Holy Moly to be a left coastie
Submitted by sitkafox on November 8, 2006 - 2:03am.
I can't tell all of you how interesting it is to watch the races roll in to the west coast. I grew up in Michigan and well it's just different out here. We're still voting and we see the results come in. We have early voting here in Oregon so many of us made decisions a long time ago.
TED for GOV won!!!!!!!!!! hot diggety dog! word has it on the street that Saxton said "I just want to go home" Later Ron!
We won the Oregon house back!!!!!!!! Rob Brading took on Evil Cruella Minnis and is pulling ahead how cool is it to take on the speaker of the house and pull a win!?
Paul Evans race is SO SO SO SO SO close, god Paul I'm pulling for you - you're a winner in our book in Oregon you were the talk of the town tonight in PDX. We went party hopping and you are the man of the hour. Our local measure won!!! 26-80 for Natural Areas Parks and Streams the biggest local option in the nation for a lasting legacy.
26-84 for our schools - thank you everyone - thank you, I have 3 little ones!
Libraries, we continue to have the best library system in the nation.
Lastly........ No on Oregon's Tabor! Yes that's right overwhelming displeasure.
oh and we're not done yet - no on term limits and no on parental notification on teen pregnancy.
I'll wake up tomorrow for more good news but I'll revel in my dreams for a sunny tomorrow.
+++++ for the US Senate going Dem ****
Rachel
The Parks and Streams Measure is the biggest local bond measure in the nation at $225,000,000 to protect land and water.
I'm a very busy girl-
The United States goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is a well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all...if she might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own soul.-John Quincy Adams
And on getting the legislature, too.
Here in Colorado we turned over one congressional seat as Ed Perlmutter won in CD7. Bill Ritter will be our new Democratic governor. And in the legislature, what was an 18-17 majority of one has become 20-15, it appears, and our majority in the House increased to 38-27.
The downsides were that our constitution now defines marriage as a union of one man and one woman, and a domestic partnership referendum failed. But we raised the minimum wage, defeated a measure to make initiatives easier, and defeated term limits for judges.
Stan Davis
Lakewood, CO
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