Oregon Governor Kate Brown Endorses Hillary Clinton for President
Source: 4president.org
Portland, OR - Oregon Governor Kate Brown today released the following statement endorsing Hillary Clinton for President:
"Hillary Clinton is the fighter Oregon families need in the White House and I am proud to endorse her candidacy for President. Hillary and I share a bold, progressive agenda that aims to break down the barriers that hold working families back and ensures that everyone has the same opportunity to succeed. Hillary has spent her career fighting to advance civil rights for all Americans and working towards real solutions to the issues that keep Oregonians up at night. From her commitment to fighting for paid family and medical leave, to her proposal to make Oregon the model for expanding voting rights nationwide, I know that Oregonians can count on Hillary to deliver real results for us as President."
Brown currently serves as the 38th governor of Oregon, where she has made government accountability and standing up for working people hallmarks of her tenure. Governor Brown has spent more than two decades in public service, having previously served as Oregon's Secretary of State and as the first female majority leader of the Oregon state senate.
Read more: http://blog.4president.org/2016/2016/03/oregon-governor-kate-brown-endorses-hillary-clinton-for-president.html
LisaM
(27,820 posts)Glad to get this endorsement!
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)pnwmom
(108,990 posts)He was hardly an LGBT 'activist." He was still publicly opposing gay marriage -- saying it was a states rights issue and Vermont preferred civil marriage -- as recently as 2006. He didn't publicly support gay marriage until 2009. So he was a few years ahead of Hillary. Big deal.
jalan48
(13,879 posts)ConservativeDemocrat
(2,720 posts)Something about his fiancee working for an environmental advocacy organization and taking a small stipend for that, while also being engaged to him.
I haven't seen a weaker case since the last bullshit attack against Hillary.
- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)she had decades in Oregon public service, most recently as Senate majority leader.
So she didn't come out of nowhere; she had a high profile in Oregon.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Viva_La_Revolution
(28,791 posts)quiller4
(2,467 posts)The governor has just joined the state's senator and representatives and they aren't all likely to face a backlash.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)I'll certainly be working against her in her next primary election...and I bet I'm not alone.
Pastiche423
(15,406 posts)You are not alone.
hopemountain
(3,919 posts)i will neither support her campaign much less send her a single penny. she has governed on the wrong side of economic and environmental issues.
and i find the the entire "scandal" to be quite fishy. she was only too happy to be at the ready to step in as interim governor.
bhikkhu
(10,720 posts)The state government here is well run, and Brown has been doing a good job. I'll vote for Sanders in the primary, but I don't mind that many people will vote for Hillary, and I'll vote for her in the GE if she wins.
A stance of "vote Sanders or you're my sworn enemy forever!" sounds more drumpf-like to me, than what I'd expect from an Oregon Democrat. I like to think that we vote for good governance first, and people second.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Not sure if that was directed at me, but if so, it doesn't apply: I'm not a Democrat.* I'm an independent progressive.
* Well...I'm a temporary Democrat: re-registered to vote for Bernie in the closed primary; switching back as soon as that's done.Until the party returns to the left, I'm not comfortable being a member.
bhikkhu
(10,720 posts)...but at some point it just gets to be a very very long wait, and I suppose, having watched Reagan beat Carter, and plenty of other disillusionments, I don't have as much confidence in the likelihood of a "turn to the left" from the party, which would require a turn to the left of the country. I'll certainly vote for it whenever given the opportunity, but for the most part the Democratic party platform represents my position on the issues well.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)As long as the GOP remains certifiably insane, center-right is the place to be in US politics. The party is about winning, about advancing the brand...not any particular political position. In that sense, Hillary is its perfect nominee. That's not a compliment to either.
Old Codger
(4,205 posts)will put that at the top of my list, she will be coming up for reelection and I vote.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)perhaps one of the most in the country
because she dared to endorse a different candidate for the nomination?
go ahead, shoot yourself in the foot.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)So yes, I'll gladly vote against her for endorsing a non-progressive presidential candidate.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)or you just can't vote for anybody who has even merely vocally supported Clinton.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)...why wouldn't I pick the one who didn't reject the more-progressive Democratic presidential candidate?
Yavin4
(35,445 posts)It's all about loyalty to Bernie and beating Hillary. In life, let alone politics, you're never going to get everyone to be in 100% agreement with you on EVERYTHING.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)But you knew that, didn't you?
Bye...
KPN
(15,647 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)I don't get the sense that Hillary is very popular here in Oregon. We're much more of a Bernie state.
classof56
(5,376 posts)Really impressed with what Kate has done during her term in office thus far. As our state motto says, "She Flies With Her Own Wings."
Proud Oregonian!
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)pnwmom
(108,990 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)and screaming to endorse same sex marriages? While the rest of us were always in favor.
dsc
(52,166 posts)when Bernie came out in favor of marriage equality (BTW that is we call this issue)
zalinda
(5,621 posts)Not only did Sanders vote against the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996 which defined marriage as between one man and one woman, signed into law by then-president Bill Clinton an unpopular position then a look back at Sanders political career shows consistent support of the gay rights movement. Even when it was more than just unpopular, it was downright controversial.
In 1983, two years into Sanders run as mayor of Burlington, VT, local gay rights leaders planned the citys first ever pride parade and called on the Board of Aldermen to designate June 25 Lesbian and Gay Pride Day.
http://www.queerty.com/32-years-before-marriage-equality-bernie-sanders-fought-for-gay-rights-20150719
I would guess that these people know what they are talking about.
Z
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)What planet were you living on?
Bernie said as recently as 2006 that he thought marriage equality was a states rights issue, and that Vermont preferred civil unions. He changed his position just a few years before Hillary did. Big deal.
Hillary came to endorse marriage equality through exactly the same historical process that Bernie and most of the country did -- one step at a time.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)thought it was a State's Rights issue. Clinton openly stated that marriage was between a man and women until she triangulated again.
"What planet were you living on? " I notice that you guys always have to make it personal. Is that a tactic from the Think Tank? Ridicule hoping to intimidate those you don't agree with?
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)when you blamed John Paul Stevens for that decision.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=485894
your judgment is pretty bad at times.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Posters are attacked with Ad Hominem attacks in lieu of actually discussing issues. If anyone disagrees, they get attacked with attempts to get them to shut up or leave.
The SCOTUS decision to give the presidency to Bush was a great example of how we no longer live in a democracy. The authoritarians among us are ok with that because living in a democracy is tough. Letting a tough leader do the thinking is so much easier.
I would question the judgement of those that acquiesce and bow down to a tough authoritarian leader.
Definition of authoritarian (does this sound familiar?):
1. of, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority;
2. of, relating to, or favoring a concentration of power in a leader or an elite
(Merriam-Webster.com)
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)"Ad Hominem attacks in lieu of actually discussing issues...."
For example, "The candidate that had to be dragged kicking and screaming..." or "Mob mentality..." or the beguilingly absurd, " you get to point out who you think are racist or supporters of racists. This is Right Wing behavior...."
(distinction lacking relevant difference to appear below shortly... as saving face is much more important than accuracy)
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)"The candidate that had to be dragged kicking and screaming" It's a fact that Clinton went a long time with a very strong conviction AGAINST same sex marriage before she decided that it was expedient to "evolve". I will confess to being a little hyperbolic but it's clearly not ad hominem.
When 10 to 15 posters all start screaming "racism, racism" for the sole purpose of silencing someone that didn't bow down appropriately, it's mob behavior. It meets the definition. Your side gets to decide who is racist and who gets banned. These are facts.
Seems to me that you choose to back a tough authoritarian leader in spite of the facts that indicate she is greatly interested in amassing a huge fortune from gifts from those she has helped or will help. She has given weak rhetoric with regard helping the less fortunate while clearly backing issues that will harm the lower classes. I guess the attraction is the Margaret Thatcher toughness.
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)Hardly conservative. Not good enough for the Purity Party but liberal for sure
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)was developing nuclear weapons and aiding al qaeda for the sole purpose of profits for the MIC were not liberal.
Deregulation of Wall Street isn't liberal. Nor is backing the Patriot Act, domestic spying and indefinite detention.
She isn't liberal with her stand against the use of medical marijuana.
Her support of Prisons For Profits isn't liberal nor her actions toward the AA community.
Choosing a $12 min wage is a token gesture and not liberal.
Her failure to recognize that the ever GROWING wealth gap is literally killing people for lack of food and health care, isn't liberal.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)You've heard of the Log Cabin Republicans, right? Caitlyn Jenner? Jimmy LaSalvia and Christopher R. Barron?
Brown's being bisexual doesn't mean she's a progressive...and she just endorsed a center-right candidate. So her progressivism clearly only goes so far...
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)so if she's "center-right," then so is Bernie.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Hillary's warmongering stint as SoS, her support of TPP, fracking, private prisons (etc., etc., et-fucking-cetera...) mean nothing...I get it now.
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Enjoy voting for your Third Way neoliberal. Me, I'm voting progressive.
Scruffy1
(3,256 posts)FighttheFuture
(1,313 posts)pnwmom
(108,990 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Sen Sanders even though he obviously supports the 99% and then you try to show how similar the two candidates are.
And your use of that rude emoticon really says who you are. Is that a group tactic?
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)in experience, intelligence, or temperament.
But as far as their voting records and actual policies, they're very close to each other -- both light years away from the Rethugs.
Viva_La_Revolution
(28,791 posts)A wrong vote is a wrong vote.
Laser102
(816 posts)Viva_La_Revolution
(28,791 posts)Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)maggies farm
(79 posts)Gregorian
(23,867 posts)I have to say, she's definitely not representative of the state's political inclination.
holy shit, that rhymes.
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)before leaving office to run for the position of Secretary of State, which she won by a strong margin.
She is a very popular political figure in Oregon, where she has been active for decades.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)it's you spinning a story to sort a news story that you don't like.
iandhr
(6,852 posts)Under the bus.
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)ronnykmarshall
(35,356 posts)Childish
N.Y. to Paris
(110 posts)The check is in the mail......
ronnykmarshall
(35,356 posts)Shocker!
winstars
(4,220 posts)The "feel the Bern" crowd here is so predictable.
I pledge to vote for who ever is the Democratic candidate in November.
There are things I don't like about Bernie but I would love to vote for him for President.
There are things I don't like about Clinton but I would love to vote for her for President.
ronnykmarshall
(35,356 posts)I've been closed to getting banned many times for cussing out some of the more vile ones.
winstars
(4,220 posts)I hope others think this way...
OwlinAZ
(410 posts)I think your judgement is poor but it's a free country.
JohnnyRingo
(18,638 posts)It's getting absolutely insufferable how they view the world down a narrow Bernie tunnel. If someone isn't on the Sanders train they're so far to the right as to be a Tea Party Republican and they see no room for compromise at all. The replies here putting the governor on some sort of enemies list is all too typical.
I too will vote for the Democratic nominee in November, and if that's Bernie, so be it. It's rare these days to find a Sanders supporter who will make that common sense commitment. I even had one supporter tell me without foundation that Bernie himself will not vote for Clinton this fall. It's becoming a cult-like movement of exceptionalism.
litlbilly
(2,227 posts)winstars
(4,220 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)to embrace. You may have all the wealth on your side and corp-media, but we have the People. You can only push us so far.
radiclib
(1,811 posts)They have long memories. There are precious few courageous enough to risk it. Keith Ellison, Tulsi Gabbard, maybe a few others.
But it won't be easy for them going forward if Bill and Hill have anything to say about it.
ronnykmarshall
(35,356 posts)Oh I forget that doesn't matter to Bernie supporters around here.
OwlinAZ
(410 posts)the history of how the Clintons fight, have every reason to not trust Hillary..
ronnykmarshall
(35,356 posts)so please don't give me that bullshit
JohnnyRingo
(18,638 posts)Maybe that's why I remember the 25 years of attacks from the "vast right wing conspiracy" whose only goal was to make Hillary Clinton the most vile untrusted she-devil of a woman in the country.
It's sad that propaganda campaign has done such a successful job, but let's face it, they've worked hard at it. I asked one friend what it was he finds so despicable in Hillary and after some scrambling for thought, he replied "those pantsuits". Apparently, that was the subject of the day on the radio show he listens to.
I'm challenging the Bernie people to a task. If Hillary wins the nomination, I want them to continue to slime her liberal cred. Since Hannity, Limbaugh, and Fox News will be devoting their time describing her as a liberal loon "even to the left of Ted Kennedy", I want Sanders' supporters to counter that meme by telling Tea Party conservatives that she's actually one of them. Explain to them that there's not one iota of liberalism in her DNA.
They'll either get conservatives to consider voting for her or keep them laughing so hard they might miss the election altogether. More likely the latter.
litlbilly
(2,227 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,638 posts)Endorsing no one at all isn't "crossing the Clintons". To assume everyone who endorsed Hillary is doing so out of political fear is totally absurd.
Is Bernie handing out some mind control drug at his rallies that causes this kind of paranoiac thought among his supporters? The Clintons aren't some Batman comic book level super villains.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)who knows a winner when she sees one!
OutNow
(864 posts)She's had a good career, stepped up as governor after a scandal that could have done real damage to the Democrats in Oregon and presided over a very good legislative session this year. I believe she will win the election in November by at least 20%.
I am a fervent Bernie supporter and have been for 25 years. I'm also grateful to be represented by Pete DeFazio in Congress.
But don't go blasting our governor. It looks bad.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)Viva_La_Revolution
(28,791 posts)This is the second or third time i have disagreed with her, as a matter of fact. They were minor.. this is major.
jhart3333
(332 posts)Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)She joined the wrong side in this fight, pure and simple. She lost my vote, and unless her opposition in the next gubernatorial primary is simply horrible, I'll probably actively work against her. Not out of anger or any other emotion...but because she's shown herself to be in opposition to some of my biggest political priorities.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)nt
blackspade
(10,056 posts)But the statement is the same bullshit we have heard from every other endorser.
Buzz words like 'fighter', 'bold, progressive agenda', 'working towards real solutions', and you 'can count on Hillary to deliver real results' are all just empty platitudes to a candidate that has and will do none of those things for working class and poor Americans.
But if she ends up being our candidate, I guess her corporatist agenda will have to be endured in the face of the Trumpenfuher.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)So Gov...off you go to the Entrenched Elite Establishment bin.
SunSeeker
(51,646 posts)There is nothing elite or establishment about Kate Brown. She is the first openly LGBT governor in history.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Two words: Caitlyn Jenner.
SunSeeker
(51,646 posts)Kate Brown is an amazing progressive and your post demonstrates she chose wisely.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)As is your insipid personal insult...but fear not, I won't alert on it. I'll just put you where you belong: on Ignore.
Buh-bye...
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)I disagree with her endorsement, though.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Bummed I missed that surprise meeting at Powell's though. I live easy walking distance, and I'd have enjoyed heckling Bullhorn Bill.
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)Wyden's pro-TPP stance has earned my disdain as well.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Like a punch to the gut...
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)Wonder if DeFazio will ever run for Ron's seat?
scottie55
(1,400 posts)Bernie is the strongest candidate against Republicans.
Every single poll has Bernie slaughtering all Republicans.
Hillary, not.
Face it folks.
Something stinks to high heaven here.
Kate Loves Oligarchs.
Why doesn't she just come out and say it.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Puppyjive
(505 posts)Mark my words: She will be a one time governor.
0rganism
(23,962 posts)she'll be "one time" in the sense that her elected service will be contiguous, but she's going to get elected.
she's quite popular in Oregon. i bet she wins by 20 points, and i wouldn't be too surprised if Bernie wins this state by 10+. she made her endorsement, a lot of people disagree with her on it, and the Republican party of Oregon will nominate one of its prize rightwing goofballs to run against her -- seriously, they're like a traveling circus sideshow minus the natural talent -- at which point the urban Democrats will unify to crush the Republican threat. she won't have any problem whatsoever.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)She's late to the party.
SunSeeker
(51,646 posts)SusanLarson
(284 posts)The political establishment looks out after their own. Her endorsement isn't worth the time it took to compose, or the air the corporate media no doubt wasted gushing over it.
greymouse
(872 posts)DCBob
(24,689 posts)Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)A BOLD PROGRESSIVE agenda?
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)pandr32
(11,601 posts)It is great to be able to add Gov. Kate Brown to all the other wonderful endorsements Hillary Clinton has earned.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)pandr32
(11,601 posts)But you know...they must all be "establishment" unlike the career politician Bernard Sanders.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)yea ,,,,, I believe ur right,,,,, hows about his cohort Senators ....any of them endorse him?
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Keith Ellison, Tulsi Gabbard, Alan Grayson, Raúl Grijalva, Marcy Kaptur, Peter Welch, Russell Begaye, etc...
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)I still know the difference between a Senator and and a HouseRep:et al
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)How's that foot taste?
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Faux pas
(14,689 posts)Blue_Adept
(6,400 posts)reminds me so much of Free Republic. That's what's disturbing.