Oregon's Representative is growing "weary of partisanship". According to him, People tell outright lies, like Republicans who said the proposed health overhaul would lead to death panels.
Thankfully, Earl's not a partisan kind of guy. The problem, as he sees it, is all the darn Republicans.
Long a supporter of public broadcasting, Blumenauer was dismayed by a fight this year over a GOP proposal to cut funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supports nonprofit radio and television stations. Earl doesn't want to see public funding cut from Democrat media; he knows that there aren't enough Democrats in media right now. Available data indicate that only a little more than 90% in media are registered Democrat, and that's just too thin a margin.
Blumenauer has been in office for most of his adult life. He was elected to the state House when he was 23 and went on to serve on the Multnomah County Commission and the Portland City Council before winning a special election to replace Ron Wyden in the U.S. House after Wyden was elected to the Senate.
Blumenauer represents a liberal district that includes most of Portland and stretches through the Columbia River Gorge out to Mount Hood. It's a safe seat for Democrats, and Blumenauer has consistently been re-elected by wide margins _ 70 percent in 2010.
But he faces a re-election campaign every two years and is consistently fundraising, meeting with community groups and keeping a campaign apparatus together. He told the AP that it gets old having to begin a new campaign as soon as one ends.
"There's never a breather," he said. "It is difficult to describe how debilitating it is to have a constant state of election."
He's never held a real job in his life. He won his last run by 70%. Yet he whines. Golly, it's hard to feel any sympathy for poor ol' Earl. Maybe he should consider the joys of retirement. It's not like it's going to cost him anything.
