ELECTION GUIDE? VOTE LIKE FAMILY

Election guide 2022 sponsored by Phil Knight?

Vote like Mr. Knight if you share common values.

He’s a businessman, Oregon’s claim to membership in the billionaires club.

And he’s competitive in how he sees money spent, so he’s working as an election guide?

Unfortunately, his picks come with overweight baggage fees.

I ask myself, maybe you ask too, “Is the election system so plugged up that we need a Drain Weasel?”

Mr. Knight thinks so, and it’s an expensive fix for his bathroom.

But, if you have billions, spending millions is not the same as it would be for ‘normal’ people.

You’ve seen a comparison between a million and a billion?

This works best for me: A million seconds is around eleven days, a billion seconds around thirty-one years.

One is short time, the other a long haul.

Wouldn’t you think a native Oregon man with deep roots in the community would see the long haul better?

It’s not as if Mr. Knight showed up yesterday and surveyed the landscape. He’s been here the whole time.

Election Guide For Election Result Deniers

From the link above:

And in this race to govern Oregon, a bastion of west coast liberalism, Knight has thrown full support behind the Republican Christine Drazan, an anti-abortion, tough-on-crime former lobbyist pushing “election integrity”

Is this enough ‘extra baggage?’

Maybe not you, but it seems wrong to me when women who understand the complexities of reproductive health based on their time in the stirrups side with old men making laws governing them against their will.

I’m old enough to know women can make their own decisions.

I’m also old enough to know a particular brand of man enjoys nothing more than telling their perceived inferiors what they can and can’t do.

What the fellas can’t do is step aside when they are wrong. And Mr. Knight is wrong about funding candidates for Oregon governor.

The Red Flag Moment: Can a Trump fan overlook their crush with his baggage that keeps getting heavier to carry into courtrooms?

How can they claim to be the ‘election integrity candidate’ with their dreamy guy still filling his rally people full of doubt about last election he lost?

Oregon knows Vic Atiyeh isn’t walking through the governor’s door any time soon. Mr. Knight knows too, so why run with a candidate with compromised allegiance?

It’s not like we need more exposure to squirrelly people with notions of progress that go the other direction.

Knight’s lavish support of the right would seem to betray Nike’s own pursuit of social equality and environmental protection. After all, this is the “Just Do It” brand that champions Serena Williams, that kneels with Colin Kaepernick, that featured Argentina’s first trans female soccer player in a recent advertisement.

Knight says he is far more conservative than Nike and that his views don’t represent the company’s.

I sense a certain fragility in this man.

Say It Ain’t So Joe, er, Phil

An election guide to vote like family works in my house.

We have had a ‘Ballot Dinner’ where we filled them out.

Some of the talk was on Ballot Measure 114. We were split, but the idea of better gun law including training and fingerprints is a start.

Don’t get too fired up about fingerprint identification. Even janitors need to submit to fingerprinting to work in schools.

Who doesn’t submit to fingerprints in a school? Shooters.

What wasn’t much of a discussion? The Oregon Governor’s race.

Since I already pay taxes, city taxes, county taxes, state taxes, federal taxes, and more, I’m not dodging the tax hook.

Then again, I’m not a billionaire employing 10,000 people on my Beaverton campus who live locally, drive on the same roads, send their kids to the same schools, as everyone else.

I’m not a billionaire deciding when I’ve done enough for the city, county, and state I call home.

Even in Beaverton, Oregon’s seventh-largest city, Knight has struggled for political sway. “Niketown used to be on the outskirts of Beaverton, and then the outskirts surrounded it,” explains Moore. Over the years, Knight has contributed record amounts to the city’s council races, pumping tens of thousands into campaigns that generally run four figures. “And his candidates all lost,” Moore says. “So that gave me the first hint that Phil Knight doesn’t carry the political weight he thinks he does.”

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What happens when a force for excellence and innovation hears other than what they want to hear?

From 2005:

In a prepared statement, Manager repeated what Nike had said last month when annexation plans were being discussed at a public hearing: “The actions and treatment by Beaverton are counter to what we would expect as a major employer and Oregon’s only Fortune 500 company.”

Does Nike push back?

Nike also said it will not complete the sale of a 50-acre parcel that was to be developed into a medical facility expected to add up to 1,500 new health care workers and professionals to the area.

In the company statement, Nike said the “aggressive, uncertain annexation actions by Beaverton will impact our ability to assist the region in creating jobs, economic development and needed services.”

If you need an election guide for 2022, follow the money.

Then pull back the curtain to see who is writing the big checks.

Knight has spent more than $7m on the governor’s race. Nearly half that money went toward boosting Johnson, a former Democrat who has split left-leaning voters. But when her numbers didn’t budge, Knight switched tactics and threw $1.5m at Drazan. Stumping for Kotek in Portland last month Bernie Sanders called out Knight as a corrupting influence. “Democracy is not billionaires, Phil Knight or anyone else, buying elections,” he crowed.

It’s good to be King.

Also, it’s good to have a Drain Weasel for problem areas.