Concession speech and salsa. Credit: Portland Citysearch
At El Ranchito: Concession speeches and salsa.
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  • At El Ranchito: Concession speeches and salsa.

Faced with the mathematical certainty of a slender defeat—but likely not slender enough to trigger a recount—Republican Chris Dudley has pulled the plug on his oh-so-close bid to serve as Oregon’s next governor.

The Oregonian‘s Harry Esteve caught up with Duds in his hometown of Lake Oswego. Outside the El Ranchito Mexican Restaurant (Here’s the Yelp review).

Dudley wished John Kitzhaber well and said he hoped he got the message Oregonians were trying to tell him. Namely that a lot of them were so disenchanted with the prospect of a Kitzhaber third term that they almost voted for an Ivy-schooled backup center who’s never served in government before. Although Dudley put it differently. Something about setting aside our differences.

But Duds, it seems, wasn’t up for much of a postmortem. “We haven’t had time to let the dust settle,” he said. He also wouldn’t say whether he’d try again after a bruising campaign. “Right now I’m just going inside to have a margarita.”

Good choice! According to Yelp reviewer Andrew M.: “The large margarita is about the size of your head.”

Denis C. Theriault is the Portland Mercury's News Editor. He writes stories about City Hall and the Portland Police Bureau, focusing on issues like homelessness, police oversight, insider politics, and...

14 replies on “It’s Really, Really Over: Chris Dudley Concedes… Outside a Mexican Restaurant”

  3. Democratic hegemony created the Oregon we have today: a war on natural resource harvesting = high unemployment, declining schools, roads, and bridges.

    Platinum pensions for an ever growing roster of public employees, and rising taxes on the rest of us to pay for it. Endemic corruption and surly treatment at the DMV. Zero accountability. Welcome back, Kitz!

  5. “Democratic hegemony created the Oregon we have today: a war on natural resource harvesting = high unemployment, declining schools, roads, and bridges.”

    Actually you can thank Measures 5, 47, 50 and all the mandatory sentencing stuff from Kevin Mannix for having busted budgets. All brought to us by the loving Republicans of Oregon…but don’t let history get in the way of your rant.

  6. (sarcasm on) We certainly wouldn’t want to cap growth of property taxes at 3% per year (or limit the total taxes on property to 1.5%/year of your assessed value), like Measure 5, 47, & 50.

    Or require bond/tax measures be put on a general election ballot.

    Or put criminals in prison.

    And keep the dangerous ones in prison for a really long time.

    All those righty-tighty ideas have ruined this state.

  7. * Makes unbelievably exasperated sigh at bruce123456 *

    1) IT SHOULD BE THE JOB OF THE LEGISLATURE TO MANAGE TAXING AND SPENDING. THAT’S THEIR FUCKING COMPLETE PURPOSE. IT’S VOTERS JOBS TO INSTALL AND REMOVE THE LEGISLATORS – THAT’S WHAT REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY IS ALL ABOUT.

    2) LOCKING PEOPLE UP FOR THEIR WHOLE FUCKING LIVES IS SIMPLISTIC, INHUMANE, DOESN’T GET AT THE ROOT OF PROBLEMS, AND IS WILDLY, WILDLY EXPENSIVE.

    So you’re convinced now, right? You can stop being a GOP butthole who’s entire worldview seems to spring from the outrage of surly DMV employees WHO YOUR TAXES ARE PAYING THEIR SALARY AND BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH

  8. The people of Oregon has historically hated education so they will always vote for mandatory sentencing because the prison funds always come at the cost of the education budget.

    Maybe it is because Oregonians all have dumb brothers who want that high paying prison guard job. This is called Penal Keynesianism the new replacement for Military Keynesianism.

    Mandatory sentencing also show that Oregon also does not trust their judges. The guilty tend to plead out to lesser charges to avoid the minimums.

  9. Yeah: I’m just mad at the DMV…So all my other arguments are invalid. But your CAPSLOCK rant was very persuasive: cause YOU FEEL STRONGLY!!! If you’re a day over 22, I will lick your Democrat Butthole.

  10. @bruce1235456: I think you mean “I will lick your Democratic Butthole.” Don’t let Rush tell ya the name of the party is “Democrat” – it is not.

  11. @bruce, I don’t care what you call it, just remember that there’s no way you’re using MY toothbrush after you’re done down there.

  12. @BRUCE123456: Can I take photos of you licking CC’s butthole? I also enjoy that you used the upper-case butthole.

    OR wait! Maybe Democrat Butthole is some sort of post-punk anti-folk jam-band ensable that is playing this weekend at Rotture.

  13. @Bruce I also wonder if a man interested in strange buttholes can afford to be so blithe about minimum sex sentencing. There’s some weird laws still on the books!

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