Jack, Miss Oregon, who really cares... You're a highly respected tax specialist. When are you going to post something on this trillion dollar coin idea. Your constituents are hungry for your thoughts!

Congress is by and large a bunch of clowns. Some of their jokes aren't funny enough to waste time on. Nichole Mead is much more worthy of your attention.

I hope she wins.

Then Oregon will win, because we will have somebody from our state representing us, instead of some import from outta state... not that there's anything wrong with outta-state imports. Just ask UofO!

Win or lose, the right person got to go compete. That should make all Oregonians feel good.

Jack is just trying to keep up with Brent Musberger.

I can tell you this much about Nicole Mead - she has made her platform a bully pulpit for taking care of our returning vets, especially those suffering the invisible wounds of war.

I agree with Jack - she is much more worthy our our attention.

The real Miss Oregon is not there representing your state because a "true Oregonian" did not step forward and accept the responsibility for approving Ms Berry to compete well in advance....I am continually amazed how older adults will run and hide when the shit starts to hit the fan instead of stepping forward and admitting what really happened and accepting the consequences. Rachel paid the price for any wrong doing on her end, but what about the person who is really at fault?---Jack you stopped well short of going after the one who is truly at fault,the one person who had the ultimate authority to approve her to compete with full knowledge that Rachel would not be able to prove more than 4 months of residency. So all of your readers continually posting comments about being a "true Oregonian" need to wise up to the fact that a "true Oregonian" should be ashamed of herself for not accepting blame for this....

I am continually amazed -- actually, occasionally amazed -- that these Stepford Girl "scholarship" pageants still exist.

The real Miss Oregon is not there representing your state because a "true Oregonian" did not step forward and accept the responsibility for approving Ms Berry to compete well in advance

Nichole Mead is the real Miss Oregon. The people who run the Oregon pageant ought to be ashamed of themselves. I did what I could to point that out. There's not a lot more I can do.

Straightforward people speak straightforwardly. They don't stab you sideways and end their sentences with ellipses (always a clue).

Need not rise to the non-occasion.