 Dusty sticks as hey, Mike. What are your thoughts on the Oregon governor race? That's a really great question, actually If you don't know anything about the race you think that it's a pleasant surprise Because there's three Candidates or actually viable the problem is that The independent candidate who is kind of like this Yang adjacent Individual named Betsy Johnson Andrew Yang has like praised her before shared an article about how Oregon could have an independent governor She's literally just like a corporate Democrat. So we don't have three different options. It's the same options It's more progressive corporate Democrat or hyper conservative corporate Democrat like Joe Manchin and then there is a forced brother Republican The problem with this race that really irritates me is that Betsy Johnson This is an individual who used to actually be my state state senator And she was very progressive before she turned into a mansion and I believe in common sense gun safety legislation I've supported it my entire time in the legislature and a speaker made sure we got important things done My opponents have voted or are not in favor of those things I bet they would have voted to know if they had been there and then when the ones who were there did vote No, that was background checks. That was red flag laws. That was safe storage requirements things that We know work you have just heard from my opponents representative Drazen doesn't want to do anything Tina wants to take your guns and She when I talked to her about sponsoring a resolution to get money out of politics the Wolfpack amendment specifically She was open to it like she returned voicemails like she was really interested in trying to fix the country But now the whole reason why she is viable is because her entire campaign is bankrolled by a couple of elites She actually outraised the Republican and the Democrat in this race as an independent and so that's why our system is so fucked up That's why we need electoral reform because the problem is whenever you have these independent candidates They're not gonna be viable unless they're like Some darling of a rich person or two rich people now I'm not opposed to like an independent running certainly I'm worried about the spoiler effect because you know some polls indicate that it's a toss-up between the Republican and the Democrat Because Betsy Johnson is like 10 points behind although she probably pulls from the Republicans a little bit But definitely more so from the Democrats, but either way like I'm not opposed to it an independent running I actually voted for an independent. I think two times in a row. His name was Chris something I can't remember but he was very very progressive I voted for him when kids hobber was still in office And I think I voted for him he ran for a different office And I either wrote him in or voted for him either way like I voted for independence So I'm not opposed to it inherently But if we're gonna have alternatives to Democrat and Republicans then we should have an actual meaningful alternative That has some ideological differences between both of them, but really it's just more corporate like I watched the debate Last week and Betsy Johnson literally said if I'm the governor of Oregon I'm gonna have this the number of every CEO on speed dial I would be a governor bent on economic development having the phone numbers of the CEOs of our major corporations on speed dial Reaching out to them constantly saying what can the state of Oregon do to partner better with you to anticipate your needs Now do you think that she's going to be negotiating on behalf of workers? Trying to lobby these CEOs who she's personally in touch with to you know improve working conditions Give their workers raises opt for unionization. Of course not. It's gonna all be for corruption pork If they donate to her campaign and she's elected. She's going to be doing favors for them So that's kind of like my thoughts on the Oregon gubernatorial race. I think I'll probably end up Expanding on my views here in the coming weeks but it's it's really frustrating because there's really not good options here and The Democrat option is not great It's kind of the more safer establishment pick when we had a lot of progressives running In the primary who I voted for I don't remember who I voted for because there was like four progressives And I had to like extensively research all of them to come to my conclusion But you know, there are too many progressives And I think they all split the vote and that paved the way for the more corporate Democrat But even calling Tina Kotek who's the Democratic Party nominee a corporate Democrat is a little bit of a mischaracterization Because even if she is a corporate friendly Democrat comparing her to like the standard corporate Democrat in the Senate or the House She would be viewed as like one of the more progressive people like even Kate Brown people like to shit on her She's literally the least popular governor according to a poll that came out recently I'm not sure who conducted it by the way like she's she's hated largely due to COVID restrictions being very strict people don't like it, right? There's a lot of fear mongering for example with the mask mandate Oh, she wants to have this mask mandate indefinitely when that's not what it was like I had to renew the mask mandate every couple of months and rather than doing that You just make it indefinite until the pandemic is over and then you cancel it But either way like even for a Kate Brown being a corporate Democrat being bankrolled by Comcast. She did good She shocked me. She signed net neutrality into law one of the strongest protections for net neutrality in the country Not as strong as California's bill, but it's still good net neutrality Nonetheless, she also signed worker protections that directly impacted my husband in a very good way And it smells like shit in here because the dog just farted, but one of the laws that she signed Helped my husband. So she did some good things. That's not to say that this was like a progressive a super progressive, you know governor, but It's not that bad the Republican Winston is somebody who says well, look, I believe that Biden won the election Okay, Biden won. He is the president of the United States. I accept the results, but There's a big bud here She is still conspiracy mongering about election integrity She is doing dog whistles suggesting that she'd support electoral reform not electoral reform the opposite of electoral reform voter suppression Which is really scary. She's also a forced birther She claims that she wouldn't totally ban abortion But she's very clear about the fact that she wants to impose more restrictions on abortion And she's saying third trimester, but in actuality we know that this is gonna go deeper than that and she's just like another corporatist One thing that is good is that even in Oregon the Republicans as crazy as they may be They aren't like as bad as Republicans in DC like Christine Drazen who's the Republican nominee is bad And I would never vote for her she actually led the walkout when you know Kate Brown was trying to pass a climate change with the way that she talks specifically the rhetoric that she uses when it comes to homelessness She doesn't like Overtly say oh, that's criminalized in fact Betsy Johnson Johnson is probably worse when it comes to rhetoric and homelessness But like the Republican is like hmm We need to do something and she like uses words like compassion and even if she's not gonna do anything It's still refreshing to see a Republican not like pretend as if they're subhuman, right? So, yeah That's kind of the state of the Oregon governor race. That's my thoughts on it currently I'll be Voting for Tina Kotec. Not really that begrudgingly. She has some pretty solid plans There's a lot about her that I don't like she's also very business friendly and when I say business friendly I mean more friendly to businesses than workers and I hate that But when it comes to you know this independent that's in the race I am worried that because there's no right wing or I mean Betsy Johnson is right wing But like because there's no Alt independent who's pulling an equal amount of votes from the Republican I'm worried about the spoiler effect and I still think that Tina Kotec probably is the favorite I looked at 538 polling and out of a hundred different times Tina Kotec has won 70% of the time But still there are some polls right-leaning polls But polls nonetheless that show that it's a toss of that Drazen edges out It's in you know the margin of error, but it's still it's really close And there's a lot of people who are dissatisfied with Kate Brown because of the Way that she handled COVID and in particular I think what really that was the straw that broke the camel's back was vaccine mandates for employees She instituted that early. She was really good about that. She was very proactive And they hated that like I feel like every Oregonian Maybe this is the same for you as well Celeste Know someone who either quit their jobs because of the vaccine mandate or were forced to get Vaccinated begrudgingly because of this vaccine mandate and they're holding a fucking grudge And it's not like they liked her beforehand But that was like that was the straw that broke the camel's back and like I don't want to overly defend Kate Brown but She's not that bad to say that like she's the worst governor in America is so ridiculous like the fact that she's the least popular governor when You have individuals like Greg Abbott and Rhonda Sanders who are fascists You know it goes to show you how reactionary politics can really Take hold even in blue states and a lot of people don't know about Oregon is that sure Portland is very blue It's overall a liberal state But all you have to do is drive, you know 20 30 minutes outside of Portland and more rural areas of Oregon and it is very conservative and You know, it's similar to the rust belt in the sense that like a lot of factories closed here a plant closed Here or there and these jobs were outsourced. So you have people who are economically devastated. There's there's some I Think of my mom's District it's one of the Obama to Trump counties actually So, you know, you have people who have a reason to be disaffected with the establishment But at the same time, you know reactionary politics has really taken hold and there's been like militias outside of Portland to form in more rural areas of Oregon So you have this kind of like rural or urban divide right now There's even a movement in eastern Oregon to kind of switch and go to Idaho for example So there's a lot Oregon is a very interesting state, but in this particular election I'm absolutely voting for Tina Kotec and I'm not apologetic about that. She's not my first choice Not my second choice. Not my third choice, but is she better than the other two options by a mile and a half? Absolutely, so yeah, yeah a group in eastern Oregon and can confirm. Yeah, it's it's shockingly Racist and a lot of areas of Oregon and people don't know this when you tell them this They have no idea how racist Oregon is because you see this deep blue state and you see, you know You have this visualization of Portland and they're so quirky You know the Portlandia show I think it was an accurate portrayal, you know I'll be at hyperbolic of people in Portland because they're all very kooky. I'm kooky, you know But at the same time leave Portland, you know leave these bigger cities and goddamn is it really really reactionary and regressive First bike for sure like and you'll notice that like it's it's palpable the minute you leave Portland You will notice that shit. Thanks for the question by the way fuck Maybe I'll turn that into a segment. Why elaborate further when I just kind of shared all my thoughts, right? 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