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cascadiance

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4. According to a comment by a friend of mine Seth Woolley here, who ran for the Greens for SOS...
Wed Feb 11, 2015, 04:32 PM
Feb 2015

... Brown would have the power to appoint her own successor, and that she should pick him as the person best prepared with the most progressive support (probably jokingly!)! I would like her doing that though!

http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-23961-governor-in-waiting.html

Maybe if he were to be put in as SOS, we could get instant runoff voting here in Oregon, which would do far better in doing a good election systems change than the failed prop 90 did, which actually did even worse than the measure trying to give undocumented drivers licenses did... I think it would solidify the Dems with a lot more progressive voter turnout support in 2016!

Though Kate Brown has some big questions on her ties to Comcast (and what she'd do to support net neutrality as a result), her bigger support from unions might help us get more union and organized labor legislation through here in Oregon. And perhaps we might roll back some of the big tax breaks that Kitzhaber helped engineer for the likes of Nike and Intel in recent years too.

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