It’s On!!! Sean Cruz for Senate District 23 campaign kicks off Nov 29

November 26, 2007

Elect Sean Cruz for Oregon State Senate District 23
Campaign kicks off at Tupelo Joe’s
Featuring: The Bobby Torres Ensemble(Latin jazz at its finest) Andrew Gorry(PSU guitarist) Special Guests!!!
Bring four cans of food!!!
Please bring four items of non-perishable food for the NE Emergency Food Bank. Winter food stocks are far lower than what is needed.
When: Thursday, November [...]

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A teachable moment in Portland: Cesar Chavez, Chicanos, Latinos and “the Community.”

November 17, 2007

I am going to try to seize a teachable moment amid this mind-numbing conversation that used to be about Cesar Chavez….
Much of the confusion stems from the lack of clarity regarding who is speaking and on whose behalf they claim to be speaking.
Virtually all of the public discussion centers on “Latinos” and the “Latino community”, [...]

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Why I am running for Oregon Senate District 23, pt 1

November 9, 2007

Oregon’s system of government is founded on the principle of a citizen legislature, a legislative body made of people whose life experience reflects the issues Oregonians care most deeply about, rather than of those who are efficient campaigners.
For this reason, I deliberately chose not to begin campaigning to succeed Senator Avel Gordly in the Oregon Senate [...]

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Measure 49 passes, more than half the state’s counties appear to have voted yes *updated*

November 7, 2007

Obviously we won’t have the final numbers on the votes for Measures 49 and 50 for a few weeks, but numbers have been pouring in, and it appears that Measure 49 has passed.
I was reading news stories and comments on this ballot measure’s win, and everyone seems to be harboring the false idea that this [...]

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