I'm sitting in a town hall meeting waiting for Sen.

[Ron Green]

Ron Wyden to arrive. Got a good question you'd like me to ask?

[pscot]

1. What, if anything, is he doing to halt developement

of Columbia River coal ports? Can they be stopped?

[Ron Green]

2. That's a good one, but my number was called at the very

first, and I asked:

"Who do you consider to be the greater danger to our national security: guys like Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden, or guys like Lloyd Blankfein and Jamie Dimon?"

He immediately separated his answer into two areas (security and finance), which of course avoided my question.

Wyden's a nice guy and a pretty decent Senator, but he's part of the System.

[Ron Green]

3. I'm working with the local Power Past Coal group to put together a large presence at the Linn

County Fair. Just last month we got the city council here to support a resolution against running the trains through our town.