What's-her-name jumps in
A third candidate for Oregon attorney general has emerged: Katherine Heekin, a Portland attorney. With zero name familiarity, she'll run a distant third to Ellen Rosenblum and Dwight Holton, but the question is, whose votes will she steal? She's connected to the Old Boy Network, but they'll all be behind Rosenblum. She's sends out a crime victim vibe, but she can't hold a candle to Holton in that image category.
Which reminds us: This is another race in which the Democratic Party nominee should be a shoo-in in November. Better re-register as a Democrat if we want to cast a meaningful vote.
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"Which reminds us: This is another race in which the Democratic Party nominee should be a shoo-in in November. Better re-register as a Democrat if we want to cast a meaningful vote."
Point well taken. The Democrat primary is where all Ptown elections are decided. I assume you meant "re-register from Indie back to Democrat", but it did get me thinking... should more people do the same?
Normally, I would say "No!!!, leave the party folk to decide for themselves!" but maybe it is okay for Ptown moderates & conservatives to use the only real primary/defacto-general election to cast their preference. If there were two Democrats, one more conservative than the other, then why couldn't/shouldn't an R voter switch to D for the primary, and vote in the only election that matters?
Well, they would forgo the R primary, which wouldn't matter since Mitt will have won by then anyway.
Academic for me since I'm slightly outside of the boundaries, but I'd consider it, in a non-Rush sorta way.
Posted by Harry | January 12, 2012 6:09 PM
Yeah I just got her email about it. I was thinking, "Who?"
Posted by Jo | January 12, 2012 6:20 PM
A run at attorney general in a race she cannot win is one way to get a little name recognition and add a line on the resume.
Posted by reader | January 12, 2012 7:02 PM
About voting in the primary. More and more changing the office holder can only be done in the primary. So I urge people to register in anyway they can that allows them to influence an election.
I've heard it said that 3/4 of all congressional seats are so gerrymandered that there is only a minute chance the incumbent party can lose the seat. So the primary is where best place to make yourself heard.
Posted by Jo | January 12, 2012 8:43 PM
The email I got had an awkward compound non-sentence that raised an eyebrow; kind of an underwhelming entre.
Posted by Huh | January 12, 2012 9:39 PM
Both "mentor" and "mentored" included in the candidate's brief official announcement. Ay-yi-yi....
Posted by Mojo | January 12, 2012 10:22 PM