War: Chamber of Commerce gearing up to take out conservative incumbents in the House next year

This strategy isn’t entirely new. They started talking about targeting tea partiers in primaries in late 2013 and followed through in last year’s midterms... The difference last year was that they stuck to open seats rather than going after incumbents. Evidently they’ve decided now that “progress” towards the dream of renewing the Ex-Im bank and passing a gigantic amnesty ensuring all the cheap legal labor they could possibly want isn’t happening fast enough. It’s simply not sufficient to fill vacancies in the House with corporatist business-class Republicans.


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Rep. Kim Thatcher seeks Senate seat; Bill Post runs for Oregon House

Oregon state Rep. Kim Thatcher, R-Keizer, announced Tuesday that she will run for the Oregon Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Larry George. ✧ George, a Sherwood Republican, announced that he wouldn’t seek re-election shortly before Thatcher announced her bid for his seat. ✧ Bill Post, who hosts a political talk show on Keizer-based KYKN radio, also announced Tuesday that he will run for Thatcher’s seat in the House.

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