From: Richard Ellmyer <richard@goodgrowthnw.org>
Subject: One Year In, ALL 40 Elected Oregon Republicans Still Say Trump FIT To Be President
Date: January 20, 2018 at 11:40:13 AM PST
To: Interested Parties <interested@macsolve.com>
Lies, racism, unrelenting triumphalist pursuit of transferring America’s treasure to the wealthiest among us and an unquenchable mean spirited aggressiveness to deny healthcare as a right of all Americans, including Oregonians, are the undeniable hallmarks of Donald Trump's presidency.
Trump’s recent offshore drilling order is both unnecessary and dangerous to Oregon.
President Trump’s disturbingly erratic behavior, including his most recent racist immigration vulgarity, “shithole countries” and his chaos inducing rejection of a bipartisan plan for a continuing resolution to fund the government provoked a government shutdown which is now entirely on Donald Trump.
NEVERTHELESS, the presumptive Republican gubernatorial candidate in 2018, State representative Knute Buehler, MD, is leading the other 39 elected Oregon Republicans* in justifying their continuing determination that Donald Trump remains FIT to be President of the United States of America.
Political observers in Oregon and beyond take note. By NOT revoking their support these 40 elected Oregon Republicans are saying that every policy position, appointment, decision, public utterance and tweet by Donald Trump from his inauguration on January 20, 2017 to January 20, 2018 does NOT, separately nor in the aggregate, disqualify him as unfit to be president. This would include their recognition that Donald Trump is an exemplar of the best American role model of American morals and values for Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, 4H and every young American in every school in Oregon and America.
Prospective candidates in districts currently held by these Republicans and the Press may want to keep a copy of this message for future reference.
Richard Ellmyer
North Portland
NAV, Non-Aligned Voter
Author of The Ellmyer Report, a newsletter that informs, educates and influences on public policy. Occasionally distributed to more than a quarter of a million readers in Oregon and beyond. Facebook, Portland Politics Plus
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Elected Oregon Republicans Evaluating Donald Trump As FIT To Be President as of January 20, 2018
Greg Walden - U.S. Representative, 202-225-6730
Dennis Richardson - Secretary of State, 503-986-1523
Herman Baertschiger - senator, 503-986-1702
Cliff Bentz - senator, 503-986-1730
Brian Boquist - senator, 503-986-1712
Alan DeBoer - senator, 503-986-1703
Ted Ferrioli - senator, 503-986-1950
Fred Girod - senator, 503-986-1709
Bill Hansell - senator, 503-986-1729
Tim Knopp - senator 503-986-1727
Jeff Kruse - senator, 503-986-1701
Dennis Linthicum - senator, 503-986-1728
Alan Olsen - senator, 503-986-1720
Kim Thatcher - senator, 503-986-1713
Chuck Thomsen - senator, 503-986-1726
Jackie Winters - senator, 503-986-1710
Greg Barreto - representative, 503-986-1458
Daniel Bonham - representative, 503-9861459
Knute Buehler - representative, 503-986-1454 [Will Buehler ask Trump to campaign for him in Oregon as he runs for governor? Perhaps Knute will invite his $500,000 patron, Nike’s Phil Knight, to join him and Trump at a campaign event where they can discuss how many Oregonians will lose their health care in light of Trump’s efforts to destroy the Affordable Care Act.]
Sal Esquivel - representative, 503-986-1406
Jodi Hack - representative, 503-986-1419
Cedric Hayden - representative, 503-986-1407
Dallas Heard - representative, 503-986-1402
Jeff Helfrich- representative, 503-986-1452
Bill Kennemer - representative, 503-986-1439
Rick Lewis - representative, 503-986-1418
Mike McLane - representative, 503-986-1455
Mike Nearman - representative, 503-986-1423
Ron Noble - representative, 503-986-1424
Andy Olson - representative, 503-986-1415
Julie Parrish - representative, 503-986-1437
Bill Post - representative, 503-986-1425
Werner Reschke - representative, 503-986-1456
David Smith - representative, 503-986-1401
Greg Smith - representative, 503-986-1457
Sherrie Sprenger - representative, 503-986-1417
Duane Stark - representative, 503-986-1404
Richard Vial - representative, 503-986-1426
Gene Whisnant - representative, 503-986-1453
Carl Wilson - representative, 503-986-1403
FYI
Trump is historically unpopular. But the intensity gap should really terrify Republicans.
January 19, 2018 By Paul Waldman
There’s never been a president who was as deeply unpopular for as long as he has been at this stage of his presidency.
The general picture is that for every American who really loves Donald Trump, there are about two Americans who really hate him.
Trump is such a powerful presence that he nationalizes every election to at least some degree, which is bad news for his party.
Trump's year-one report card is in, and it isn't pretty
January 19, 2019 BY MARIA CARDONA
http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/369692-trumps-year-one-report-card-is-in-and-it-isnt-pretty
The latest Gallup poll shows that global approval of America’s leadership is at an all-time low of 30 percent. Donald Trump continues to enjoy record-low approval ratings in his first year in office as well.
Mr. Trump, your grades are in: You have utterly failed in your first year at being president.
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