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Vote the Democratic Ticket!
My wife and I have been voting in national elections for over 60 years. The word
back in the day, for all parties, was “Vote the Ticket”. Often in the past, the
newly elected political party has “swept the slate clean”.
It is particularly important in this 2008 national election that supporters of
Barack Obama and Joe Biden elect a filibuster-proof 60% Democratic Senate
majority.
Jeff Merkley is the Oregon Democrats thoughtful choice to replace Republican
Senator Gordon Smith.
For the last two years in the Senate, Republican Party Loyalists have stalled
the work of the Senate by using the “filibuster rule” which gives any of the one
hundred United States Senators the right to speak for an unlimited time before
any up or down vote, unless 60% of the Senators vote for “Cloture”.
According to Webster’s, Cloture is the only procedure by which the Senate can
vote to place a time limit on consideration of a bill or other matter.
Republican Party Loyalists have used this filibuster delaying tactic an
unprecedented 104 times in the 2008 session to kill important bills for
Veterans, the Middle Class, education, health care and more.
Oregon Senator Ron Wyden supports Jeff Merkley. Republican Senator Gordon Smith
has voted against Democrat Ron Wyden over 1,700 times on the floor of the
Senate. Republican Gordon Smith must go!
Vote the Democratic Ticket to help select a new team.
--Robert Speik, in Bend
Published in The Bulletin on Sunday, November
2, 2008
Read more . . .
Environment
Nation's forests might be on the road to
ruin, by President Bill Clinton
Wilderness at risk from
new Bush policies
Steens management scandal may affect wilderness study
areas
BLM outsourced Steens Management Plan to mining industry leaders!
Owyhee River wilderness study area
inventory with ONDA
OHV vandals
charged in Yellowstone
Oregon's B and B
Complex fire closure modified
Senate says NO to Big Oil in Alaska
Gloria Flora - Environmental Hero
Re-introducing
wolves into Oregon
George Bush
overlooking the environment
EASTERN OREGON ADVENTURES
Backpacking Big Indian Gorge in The Steens
Owyhee Canyon wilderness study area in south east Oregon
ONDA's Owyhee
wilderness inventory camp near Rome, Oregon
NOLS group on an Owyhee River Canyon adventure
Owyhee
River desert lands - Jordan Valley Rodeo
Steens
Mountain wedding in Eastern Oregon
BLM posts Reward for information on
Juniper rustlers
BLM weighing public input on management plan
Oregon's Badlands hit by old growth Juniper rustlers
Photos
Congressman Greg Walden to visit The Badlands
Badlands Wilderness endorsed by COTA
OpEd
- Unregulated OHV use is being reviewed across the western states
OHV use curtailed by new USFS policy decisions
Sierra Club's Juniper Group
supports Badlands Wilderness
OHV regulation discussed at BLM meeting in Bend, Oregon
OpEd - Badlands part of
BLM's recreation management area
OpEd - We need the Badlands Wilderness
OpEd - Off-roaders have no reason to fear Badlands Wilderness designation
Speak for the Badlands at Town Hall Meeting
Hiking poles are becoming essential gear
Vandals destroy ancient
pictographs in the Badlands
Senator
Wyden tests support of Badlands Wilderness
Badlands Wilderness endorsed by Bend City
Commissioners
The Badlands:
proposed for Wilderness status
The
Badlands, a brief history
The Badlands
pictographs
reported 75 year ago
Map of huge exclusive OHV areas adjoining the
Badlands
