Phil Knight has had enough - he's giving big money to independent and Republican to defeat Democrat candidate for gov in OR

Did the times frame it like “Knight has gone crazy!”, or we’re they like “Knight is smart and his take is feasible”, or did they play it down the middle and just report the facts?

Weird flex brojos. Didn’t someone post about this last week and you guys deleted the thread

i don't know anything about politics but when i recently visited Oregon it was trashy and I was very disappointed.

Democratic leadership has failed cities and states for generations. Lightfoot has done nothing about Chicago’s sky-high crime in the North side, Brandon Scott is the worst mayor in 10 years, and Portland is overrun by methed-out homeless. Glad to see people waking up to the harm Democrats cause.

Also, NY and especially Philly have sky-high crime in nice areas. Philly’s mayor is the worst in 20 years, and formerly safe areas have crime. I know a lot of people who will be voting Republican due to not wanting to become the next normal victim of violent crime.

If I were to start a thread here about a billionaire "having enough" of Republicans and donating to Democrats, it would be deleted in 5 minutes.

ANTI_SEMITISM never went away after Adolf Hitler, and George Wallace was defeated. Sad.

What does liberal (or conservative for that matter) have to do with being reliable?

I have yet to see any intrinsic data, except for the fact that SF has had difficulty managing crime, as well as Seattle, and both are liberal. California has been struggling with lately as well.

Ironically Chicago is a liberal city, and they have some of the worst homicide rates in the world. Care to elaborate on how liberal makes a location reliable?

Phil Knight has shown his true colors time after time. What a despicable human being.

The main problem in Oregon is homelessness and property crime. In terms of violent crime Portland is one of the safest large metropolitan areas in the US (in contradiction to the hysteria stirred up by Fox News to scare old people).

Here is an article about how the worst crime states are actually Republican controlled. Personally I don’t think there is a Democrat vs Republican link, it is more driven by socioeconomic status and poverty.

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Republican-controlled states have higher murder rates than Democratic ones: study

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Republican politicians routinely claim that cities run by Democrats have been experiencing crime waves caused by failed governance, but a new study shows murder rates are actually higher in states and cities controlled by Rep...

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Why was my comment removed? Crime in Philly and NY is up, and people who aren’t gang members are being harmed by the crime.

It’s not Republicans who commit the murders. They occur in blue cities.

Knight isn't wrong. Oregon Democrats have enjoyed one party rule for too long and have alternated between complacency and moving too left, too quickly. This has stymied business growth and exacerbated the petty crime and homeless issues. The problem is that the state GOP has not offered a sane alternative. The centrist and fiscal conservatives were driven out and replaced by Trump/M@G@ acolytes and rural secessionists (Wahhhh! We have no population in farm and ranch country. We get outvoted by Portland and Eugene! We want to join Idaho!!!)

Principled conservatives could win in Oregon running on fiscal policy, law & order, and by marginalizing the social issues nutjobs. Drazan, the Republican, has a chance of winning the governor's seat only because of a strong third party candidate and because the Democrat is not exciting (House Speaker, out lesbian, no charisma). Uncle Phil's money is shaking things up and is hopefully a wakeup call for the Democrats to get their act together as a center-left party and not double down on being change agents for the sake of change.

I think this is a worthwhile topic to discuss. Brothers, there’s a good chance that if anyone else posted an article like this, it would be so heavily censored as to be almost meaningless, or maybe just deleted.

Get control of the moderators, please. They are damaging the site.

Phil Knight is just another Billionaire who needs to throw around his weight. He made his money with low cost labor in Asia, so he is not much different than the average conservative Southerner.

Also it's worth mentioning that Oregon is a very conservative state for the most part. Only Portland and the Willamette Valley are more left leaning and just because most people live there, it makes it a "liberal" state.

wow. Way to stay on top of the sport. Only posted Saturday. You guys been in a coma?

Correction, Portland WAS one of the safest large metropolitan areas in the US. The study you referenced does not include data since Biden and the Democrats took control of government, does not look at the impact of the effect of decriminalization of drugs, or other relevant changes that took place over the past two years. Portland had 36 homicides in 2019, 57 in 2020, and 88 in 2021. They are on pace to exceed 2021's record total. You are looking at almost a 150% increase in the murder rate in a few years. That is significant and can't be blamed on the causative factors you site, as the unemployment rate has steadily declined as murders have increased.

Yes, because those states include urban areas with high crime rates, run by liberals. Look, it is possible for big cities to be reasonably peaceful. New York City was for about 20 years. You just have to aggressively police the streets and put the bad people away. It’s hard, but simple. Liberals don’t want to do that. They believe everyone is inherently good, and any criminal behavior is caused by some external force. It’s total nonsense.