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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Election 2008 No Sore Feelings From the Branam Camp

Posted by Marjorie Skinner on Tue, May 20 at 10:47 PM

Nah, hell no:

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On the top: Beth Roberts, campaign field manager, who says, “The thing I’ve been proud of and that I think comes out tonight is that we didn’t spend our money on mailers, and a lot of the campaigns did. Hopefully we proved that a grassroots candidacy can work.”

Bottom left: Phil Busse, campaign manager—”We’re all winners… And, it was a good race! Its really exciting to have four publicly funded candidates packed in ‘fudgedly tightly’ [Phil’s had a couple, too.—Ed.].”

Bottom right: Dan Anderson, press secretary—”We tried to meet as many people as possible; the idea of this race was a lot of candidates represented a lot of Portlanders, and that obviously came true: We’ve got five candidates who came within tens of votes of one another.”

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Comments

I had a hard time deciding who to vote for. At the City Club debate, John Branam made a very definite and intentional effort to flirt with me from across the room. He is completely adorable, there's no doubt. He wanted my vote, no doubt. Would I do him? No doubt, as long as my husband could take pictures and blog about it...

But, my husband liked the "wonk", and so did I. So I/we voted for the wonk.

Posted by Jason E. | May 20, 2008 11:17 PM

"We didn't spend our money on mailers, because we'd already spent it all on Phil?"

Posted by Matt Davis | May 20, 2008 11:22 PM

Hey, all that money spend on Phil brought the campaign to the attention of people who wouldn't have heard of it otherwise.

By which I mean the controversy, not anything Phil was doing with his money.

Posted by b!X | May 20, 2008 11:47 PM

Is that Beth girl in the photo attached? She is a hottie!

Posted by Hmmm | May 21, 2008 12:04 AM

Single and unemployed. Call me?

Posted by beth | May 21, 2008 12:45 AM

I would if I had your number. You are hot!