The Oregon Rail: Worried Families' Holy Grail, Thanks a Camelot plus notes from a nation on the rails

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Fri, 10/01/2010 - 12:00am
Interview with Bruce Cronk, Working families Party candidate for US senate & news as symptom...

Sharpish listeners are aware that Air Cascadia is on the Third rail this week and for the next two weeks.  The question we are asking is, What role do third party candidates play in the Great American Tragedy that is electoral politics?  That’s the question.  I have invited all the contenders for Ron Wyden’s Senate seat – including Wyden.   Oregon’s Working Families Party candidate, Bruce Cronk is with us today.  His website (workingfamiliesforbrucecronk.org is where to go) is a masterpiece of simple, direct communication, as is Bruce himself.  In the little time that I had to offer, Cronk went for the jugular:  fusion voting.  It’s a potential game-changer.  What fusion voting does, y’see, is it cuts through and clarifies where a candidate stands on key issues, and it’s the crucible in which coalitions can form because it permits more than one party to nominate the same candidate.  Imagine the possibilities…

 Department of Climax Change:  White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is leaving the Obama administration – no one’s great surprise, least of all the president himself.   .  President  Obama also named, as expected, political adviser and Washington veteran Pete Rouse to replace  Emanuel, albeit temporarily.   After the November elections, we get a permanent Chief of Staff.  And that permanent Chief is expected to be Rouse.  Whatever this means to America, it means a lot in the Middle East.  Emanuel borderline extreme in his support of Israel -  and he had Obama by both big ears when it came to Israeli/Palestinian politics.   So Rahm is leaving to spend more quality time with Chicago. 

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