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To me, the most interesting thing about this story is the difference it reveals between Ohio and Oregon.
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Painfully apparent.
Posted by John Benton | October 13, 2009 4:15 AM
Guy looks pretty good in drag.
Posted by none | October 13, 2009 8:27 AM
liar liar, pants on fire...
Posted by portland native | October 13, 2009 8:57 AM
I'm from Ohio. But I've lived in Oregon for 30 years. And I think I understand both reactions to this situation, and why they differ.
I prefer Oregon.
Posted by john rettig | October 13, 2009 11:12 AM
I just spent the past two weeks in Cleveland and it wasn't until I got back home and checked here did I hear about it. Only thing I heard about on the news in Cleveland was how long Mangini was going to last as coach.
Posted by srs | October 13, 2009 1:37 PM
East Cleveland isn't Cleveland, by the way. It's a different city, and a very small one at that with a whole separate charter, taxing jurisdiction, and its own City Council. Less than 30,000 people live there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Cleveland,_Ohio
Also, I doubt many people in Cleveland care that much about the Mayor of East Cleveland. East Cleveland is often considered to be one of the most corrupt and dysfunctional cities in the Midwest. Worst foreclosure rate in Ohio; the place where a City Councilman stole, repackaged and resold government cheese for his own profit in the 1980s; and site of one of the worst race riots of the 1960s. The blight in East Cleveland makes most of Detroit look like Irvington. A cross dressing mayor is just a blip on the radar there, really. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2sUE8pm6Sw
East Cleveland's mayor is a much better dresser than Portland's mayor though.
Posted by ExCity | October 13, 2009 6:33 PM
I lived in Ohio for eight years. Four in Oberlin, four in Athens. Oberlin was a magical musical mystery tour. Athens was a Democratic oasis in a Republican sea, with the highest concentration of marijuana plants outside of HI or CA. At least the locals, some of whom were very colorful, thought so.
I did occasionally leave my charming Ohio villages, full of people that remind me of Portlanders, and got to see the cities, like Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinatti, all of which were more dreadful than the next. Grey and dreary and polluted and unimaginative, like the settings for an Orwell novel.
So, I've had a very long day, and as I muse over this post, I cannot fathom what people are talking about with regards to the differences between Ohio and Oregon.
Please explicate.
Posted by gaye harris | October 13, 2009 9:53 PM
I cannot fathom what people are talking about with regards to the differences between Ohio and Oregon.
Short version: Ohio went for Bush / Cheney in 2000 and 2004. Oregon didn't.
Posted by john rettig | October 15, 2009 2:00 AM
Actually, the overall percentages I think were strikingly close, at least in 2004. If my memory serves me, Kerry only won by 2% in Oregon and Bush barely won Ohio, and that was because of Ohio's version of Katherine Harris, some Republican guy who refused to recount anything. I remember the moment well, sitting in the bathtub trying to calm down and not throw up. Anyway, yes, Ohio is somewhat more Republican than Oregon (but I would contend not a whole lot more), but I guess my question is- how does the video portray that?
Posted by gaye harris | October 15, 2009 9:42 AM