#oregon-politics

#oregon-politics

For now, and maybe for a long time, the public won't know what it contains. It could be about Bigfoot. It could be about aliens. It could be about long-term campaigns of manipulation and malign influence waged against our community by local and foreign corrupt actors. Or maybe it is a special popcorn recipe. Or perhaps it discusses the extent of infiltration and influence foreign and corrupt actors have objectively achieved in Oregon and elsewhere.

Richard Neuberger was a U.S. senator hard to imagine, in an Oregon now hard to remember. In 1954, he was the first Democratic senator elected from Oregon in 42 years. Before his election - and even while in the Senate - he was a volcanically prolific freelance writer, producing more than 750 articles and six books. He and his wife, Maurine, who would succeed him for a term in the Senate, were the first couple ever to serve in a state legislature together.