Big news: DeFazio is in a slightly Republican-leaning district. He probably has polling that says that he’s unelectable, after he’s had to turn hard left to deal with Nancy and the Jihad Squad.
Does anyone on this thread besides gundog call the place home?
DeFazio is an Italian Catholic from New Jersey who looks like a penguin who fit the district about as well as a Rockefeller would fit Arkansas or West Virginia. American politics can be very strange, and they are both party oriented and local. My first vote for a Congressman was against him in his first run for re-election.
Oregon just gained a new seat, which means that the remaining five will be significantly impacted. According to 538, the new fourth is D+7.
While the Oregon legislature is pretty brain dead, I doubt that they would deliberately concede the pubs more than one seat.
BTW—gundog—is Linda Clem’s youngest boy, Brian, still in the state senate? I remember him as a loud-mouth 15 year old conservative in the late 80’s—but I guess he moved to Salem and got religion.