get rid of them. America is better served.

we have no room for corrupt asshats in our party. IF he's corrupt, he has to go. I have no idea if the claims are valid or not.

while we are at it, lets get rid of all of the lobbyists also.

Then ignore it.

I voted for John each time he ran for office and really appreciate his commitment to Oregon. The Oregonian is so right-wing it's amazing their ink isn't red. Fie on their editorial board. In my opinion, all of them should resign and they should shut down the presses. Save our beautiful forests!

I couldn't have said it better myself. The editorial board of The Oregonian is very, very conservative. I'll never forgive them for endorsing George W. Bush in 2000.

They are really out of step with most of their readership.

Are you a Portlander?

I don't think that ANYONE would claim it to be a centrist or slightly liberal newspaper.

To hide they are a rw paper? I grew up in Portland and have had a book published on Portland history. I go there for a couple of weeks every year.

I'd be real interested in seeing it.

Forest or no forest his damsel is raking in the dough. Crooked and spoilt by too many years in office. The editorial board can see the trees in the forest while Kitz can't. When it comes to Oregon and forests most politicians left and right are the enemy of the planet.

Since it has endorsed Obama, Kitzhaber and many other Democrats.

For example, it started letting the advertising department veto news content to mollify advertisers in the 80's. Its endorsement of occasional democrats says more about the democrats being endorsed (and their opponents) than it does about the paper's editorial slant.

I still don't buy it. A discredited source is a discredited source.

and maybe I'll agree.

Several years ago a right-wing nut job from Orange County became the Oregonian's publisher. This once proud, Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper has gone down hill ever since. So downhill, in fact, that a few years ago they had to reduce the number of days they published, then went from broadsheet to tabloid-style format.

Just to give one example of their conservative bias in a largely liberal city: in 2006 they gave a tally of how many letters to the editor were for or against the Iraq War; at least 80%, probably more, were against. Yet they continually published 50% for, 50% against. I haven't purchased this paper since around that time.

http://www.katu.com/news/local/Commissioner-Novick-If-the-Oregonian-wants-to-trash-talk-lets-trash-talk-241344261.html

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=174x7025

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/01/22/828973/-Why-isn-t-The-Oregonian-s-publisher-an-Oregon-voter

http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/10/chris_anderson_named_as_new_pu.html

Was that part of their "conservative bias"?

Follow their editorial policy. They endorse Democrats frequently. They endorsed Obama in 2008. They are a middle of the road paper. They have been since the 1970s. By attacking the messenger you are defending the corruption. Oregon is not Illinois. Oregonians don't like corruption in their government.

And conflating the stating of facts about the newspaper's orientation with defending ALLEGED corruption is simply agitation.

that I or anyone else here would uncritically support a Dem. I assure you that I'm not in that camp. Apart from the fact that I'm registered with the Green Party, I no longer believe voting means anything in this country. We no longer have a functioning democracy, not even on the local level for the most part. But I can sure as hell smell a right-wing hack when he carpet-bags into my city.

jump on the Kitz bandwagon, after his opponent self-destructed. That'll sell them a few more papers around election time. As their readership has dwindled, the number of full page ads has increased. As always, it's all about the Benjamins. The only reason they are the 'state's largest newspaper' is because the rest, with the possible except of the Register-Guard, are pathetic rags, usually conservative. But you can believe whatever the hell you want to believe.

An elitist editorial board has decided that the governor should resign! Oh no!What shall he do?

Oh boy call the Oregonian conservative, but what about the Willamette Week? Let's see if the FBI finds anything.

Updated: Nonprofit's Taxpayer Funding Spiked the Year It Employed Oregon First Lady Cylvia Hayes


"A Eugene nonprofit saw its funding from the state of Oregon soar eight-fold the year it put First Lady Cylvia Hayes on the payroll. Hayes only lasted in the job a few months, and right after she left, Gov. John Kitzhaber's administration cut state payments to the group to almost nothing.

State records show that the nonprofit, Rural Development Initiatives, saw its state funding grow from $25,000 in 2010 to more than $214,000 in 2011, the year Hayes went to work there.

RDI saw its state funding fall to just $2,500 the year after Hayes left."

Yes, Virginia, There is a Scandal


"Kitzhaber and Hayes have not been charged by any law enforcement agency, although the FBI has opened an investigation. And the Oregon Government Ethics Commission is only beginning to look at allegations against the governor and his fiancee."

and he got re-elected. go figure

The Oregonian is best used by kindergartners to make paper mache animals. Kitzhaber might need to resign but I'm not going to take their word for it.

We are NOT going to let the Republicans win ANYTHING in this state, thank God.

.....but has the gall to tell Oregonians here that the newspaper is left wing.

Fer cryin' out loud.