can possibly match with small contributions.  Peter DeFazio is the only rational choice for Congress in his district.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"29DeFazio\"One fact remains unquestioned in Oregon’s 4th district Congressional race. Progressive Democrat U.S. Representative Peter DeFazio does not like Conservative Republican Dr. Arthur Robinson. By most accounts, that feeling\u2019s mutual! This political confrontation has become state<\/a> and national political news.<\/p>\n

The record will indicate that the candidates’ claim foul as to their opponent’s undermining campaign tactics. Robinson is currently suing DeFazio<\/a> for defamation of character, claiming that the DeFazio campaign erected misleading billboards along Oregon\u2019s roadways.<\/p>\n

Congressman DeFazio is currently endorsing a harsh radio ad that ties Art Robinson<\/a> to Wall Street interest. The spot claims that Robinson is in the pocket of hedge funder Robert Mercer. 2010 political campaign contribution records show that Mercer funded Art Robinson\u2019s effort to unseat incumbent Peter DeFazio in 2010; by running a negative media campaign that would effectively hold DeFazio to a modest 2 % win.<\/p>\n

While many voters will consider these tactics to be politics as usual, what\u2019s going on here may have little to do with Oregon politics, and more to do with DeFazio\u2019s effectiveness as a legislator in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n

Candidtate [sic] Robinson, and previous politically undermining tactics indicate that Wall Street traders do not like Peter, nor do Conservative Oregon farmers and timber-land owners<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In 2009 DeFazio sponsored the Financial Transaction Tax Act. The act proposed a 1\/10th of 1% tax paid on all stock or bond transactions traded in the United States. Wall Street doesn\u2019t like the idea, nor does Art Robinson. According to today’s Atlantic Journal<\/a> Constitutional, Mercer and others’ spent $360,000 defaming the congressman. While the initiative didn’t make it out of committee [sic], there is new interest in the proposed tax as we near 2013\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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This not the first time I\u2019ve taken on Art Robinson.  Two years ago, I wrote <\/font>Art Robinson\u2019s Secret Funding Exposed!<\/a>  Everything I wrote then still applies. and DeFazio is not alone.  Republican are pulling out the stops throwing their filthy money into the ring to put their corrupt lackeys in power.<\/font><\/p>\n

If you are an an Oregonian, I urge you to support and vote for the Democratic Congressional Candidate in your district.  They are <\/font>Suzanne Bonamici<\/a>, Joyce Segers<\/a>, Earl Blumenauer<\/a>, Peter DeFazio<\/a>, and Kurt Schrader<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peter DeFazio (D-OR) is a progressive icon in Oregon\u2019s 4th Congressional District.  He us up against a shill for Banksters, hedge fund managers, and polluters spending more $millions in secret corporate campaign cash than we can possibly match with small contributions.  Peter DeFazio is the only rational choice for Congress in his district. One fact […]<\/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-9274","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\/9274","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=9274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}