Author: North Coast BBQ

Submitted By: babbles@nehalemtel.net – Click to email about this post

To viewers in BBQ-land,

Heather Cox Richardson is a political journalist. I am posting excerpts from her 10/18 newsletter: “Letters from an American.”

I am posting excerpts, not to in any way deceive you, but for the sake of clarity and brevity.

When he took office in January 2021, with democracy under siege from autocratic governments abroad and an authoritarian movement at home, President Joe Biden set out to prove that democracy could deliver for the ordinary people who had lost faith in it. $35 insulin, new bridges, loan forgiveness, higher wages, good jobs—policies designed to benefit ordinary people have demonstrated that a democratic government can improve lives.

The administration “has driven a historic economic recovery” with strong growth, very low unemployment rates, and inflation returning to normal. Now it is focused on lowering costs for families and expanding the economy while reducing inequality.

Although democracy has been delivering for Americans, Donald Trump and MAGAs rose to power by convincing those left behind by 40 years of supply-side economics that their problem was not the people in charge of the government, but rather the government itself.

Trump wants to get rid of the current government so that he can enrich himself, do whatever he wants to his enemies, and avoid answering to the law.

Trump and Vance’s outlandish lies about the federal response to Hurricane Helene are designed to override the reality of a competent administration addressing a crisis with all the tools it has. In its place, the lies provide a false narrative of federal officials ignoring people and trying to steal their property.

In an article in US News and World Report yesterday, NBC’s former chief marketer John D. Miller apologized to America for helping to “create a monster.” Miller led the team that marketed The Apprentice, the reality TV show that made Trump a household name. “To sell the show,” Miller wrote, “we created the narrative that Trump was a super-successful businessman who lived like royalty.” But the truth was that he declared bankruptcy six times.

Miller says they “promoted the show relentlessly,” blanketing the country with a “highly exaggerated” image of Trump as a successful businessman “like a heavy snowstorm.” “[W]e…did irreparable harm by creating the false image of Trump as a successful leader,” Miller wrote. “I deeply regret that. And I regret that it has taken me so long to go public.”

Speaking as a “born-and-bred Republican,” Miller warned: “If you believe that Trump will be better for you or better for the country, that is an illusion.” He strongly urged people to vote for Kamala Harris. “The country will be better off and so will you.”

Forbes and Newsweek have recently questioned Trump’s mental health; yesterday the Boston Globe ran an op-ed saying, “Trump’s decline is too dangerous to ignore. We can see the decline in the former president’s ability to hold a train of thought, speak coherently, or demonstrate a command of the English language, to say nothing of policy.”

Lucy Brook
Nehalem resident

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Thank you to all the bulb customers from Wheeler at the Handy Creek Bakery on this past Thursday. Friends of North County Recreation District (NCRD) will be back at Handy Creek Bakery again on Saturday, October 19th from 9 AM to Noon. The bulbs have been delivered and now need to be sorted into the individual orders. Most of that will happen on Monday as Friends will be gathering in the kitchen of NCRD to bag them for orders. Friends of NCRD are selling top-size flower bulbs to beautify you home in the coming spring months. According to our clients over the years, these bulbs produce jaw dropping flowers. For the most part these bulbs come from the Netherlands via ship. The company we buy from started in the Netherlands in 1912. After WWII the company came to the United States. In the States the family loaded their car up with bulbs and drove from one customer to the next to peddle their products. Of their 5 children their youngest son Tim became a bulb merchant, carrying on the family tradition. The company is still family owned. Can you imagine the bulbs come from across the pond, approximately 3,500 miles across the Atlantic Ocean. Arriving at a port near New York City and then up to Bridgeport, CT., about another 65 miles. From Bridgeport to Manzanita, the driving miles are about 3034 miles. Give or take these bulbs have come 6,600 plus miles to get to Friends of North County Recreation District. Friends raises money to support programs and projects taking place at NCRD. Thank you for supporting us so we can support NCRD. So, see you Saturday morning, 9-noon, at the Handy Creek Bakery in Wheeler.

Submitted By: codger817@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

I find that the real truth in politics is not always accessible by listening to the candidate. I believe the old cliché about “follow the money” is a good way to see who the candidate resonates with.
I also believe that following the voting record tells you a lot about an incumbent.
Oregon makes it fairly easy to follow both the money and the voting.
Oregon is strict about reporting campaign contributions. If somebody wants to make a $2 donation at the TillCoDems office, they need to identify themselves on a form to satisfy Orestar rules set by the Oregon Secretary of State.
But if you want to give to a PAC (Political Action Committee) you can blur your identity and the amount of money you give. Cyrus Javadi has collected more than one million dollars from various PAC’s. They have benign sounding names like “Restore Balance to Salem Pac”.
If you go to the Secretary of State site listed below, a search form will be brought up. secure.sos.state.or.us/orestar/gotoPublicTransactionSearchResults.do In the bottom part of the form, if you type in “Cyrus for Oregon” in the name block and click on “Search”, 172 donations in random order are displayed There is a button on the screen that allows you to export the completed form to your computer in Excel spreadsheet format. Once the form is in that format, you can use the sort function of the spreadsheet to make better sense of who gave what. And you can total it.
So far, Cyrus Javadi has collected just over a million dollars. His biggest contributor is “Bring Balance to Salem Pac”. A better name for the PAC might be “Phil Knight and his rich buddies”. “Bring Balance to Salem” has contributed $418,000 to Dr. Javadi. It’s no wonder that I seem to receive a mailer each day and when I check football scores on the internet, a slick but deceptive negative ad about his opponent pops up.
Dr. Javadi’s voting record is also suspect. He trumpets what he has done, but I fail to see how he has had a single deciding vote in the last session. The Oregonian maintains a great site that tracks voting by individual legislators. gov.oregonlive.com/legislators/Cyrus-Javadi/page-8/
I was alarmed to see in the last sessions 281 votes, Dr. Javadi was “excused” for 62 of them (22%). 33 were just plain “Excused” and 29 were “Excused for House Business”. I have to wonder. Dr. Javadi is on three committees and David Gomberg, another coastal Oregon Representative, is on six committees. David Gomberg did not miss a single vote.
Dr. Javadi’s opponent, Andy Davis, is running against him with less than $17K. Andy Davis will be a full-time legislator because conflict of interest statutes demand he quit his job as an analyst for the state.
Let’s send a message to the big money interests that want to buy our votes and send Andy Davis to Salem.
As always, discussion is welcome at codger817@gmail.com

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Submitted By: codger817@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

As a Democratic Party volunteer, I post the election signs on the lot just south of Tillamook. I have replaced signs 5 times this election season. And I will replace them again when I summon the time and energy.
I have to wonder at the mindset of the perpetrators. I’m sure they must think they are justified in their acts of vandalism and theft.
I believe their actions are more like a petulant 3th grader than those of a responsible adult. Maybe it has something to do with their political persuasion.
My question to them is simply, “Who raised you?”
Sincerely.
Jim Heffernan
Tillamook, Oregon

Submitted By: hatallman@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

Thank you to Barbara for pointing out the blatant falsehoods in the Voters Pamphlet for the upcoming election regarding Measure 117.

Ranked Choice Voting does NOT force voters to vote for more than one candidate. Ranked Choice Voting ALLOWS voters to rank candidates in order of preference.

While there are legitimate arguments against RCV, these outright lies do not help Oregonians make informed decisions.

Here is a 2.5 minute video which succinctly explains the process of Ranked Choice Voting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z2fRPRkWvY

Measure 117 is about improving our electoral process, not any particular party or issue. Let’s cut out the lying and disinformation and have a conversation about what RCV does and doesn’t do. I’d love to hear some arguments against 117 on this forum…

-Hank Tallman