Thanks to Jeff Mapes for digging up this fantastic reminder of just how much Oregon Independent Senator Wayne Morse rocks.

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For what it's worth, I agree with Hilton's energy policy. No, really.

GOP Platform of 1908 (redacted)

Americans have been lifted to a nobler sense of duty and obligation. Conscience and courage in public station and higher standards of right and wrong in private life have become cardinal principles of political faith; capital and labor have been brought into closer relations of confidence and interdependence, and the abuse of wealth, the tyranny of power, and all the evils of privilege and favoritism have been put to scorn by the simple virtues of justice and fair play.

Joel Haugen is an interesting man. A lifelong Republican who learned the political ropes during the Hatfield/McCall/Paulus/Atiyeh era of Oregon politics, Haugen is a poster-child for progressive Republicanism.

Davis v. Federal Election Commission, the recent United States Supreme Court case striking down the federal "Millionaire's Amendment" to the McCain-Feingold Act (the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2003 or "BCRA"), illustrates the hostility of the current SCOTUS to campaign finance regulation--but it also throws in reasoning which could invalidate the public financing systems of several states (Maine and Arizona) and the City of Portland’s Voter Owned Elections.