Merkley on KPOJ: Gordon Smith sees the world through a corporate boardroom

Posted by Carla Axtman on March 7, 2008

Click on the audio icon below to listen to Jeff's great interview on KPOJ radio with host Thom Hartmann! Thom calls Jeff's efforts in the recent legislative session "heroic".

The economic recession that's facing the nation is no longer looming. It's here.

Job losses are hitting real Americans as a result of the failed economic policies of George W. Bush and Gordon Smith.

When Gordon Smith voted for tax cuts that benefit the wealthiest 1 percent of the population, he voted against hardworking families that are struggling to afford healthcare and come up with the money to send their kids to college.

Gordon Smith has demonstrated that he cares more about corporate executives like himself than the Oregonians he represents. Oregon deserves better and Jeff Merkley is ready to deliver.

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Jeff Merkley was born in the small town of Myrtle Creek, Oregon, the son of a sawmill worker. He's fought hard for working families in Oregon and he's ready to help lead America.

As Oregon's Speaker of the House, Jeff Merkley led one of the most effective, efficient and progressive legislative sessions in Oregon's history - with big achievements for schools, ethics, health care, jobs, alternative energy, and protections for working families.

Discover why Jeff Merkley is ready to lead.

From the Oregonian:

Merkley raced [quarter-midget cars] as a child, and once owned -- and crashed -- a Harley. He roomed with an impoverished family in Ghana as a teen, hitchhiked across Israel as a young man and went on, as he puts it, to help shut down one of Portland's worst crack alleys.

"I've lived," he says, "a pretty unconventional life."

Read the Oregonian profile of Jeff Merkley's life before politics.

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