COLLYMORE: COFFEE CUP ACTUALLY CONTAINS AN ART EXPLOSION Occasional Mercury arts writer and queer issue editor Stephen Marc Beaudoin has fallen head over heels for Multnomah County Commission candidate Karol Collymore, and he’s throwing her an “Art Explosion” event this Friday night. Among Collymore’s achievements on the campaign trail, it seems, is bringing about a […]
Election 2010
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Why Wasn’t City Race In Candidates Gone Wild?
I was going to let this slide, but Bus volunteer Jake Oken-Berg got feisty in the comments on my Candidates Gone Wild post from Tuesday, asking if I’d asked anybody at the Bus on the record why the City Council race wasn’t included. So I asked Jefferson Smith, who runs the Bus, and here’s what […]
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Someone Just Pulled A Gun Out In My Interview
So…here’s an interesting issue. We’ve had a few gun-rights people coming in for endorsement interviews. This morning, we had Marcus Tempey, who’s running in the Republican primary for Chip Shields’ seat. He’s a gun-rights dude who favors a Smith and Wesson .38 revolver. But when I asked if he was packing during the interview, he […]
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There’s Jesse Cornett!
Yesterday I blogged about Jesse Cornett’s new internet campaign. Today I’m on the New York Times website fantasizing about upping my cholesterol in the world’s best restaurant town, when SHIT. THERE HE IS. JESSE CORNETT: IN YO FACE I actually clicked on the link, too. So it seems to work. What do you think?
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Cornett Plans Aggressive Internet Ad Campaign
Get ready for some Jesse Cornett on your face. Sorry, on your Facebook. City Council candidate Jesse Cornett is set to announce a $9,000 campaign expenditure tomorrow, on an internet advertising campaign. He spent $1,000 on Facebook ads earlier this week, and plans to spend this new money through friend and internet strategist Kari Chisholm […]
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Today Is The Deadline
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Candidates Gone Wild: I Bitch A Bit, Predictably
I’ve not been able to get a very clear answer from the Bus Project about why they didn’t include the race for city council in last night’s Candidates Gone Wild event at the Aladdin Theater. I mean, it seems like the race between Dan Saltzman and Jesse Cornett warrants some serious probing. Perhaps Saltzman wouldn’t […]
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Saltzman, Cornett & Volm At City Club
Covering this afternoon’s city club debate is the pinnacle of my career. I’m barely capable of standing up, let alone following a coherent line of conversation, thanks to a traumatic wisdom tooth extraction earlier this week. Still, I expect the candidates will make about as much sense as they usually do. Wokka wokka. 12:24: The […]
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No Parks Bond Measure
Nick Fish has postponed a planned parks bond measure scheduled for this November. Instead, Fish does still plan to move ahead with a housing levy instead, possibly next year or the year after. And it’s “entirely likely,” he says, that there’ll be money for mental health in the mix. I flagged this issue last December, […]
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Mercury’s Endorsements: City Commissioner #3—Vote For Jesse Cornett
This post co-authored by the Mercury’s editorial board: Matt Davis, Wm.Steven Humphrey and Sarah Mirk[Here’s the first of the Mercury‘s 2010 election endorsements. We’re going to be endorsing right here on Blogtown in the big races, and gathering all our endorsements together in a special endorsement issue out May 6.] This election has been the […]
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Roberta Phillip Out Of County Race
Roberta Phillip has withdrawn from the county race. She has a policy job at the county, and has found it hard to balance the needs of working that, full time, with working on the campaign. PHILLIP: OUT OF THE RACE
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Commissioner #3 Endorsement Interview
Morning Blogtownies. We’re doing the Mercury‘s endorsement interview with candidates for Dan Saltzman’s seat at 8:30, and I wanted to give you the opportunity to suggest questions. Both for Saltzman himself, and Jesse Cornett, Mary Volm, Ed Garren, Martha Perez, and Spencer Burton. Mainly we’re looking for a reason to believe in one of the […]