Quote of the Week

From an AP article on the Oregon Education Association's endorsement of Steve Novick:

"Novick fills a room the minute he walks into it," said Webb Thomas, a teacher from Beaverton. "That's what you need. Merkley is so out of central casting. If you took all the white, male, Democratic candidates and blended them together, then you'd have Jeff Merkley."

Kitzhaber backs Novick in Senate primary

Former Oregon Governor and health care reformer John Kitzhaber has endorsed Democratic candidate Steve Novick.

Kitzhaber, who once considered running for the Senate himself, said he's siding with Novick in the Democratic primary because of the Portland lawyer's willingness to "face the facts" about what's wrong with the country.
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Kitzhaber, who has been working on a national effort to radically change the way health care and insurance is organized, said Novick's plans for improving access to health care come closest to his own.

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