Eugene Weekly

Lane County Elections will start reporting results after about 8:30 pm on their website. The pivotal close races to watch are the Democrat Kitty Piercy v. Jim Torrey mayor showdown and the close race for the north Eugene Lane County commissioner seat between conservative Bobby Green and progressive Rob Handy. The magic number for Piercy/Torrey may be 34,060. That’s 50 percent of those who voted in a city election in November 2004. Continue reading →

Remember how George Bush, Henry Paulson and other supporters of the $700-billion bailout for banks swore up and down how the taxpayer money was desperately needed so that banks could lend money to main street Americans? Well, it now appears that’s not what the money was really for at all. The Bush Administration just handed Umpqua Bank, one of the Northwest’s largest financial institutions, $214 million in taxpayer bailout cash. Continue reading →

Could Kitty Piercy get an endorsement from Barack Obama in the tight Eugene mayor’s race? Continue reading →

Down in the polls with a week to go, the McCain/Palin campaign appears racked by infighting: Continue reading →

Kitty Piercy now has a TV ad out in the tight mayor’s race that describes Jim Torrey as a “right wing Republican.” The folksy ad also notes Torrey’s big contribution to George Bush’s re-election campaign. Continue reading →

Kitty Piercy put a big chunk of her limited campaign money into this TV ad in the tight Eugene mayor’s race: Continue reading →

Forget about Joe the plumber, what about Amy the makeup artist and Angela the hairstylist? The New York Times reports that the McCain campaign pays makeuper Amy Strozzi $11,400 a week to work on “Carribou Barbie” Palin. That makes Strozzi the highest paid campaign worker on the McCain/Palin payroll. Continue reading →

With laughably incoherent interviews and a finding Sarah Palin abused her power against a state trooper, many Republicans are regretting John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as Vice President. But not Oregon Senator Gordon Smith. Here he is in an Oct. 9 debate: Continue reading →