I don't care about parties as long as the politician has brains and does things right, even if I don't agree with his politics. If Bush had kept the economy stable and done everything, well, un-Bush like, I would've liked him regardless of political and religious standpoints.
Speaking of Tom McCall, you've got to Wikipedia that man. He's Oregon's greatest Governor! The whole waterfront park was built in his honor over an entire street, they are planning a large statue of him in Salem, and he's just amazing! He created the Urban Growth Boundary, fought a campaign to "stop Californicating Oregon", is the only politician in history to host a rock concert, created a documentary in the sixties about pollution in the Willamette, and the list keeps going. His final political move was as he was dying of terminal cancer, in which he was fighting the current political move to destroy the boundaries he fought so hard to establish. The quote is just amazing.
"You all know I have terminal cancer-and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress induces its spread and induces its activity. Stress may even bring it on. Yet stress is the fuel of the activist. This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life. I know I can't have both very long. The trade-offs are all right with me. But if the legacy we helped give Oregon and which made it twinkle from afar-if it goes, then I guess I wouldn't want to live in Oregon anyhow."
After the bill failed to remove the UGB, he died. He is my inspiration, along with other great Oregonians like Jim Meeks, that makes me proud of my state.
AHaha, one other thing I forgot, he hired my grandfather to be the head of psychiatry for Oregon, who stopped electroshock and reformed it while other states were still just locking em up and shocking em up. I could just go on and on about Oregon, I'm sorry!
Speaking of Tom McCall, you've got to Wikipedia that man. He's Oregon's greatest Governor! The whole waterfront park was built in his honor over an entire street, they are planning a large statue of him in Salem, and he's just amazing! He created the Urban Growth Boundary, fought a campaign to "stop Californicating Oregon", is the only politician in history to host a rock concert, created a documentary in the sixties about pollution in the Willamette, and the list keeps going. His final political move was as he was dying of terminal cancer, in which he was fighting the current political move to destroy the boundaries he fought so hard to establish. The quote is just amazing.
"You all know I have terminal cancer-and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress induces its spread and induces its activity. Stress may even bring it on. Yet stress is the fuel of the activist. This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life. I know I can't have both very long. The trade-offs are all right with me. But if the legacy we helped give Oregon and which made it twinkle from afar-if it goes, then I guess I wouldn't want to live in Oregon anyhow."
After the bill failed to remove the UGB, he died. He is my inspiration, along with other great Oregonians like Jim Meeks, that makes me proud of my state.
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That was very touching.
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