Portland hippies are the bane of my existence. They never met a rural American they didn’t hate, many for lack of trying – why visit rural Oregon to learn about their way of life and policy needs when they could be imagined? If we don’t talk to each other, we can fabricate all sorts of terrible reasons to make life worse for the other when we’re in power.
Cliff Bentz, Bobby Levy, and Greg Smith all take the brunt of fake gotcha stories that bury the lede in the title. Read the articles with flashy headlines intimating corruption, and they inevitably say that nobody did anything wrong – but boy did we search long and hard to find someone who is mad that a lawmaker did nothing illegal!
This week’s victim is the venerable Congressman Cliff Bentz of Ontario, a stalwart community leader first elected in 2020 after decades of community leadership. We the people of Oregon’s 2nd Congressional District sent Cliff to DC because he proved himself as a servant leader…