A Little Local Flavor

Update: The candidate profiled below has overwhelmingly won the primary
election, and will be in the general election this November.

Though we're all really, really interested in the national primaries, some of us in Oregon are still checking out the local dudes as well. Like the guy on the left, Mike Erickson. Mikey is running in the Republican primary for something-or-other, I think as an incumbent. He's doing the good-ol-boy, God Family and Flag platform, mostly because he doesn't have any actual positions on anything. He basically just wants to have power over something, so why not run for State Senate?

That's not what makes him a gomer, though.

Now, let me point out that this guy is the full monty pro-family, pro-life neocon, with an Oregon flair. You may be surprised (or not) to know that most of Oregon is conservative– the only democrats in the state are basically anyone within 10 miles of a college. Unfortunately for the rest of Oregon, that covers about 70% of the state's population, between Portland and Eugene. But I digress. A neocon can make it in this state, so long as he's consistent with his values.

This neocon, on the other hand, was dating a pretty young thing, and got her knocked up. He promptly did what he felt he had to do: stroll over to the ATM, pull out three hundred bucks, and give her a ride to the abortion clinic. Let me make it clear that he did not actually go into the clinic with her- he just dumped her out front and drove off.

But that's not what makes him a gomer. In fact, I don't even think that makes him a hypocrite. It clearly appears to him that women's feelings or concerns are not important. It also appears to elude him that a woman deciding to go through with an abortion is fully cognisant that she is killing her own child. As far as he's concerned, it seems, he figures that women find out they're pregnant and just say, "well, that's inconvenient," pop a clothes hanger in their hooha and head off to work. So I can see why this fuckface is so adamantly pro-life. If I were that kind of a chauvanist prick who uses women for a dickhole and dumped them off at the used womens' center when I got tired of them... well, I'd probably shoot myself in the fucking head, but at the very least I guess I would not trust women to make their own decisions.

Anyway, here's what makes him such a tool, not really fit to wear skin, let alone hold office: his opponent Kevin Mannix did everything he could to make this little event as public as possible, and when Erickson was asked for comment, his spokesman replied (and I quote):

"Kevin Mannix's smear tactics are the last gasps of a desperate candidate who is sinking under the weight of his long record of raising taxes."

Raising taxes. Erickson dumps used girlfriends off at the abortion clinic, but vote for him, because his opponent... has raised taxes.

Good Christ. Anyone who supports Erickson, please show your support with a campaign pin, or perhaps a hat, so we know who you are.