When they hate you, they hate you: Redux - the democratian's campaign for Boldt takes a nasty turn.

Because their guy, Marc Boldt, has run a really terrible campaign and hasn't been raising any money, the democratian has taken it upon themselves to drag him over the finish line in spite of themselves.

How do they do that?

By attacking Boldt's biggest political threat: David Madore.

That this materially contributes to my contempt for this despicable rag isn't based on opposition to Madore; I'm not particularly thrilled with his election either; after all, his posse is doing the best they can to get rid of me.  It is, instead, based on the complete abandonment of anything approaching fairness or even-handedness or, as they like to delude themselves, non-partisanship.

Among the politicians here locally, there are, effectively, two parties.  Not democrat or Republican; those labels are long since tired and RE-tired.

No, they are, instead, those who support the scam of the CRC and those wise enough not to support it.

In an election anywhere near competitive, the default position of the rag will be "is the candidate CRC-friendly?"   Followed secondarily by "are they a democrat?"

I used to believe at the local level that being a democrat was the key to the rag's support.  But that has been supplanted by the scam of the bridge and light rail... the scam the cancer on our society won't even write about, because, well, it's a major credibility issue to be foaming at the mouth in support of what the Oregon Supreme Court referred to as a rip off, so to speak.

The democratian's solution to that little problem?

Just don't mention that particular "inconvenient truth."  No problem.

Want to see how I got there?

As of this writing, the democratian has made 13 endorsements in the primary.

Of that 13, 12 strongly support the CRC, the whole package.  And that, of course, includes Marc Boldt.

The exact same Marc Boldt from whom this very rag demanded his resignation.  That, of course, was back in the halcyon days when he was a conservative Republican instead of whatever it is he is now.

Marc, of course, continues piling up his fellow democrat endorsements:  Stuart, Leave-it, Betty Sue, Burkman, Tanner, Joe King, Brian Wolfe, democrat mayors and a wide variety of others supporting this most massive rip off.

What he's NOT doing is piling up campaign cash.... and it will take a lot... a lot more... than he's putting together to get up on TV, radio and to match the blizzard of mailers of David Madore.

So, the rag decides to pick him up and do everything they can for him... because, well, he's their guy and they hate Madore for the threat he seems to represent to their agenda.

Not because he's trying to take over the GOP.  Not because he's not a nice guy.

But because he's been militantly opposed to the CRC scam.

Marc, who has done everything he can to ram this down our throats, is militantly in support of the CRC scam.

Connect the dots.  It's not hard.

When they hate you... they hate you.  And clearly they both hate... and fear... David Madore.