tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82107816525077528872024-02-06T22:12:48.039-08:00Oregon APIC ChapterCarl Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038684160362672630noreply@blogger.comBlogger163125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8210781652507752887.post-28923788853260645722022-02-13T17:23:00.001-08:002022-02-13T18:00:10.951-08:00Whoop, Whoop! Remembering Portland's Bud Clark <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYRZT6txr72zNWgkLLDil8yYlcHcW4PPM_a9rFGqz7vPNv_FYHzOhHTLeo-MlaelUDtdRBHpkp5T1hTCBLuggYWivRAaD65LGIIbgbenD_jqbjtpRVdB2JtjskAmlqTTuf5ipW-d0lHooe75FVZ86WFfHWc2GPVHLFeLxp-SmRn4FHPGj1hU0LGhcjYQ=s1988" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1988" data-original-width="1702" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYRZT6txr72zNWgkLLDil8yYlcHcW4PPM_a9rFGqz7vPNv_FYHzOhHTLeo-MlaelUDtdRBHpkp5T1hTCBLuggYWivRAaD65LGIIbgbenD_jqbjtpRVdB2JtjskAmlqTTuf5ipW-d0lHooe75FVZ86WFfHWc2GPVHLFeLxp-SmRn4FHPGj1hU0LGhcjYQ=w343-h400" width="343" /></a></div>Oregonians of a certain generation know the significance of hearing someone go <i>Whoop, Whoop!. </i>It was the eccentric catchphrase of citizen Mayor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Clark">Bud Clark</a>. He passed away earlier this month, just a month after his 90th birthday. Portlanders all know the story of Bud Clark. The owner of the Goose Hollow Inn that took on the unlikely task of running against Mayor Frank Ivancie. No one was paying attention when they should have and Clark pulled out a shocking win with 54% of the vote in 1984. <p></p><p>It shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone that Clark, as a community small business owner had become a community activist. He served on several local boards and helped revitalize the Goose Hollow neighborhood. Fearing that citizens were going to left with the same old leaders that were wasting chances to improve things for the city he made the unlikely decision to enter the race for Portland Mayor. </p><p><span></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p><p>Clark was described by a friend at his 50th birthday party in 1981 as "husband, father, friend, successful businessman, jaywalker, community leader, historian, philosopher, philanthropist, and flasher". That last one was in reference to the now-famous '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expose_Yourself_to_Art">Expose Yourself to Art</a>' poster that features him as a model exposing himself wearing a trench coat to a local Portland statue. His political opponents noted that it was his only claim to fame and that meant he was not a serious candidate. The Clark campaign turned around and issued buttons saying he was "SERIOUS!"(an example is above). </p><p>The poster was made in the 1970s and kept getting more popular over the years. Here is the one in my collection that Bud Clark signed and inscribed to 'Art Lovers'.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-UNJaOBcTUGdbExmHwGCmLO0eqgHl5cNQSUx2RAhILhWLPZM8RiV3dFZc0XMXa9cS6NyR3sabuoV4EeTa9GX0a9EWRHplNPZxyStZ88mhcICmMhRIpTESjK97oNP0Wn_Tx3RMqYeg7sCKzbDfcP21V06VUp45pn4CZ53q9zhTALpdxoY_UZDyUjzp6w=s960" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="540" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-UNJaOBcTUGdbExmHwGCmLO0eqgHl5cNQSUx2RAhILhWLPZM8RiV3dFZc0XMXa9cS6NyR3sabuoV4EeTa9GX0a9EWRHplNPZxyStZ88mhcICmMhRIpTESjK97oNP0Wn_Tx3RMqYeg7sCKzbDfcP21V06VUp45pn4CZ53q9zhTALpdxoY_UZDyUjzp6w=s320" width="180" /></a></div><br /> Clark only ran two campaigns for Portland Mayor and opted to not run for a third term in 1992. A variety of buttons were made for his two campaigns. The Rose became the symbol of his 1988 re-election effort. Here is an example of a photo button. <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2flql5DzVUFNB1VcMVIOYJYSrxrbQTYdxI-J5a0RBBv_gY7V4AwyvlfZyzPlbYonAorBhCNA9jK61kvgBZP3v4SBAQFE94QEpCD1VvdooycTcV9IKwUvCFaw_cW5JQQyGD58_rhI4uZzw6xwi0_UuJYjhpjo5kEtbd_17Sqxd4FKzSv_8E7cGkEPG8g=s1330" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1189" data-original-width="1330" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2flql5DzVUFNB1VcMVIOYJYSrxrbQTYdxI-J5a0RBBv_gY7V4AwyvlfZyzPlbYonAorBhCNA9jK61kvgBZP3v4SBAQFE94QEpCD1VvdooycTcV9IKwUvCFaw_cW5JQQyGD58_rhI4uZzw6xwi0_UuJYjhpjo5kEtbd_17Sqxd4FKzSv_8E7cGkEPG8g=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>The campaign produced, signs, stickers,shirts, and other items pictured below. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh0NQJigc2goQS1BUWl-ugbgiTJTgIpRpxQuCgMArxSyd2e6N0cIJtkufdSd_ZJj9ZIhJ3IWnh-_t4PaiQiqkLCo_10XDnlzPKOlpmHTCmbuZLYC8YTi3agQZGr-QPjxfs0b-bJMmLa2VzorBbfM7DyXkTd1EWRT-hgLUIyGOsvvCDXFHcOrbQuVhbhvw=s400" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="156" data-original-width="400" height="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh0NQJigc2goQS1BUWl-ugbgiTJTgIpRpxQuCgMArxSyd2e6N0cIJtkufdSd_ZJj9ZIhJ3IWnh-_t4PaiQiqkLCo_10XDnlzPKOlpmHTCmbuZLYC8YTi3agQZGr-QPjxfs0b-bJMmLa2VzorBbfM7DyXkTd1EWRT-hgLUIyGOsvvCDXFHcOrbQuVhbhvw=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgnSJzb5abyJ9PCB6Hfp1k-CjWLMENHC7oI22IbUquYRKgj4cAJvhCndD2SFSF58Wu-S5ydy2hUuqISAywFBkRQeWOsIiowi6Q15yGMXghFSD-1cW1ZnH75Hgro3qY28TSGDCI5-PhOWhxWQJx-6_sEv2rzvoyPmmi3KKM0ditcypUVHrDyYYar198aGw=s960" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgnSJzb5abyJ9PCB6Hfp1k-CjWLMENHC7oI22IbUquYRKgj4cAJvhCndD2SFSF58Wu-S5ydy2hUuqISAywFBkRQeWOsIiowi6Q15yGMXghFSD-1cW1ZnH75Hgro3qY28TSGDCI5-PhOWhxWQJx-6_sEv2rzvoyPmmi3KKM0ditcypUVHrDyYYar198aGw=s320" width="240" /></a></div><p>Here is an example of a t-shirt you would have seen supporters wearing in 1988. Below is a photo of Clark wearing one along with some supporters holding lawn signs. Clark was also known for holding galas and parties that started at first to pay off his campaign debt but soon became fundraisers for charity. A variety of items exist from this events known as the Mayor's Ball. Oregon musician Billy Hults shares more on the details of the origins of the events <a href="https://www.powells.com/post/on-oregon/rip-billy-hults-and-the-fantastic-story-of-the-mayors-ball">here</a>. When Vera Katz was elected, she opted not to continue the association with the events and the Mayor's office. Here are some items from the events. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNISfe2B5IERGDSMpO67loe5NwVKGU0BuVFuueyANK8EuMmgf94AnfopbdJz1jXtxFWBaO3VMI_-g2YKdHAzuYt_DgjaODvK_HfI5WMvs51zSm49Qo7LjCuZapMVyb7xpGqVMf7AI8klCLkBtaQRpvXOH1JxMpZNRBFPmSOuBX6cu4456dKOPFyvNhfQ=s1708" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1708" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNISfe2B5IERGDSMpO67loe5NwVKGU0BuVFuueyANK8EuMmgf94AnfopbdJz1jXtxFWBaO3VMI_-g2YKdHAzuYt_DgjaODvK_HfI5WMvs51zSm49Qo7LjCuZapMVyb7xpGqVMf7AI8klCLkBtaQRpvXOH1JxMpZNRBFPmSOuBX6cu4456dKOPFyvNhfQ=s320" width="202" /></a></div><br /><p>John Hamlin provided the image of this badge from the very first ball. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJmvYCha57u_2rV5h7Uk9upSEQlP8zuBo2FLRnj5_a2A9lRnagzZMtBIo8orjw-0D45_3RHhsHfR8nIobG0s6tv12E4oKLfElz_7cmxu67i0WdJfI92e1CQLBGMECHIXfsYs2N0TdUJlRqSPA2RPN5ziXSdAu-y8RYWhbL6xB3InReUUbiRef-J6tfxQ=s500" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="302" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJmvYCha57u_2rV5h7Uk9upSEQlP8zuBo2FLRnj5_a2A9lRnagzZMtBIo8orjw-0D45_3RHhsHfR8nIobG0s6tv12E4oKLfElz_7cmxu67i0WdJfI92e1CQLBGMECHIXfsYs2N0TdUJlRqSPA2RPN5ziXSdAu-y8RYWhbL6xB3InReUUbiRef-J6tfxQ=s320" width="193" /></a></div>a badge from ball number 7 and poster from ball number 8. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhSuwwVUU-n2BZzl1o3HmvvD6dZuFuZV7kiobrATS5B8rDOdbQE0iASv-wN-RQ8yVBnAsY-fpK5Q3HBOgRsA5N362zzmnAsK7VDudrERmSq2_wpmRb0mRdFD6y2EKFBBlYSnrLuEYFwwcpBCe2BKVzckZtOVLwOz2aL52afwIeO0dpQfIQG2VI_j2QiNA=s1600" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhSuwwVUU-n2BZzl1o3HmvvD6dZuFuZV7kiobrATS5B8rDOdbQE0iASv-wN-RQ8yVBnAsY-fpK5Q3HBOgRsA5N362zzmnAsK7VDudrERmSq2_wpmRb0mRdFD6y2EKFBBlYSnrLuEYFwwcpBCe2BKVzckZtOVLwOz2aL52afwIeO0dpQfIQG2VI_j2QiNA=s320" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p>Bud Clark dived right into being mayor during his eight years leading the city. You can find a more comprehensive look at his administration in the obits published by <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2022/02/portlands-former-citizen-mayor-bud-clark-dead-at-90.html">The Oregonian</a>, <a href="https://www.wweek.com/news/2022/02/09/portland-will-never-see-another-mayor-like-bud-clark/">Willamette Week</a>, and <a href="https://www.opb.org/article/2022/02/01/former-portland-mayor-bud-clark-dead-expose-yourself-to-art/">OPB</a>. He brought with him a levity and change of attitude so desperately needed in government/politics regardless of the times. </p><p>Oregon APIC Members Carl Fisher and John Silvertooth have items related to the Goose Hollow Inn in their collections. After serving as Mayor, Clark went back to serving up Reubens and beer at the Goose Hollow Inn for many years. It is still open and still in the family. Here are some Goose Hollow Inn- related items. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjrG6oJ-tp9Yh_IDq4vmJdVNt-WEUSa6Ki9c-xyeoEol1tKtjqCSJMqc49NyytOZr574VcqwFRkg3hBGkH4VAodcN3rn23Khl9M4ahS-n2CD5vpbWjRDpAT4dJQLyli395YTj48vMkE3SCK9Nw-_hwwZ914QkVyOowCWqLon4phKJ3SRpbshh2-kiUgsw=s830" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="830" data-original-width="561" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjrG6oJ-tp9Yh_IDq4vmJdVNt-WEUSa6Ki9c-xyeoEol1tKtjqCSJMqc49NyytOZr574VcqwFRkg3hBGkH4VAodcN3rn23Khl9M4ahS-n2CD5vpbWjRDpAT4dJQLyli395YTj48vMkE3SCK9Nw-_hwwZ914QkVyOowCWqLon4phKJ3SRpbshh2-kiUgsw=s320" width="216" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg45NVWvDGKa5Y7mO6uDlVOf0xqWQV6-ZR_FSqdeLdeevTkGdGsHnafyip6udQAlx5NT9hc4Devi9gQ78fDwQ_Cz4qjJG5MfiBoXF_hbrjdZVCYl2CvEr80aHWYpHLC0aoUDl4c6mnCo4y8sCQxqbAPet8bm-5p1N700RBHG8rmBMBTsY8aU368tOoo8Q=s561" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="546" data-original-width="561" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg45NVWvDGKa5Y7mO6uDlVOf0xqWQV6-ZR_FSqdeLdeevTkGdGsHnafyip6udQAlx5NT9hc4Devi9gQ78fDwQ_Cz4qjJG5MfiBoXF_hbrjdZVCYl2CvEr80aHWYpHLC0aoUDl4c6mnCo4y8sCQxqbAPet8bm-5p1N700RBHG8rmBMBTsY8aU368tOoo8Q=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhDrXwuk-b2ByHG903l7qqikWijlat4OP2pVQCmWMOkZo5cPBa6Gz8Rv0MqGCqEtOUfuM1jiKhmN5Vl2R1UIWZwPPxl7kkECe2MODZFx5IZI45Nx6rF8-b8KtHP2OD-vm0pVtNmlVXVSxA2xJtvSyj-EkezgWeDaH7XyGZTebcuFnWZyZwqFBSsGflq1A=s1600" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="676" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhDrXwuk-b2ByHG903l7qqikWijlat4OP2pVQCmWMOkZo5cPBa6Gz8Rv0MqGCqEtOUfuM1jiKhmN5Vl2R1UIWZwPPxl7kkECe2MODZFx5IZI45Nx6rF8-b8KtHP2OD-vm0pVtNmlVXVSxA2xJtvSyj-EkezgWeDaH7XyGZTebcuFnWZyZwqFBSsGflq1A=s320" width="135" /></a></div><br /><p>I'm still not sure how Whoop, Whoop! came to be, but I sure know what image comes to mind when I hear someone say it. Do you have a Bud Clark related item we didn't show here? Feel free to send us a photo and we will add it. </p><p><br /></p>
<center><iframe src="https://americanarchive.org/embed/cpb-aacip-153-76rxwnpn" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; min-height: 50vh; width: 100%;"></iframe></center>Carl Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038684160362672630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8210781652507752887.post-73666889251261119432021-12-31T11:44:00.001-08:002021-12-31T11:44:42.620-08:00Remembering Those We Lost in 2021<p>Every year we say goodbye to Oregonians that impacted politics in the
state of Oregon. Here is a quick review of those that we are aware of
that passed on this last year. If there is someone we missed, please let
us know in the comments and we will add them. If you have political
items for any of the below individuals please share those with us as
well.
</p><p><a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2021/04/former-oregon-congresswoman-elizabeth-furse-has-died.html"><b>Congresswoman Elizabeth Furse</b></a><b><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b> </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg7h6u5TnYjT2C2ZUlyPMhSrsMbPABs3knIm72MJU5QpOmAAl2ppJwU0ZgGlgQhD-VRNt9OOJLY4K8QfBw74B6htmge6f-26ZSXLLPwetxvKQO3kbjg6aG3F8b1TPQa_IYQLhH-f1-E5W0x8qV62gPA90U9kp3InlZm0N8Jjid5j_dGE00ibjNmsTuqIA=s3508" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2552" data-original-width="3508" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg7h6u5TnYjT2C2ZUlyPMhSrsMbPABs3knIm72MJU5QpOmAAl2ppJwU0ZgGlgQhD-VRNt9OOJLY4K8QfBw74B6htmge6f-26ZSXLLPwetxvKQO3kbjg6aG3F8b1TPQa_IYQLhH-f1-E5W0x8qV62gPA90U9kp3InlZm0N8Jjid5j_dGE00ibjNmsTuqIA=w400-h291" width="400" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p><p>Perhaps the most high-profile loss was that of former Congresswoman
Elizabeth Furse. Above are several buttons from her various campaigns
over the years.
</p><p><b> <span></span></b></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p><b> </b></p><div><a href="https://www.currypilot.com/obituaries/walter-g-walt-schroeder/article_837d6232-48de-11ec-be7c-2fd1174e6bb1.html"><span dir="auto">Walter G. Schroeder</span></a>
, State Rep. from Coos and Curry counties. He was first elected in 1984 and served until 1993.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/23/us/stu-rasmussen-first-transgender-mayor-silverton-oregon-obit/index.html">Stu Rasmussen</a>, Mayor of Silverton, he was America's first transgendered Mayor. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.registerguard.com/story/news/2021/07/23/gary-leif-roseburg-oregon-legislator-obituary-death-july-2021/8076387002/">Gary Leif</a>, State Rep. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://obits.oregonlive.com/us/obituaries/oregon/name/james-gardner-obituary?id%3D8108640&source=gmail&ust=1641017074135000&usg=AOvVaw0TmEOMUjcVFDOdA7JmJeyu" href="https://obits.oregonlive.com/us/obituaries/oregon/name/james-gardner-obituary?id=8108640" target="_blank">James Gardner</a>, State Sen. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Harvey Akeson, State Rep.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.newportnewstimes.com/news/former-newport-mayor-and-civic-leader-remembered/article_933fa9f2-1740-11ec-8140-173f55e00f01.html">Don Butsch</a>, State Rep. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/21534036/gary-lawrence-george">Gary George</a>, State Rep.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://obits.oregonlive.com/us/obituaries/oregon/name/robert-shoemaker-obituary?id=20989305">Bob Shoemaker Jr</a>, State Sen., we know that Shoemaker had buttons from his campaigns. Still trying to find one to scan and include. <br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div><div><a href="https://www.nrtoday.com/news/state/oregon_politics/world-war-ii-veteran-and-popular-legislator-bill-markham-has-died-at-98/article_7817aaa1-09e9-5fcd-bec0-73761dc954cc.html"><span class="il">Bill</span> <span class="il">Markham</span></a>, State Rep. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPK_5yHQGWhlR5V1p3ctX6hKMEDLjE75FodK9ABrlof0NDdTmycfySyk7kRHULN5A4VK69hDZc2JBkGVsaQtI_LA7ajlepyPm_8JNkX8FkztVA6IwYjf5zGT7_cErTiWL9HNv1lmIn-2uqmwnuL4I4XWldgoaiqaVA30M4tnGrCwXcDN99OacN9KR8OA=s2015" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2015" data-original-width="1504" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPK_5yHQGWhlR5V1p3ctX6hKMEDLjE75FodK9ABrlof0NDdTmycfySyk7kRHULN5A4VK69hDZc2JBkGVsaQtI_LA7ajlepyPm_8JNkX8FkztVA6IwYjf5zGT7_cErTiWL9HNv1lmIn-2uqmwnuL4I4XWldgoaiqaVA30M4tnGrCwXcDN99OacN9KR8OA=w299-h400" width="299" /></a></div>A Markham button<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><p><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://lincolncityhomepage.com/history-making-mayor-of-depoe-bay-dies-at-76/&source=gmail&ust=1641017074135000&usg=AOvVaw3u6AGzaydCVsCooZZkpq0W" href="https://lincolncityhomepage.com/history-making-mayor-of-depoe-bay-dies-at-76/" target="_blank"><b>Jim White</b></a>, Mayor of Depot Bay, and was the 2nd African American to be elected Mayor of an Oregon city. </p><p> </p><p>If you have items from any of these candidates please feel free to send them along and we will share them. <br /></p>Carl Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038684160362672630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8210781652507752887.post-8596644977577301172021-12-29T21:47:00.001-08:002021-12-31T15:52:47.762-08:00Frederick Steiwer Convention Badge 1936<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdPM3MkUnwlXiBf8Uq2R2jwnWKMOVCBJLv2BKmB7XAAnoqCLkN-1plZxudaxF3G-qN4YzaAXjximf4Mhhs0PIkiCvFbJFcVbRIjYp9UQVZhzogGa3_UjhlSuipmvmaN02_nOiE--YzatNH1F4f2wsE8vtQYqx82QAOdZ0DJ6eiRyTKTQpBJblKhI-ZrQ=s700" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdPM3MkUnwlXiBf8Uq2R2jwnWKMOVCBJLv2BKmB7XAAnoqCLkN-1plZxudaxF3G-qN4YzaAXjximf4Mhhs0PIkiCvFbJFcVbRIjYp9UQVZhzogGa3_UjhlSuipmvmaN02_nOiE--YzatNH1F4f2wsE8vtQYqx82QAOdZ0DJ6eiRyTKTQpBJblKhI-ZrQ=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div>The badge worn by U.S. Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Steiwer">Frederick Steiwer</a> at the 1936 Republican National Convention has been located and returned to an Oregon collection. The badge is in wonderful condition for being 85 years old. <p></p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><p>Stewier was twice elected to the Senate from Oregon. The first time
was in 1926, when he defeated incumbent Republican Robert Stanfield in the
GOP primary and then Democrat Bert Haney in the general election. He
then won re-election in 1932, one of the few Republican incumbents to
hold on to his seat. Democrats won 28 of the 34 seats up in the Senate
that year and it was one of only five times in history that more than 10
seats changed hands in one election. </p><p>Steiwer was twice a
contender for the Republican presidential nomination. He ran mostly at
the conventions of 1928 and 1936. Both times, he failed to secure the
nomination. Idaho and progressive Republican Senator <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">William Borah</a>
won the Oregon primary in 1936. This was at the time when the
presidential primaries were mostly advisory and if they did allocate
delegates, there were too few to make a difference at the conventions.
Most delegations were determined by party caucuses and conventions, not
directly by the voters of the party. </p><p>Stewier gave a blistering speech against FDR and the New Deal. Here is the headline from <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">The Palisade Tribune</a> covering the speech. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjfQLWwfUFiw8h-5V66YcYs-Sx-cseilOLip62BmU9TZBHOubaQTmf0DksK_WLgI4de5lDG2yKDgIGPTnJl1nkv4N1uJ0_r7yrAZ73vWsXO-Wp2C-dMHMK6zTaDM6CfbLEql1Dgq1VDGhP-B4QQXVkTUOtq483N5m7xH3XHB7qMzh6RI4gawXGLVSYPdw=s700" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="149" data-original-width="700" height="85" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjfQLWwfUFiw8h-5V66YcYs-Sx-cseilOLip62BmU9TZBHOubaQTmf0DksK_WLgI4de5lDG2yKDgIGPTnJl1nkv4N1uJ0_r7yrAZ73vWsXO-Wp2C-dMHMK6zTaDM6CfbLEql1Dgq1VDGhP-B4QQXVkTUOtq483N5m7xH3XHB7qMzh6RI4gawXGLVSYPdw=w400-h85" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>He spoke about how early on, to combat the Great Depression, even Republicans like himself put aside their differences and supported many of the 'temporary' New Deal programs. "The suffering caused by depression affected all in authority regardless of party. I threw aside partisan consideration and voted for some of the temporary measures to meet the emergency." The speech avoided more direct and controversial matters of the convention like platform and candidates. Instead, Steiwer kept his remarks on Roosevelt and admonishing the New Deal. <br /></p><p>Unfortunately for Steiwer, his speech, the convention, and their candidate were not enough to win the White House or Congress. Roosevelt won re-election to a second term carrying 46 of 48 states and winning 61% of the vote. The Landon-Knox ticket did improve on the Hoover-Curtis ticket of 1932 in terms of counties carried during the election. Landon carried 461 counties while Hoover had only carried 374. </p><p>Do you have any items from the 1936 RNC or from the campaigns of Steiwer? Send us some pics and we will include them. </p><p>This badge was in t<span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto">he
Gary Burhop Collection of convention-related badges. He likely picked
this up in the 1980s or 1990s when he was still collecting. It recently came up on the market and was purchased by an Oregon collector. </span></p><h2><br /></h2><p><br /></p>Carl Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038684160362672630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8210781652507752887.post-899542930864613682021-12-28T21:27:00.007-08:002021-12-28T22:10:24.289-08:00Remembering Bob Dole in Oregon
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">The
“Greatest Generation” is described as those Americans that came
of age amidst the Great Depression and had their lives altered by
World War II. Tom Brokaw popularized the term in his book by the same
name. It produced many political leaders across the country. Young
men returned home after the war and were recruited to run for office.
Many found success and over a hundred of these veterans found their
way to </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">service
in the U.S. Senate</span></span></u></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">.
One of the most prominent of these veterans was Kansas Senator Bob
Dole. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dole
passed away on December 5, 2021, at the age of 98, just two years shy
of reaching 100. He had been an influential leader in the Republican
party for most of my early life and had run for president three times
(1980, 1988, and 1996). I thought it would be good to look back on
his campaigns and visits to Oregon through the years.</span> </span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span>Dole
had run and was elected to the Senate from Kansas in 1968. Before his
service in the Senate, he had been elected to the U.S. House, Kansas
House, and in county government. </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span>The
first campaign-related trip of Dole I could find to Oregon was just
after he had been elected to the Senate. This is when Dole was
serving as chairman of the Republican National Committee. He had been
Richard Nixon’s hand-picked successor to lead the RNC. Dole came to
Portland on May 27th to raise funds for Republican congressional
candidates gearing up for 1972.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">I
could find no more Dole visits until he was running for Vice
President on the Republican ticket with President Gerald Ford in
1976. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Here
is Dole</span></span></u></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">accepting
the GOP nomination for Vice President in Kansas City. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Dole
visited Klamath Falls and Pendleton on October 29th of that year to
stump for himself and Ford. The visits were very much needed, as
Oregon turned out to be the closest state come election night. A mere
1,173 votes were all that separated <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">Ford-Dole
and Carter-Mondale</a>. That was a victory margin of 0.16% for the
Republican ticket. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span>I
couldn’t find any more reported visits of Dole himself until the
1996 campaign after this point. His wife, Elizabeth Dole, would make
several visits as part of her various jobs in the Reagan and Bush 41
administrations in the 80s and 90s, but Dole himself did not
accompany her at this time. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">1996
Presidential Campaign Visits </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">In
building up to Dole’s first campaign stop in Oregon the campaign
announced the leadership of the </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Oregon
campaign</span></span></u></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">County
Chair</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Baker
</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Holly
Sullens</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Benton/Linn
</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Rep.
Liz Van Leeuwen</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Greg
Leo</span></span></span></span></div>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Crook</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Doug
Breese</span></span><b><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"> </span></b></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Deschutes</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Parker
Johnstone</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Douglas/Coos</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Evelyn
Badger</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Gilliam</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Larry
Lear</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Harney/Grant</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Senator
Gene Timms</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Hood
River</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Senator
Greg Walden</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Jackson</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Dalton
Straus</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Jefferson</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Garry
Harris</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Josephine</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Cherry
Walker</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Honorable
Irv Whiting</span></span></span></span>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Klamath</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Tracy
Liskey</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Lake</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Susie
Cahill</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Lane</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Bob
Sampson</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Lincoln</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Mary
Shector</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Malheur</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">June
Hartley</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Marion/Yamhil</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">l
Senator Marilyn Shannon</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Multnomah</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Jim
Fitzhenry</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Karen
Belding</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Polk</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Mike
Propes</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Sherman</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Tom
McCoy</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Tillamook/Clatsop</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Pam
Zwieful</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Umatilla/Morrow</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Rep.
Chuck Norris</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Betty
Lou Norris</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Union
</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Rep.
Ray Baum</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Wallowa</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Marvin
Maxwell</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Wasco</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Terry
Cochran</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Washington/Columbia</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Tom
Harrung</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Martha
Brooks</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Wheeler</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">E.
Elizabeth Carroll</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span>The
first visit Dole makes to Oregon as part of his 1996 presidential
organizing efforts was an airport rally on February 22, 1996. He
stayed overnight and then on the 23rd he attended an event at Tek in
Wilsonville. From there he flew down to Medford for an event at a
food processing plant owned by Naumes Inc. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">You
can watch his acceptance speech from the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">RNC
here</a>. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Dole
would not visit again until after the Republican National Convention
in San Diego. He came to Portland on August 25, 1996, with running
mate Jack Kemp and their wives to hold a rally in the Rose Quarter.
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">The
Tulsa World</span></span></u></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">reported
that even the Z100 crew got a little face-time with Dole. “Disc
jockey John Murphy thanked Dole for letting them in, saying, "We
feel very honored `cause we're a couple of rock 'n' roll deejays and
I can't believe you had us here."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span>Dole
didn't skip a beat. "We're happy to have you here. Keep rockin'
and keep rollin'." He did, however, look a little puzzled when
asked a follow-up question: "Do you like Hootie and the
Blowfish? "Anything that gets me votes," Dole answered.”</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span>Here
is a photo of the crowd from the rally. As you can see there do not
seem to be any Oregon-specific signs produced by the campaign.
Lots of the standard Dole-Kemp gear is there though. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><br />
</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9Qj62mCfndqD4UVLBn7QhBiKHFEyo4V9cu8chlhMKvaVhXND757Z-zziOUPqE49SUL6Xg35PITA-GzxaSaIuYJKeBwXNOD7NscM7BNiPP1K5iyPvINFkZf2A7Y-dfrlt_i7XcTyIdZP0NaDCJmdL19oJ3HrOAYQKlhVUn4INZslKhl0Hir6Z8c8iNdQ=s3625" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2249" data-original-width="3625" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9Qj62mCfndqD4UVLBn7QhBiKHFEyo4V9cu8chlhMKvaVhXND757Z-zziOUPqE49SUL6Xg35PITA-GzxaSaIuYJKeBwXNOD7NscM7BNiPP1K5iyPvINFkZf2A7Y-dfrlt_i7XcTyIdZP0NaDCJmdL19oJ3HrOAYQKlhVUn4INZslKhl0Hir6Z8c8iNdQ=w640-h398" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span>After
the rally, Dole and Kemp attended a fundraiser for the Oregon
Republican Party before leaving the state.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span>Dole
made no return visits to Oregon for the Fall campaign. He not only
had President Bill Clinton to contend with, but billionaire Ross
Perot would be on the ballot. Clinton bested Dole in Oregon by a
little over 111,000 votes. Here is a photo of some Dole Oregon
related pins. Some are national issued and some are probably local.
Perhaps this post will generate some photos of Oregon for Dole items. </span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgk4WKpyxbL41gWgDF6J_eBjOtO2QOKKAxzI1UJ_bXoS7ZZU5A6R4hVsEZdYLFyEYY3knoeoYVSYYBEmEvskYzDYK2H5j-fR7U1fyHZzyBbaqavcU-IPIVUkj2L4ryVoU80SHuc8F__meMRgAEfeWFzftLSMgnlQlH5R3Uy3TxUENarlY5_qs5uZ6-knA=s5121" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3583" data-original-width="5121" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgk4WKpyxbL41gWgDF6J_eBjOtO2QOKKAxzI1UJ_bXoS7ZZU5A6R4hVsEZdYLFyEYY3knoeoYVSYYBEmEvskYzDYK2H5j-fR7U1fyHZzyBbaqavcU-IPIVUkj2L4ryVoU80SHuc8F__meMRgAEfeWFzftLSMgnlQlH5R3Uy3TxUENarlY5_qs5uZ6-knA=w640-h448" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /> </span></span>
<p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span>The
first pin was issued by a national vendor. There are several matching
pins for the other candidates from 1996. The jugate and Dole photo
pin were issued by Tigereye Design. We suspect that the Dole-Kemp
star pin is a local Oregon made button. The Bobbitt button follows
other pins from 1996 that mention her. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Senator
Dole, having resigned from the Senate to dedicate his time to running
for President in 1996 suddenly found himself not holding public
office for the first time since 1950. He had more time now to
dedicate to issues he thought were important. One group and issue
that he never stopped advocating for was veterans. President Clinton
appointed Dole to serve as co-chair on the board of the </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">World
War II Memorial</span></span></u></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">.
It was dedicated and open to the public in 2004. He, of course, kept
up his advocacy for veterans. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Dole
was also able to lean into his more humorous side in his later years.
He made appearances on tv like Saturday Night Live. Lent his name to
advertising campaigns for products from </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Pepsi</span></span></u></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">to
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Viagra</span></span></u></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">.
He wrote or significantly contributed to eight books during his
lifetime. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">His
last known visit to Oregon was in 2001 for the Simon Benson Award
Dinner and visiting veterans at OHSU. Oregon Historical Society
Executive Director Kerry Tymchuk worked for Bob and Dole and shared
his thoughts with </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">KOIN
6</span></span></u></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">,
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">The
Oregonian</span></span></u></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">,
and several other local news outlets. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">CBS
Sunday Morning</span></span></u></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">did
a nice recap of Dole’s life and service. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span>Ending
on a more personal note, the passing of Bob Dole reminds this
collector of what got me into politics and eventually collecting
political items. I was in the 6th grade in 1996 and the presidential
election was the first election I was able to follow from start to
finish. Our class read Time for Kids and I still have the one issue
that had Dole and Clinton racing on a donkey and elephant on the
cover. I can recall lots of things about middle school, but that one
issue I think did more to make me curious about campaigns and
politics than anything before and sent me out on my political life.
Twenty-five years later, here I am, working and living in
politics. Bob Dole played some role in that, however minor it
may be to a 6th grader just reading and consuming information about
the election. </span></span>
</p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span>If
you have any Oregon Dole items please feel free to send us someone
photos. We would love to include them in this post. </span></span>
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</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span>Summary
of Bob Dole Visits to Oregon</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>1971 May 27th-
Dole visits Oregon for GOP fundraiser in Portland in his role as GOP
Chairman </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span>1976
Oct 29th- Dole makes campaign swing Klamath Falls and Pendleton. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span>1996
Feb 22nd- Dole has airport rally</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>Feb 23rd- Dole
attends event at Tek in Wilsonville & Naumes Inc. in
Medford</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>Aug 25th- Dole-Kemp
attend rally in Rose Quarter and OR GOP Fundraiser </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>2001 Dole Attends
Simon Benson Awards </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
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</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span><i>Surviving
Republican Presidential Nominees</i></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span><i> </i><br />George Walker Bush (2000,
2004)<br />Mitt Romney (2012)<br />Donald Trump (2016) </span></span>
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Carl Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038684160362672630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8210781652507752887.post-84793539908653156512021-11-29T01:10:00.002-08:002021-11-29T01:38:20.910-08:00The Missing Oregon Portraits <p>I recently read the article in the <a href="https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/politics/2021/11/28/oregon-history-search-portrait-governor-james-withycombe/6271454001/" target="_blank">Statesman Journal</a> from <a href="https://www.statesmanjournal.com/staff/5001716002/claire-withycombe/" target="_blank">Claire Withycombe</a> (a descendant of Governor Withycombe) about t<a href="https://oregoncapitolfoundation.org/governors-portraits/" target="_blank">he Oregon State Capitol Foundation</a> trying to track down the whereabouts and general information about the missing portraits of Oregon's governors. I thought I would do a little sleuthing. I was hoping, perhaps there would be an old blurry photograph of one of the missing paintings hidden in the wayback archives of our local Oregon newspapers. Sadly, no blurry images yet, but lots of interesting bits of information. </p><p>I guess prior to
1896 there was no subject or explanation of who these painted men were
until the office of the SOS issued cards with short bio statements about
each painting. The Medford Mail Tribune mentions that biographical data will be made on cards. These two images of the article give us exactly what was written on the cards. <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJDGbYpl-AROLgVSws2y9usfnWKPgkLHkyQvqxZLYBIndfPFWOXHdnjql2OnOHh2tlC0DuDdV6aRWvmFKr6wy5RcA9gbABxoWtY7sjsc22Q4PcAjb1fC0CsCtu6MgQLGDsRUk_Jcsnj3-1/s2048/The_Medford_Mail_Fri__Dec_4__1896_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1894" data-original-width="2048" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJDGbYpl-AROLgVSws2y9usfnWKPgkLHkyQvqxZLYBIndfPFWOXHdnjql2OnOHh2tlC0DuDdV6aRWvmFKr6wy5RcA9gbABxoWtY7sjsc22Q4PcAjb1fC0CsCtu6MgQLGDsRUk_Jcsnj3-1/s320/The_Medford_Mail_Fri__Dec_4__1896_.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEKREZNUYBI9Zwtnr_3KXTnIJj17vfhyphenhyphenfSB8FIaBhDkOTNp-XRLNrbhzRo1JfqtANt2uYL_JD5o2hbVZpsKWjdxXk3XOrLVKSM0E4InGKboI7ZB8vqPu4rYnYsX6LBiw7ur7Pq4gcquKCB/s3561/The_Medford_Mail_Fri__Dec_4__1896_%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3561" data-original-width="883" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEKREZNUYBI9Zwtnr_3KXTnIJj17vfhyphenhyphenfSB8FIaBhDkOTNp-XRLNrbhzRo1JfqtANt2uYL_JD5o2hbVZpsKWjdxXk3XOrLVKSM0E4InGKboI7ZB8vqPu4rYnYsX6LBiw7ur7Pq4gcquKCB/s320/The_Medford_Mail_Fri__Dec_4__1896_%25281%2529.jpg" width="79" /></a></div><br /><div>It seems like the legislature generally covered the cost of commissioning the early portraits (before Julius Meier) There are many articles that mention the legislature authorized the spending of $600 to an artist for a painting. At least one article mentions that State Senator Woodward felt that if the legislature spent some money they might get some paintings that 'resemblance of art'. Google told me that Daubs was not a descriptor you would use to say something looked fine. <br /></div><div> </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg23qaWNQu4Zi75n6dlIjx-2xLX-4zj4FBqWKM1Rwvhff06F94be2lSK0bvB043b2hKYOj2Sn78Z_F4VAG8kv7KTb2s7-l0JOH15uoq06MBjFoWRvGlTBgvzAjj74wbGfJuV4XcBqW7NjL7/s2048/The_Capital_Journal_Tue__Jan_13__1931_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1576" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg23qaWNQu4Zi75n6dlIjx-2xLX-4zj4FBqWKM1Rwvhff06F94be2lSK0bvB043b2hKYOj2Sn78Z_F4VAG8kv7KTb2s7-l0JOH15uoq06MBjFoWRvGlTBgvzAjj74wbGfJuV4XcBqW7NjL7/s320/The_Capital_Journal_Tue__Jan_13__1931_.jpg" width="246" /></a></div>Due to the remarks by the senator, The Oregonian reported that the State Senate provided a bill that would ask each President of the various universities, colleges and the Portland Art Institute to name a member of their Art Department to "obtain a portrait of Governor [I.L.] Patterson". Seems like they wanted a committee to decide on a portrait and the $600 commission. </div><div> </div><div>At least two non-governors was found in the capitol gallery back at the turn of the 20th century. In 1909, the Oregon Legislature accepted the gift of a portrait by President Grant from John W. Cook of Portland. The other was President George Washington. His portrait hung in one of the legislative chambers. </div><div><br /><div><b>Governor Martin Pleased...</b></div><div>In 1936 there was some
movement to commission the WPA to paint replacement portraits of the
ones lost in the capitol fire, but it did not go through apparently.
This pleased the governor enough that it got mentioned in the paper.
Governor Martin was no fan of FDR and many of the New Deal programs, so
I'm not surprised to learn this. The Bend Bulletin, 2/17/1936</div><div> <br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Governor Norbald's portrait</b></div><div>According to an article in the Corvallis-Gazette Times it was painted by a NW artist known as Joe Knowles. <a href=" https://columbiapacificheritagemuseum.org/event/the-art-of-joe-knowles/" target="_blank">The Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum</a> has a short page about him and describes him as one of the areas "
prominent eccentric"</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigeiq00Yl4-KXl6t6Yd3QAaO5SxNg_AmIPMTjBAszJ2piBw57rdZuxhYXCJsLvekeWCc0NsxaI73o-53GZxsS6y1rfNzmH9YGHYtmf8lKYqbAzpYedQm3X0slEjtuq_oHEXl_hOoOKYAEH/s2048/Corvallis_Gazette_Times_Mon__Dec_3__1934_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1524" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigeiq00Yl4-KXl6t6Yd3QAaO5SxNg_AmIPMTjBAszJ2piBw57rdZuxhYXCJsLvekeWCc0NsxaI73o-53GZxsS6y1rfNzmH9YGHYtmf8lKYqbAzpYedQm3X0slEjtuq_oHEXl_hOoOKYAEH/s320/Corvallis_Gazette_Times_Mon__Dec_3__1934_.jpg" width="238" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b> Early Portraits by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Cogswell" target="_blank">William Cogswell</a></b></div><div>According to an 1887 article in the Weekly Oregon Statesman, the state "commissioned" him to paint many of the early portraits. His Wikipedia entry explains that Cogswell has works hanging in the White House (President Lincoln) and the Congress (President Grant) and many institutions and museums across the country. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0nbxAcRTRClfqV1VZX9b2UQREHtgoYKja-SLXKiCH49U5Y0aspmbwOqaSZdSZQIcEKzqlxeLTKMbJvnq1SpdH_pSBVAnn5Lq6hxcaLTLSQEnYhVkkxn4WnZlCsvww3CZ8S5nIORqq0uhd/s2048/Weekly_Oregon_Statesman_Fri__Feb_25__1887_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1863" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0nbxAcRTRClfqV1VZX9b2UQREHtgoYKja-SLXKiCH49U5Y0aspmbwOqaSZdSZQIcEKzqlxeLTKMbJvnq1SpdH_pSBVAnn5Lq6hxcaLTLSQEnYhVkkxn4WnZlCsvww3CZ8S5nIORqq0uhd/s320/Weekly_Oregon_Statesman_Fri__Feb_25__1887_.jpg" width="291" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Walter Pierce portrait </b><br /></div><div>According to articles from 1929, it was commissioned for $600 by artist <a href="http://portlandartmuseum.us/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=11424;type=701" target="_blank">Sidney Bell</a> (Sydney Bell?)The Oregonian would report that that the final cost would be $1000. Not sure which of the two articles is correct. <br /></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Governor Chamberlain portrait</b></div><div>Portland artist <a href="https://www.askart.com/artist/Louis_Richard_Max_Meyer/10036778/Louis_Richard_Max_Meyer.aspx" target="_blank">Richard Max Meyer</a> was commissioned to paint Governor Chamberlain. He was also commissioned by the legislature to clean, restore and touch up all the other portraits as they had become dirty over the years. (Statesman Journal: 2/28/1905)</div><div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieVGW6ezzn64tKQqLUWPnm6qRqIGJjAKFFKyYu6h6j2jmNlr7ruzvrIVsJy8tnMQ35_CTuyAVh2V8KqlcKpnVJKB08Zrp_kDq3pL-c25VJb00kGVynH39KBJQYSI9jq_RtZbm6zOt2cDug/s2624/Statesman_Journal_Tue__Feb_28__1905_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1199" data-original-width="2624" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieVGW6ezzn64tKQqLUWPnm6qRqIGJjAKFFKyYu6h6j2jmNlr7ruzvrIVsJy8tnMQ35_CTuyAVh2V8KqlcKpnVJKB08Zrp_kDq3pL-c25VJb00kGVynH39KBJQYSI9jq_RtZbm6zOt2cDug/s320/Statesman_Journal_Tue__Feb_28__1905_.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> </div><div><b>Governor Olcott's portrait</b></div><div>From a short blurb in the Oregonian in July of 1920 it states that an artist named Fredrick Webster may have been commissioned to paint Governor Olcott. Another article from 1923 mentions that the legislature approved the $600 to purchase a painting. <b> </b><br /></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Governor West's portrait </b><br /></div><div>Cost the legislature $500 and was painted by <a href="http://portlandartmuseum.us/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=7376;type=701" target="_blank">John Trullinger </a></div><div><br /></div><div>It caused quite the response from lovers and critics when it was unveiled at the capitol. The Statesman Journal covered reactions from those gathered. Apparently, West's hand rests on a book titled 'The Copperfield War', and a picture of Abigail Scott Duniway is in the background showing her signing the Suffrage bill. There were interesting choices made for his physical appearance and coloring. It would seem like the portrait of West hanging up in the Oregon Capitol currently is not the one commissioned and painted by John Trullinger...unless later the legislature decided to become art critics and commission another one. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizyt5L3_OPytEyCFmp0DRHEOpDy47t7cKD_duOf7mTTOw81108mPY-R3ufUONY7j7w6UbKBkO8smyk_AMYoSFd_OPrXXojJD2Kcd9wlzlNGp05FZKIn5xtVkSmqt6_i3x0DVbDgHUwQMTu/s2928/Statesman_Journal_Thu__Aug_12__1915_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2928" data-original-width="1074" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizyt5L3_OPytEyCFmp0DRHEOpDy47t7cKD_duOf7mTTOw81108mPY-R3ufUONY7j7w6UbKBkO8smyk_AMYoSFd_OPrXXojJD2Kcd9wlzlNGp05FZKIn5xtVkSmqt6_i3x0DVbDgHUwQMTu/s320/Statesman_Journal_Thu__Aug_12__1915_.jpg" width="117" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju_0J5X7yumWakAIczwNmTJeXAN_gPVMp1AufIY0z3r96pKXNppN-3wZW4WQXvCkOz4pzp89HgoM2tTfD3KVZnzqtYIW7mx_XlCaYwIgwX2-Cl8fZxdH7_fh_Dar0Bsq_NBRx-DBbABtE-/s3231/Statesman_Journal_Thu__Aug_12__1915_%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3231" data-original-width="973" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju_0J5X7yumWakAIczwNmTJeXAN_gPVMp1AufIY0z3r96pKXNppN-3wZW4WQXvCkOz4pzp89HgoM2tTfD3KVZnzqtYIW7mx_XlCaYwIgwX2-Cl8fZxdH7_fh_Dar0Bsq_NBRx-DBbABtE-/s320/Statesman_Journal_Thu__Aug_12__1915_%25281%2529.jpg" width="96" /></a></div><p>As for the missing portrait of Governor James Withycombe, here is what we know based on news articles shortly after he died. </p><p>The Oregon Legislature appropriated $600 for the portrait to Sidney Bell, the same artist that I mentioned earlier in the post. </p><p>The portrait was finished by February 1921, when an article in the Statesman Journal 'Society News of the Week' mentions that the family "recognize in the work not only a perfect likeness, but an emobodyment of personality, and a remarkable canvas from an artistic point of view as well".</p><p>The article even describes a little bit of the actual portrait (this may help future sleuths) "The figure is shown in a sitting posture, the graceful, easy treatment of the hands, and the character-revelation in the face being nothing but remarkable". </p><p>I'm sorry I haven't been able to find more, I'm sure there are some places out there worth looking. Things pop up everywhere. The desk of <span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto">Governor Wm. Wallace Thayer for instance is in a room at the Tillamook Pioneer Museum. </span></p><p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto">You can read more about the Oregon Capitol Foundation and their effort to find more info here: <a href="https://oregoncapitolfoundation.org/governors-portraits/">https://oregoncapitolfoundation.org/governors-portraits/</a></span></p><p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto">The most likely fate of many of the portraits made before Julius Meier? It is a strong possibility that many of them were destroyed when the Oregon Capitol building burned to the ground in 1935. </span></p><p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto">Oregon APIC members are of course encouraged to help in the search for more information. </span></p><p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto"> </span> </p><p> <br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span><!--more--></span><span><!--more--></span>Carl Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038684160362672630noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8210781652507752887.post-4145114049546890182021-02-12T00:48:00.002-08:002021-02-12T01:22:51.744-08:00Write-Ins are Personal: Wayne Morse <p> How fascinating that during the month of February we learn the origin of the 'Write-In Wayne Morse The Dark Horse' for President bumper sticker I picked up a few years ago on ebay from a seller in Washington State. If you are patient, with the massive digitizing of older media, you will eventually stumble upon some answers. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFrmgWqgF3UPJce5Pgix4rAFuYkuvwXYlq44SEHINUbqHya-W2YIpVghKecT6UsPwxq0qcSAInZQGm3vIw9nN7rIIDvgHXG45iuMHtN5gqeqBIlIA0GlWwsxUQk7jw6b4w-6rdD3LpvD3h/s640/darkhorsesitkcerfoundinwastate.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="305" data-original-width="640" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFrmgWqgF3UPJce5Pgix4rAFuYkuvwXYlq44SEHINUbqHya-W2YIpVghKecT6UsPwxq0qcSAInZQGm3vIw9nN7rIIDvgHXG45iuMHtN5gqeqBIlIA0GlWwsxUQk7jw6b4w-6rdD3LpvD3h/w466-h221/darkhorsesitkcerfoundinwastate.JPG" width="466" /></a></div><br /><span><a name='more'></a></span><p>The assumption of this sticker was that it was issued in support of Morse's 1960 presidential effort. He only entered three primaries that year (Maryland, DC, and Oregon) and therefore if you had wanted to vote for Senator Morse you would have had to write him in your state if there was a presidential primary. Case closed right? Wrong! </p><p>After doing a search for the slogan 'Wayne Morse the Dark Horse' I came upon a personal ad of all things. The ad appeared in papers across Washington State in 1964 for the General Election. Here is the ad </p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivz0Ic6yWPOe5JxoZ_xQknul1tfASpdxoEdP9DY0l8nSij6pEAZEHuHxgAMwG-Av3T1uXjeQQ7soFndBjgsyorBAqYvjypGNESv5hyphenhyphenzjOkXbMIIa2ECAvTqZf5MzB2jVmbnOYetxO4PjF0/s2652/The_Spokesman_Review_Fri__Aug_28__1964_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1185" data-original-width="2652" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivz0Ic6yWPOe5JxoZ_xQknul1tfASpdxoEdP9DY0l8nSij6pEAZEHuHxgAMwG-Av3T1uXjeQQ7soFndBjgsyorBAqYvjypGNESv5hyphenhyphenzjOkXbMIIa2ECAvTqZf5MzB2jVmbnOYetxO4PjF0/s320/The_Spokesman_Review_Fri__Aug_28__1964_.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: left;">What makes this so interesting is that the person placing the ad was himself a candidate for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Washington state that year. Mr. Arthur C. DeWitt. We know some about Mr. DeWitt thanks to the <a href="http://www.krabarchive.com/krab-art-dewitt-in-the-news.html" target="_blank">KRAB-FM archive</a>, made up of various clippings from Washington state newspapers. Seemed to be a colorful individual. He owned Art's Unlimited and Art's Magazines, an adult bookstore in downtown Seattle. He was convicted under obscenity laws and accused of being a 'smut peddler' that led to an eventual mental health breakdown. <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"> In 1964 he would have been running in the primary against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_M._Jackson" target="_blank">Scoop Jackson</a>. Clearly Mr. DeWitt did not win, but he ran as a staunch anti-right wing candidate. He thought Jackson and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Magnuson" target="_blank">Warren Magnuson</a> both too conservative for the party. The ad indicates that you will be sent free stickers. A short story covered DeWitt's unusual tactic. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHAW5oGUI4tidrIdWq4Eg2avI3AtOjs4_hRD6lOAmY-qc2wMV5zDNJ7GrJn6Jlejl0C7U8tS2J3__6fsgVFhTN-i1qmxPdhzH_3Tkf2jasWn9s9VyUxg1pa0zpCNr1j2aVAMFj7kEtaXyt/s2048/Spokane_Chronicle_Mon__Aug_17__1964_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2008" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHAW5oGUI4tidrIdWq4Eg2avI3AtOjs4_hRD6lOAmY-qc2wMV5zDNJ7GrJn6Jlejl0C7U8tS2J3__6fsgVFhTN-i1qmxPdhzH_3Tkf2jasWn9s9VyUxg1pa0zpCNr1j2aVAMFj7kEtaXyt/s320/Spokane_Chronicle_Mon__Aug_17__1964_.jpg" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;">Write-In Wayne Morse for President instead of voting for Johnson or Goldwater. Vote for DeWitt instead of the Johnson backed Scoop Jackson. It's an interest tactic. It did not work. <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=338241" target="_blank">DeWitt ended up with only 4% of the vote. </a></p><p style="text-align: left;">He issued a second ad after the one above </p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirFwV5zlpF7BZSK91MUdCnbI-4SjmvX8IoSzxJVBRlvYQVzwUpTHxD_rVcPs9oMy7CCTNx9MopjrcUOaXRy42WSQxqF12Xo4Dm4Zv4KhzyNBFOFasIX7M4jDTmT-HYMMcyHupivfKt21Xq/s3207/The_Spokesman_Review_Tue__Aug_18__1964_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="981" data-original-width="3207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirFwV5zlpF7BZSK91MUdCnbI-4SjmvX8IoSzxJVBRlvYQVzwUpTHxD_rVcPs9oMy7CCTNx9MopjrcUOaXRy42WSQxqF12Xo4Dm4Zv4KhzyNBFOFasIX7M4jDTmT-HYMMcyHupivfKt21Xq/s320/The_Spokesman_Review_Tue__Aug_18__1964_.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"> Here is an ad from the fall of 1964</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2FSg0bIcEGEnxrWUax74lTWI5U9lWKWoG5-1NNKjy0F9XQqB7KkKzxhGzsBrQqSOCdv-gOEV5UAFx61adU0fGq6sXLaNaO-5AXjeGQVK3MkjNbZkKcb7B2n7cn_HUa3ppxySW7zJf2xBX/s2048/The_Spokesman_Review_Tue__Oct_6__1964_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1315" data-original-width="2048" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2FSg0bIcEGEnxrWUax74lTWI5U9lWKWoG5-1NNKjy0F9XQqB7KkKzxhGzsBrQqSOCdv-gOEV5UAFx61adU0fGq6sXLaNaO-5AXjeGQVK3MkjNbZkKcb7B2n7cn_HUa3ppxySW7zJf2xBX/w417-h267/The_Spokesman_Review_Tue__Oct_6__1964_.jpg" width="417" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">By 1968, he had started placing ads that explained his platform in more detail </p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtNE3xEdtmK8SBqZNVaPyadw107MfvjjFrPHvri8PrXJLAya2hkHXH3Qi_BFuBsxwSPQRNtaGK3Myf0kMFFI41ax5Ttw-jfSOMfHznpKbm8FGp96_ZR-lYeh3BFYnkkw1nQkdaEekWZKrd/s2048/Spokane_Chronicle_Thu__Sep_12__1968_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1208" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtNE3xEdtmK8SBqZNVaPyadw107MfvjjFrPHvri8PrXJLAya2hkHXH3Qi_BFuBsxwSPQRNtaGK3Myf0kMFFI41ax5Ttw-jfSOMfHznpKbm8FGp96_ZR-lYeh3BFYnkkw1nQkdaEekWZKrd/w267-h452/Spokane_Chronicle_Thu__Sep_12__1968_.jpg" width="267" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">By 1968 (<a href="http://www.krabarchive.com/programs/krab-who-was-gene-johnston.html" target="_blank">Senate Poster</a>)he was claiming to be a Peace and Freedom Party candidate running in the primary against Magnuson. His platform included reopening the Kennedy assassination investigation, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18, legalizing weed and getting out of Vietnam. No mention of asking voters to write in Wayne Morse for President in 1968. The KRAB Radio archives has a little more information on Mr. DeWitt. <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">While it is somewhat disappointing that the Morse for President bumper sticker was not from his 1960 effort, it seems even cooler that this sticker is from a 1964 liberal write-in effort. As for Mr. DeWitt, I could find no further mention of him after 1971. <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Carl Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038684160362672630noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8210781652507752887.post-31711546546826755432020-12-28T13:37:00.003-08:002020-12-30T13:21:36.198-08:00Remembering Those We Lost in 2020<p>A number of Oregon politicos have left us in 2020, more so than most years and instead of trying to do lengthy posts about all of them, and some that we do not have many items for we have provided links to their obituaries or other online memorials. If we have written about them in the past we have included a link to that article on our own blog. Also, if you believe we have missed someone feel free to send us a note. <br /></p><div> <span><a name='more'></a></span></div><div> </div><div> <a href="https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/statesmanjournal/obituary.aspx?n=michael-e-swaim&pid=194973713">Mike Swaim</a>, former Mayor of Salem. Mayor Swaim passed away in late of 2019 and was not included in previous posts Memorial posts from last year. Here is an example of a button and bumper sticker from his campaigns. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjorEfknpEYxqowo2J0i7tpYUezXuNq2AOG3HFY9Ujo0J6RVHzflLZdtqbWdeerrAWgDCUD3qf8Mp_ZEnAUPPeE8-9-3yk0RUIEwOvsJhId_2SXBMKvd65sEW2gLJ-5WPay8oBoBL2Nqr2y/s854/80291430_10100647675580258_8003158286029291520_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="854" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjorEfknpEYxqowo2J0i7tpYUezXuNq2AOG3HFY9Ujo0J6RVHzflLZdtqbWdeerrAWgDCUD3qf8Mp_ZEnAUPPeE8-9-3yk0RUIEwOvsJhId_2SXBMKvd65sEW2gLJ-5WPay8oBoBL2Nqr2y/s320/80291430_10100647675580258_8003158286029291520_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/05/rep-mitch-greenlick-longtime-oregon-lawmaker-dies-at-85.html&source=gmail&ust=1607197070839000&usg=AFQjCNFGf7WYp-WEKl9KXLuDawonIkrD_g" href="https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/05/rep-mitch-greenlick-longtime-oregon-lawmaker-dies-at-85.html" target="_blank">Mitch Greenlick, State Representative </a></div><div><br /></div><div>We covered some items from Mitch Greenlick's campaigns in a <a href="http://oregonapic.blogspot.com/2018/04/mitch-greenlick-capitol-letters-buttons.html">previous post.</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2020/06/former-oregon-lawmaker-vic-gilliam-known-for-humor-and-bipartisanship-dies-at-66.html&source=gmail&ust=1607197070839000&usg=AFQjCNFUSRY5gcUU51id9UeNRMhXArLj5w" href="https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2020/06/former-oregon-lawmaker-vic-gilliam-known-for-humor-and-bipartisanship-dies-at-66.html" target="_blank">Vick Gilliam, former State Representative </a></div><div> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj05JtVInF7CpiM1KkxYHl1j4WFJ8rnDbtWtQ2sYdt4Q8oE6Gb1dullc5lAxPwICtQoMyUaAEEZ2B6GrhhbKr5NbaiPQgeurroP9dTpdBfU5s1hhj_cdFqHdZ3y3_-gM-gvRyVnTZ-YSo2M/s734/548189_10100316291755597_106891665_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="532" data-original-width="734" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj05JtVInF7CpiM1KkxYHl1j4WFJ8rnDbtWtQ2sYdt4Q8oE6Gb1dullc5lAxPwICtQoMyUaAEEZ2B6GrhhbKr5NbaiPQgeurroP9dTpdBfU5s1hhj_cdFqHdZ3y3_-gM-gvRyVnTZ-YSo2M/s320/548189_10100316291755597_106891665_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>Thanks to Andrew Nelson for having these handy and scanned. <a href="http://andrewdavidnelson.com/political">Redden was a graduate of Boston College. </a><br /></div><p><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://obits.oregonlive.com/obituaries/oregon/obituary.aspx?n%3Dralph-e-bunch%26pid%3D196430894&source=gmail&ust=1607197070839000&usg=AFQjCNG-978FGmIY01dET2iEhvWyuMjD1Q" href="https://obits.oregonlive.com/obituaries/oregon/obituary.aspx?n=ralph-e-bunch&pid=196430894" target="_blank">Ralph Bunc</a>h,
first President of Common Cause Oregon, Democratic candidate for
Congress 1972 against Wendell Wyatt, and 1974 in Dem primary won by Les
AuCoin. </p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTf1B6pHP-FN27cMzGgVoHheq3na2Ar1YI-yjZEJzqM1Mw61ogIga5Aiu2kG2IvEb-rfgTTNP52DKsZf9sD-jZ_lCLywoMH1O30dNnQZnnpLw7zX-sE9DVm0TWqxCwDUtms30ginCmJ8cO/s940/Bunchpins.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="940" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTf1B6pHP-FN27cMzGgVoHheq3na2Ar1YI-yjZEJzqM1Mw61ogIga5Aiu2kG2IvEb-rfgTTNP52DKsZf9sD-jZ_lCLywoMH1O30dNnQZnnpLw7zX-sE9DVm0TWqxCwDUtms30ginCmJ8cO/s320/Bunchpins.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p> <a href="https://pamplinmedia.com/wbi/152-news/489935-393832-former-woodburn-representative-cliff-zauner-dies-at-86-pwoff" target="_blank">Cliff Zauner, State Representative </a></p><p>(If you have a Cliff Zauner item to share please send it in) </p><p><a href="https://www.opb.org/news/article/nick-fish-portland-dead-obituary/" target="_blank">Nick Fish</a>, Portland City Commissioner</p><p>City Commissioner Nick Fish, a member of the great <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_family" target="_blank">Fish political dynasty</a>. There are several items from his various campaigns for State Senate and City Council. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPP7JnC9lUVVHjUKyJFUAsuj5clTmfONM-vZyrszXt4SZXe8mYI-WKWgNj5Ywipr5tajb0Nkn-J7ji7eiyOFO5qS_uJIfJUy2xTmWx10Bc9-EMdVIn3uwNmEu4GnEOYrHuk4bAKkuXaKNe/s1160/31598591_10100426229220538_6872602578803228672_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="731" data-original-width="1160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPP7JnC9lUVVHjUKyJFUAsuj5clTmfONM-vZyrszXt4SZXe8mYI-WKWgNj5Ywipr5tajb0Nkn-J7ji7eiyOFO5qS_uJIfJUy2xTmWx10Bc9-EMdVIn3uwNmEu4GnEOYrHuk4bAKkuXaKNe/s320/31598591_10100426229220538_6872602578803228672_o.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: left;">The GO Fish! button was from Nick's campaign for State Senate and the other FISH pins are from his father's campaigns for Congress in NY. Nick was also a casual button collector and friend of the APIC. He inherited his father's Willkie collection. <br /></p><p><a href="https://nwlaborpress.org/2020/11/sam-dominy-1945-2020/">Sam Dominy, State Representative </a></p><p> There are three buttons from Sam Dominy's various campaigns in this collection legislative political buttons. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFSSOqizdqBmgWphZA_63qoX9VIpUM_DLwci_HyxLdpODU6-B6j6SX8E11wAHsHP4Xf10rjbSm6GqhUFjVk_QNM_D5dMQWzwtpocn9u2sNU1rFA60TESJErktGonhhYHDTgYoH4yb0ibpV/s1754/42058450_10100479845423238_4141228795610791936_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1276" data-original-width="1754" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFSSOqizdqBmgWphZA_63qoX9VIpUM_DLwci_HyxLdpODU6-B6j6SX8E11wAHsHP4Xf10rjbSm6GqhUFjVk_QNM_D5dMQWzwtpocn9u2sNU1rFA60TESJErktGonhhYHDTgYoH4yb0ibpV/s320/42058450_10100479845423238_4141228795610791936_o.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/statesmanjournal/obituary.aspx?n=selma-moon-pierce&pid=197222758&fhid=7982" target="_blank">Selma Pierce</a>, candidate for State Rep. HD 20 (2018, 2020) <br /></p><p></p><p>(looking for items from the Pierce campaign) </p><p></p><p></p><p>If you know of items we do not have pictured here please feel free to send us images. <br /><br /><br /></p>Carl Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038684160362672630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8210781652507752887.post-56169040068571957602020-07-12T22:42:00.002-07:002020-07-12T22:42:40.790-07:00Reading Into It: Biographies of Oregon Governors Part 2 <div>In our last post we covered six biographical looks at former Oregon governors. They ranged from some of the most recent works to earlier efforts. We are now going to follow up with just a few more that you may find interesting. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The first perhaps one of the oldest. It is written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Thurston_Geer" target="_blank">T.T. Geer</a> (Theodore Thurston Geer<b>)</b>. He was the 10th Governor of Oregon. He was the first governor elected that was born in the Oregon (Oregon Territory at the time of his birth in 1851). To this day, some of his decedents still live in the Salem area and his family farm has been turned into an educational and development farm called <a href="https://www.geercrest.org/" target="_blank">GeerCrest</a>. After his time in office he wrote a book about seeking and holding elected office, politics, life and various other subjects. He titled the 536 page book:<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=629NAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/Fifty_Years_in_Oregon.html?id=wFTbZPqBYccC" target="_blank">Fifty Years in Oregon: Experiences, Observations, and Commentaries Upon Men, Measures, and Customs in Pioneer Days and Later Times</a></div><div><br /></div><div>It wont cost you a thing to read, you can download it for free online. If you wanted to get a first hand experience to what life for European settlers in the Willamette Valley was like and how the people of the Salem area adjusted to life after statehood you should check out a few chapters. It is a very easy read. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Tom McCall is very popular and after he was governor he struggled to find himself and what he exactly wanted to do. He took on the project of writing an autobiography, with the help of Steve Neal. It was called <a href="https://www.montgomeryrarebooks.com/pages/books/747/tom-mccall-steve-neal/tom-mccall-maverick" target="_blank">Tom McCall: Maverick.</a></div><div><br /></div><div>These were published by noted local publisher Binford & Morts in 1977. Tom McCall traveled the state doing readings of the book. Many that are turning up right now in used book stores may even have his signature in them. It was always popular to get the authors signature, even more so since it was Tom McCall! <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Some books are personal projects that become something more. W. Scott Jorgensen started off in local journalism and now works in local government. For years he had admired Oregon Governor Vic Atiyeh. He decided to take that passion and a growing relationship with Governor Atiyeh and write book. It's called <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Conversations-Atiyeh-W-Scott-Jorgensen/dp/0945648219" target="_blank">Conversations with Atiyeh</a></div><div><br /></div><div>While not a full weighty biography like Brent Walth's <u>Fire at Eden's Gate</u> of Governor McCall, <u>Conversations with Atiyeh</u> comes in at 130 pages and is more a collection of reflections Atiyeh shares with Jorgensen. Until a more lengthy work is published about Atiyeh, this will have to keep fans going until such time as one is written. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Mark Hatfield did just about everything you could in Oregon politics during his expansive career. He was in the legislature, elected Secretary of State, Governor and U.S. Senator. He even had short flirtations with the presidency and vice presidency between 1964 and 1972. When Ronald Reagan won the White House in 1980 it was Hatfield that was put in charge of the Inaugural Committee to oversea the ceremony on capitol hill. In his later years he would often be sought out to be the honorary chairman of various campaigns. During all this time of political engagement he also found time to write several books. Three in about a eight year period from 1968 to 1976. <br /></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><u>Not Quite So Simple</u> (1968), <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/439212" rel="nofollow">439212</a><i> </i><u>Conflict and Conscience</u> (1971), <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-87680-811-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-87680-811-9">0-87680-811-9</a><i> </i><u>Between a Rock and a Hard Place</u> (1976), <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-87680-427-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-87680-427-X">0-87680-427-X <br /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>He liked to write about politics and his faith as a christian. He also contributed to six different works, including a book with Ted Kennedy. That one is called <u>Freeze! How You Can Help Prevent Nuclear War </u>(1982), <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-553-14077-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-553-14077-9">0-553-14077-9</a></div><div><br /></div><div>One of the more biographical works that Hatfield was written in 2008 by former staffer Lon Fendall and explores Hatfield as a progressive christian in a time in which Republicans are certainly christian but not seen as progressive. It's called <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Stand-Alone-Come-Home-Evangelical/dp/1594980152"><u>Stand Alone or Come Home: Mark Hatfield as an Evangelical and a Progressive <span style="color: black;">(2008)</span></u></a><u>. </u></div><div><br /></div><div>The other biographical book is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lonely-Walk-Life-Senator-Hatfield/dp/0915684497 " target="_blank"><u>Lonely Walk: The Life of Senator Mark Hatfield</u></a> (1979). It was written by Robert Eells and Bartlet Nyberg. We don't know much about Eells and Nyberg other than that they wrote the book with Mark Hatfield's cooperation and participation. It deals with the mixing of politics and faith, which appears to be a common theme in his own writings. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The final Hatfield book was published in 2000 and was called <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Against-Grain-Reflections-Rebel-Republican/dp/1883991366" target="_blank"><u>Against the Grain: Reflections of a Rebel Republican</u></a> by Diane N. Solomon. The author, with cooperation and interviews with Senator Hatfield reflects on his career, faith and the ever changing nature of politics in the country. It is probably the most comprehensive biographical work of Mark Hatfield, until a more scholarly work is written. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>There is a lot of Mark Hatfield out there to read and study. Our next set of books will not be about Oregon Governors but Oregon politicians in general. There are few scholarly works out about U.S. Senators and members of Congress, but in recent years a surprising number of unique local politicians have started to document their lives and political careers. Some elected and some not. Stay tuned for a future post on those works. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Carl Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038684160362672630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8210781652507752887.post-44648065957693354052020-06-02T12:58:00.003-07:002020-06-02T14:42:18.923-07:00Send Carl to Philly: The Buttons & Experience of one Delegate <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrfOsXURCt569WPDJJr6lTKfPZHINhg4qvVQ_b7sxEMVhXJLlsCOfoQoePS16pmuROAaORScQs8dKW7WHGVE19UpI2OtBrUxUXyHkhIXzJasIU52ADOeWEvYU_MyrIRW6enjrWe6ZJpdFK/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrfOsXURCt569WPDJJr6lTKfPZHINhg4qvVQ_b7sxEMVhXJLlsCOfoQoePS16pmuROAaORScQs8dKW7WHGVE19UpI2OtBrUxUXyHkhIXzJasIU52ADOeWEvYU_MyrIRW6enjrWe6ZJpdFK/w320-h240/13735122_10210165384949721_3895217272306942765_o.jpg" title="Fisher & Otter: East meets West" width="320" /></a></div>In the summer of 2016 I boarded a plane for the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For political junkies, a national political convention of any party is an experience to be remembered. I will have the buttons and photos to help my ailing memory one day as I reach my mid thirties. In writing this, I wanted to share my campaign experiences and political items I picked up along the way with my fellow APIC members.<br /><br /><br />I started my campaign about a month before Oregon’s congressional district nominating conventions began. In order to participate in these conventions you must declare a candidate caucus and register for the convention. This was after the Oregon Presidential Primary. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and celebrity Donald Trump won their respective primaries in Oregon. Knowing that competition in the First Congressional District would be fierce for Bernie Sanders delegate slots, I decided to file for a Hillary Clinton delegate position.<br /><div><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /></div><br /><div>I spent the next month getting my friends and family who were registered Democrats to sign up for the convention. I sent out weekly emails to all my sign ups to keep them informed about the latest updates from the campaign and from the convention organizers. I made some phone calls to late sign ups, but mostly, I knew I had a solid pool of voters coming to support me. What I did not know was, if I would win on the first ballot. To prepare, I designed and printed a campaign handout with a list of supporters on one side, and my biography on another. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbZAFVavy_DUmvbMLplDL_li7u795N0xzQz1-XOeSwsD9fc8_D3MC2rge65oKm-8oWkay43w18ug84PlBFpuJiPzM_Zln-oEAnxQgbusK1mxyGjE21UmctJUD0Vh6PE8U69FoZHQp_CfLG/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="978" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbZAFVavy_DUmvbMLplDL_li7u795N0xzQz1-XOeSwsD9fc8_D3MC2rge65oKm-8oWkay43w18ug84PlBFpuJiPzM_Zln-oEAnxQgbusK1mxyGjE21UmctJUD0Vh6PE8U69FoZHQp_CfLG/s320/carl1.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><div>I issued two political pins. Both were celluloids. One was a 3” blue pin and the other was a 1 ¾” white pin. Both are pictured below. The 3” pin includes the details of the convention. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>It was popular to incorporate the Hilary H into names of people and places on campaign items throughout the country and I took advantage of the H in my last name. I was also able to fit it into the H of Philly. My father still wears the smaller pin in his hat. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>2020 has seen a dramatic drop in items produced for delegate campaigns because of COVID-19. Buttons were already scarce, but due to state parties moving elections online with no conventions paper items have been virtually (get it?) wiped out this year. <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR1U8wsNBRnHfmI8cXHCgaY-A0qj1eV94k-mdNIl_GjMZUR_TqYEZKX7sw12ViFzPQu-Js2QuqSf5W8A1jNT-wGV1BPQ4bdTJu4v7tmoRqR1Wwh-p89UlJ-w5-QdhfGG3WdmIR2Kk7GNdK/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="617" data-original-width="603" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR1U8wsNBRnHfmI8cXHCgaY-A0qj1eV94k-mdNIl_GjMZUR_TqYEZKX7sw12ViFzPQu-Js2QuqSf5W8A1jNT-wGV1BPQ4bdTJu4v7tmoRqR1Wwh-p89UlJ-w5-QdhfGG3WdmIR2Kk7GNdK/s320/carl2.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div>There were 9 delegates in total for the First Congressional District. Five went to Bernie Sanders and 4 went to Hillary Clinton. Democratic delegates in Oregon are apportioned by gender. It worked out wonderfully that the Clinton delegation from the First District would yield 2 female delegates and 2 male delegates. I felt very good about my chances. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>In 2008, I had helped a friend of mine be elected an Obama delegate from Oregon’s Fifth Congressional District. Due to the way the delegates were divided that year between the districts, Obama only had one male delegate from the 5th CD. There were over 200 candidates at that convention. I was very happy to hear there would be two chances. I just had to hope that I had recruited enough friends to come vote for me on the first ballot. The Green Papers is an excellent web resource that covers every state in the country and their primary or caucus. They include details about how delegates are elected in each state. Here is the 2016 Oregon Democratic Primary page: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P16/OR-D</a></div><br /><br />After we broke up into our respective caucuses the voting started. Candidates were given a chance to speak and we went back and forth bewteen male candidates speaking and voting to female candidates speaking and voting. Multiple ballots would be required for each gender. There were at least 20 male delegate candidates attending the Clinton Caucus. I made my two minute speech and sat down. The votes started. Waiting is sometimes the most difficult part. We had just taken the vote for the first round of female delegates when the convention organizers came in to announce the results from the first round of male delegate voting. Convention Chair Mike Bohan announced, ‘only one candidate received over a clear majority on the first ballot to be elected a delegate: Congratulations Carl Fisher!’. He then announced the 4 runners up that would be on the 2nd ballot. <br /><div><br /></div><div>I was ecstatic,even if I was hid behind a calm face. For many activists attending a national convention is the culmination of years of work and in many ways is recognition from your peers of that work and a show of trust that they have put in you to represent them for this event. I then had to run a second phase of the campaign. The fundraising. I don't think there is a single person that enjoys asking for money for anything. Especially politics. From presidents to precinct workers I think it is the least admired part of political campaigns. I knew I couldn't afford to attend the convention without raising some money. I set up a 'go fundme' and started asking. Thankfully, I was able to raise all that I needed and little more (which lucky for me as problems would come up). <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Transportation to the convention was an ordeal. My friends and family that followed the journey via Facebook all suspected I may never get there. After three flight cancellations, (it was a good thing I had little bit of a cushion from fundraising) I arrived on Monday afternoon, the first day of the convention. I missed the welcome party on Sunday night. I missed credentialing Monday morning and was left with an alternate pass for the first night. That meant I was up in the rafters. Alternate Moses Ross ended up with my pass that night. He was kind enough to give me it for an hour or two so I could walk on the floor with the other Oregon delegates. As I was gazing up, taking all the sights in, I felt a smack on my back. I turned around and it was Governor Kate Brown. She said, ‘It’s about time you go here!’. I was glad to finally be at the convention. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Now looking back, it was a little funny. I had planned to leave a full two days early in order to spend time in Washington DC and Maryland visiting local sites and friends. Instead of being one of the first delegates to arrive, I was the last one to arrive for our delegation. </div><br /><br />The Hillary Campaign provided two pins to delegates. One was a 3” pin that said Delegate 2016 on it. Another 3” pin was Red, White and Blue and given to Delegate Whip Captains. Oregon Bernie Sanders Delegates came with t-shirts and green 2 ¼” buttons The Whip Captain pin pictured in this article was worn by Oregon Clinton Delegate Rick Hartwig. The Hillary Clinton Delegate badge was worn by myself. I still need to get one of the green Bernie delegate pins. If you are looking for official pins produced by the campaign for the convention these are the two to get from the Clinton campaign. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5IejNb9lFzyjrj4_A7t_wLdEzI3TY9O-Ff9gXrv8Iu_JWRZbLdCVLsnZtp8EBGV9_Vn6jbK8oLJkENAzUpOm3iLH6-iMxfhj3cRabi_qjwav1k1PzYs0KrUWjv3h8O1brWS-eGpBe_aHe/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1428" data-original-width="2000" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5IejNb9lFzyjrj4_A7t_wLdEzI3TY9O-Ff9gXrv8Iu_JWRZbLdCVLsnZtp8EBGV9_Vn6jbK8oLJkENAzUpOm3iLH6-iMxfhj3cRabi_qjwav1k1PzYs0KrUWjv3h8O1brWS-eGpBe_aHe/w640-h456/HRCissuedDNC.png" width="640" /></a><br /></div><div>The Oregon delegation had 7 pins that were given to all delegates. They all featured a photo of a donkey riding a bicycle, with a flag to represent a particular caucus. There was Labor, Veteran, LGBT, and Women. A fifth version just has a flag of 2016. They also gave delegates a 1” version of this pin. The seventh button was just a Democratic Party of Oregon, heat sealed celluloid logo pin. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBnkbeMq6shrtDIaE_uolEFV7655YSk39RQ8ZhjWYhqm1Y8ioiZvjvQ8JlRwIq2Uve8BSpkfOG3ZZSxUKMwkXIDgRACR9oTP19TkrZtKHGj_9wtJvnNjPmjRVVSqFSOa0lpltQs66yjThA/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2340" data-original-width="4160" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBnkbeMq6shrtDIaE_uolEFV7655YSk39RQ8ZhjWYhqm1Y8ioiZvjvQ8JlRwIq2Uve8BSpkfOG3ZZSxUKMwkXIDgRACR9oTP19TkrZtKHGj_9wtJvnNjPmjRVVSqFSOa0lpltQs66yjThA/w640-h360/20160727_100716.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br />I made sure my fellow CD1 delegates had their own special keepsakes from their convention experience. They were 3” celluloid pins. One for Bernie Sanders and one for Hillary Clinton delegates. Both are pictured below. The Sanders pin features a photo of him speaking at the Moda Center from a campaign stop in Oregon. The Clinton pin features prominent Oregon women, who were also delegates to the convention. The women featured are Governor Kate Brown, Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum (she was a national co-chair of the Association of Democratic Attorney Generals in 2016) and Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici.<br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjakHC6wLf5AMQUBVrn2EbbhiSM80fyL81IscmmXqX7BMWgN_fC4CXPmuZigx_XV-0piNrFBnCRjLG1bVmk4IBHs4tBt9_cXqb5Wq2TmMb0di696xaZMhQhn2vcPuqT5MNilhuLGbrvg0ZG/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1500" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjakHC6wLf5AMQUBVrn2EbbhiSM80fyL81IscmmXqX7BMWgN_fC4CXPmuZigx_XV-0piNrFBnCRjLG1bVmk4IBHs4tBt9_cXqb5Wq2TmMb0di696xaZMhQhn2vcPuqT5MNilhuLGbrvg0ZG/w640-h384/cd1pins.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The Democratic National Convention also featured another interesting grouping. There were four delegates from Oregon House District 35 (my state house district). A source of pride from the four delegates. There were three Sanders delegates and 1 Clinton delegate. A 3” custom pin was made for each of us at the convention. Here is a photo of my pin. The pins all follow the same format. The name of the delegate and a photo of the candidate they represent. <br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijoRxXHGEdXjr50DpSSwFDZW2eltMmZdfpq-tP9AwZO9JNj3ufNKoBrLyx-m6RuW04VoDyZn7InCg3ZJTwn5_1DoSXhFDN9thMQgDMzkPyFjgvbgenTMDjukzbN9OWRv7iMAAhzTN7fq6N/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="844" data-original-width="808" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijoRxXHGEdXjr50DpSSwFDZW2eltMmZdfpq-tP9AwZO9JNj3ufNKoBrLyx-m6RuW04VoDyZn7InCg3ZJTwn5_1DoSXhFDN9thMQgDMzkPyFjgvbgenTMDjukzbN9OWRv7iMAAhzTN7fq6N/s320/myhood1.jpg" width="247" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div> I became known as the button master for the Oregon delegation. The following pins were all issued for Oregon delegates and their friends. I brought one button with me to trade on the convention floor. It was a 2 ¼” celluloid pin featuring Oregon’s Mt. Hood. in the Hillary H logo. It read ‘My Hood to Hillary - Oregon DNC 2016’. Playing off the Mt. Hood aspect to imply ‘From my neighborHOOD’. A small 1 ¼” Suzanne Bonamici button was made for Congresswoman Bonamici and her friends at the convention that featured her signature and the Hillary H logo. Three Kate Brown for Governor pins were given out during the convention to Oregon delegates. Two were 3” celluloids. One was a play on the 1992 Bill Clinton ‘Ask Me About My Governor’ pin and the other read ‘I was there with Kate Brown we nominated Hillary!’. A smaller 1 ¾” pin simply read ‘PDX to Philly Oregonians for Kate Brown’. The governor was very pleased to have pins to hand out to people on the convention floor.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT7aKo-KdXc06wPpQbXTVGv445AIptRDCMd3xragPlPKmnVYjIc0tGR4EoYq9GLqscEbfEj1doqVHvGDDWYb1nO0gR7nQhzQuBuW-uII-jYadyJArnNhlpHJQ23iFNurQV0Y-RueG7OZyP/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1500" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT7aKo-KdXc06wPpQbXTVGv445AIptRDCMd3xragPlPKmnVYjIc0tGR4EoYq9GLqscEbfEj1doqVHvGDDWYb1nO0gR7nQhzQuBuW-uII-jYadyJArnNhlpHJQ23iFNurQV0Y-RueG7OZyP/w640-h384/brownpins%25281%2529.png" width="640" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiulVMK1P2Q_CsSo-GEjKHZCu_ZDxWd4G_LuPjhSHQOtz4pgxKJoKo9nKAioWHcCTTGuRwnssM7OLSG1x2xgEU2lopNqnlqrPYtnZeilKx2NhbKSF4ObiQOfgeQGK_EcFHKIsFK7fhRP8Fx/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn9g6FPhmMwwdc0Lc-1UQKUlybwxNqJh7-0Hsqki-5l4HfT3YT7W2omG9F16ODeQbtFUR4DfkuOYeEOXqUqYCEzuRA0cc-bXJBGR9xWvqa-2GM_r3Q1LDMRVD6VrlliTWMyu9S4Xj3zpoB/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn9g6FPhmMwwdc0Lc-1UQKUlybwxNqJh7-0Hsqki-5l4HfT3YT7W2omG9F16ODeQbtFUR4DfkuOYeEOXqUqYCEzuRA0cc-bXJBGR9xWvqa-2GM_r3Q1LDMRVD6VrlliTWMyu9S4Xj3zpoB/w640-h360/13680579_10100124970894638_728378979294583719_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Here is a photo of Oregon's US Senator Jeff Merkley, addressing the convention on the first night. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju0cMSTMlAsdIUe8pobndZf2dTPv4YB9I-L-XYzqOul0JXBMij-F35T3uPnvFs2RHtbDeRfnRudHXOphsESHmeu_Mg_Ps8nnaQHdw8uN7wdbG5LNPyP45ATRsmHVGRojxG4YxkLPLS28JV/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2340" data-original-width="4160" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju0cMSTMlAsdIUe8pobndZf2dTPv4YB9I-L-XYzqOul0JXBMij-F35T3uPnvFs2RHtbDeRfnRudHXOphsESHmeu_Mg_Ps8nnaQHdw8uN7wdbG5LNPyP45ATRsmHVGRojxG4YxkLPLS28JV/w640-h360/20160726_140457.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Mark Evan's Collectors Archive sales display. Lots of items to be found! I got to meet Mark and Larry Otter while exploring the convention center part of the DNC. Buses would pick us up and take us to and from the convention center in downtown Philly and the convention hall where we were having the event. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitx63fxjclhuvFDqinoSA0iDsnK3ZCZiWi0Wrwhys5gf8GEI6WRys-STkxYNl5GvmAKVJvuU-D9x5gxP0OnygQQ_yBECkE2pLDxg1Sx4f7mplEjcQuPcuwhL9rmsU51TAwILOcT2acclBH/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="2340" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitx63fxjclhuvFDqinoSA0iDsnK3ZCZiWi0Wrwhys5gf8GEI6WRys-STkxYNl5GvmAKVJvuU-D9x5gxP0OnygQQ_yBECkE2pLDxg1Sx4f7mplEjcQuPcuwhL9rmsU51TAwILOcT2acclBH/w225-h400/20160723_141415.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><div>A photo of the Bonamici button. These two buttons were only made thanks in part to the fate of the airlines. Had I left on my original departure date these two pins would never have been made. Instead, with an extra weekend I was able to make these pins. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Overall, I had an enjoyable time, and was able to pick up a lot of
buttons and signs. Every night we came back to our hotel rooms full of
memorabilia. Here are some of the buttons I picked up on the floor at
the 2016 DNC. Even better, was meeting several fellow APIC members for
the first time at events around the convention. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>If you are an APIC member that has attended a convention, I hope you will consider sharing your story and some of the items you have from the convention. I will update this post once I scan some of the items I was able to acquire on the convention floor. <br /><span></span><span></span></div>Carl Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038684160362672630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8210781652507752887.post-2903088552164234132020-05-31T12:26:00.005-07:002020-07-16T22:45:15.952-07:00Charles McNary Notification Celebration<div><div class="separator" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1615" data-original-width="2248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ8v_dc0I_fijiWrW2Hp5LriefH05db_DAV4AyaXyQ-nbL4lk9mMsa0MZfZR517l0i1xcVCUYpUX2HHtAdDeqULp8urd-DBh2lLoPZ8jlAdhLAnLbL_HGv7eFYIkjH9-wFUPdb3SLkNlhyphenhyphen/s320/DSC_0671.JPG" width="320" /></div>In <a href="https://archive.org/details/keynoter9411amer/page/16/mode/1up" target="_blank">Spring/Summer 1994 edition of The Keynoter</a>, William Alley gives us a great background on the selection of longtime Republican Senator Charles McNary as the running mate of 1940 Republican presidential nominee Wendell Willkie. McNary was the last Oregonian to be nominated by a major party ticket for President or Vice President. We have written here in the past about a number of major and minor party nominees for Vice President Oregon has produced over the years. We are now at the 80th anniversary of the notification ceremony of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_L._McNary" target="_blank">Charles McNary</a> on his selection as the 1940 vice presidential nominee. Democratic nominee Henry Wallace was also to have a notification event in Des Moines, Iowa during the same few weeks. Hopefully there is some Iowa and Wallace fan that can write that article.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>First, it is important to know what a notification ceremony is, as political parties no longer hold such events. The closest thing that might come to a notification event in modern times is the press conference where a nominee will announce their selection of the vice presidential nominee.What is a committee of notification? According to<b><u> An Introduction to Political Parties and Practical Politics</u></b> written by noted <span class="st">Berkeley Professor of Political Science Perley Orman Ray</span> in 1912. <br /></div><div></div><blockquote><div><br /></div><div><span></span><blockquote><span></span><span></span>With the naming of a candidate for vice president, it only remains for the convention to authorize the <span><span></span> </span>appointment of a committee consisting of one from each State, formally to notify the presidential <span><span></span><span></span><span></span></span>candidate of his nomination and a similar committee to notify the vice-presidential candidate. The <span></span><span></span><span></span>business of the convention then being at an end, it adjourns sine die. These committees on <span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span>notification subsequently visits the nominee at his home, or meet him at some appointed place. The <span></span><span></span><span></span>chairman, or some other previously selected member, makes a formal speech notifying the candidate <span></span><span><span></span> </span><span></span>the action of the convention. Thereupon the candidate delivers his "speech of acceptance" (p.164-165) <br /></blockquote></div></blockquote><div>Modern conventions have no notification committees that travel out to nominees homes to hear of their acceptance. Now this all takes place at the highly choreographed political conventions we are accustomed to experiencing today. The 1940s were still the infancy of television. Most families did not see televisions enter their homes until after WWII in the 1950s. The political campaigns of the 1940, '44, and '48 were the last to be done before the majority of Americans owned televisions. Conventions were still affairs for the newspaper and radio services. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Modern day conventions wrap the whole process in a bow for the media. Instead of nominees being selected and ending the convention to travel to them to hear if they accept, the nominees now accept nomination before the actual convention. Nearly all nominees for vice president are known well in advance of the convention. The final night of the convention culminates with the presidential nominee and vice presidential nominee awash in a sea of delegates, balloons and bands. This was not the case in 1940, when Charles McNary accepted his nomination. <br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /></div><div>The McNary notification day celebration was held in Salem Oregon, that was just recovering from their centennial celebrations. McNary or Charlie Mac as he was affectionately called by locals would spend three days in Salem to rest and prepare for the event to be held at the State Fairgrounds on Tuesday August 27, 1940. Crowds as big as 50,000 were expected and they had seating for 15,000. Salem would observe the day with a half work day and the state government would be closed on the 27th and it was expected that private employees would follow their lead so Oregonians could take part in the festivities. The Salem Chamber of Commerce planned for an air display of 75 planes to honor their favorite son candidate McNary. Here is McNary and guest of honor Harold Stassen at the BBQ for the Press and VIPs at the McNary farm. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNyjZJKiM57JSBC30Qou8n-Sm4AaGbW3g8rPg9gQd-yvKLsPUOi44-hIj-3XF4h013t_TSEzP0VA2bXKxr2fzroV5I8SQErenIrTzVfeK1O026ZULGuAj23V4srWOT_h3tachL3_TGIYeQ/s2465/IMG_20200606_0002_NEW2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2465" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNyjZJKiM57JSBC30Qou8n-Sm4AaGbW3g8rPg9gQd-yvKLsPUOi44-hIj-3XF4h013t_TSEzP0VA2bXKxr2fzroV5I8SQErenIrTzVfeK1O026ZULGuAj23V4srWOT_h3tachL3_TGIYeQ/w288-h400/IMG_20200606_0002_NEW2.jpg" width="288" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Ralph Cake, the Republican National Committeeman from Portland was the lead organizer of the event. Cake was in charge of introducing the Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Congressman Joseph Martin of Massachusetts. Martin was in charge of introducing the keynote speaker from the Republican National Convention and guest of honor at the McNary celebration, Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen. He would then be given the honor of introducing McNary. Below is a photo from the Capital Journal of the Press and VIP luncheon at the McNary farm. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2570" data-original-width="3717" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRF8U3z7W9Kf_-stkKftlDbQNo9P7w62KR5zkgSeNPXRStBTq4qzR8g_nMGf9M6KTXlHXJ6eAHa9hYP-j8XvaAwme3h6npfuj7epPqYfhFaQoXE5-COqXbRUEzYxvOUzmTyZ07d45NLMeS/w400-h276/The_Capital_Journal_Wed__Aug_28__1940_%25281%2529.jpg" title="Fircone Press Lunch" width="400" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>There were dozens and dozens of members of the press, radio men and even cameramen recording for news services (at this time it was very common for moviegoers to watch news updates in movie theaters before and between films). A number of bands were in attendance to provide musical interludes between speeches. Some 12,000 were in attendance at the fairgrounds while millions of Americans would listen via the radio. McNary started the day off with a lunch at his farm for press and the various dignitaries that were to attend. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3573" data-original-width="3717" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9IIQ7rFxzcMH7seXL9oIDcYCpbAr5cout08Z6ECzoL9WM308YALFwWy8Z9lOqhHBTzkFuEMiuvAoGlRUpvBmoGLYXrw0yyhXoAL7_uBiA_SRU4SD7z3BTNynmuj_CGMU8zRPuC2x4mtbm/s320/The_Capital_Journal_Wed__Aug_28__1940_.jpg" width="320" /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This photo is of 12 year old editor/reporter for the Valsetz Star interviewing Governor Stassen during the event. <b><u>The Capitol Journal</u></b> of Salem covered her covering the event from Fircone (the McNary Farm) for the luncheon. Dorothy Ann Hobson had been the editor since she was at least 9 years old as evidenced by <a href="https://hh-today.com/a-walkway-star-dorothy-anne-hobson/" target="_blank">the stone in the Oregon Capitol State Park.</a> Ms. Hobson was well known to Oregon and national politicans and Senator McNary was thrilled that she was able to make the trip from her small logging community in Polk County to his event. They kept in touch via letters. She got her start in the paper by being the local paper carrier. When the editor of the paper announced they would be giving up the newspaper business young Dorothy took over the work of the paper. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>At the event, he spoke for nearly 30 minutes and then did the rounds with the press and ended the day in meetings with state and local party leaders. It was announced at sometime during all the festivities that Senator McNary would be returning to DC after Labor Day to resume his duties in the Senate. RNC Chairman Martin also mentioned that they would be sending McNary to the midwest to campaign for the Republican ticket in September and make at least 6 major campaign addresses. The first being on agricultural interests in the United States. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>A few items have shown up over the years of the McNary Notificaton Day celebration. These items in the following photos all come from Oregon APIC member John Gearhart's personal collection. I will do my best to explain each item. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2266" data-original-width="2814" height="516" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLQhivlq11mVuOqyCK7ocovpeQlLPkYY4uDfOzItcsVMUtJrvemfcZvIE9kPRI-VbF12-zXsuTnSl-biXY41j0irr5372d3u0nHB1RqzpDxYfHCm1psWZEotWzRSkfcr_WJ3g5n0-DoreS/w640-h516/DSC_0677.JPG" title="Speaking to Crowd" width="640" /></div><div><br /></div><div>Here is a close up of McNary. <a href="https://digitalcollections.ohs.org/charles-mcnary-speech-to-the-1940-republican-national-convention-sound-recording-01" target="_blank">You can hear a version of the speech McNary gave thanks to the Oregon Historical Society.</a> I'm not sure what to make of this recording. They identify it as his acceptance speech at the RNC in Philadelphia. Yet, you can't hear any audience in the convention hall. The speech itself makes it hard to place. He thanks the GOP Convention for nominating him back in June, as if this speech was being recorded after the convention. He does mention his Nomination Committee and thanking his neighbors. This leads me to believe that this recording might be something he did after both the RNC and his notification event. If this was a live recording of either of those events you would hear the crowd. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Several articles mentioned that the crowd at the State Fair complex was very boisterous and at one point McNary even interacted with the crowd during the speech after a farmer went "Whoop! Whoop!'. I didn't hear McNary responding to that farmer in this speech either. So it leads me to believe that this might have been something the RNC asked him to record for the radio press. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3036" data-original-width="2492" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdk-dPPUUqi6ddQxyxOUfW3SHvvFQlDJZXZGVQ69M-41ZxXjCkD1GH_q6rzaubfVRD-Xvle-L273qtSFcCXyM-m1Qaa3KIqHG7LaaC01VRiNlqAuaeEgAFWME3-ho2-lpcUyq5hlT0ymh6/w526-h640/DSC_0679.JPG" width="526" /></div><div><br /></div><div>Both of these are original press photos of the event. There is a rather large original program from the event that is very hard to find, even here in Oregon. If it was made for the press in attendance, that would explain the difficulty in finding a copy. All these national press people would leave the state after the event and the only ones that would have them here would be the local Oregon press that attended the event. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2412" data-original-width="4575" height="338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCJ09FQr8izt5Np0LqkrCmGpMKvulOJPas3_rkPc_RS5mTRsv1-803t88LNqVNhQXKvYDNQ2Zx5dTb1MTpLyaESvHvSIfXqc8p4P1FtLidmh9MDghN6MXlcGVq1DcFDX_magdNIrYWPgAi/w640-h338/DSC_0214.JPG" width="640" /></div><div><br /></div><div>Here is side one with the cover. It contains a bio of Senator McNary, a special message from Governor Charles Sprague, and photos of the other two guest speakers at the event; Governor Stassen and Congressman Martin. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2190" data-original-width="4398" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnvqsJaTqG85-hvEvgKjsjE1oUz6ZZeotIBdxMP3zveTQm7JJCguLjURqVH3r-KKUUH1mt5bqrquwKhWmYSjr5Km1SgRuswOr-Pgk-svcFij7cs_oTCCyB7xrzS3dGRv85D_bSH3-1JUj5/w640-h318/DSC_0213.JPG" width="640" /></div><div><br /></div><div>This side appears to contain signatures of all the members of the notification committee. The following are items that collectors may have come across, as they are ribbons and most people attending probably had some sort of ribbon to designate what part of the celebration they were part of that day. The Press ribbon comes up on ebay every now and then. I have yet to see another of the committeeman ribbon show up online or in auctions. We know that there were both Committeeman and Committeewoman in attendance at this event, so there may well be a Committeewoman version of the white and blue ribbon out there. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1778" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1z276i5vxHnyGTqe7l1Gwlkx81OARViCTbfpW2JAZ9-smdl0IlzYX5zqbgg7zfN4uVNIT-zJmry5uEuuy5RsFNOohRdfcmCKtg5I7D3RE4HHtucDSvQpeu62adGP9feTULTyre9R5IQmZ/w355-h400/McNaryribbons.png" width="355" /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">These are all the notification day events we have been able to come across here in Oregon. If you have an item not pictured here please send it to us or leave it in the comments. This one of the last notification day events held in the country. A fun note to end on, one of the local community bands that played for Senator McNary in the summer of 1940 was the Keizer Community Band. The Keizer Heritage Museum even has a display of the band featuring photos of members with Senator McNary at his farm. You can listen to the music of the band and see some photos in<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JunhbyPEtQs" target="_blank"> this video produced by the Keizer Historical Museum</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfruVF7EUGw" target="_blank">Alice Rose Jones</a>, a former member of the community band discusses meeting Senator McNary in 1940 and getting her photo taken with him. <br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">If you would like to read about his remarks, <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A-Qv-AVintU98JxkMqD-6MmW4mKuja-p/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">here is a link to the Oregonian coverage</a> of his speech in the newspaper the day after the event. I have made the entire page into a PDF file for easy for reading. <br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">As most of us know, Senator McNary was not elected Vice President. McNary's popularity in Oregon could not even help the ticket carry his home state. The GOP won no states on the west coast that year. Franklin Roosevelt would be the first president ever elected to serve a third term and 1940 would be the last election of his presidency prior to the start of WWII. Charles McNary would be the last Oregonian to serve on the ticket of either the Democratic or Republican parties in a presidential election. <br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">No word of any specific buttons aside from the buttons handed out by the Willkie-McNary Democratic Club of Oregon the Saturday following the notification event. The day of the event we know buttons were on hand and given out to the some 12,000 in attendance, but no photos have come to light that tell us what pins they were. Perhaps they were the first of the Willkie-McNary pins? The buttons handed out later that weekend by the Dems for Willkie club simply said 'I'm a Democrat for Willkie' The president of the club was Dellmore Lessard and the Vice President was Allen W. O'Connell. We will keep hunting for any McNary specific items from either his VP campaign or previous senate campaigns here in Oregon. Collectors are always asking and I always hate disappointing them. Perhaps, still in some attic or basement in Salem there is a box of items just waiting to be rediscovered. <br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">You can read the LIFE magazine special about Senator McNary by clicking the magazine cover below. 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Notification Day event. Only Biden and a small group of staff and press
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Republican Convention has already been moved once and now many potential
attendees are citing concerns with COVID-19 as a reason to bow out of
not attending the new event in Florida. I wonder if someone eighty years from now will be writing about what unique events these were in American politics. <br /></div><div><blockquote></blockquote><br /></div>Carl Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038684160362672630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8210781652507752887.post-81617676743189974272020-04-29T12:48:00.000-07:002020-04-29T13:02:41.670-07:00The Hobby: APIC Elections & The Future <i>Hobby posts are where we discuss the hobby of political collecting, organizational issues within the OR-APIC or National APIC, or just generalized discussions that might be important to the members or potential members of the <a href="https://apic.us/">American Political Item Collectors</a> non-profit. </i><br />
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2020 is not just an election year from America, but it is an election year for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Political_Items_Collectors#Governance">APIC</a>, the parent organization of the Oregon APIC (we are a geographic chapter). In the May edition of the Bandwagon (a publication sent out monthly), APIC members that are currently paid up on their dues ($42.00 a year) will get a ballot. By and large, these elections are a sleepy affair. Rarely is a race contested seriously. The positions seem even less desirable than running for your local cemetery board. Why is that you might ask?<br />
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It's hard to tell really. It is a hobby organization. The people that step up to serve really love this hobby. We have some great volunteers. No one is going to get famous or springboard from their work here to some higher position. There are no fancy perks from what little I can gather from serving on the board of directors. It's hard to even find out what the board of directors does when they do have meetings. There is no place on the website that posts minutes of the meetings or even announces that meetings will take place. There must be work going on if they call these meetings. Sometimes we are lucky to get a Treasurer's Report in the Bandwagon, but again, there is no place on our website to see any of the ongoing governance documents.<br />
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Organizations need to communicate to tell their stories with members and with the folks that they want to sign on to the cause. Right now, the APIC doesn't do this very well. Which is odd, because we have some great folks from the political, government, and non-profit world as members! We just are not communicating effectively. With the amount of information available our newsletter should be bi-weekly in digital form instead of monthly in print (where information may already be out of date by the time you get it). I see all these posts online from our Facebook group, they are random, but a coordinated effort by a communications team could elevate our organization and grow an audience with purposeful interactions.<br />
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It's a big problem for me that our organization is mainly communicating with its members the same way it was communicating in the 1980s. It's 2020 now. I have heard time and time again that our members prefer a hard copy of the newsletter. That's fine. Are we simply going to wait for those members to pass on before adding a digital version? Growing an audience and members are going to require us to communicate digitally in <i>ADDITION</i> to our print newsletter. <br />
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I really don't know if I will bother to fill out my APIC ballot when it comes to me this May and as someone that works professionally to turn people out to vote that's saying something. I have appreciated the emails reminding me to renew my membership. I'm glad we are at least doing this small outreach digitally. Even if all the APIC did was take our current newsletter, put it in a PDF and email it out to their list they would be putting more effort into digital communication than I have seen since I first joined in 2007. No linkable or interactive content, just a simple PDF file. It would be a start and then we could develop a newsletter that integrated our website, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook accounts. Carl Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038684160362672630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8210781652507752887.post-25073889159594427522020-04-21T18:05:00.000-07:002020-04-21T18:05:45.838-07:002020 Political Buttons Part 9: Joe Biden Works For Series The Biden presidential primary produced 4 really nice buttons for the four early contest states. That would be Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina. This follows with what the campaign produced in 2008 when they made a set of pins for Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina. Here are the 2008 pins.<br />
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You will notice that there could be two versions of each. One would have a blue union bug and the other a red union bug. So far I have only ever seen the Iowa pins with a red union bug. All of these pins are 1" It took me several years after the 2008 election to get 3/4 pins. I have yet to find an SC version, but I did pick up a red union bug pin for Iowa. The Nevada and South Carolina pins seem to be the harder to get versions from the 2008 set. <br />
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Of the four, the NH pin was the easy one to get. The Iowa pin may be the toughest as a bunch of the NV and South Carolina ones got into the hands of collectors recently. For a while, the IA, NV, and SC were all equally scarce. It is unclear why the NH pin does not follow the standard 'Works for X' layout. So there they are the only state-specific pins issued during the early primary contests for Biden that we know of right now.<br />
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One last pin that caught the eye of collectors on the night of the Iowa Caucus was the Precinct Captain button. It's a huge 4" pin with Biden's photo on it.<br />
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These pins were used in Iowa and Nevada from the photos I saw from caucus night. I am unsure if they were used in NH or SC. In both Nevada and Iowa, they came with a precinct captain t-shirt. A spectacular button from the campaign and highly sought after by collectors. A large number of them did come onto the market after the Iowa caucus so collectors may have spent anywhere from $50 to $100+ for pins early on, but many likely got them for below $40 by the beginning of March 2020. </div>
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Carl Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038684160362672630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8210781652507752887.post-76379854856952541032020-03-28T20:22:00.000-07:002020-04-21T20:53:39.893-07:00Who was Manley J Wilson? <br />
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Oregon collectors and Oregon history buffs I know are telling themselves 'I think he was an Oregon candidate' or 'wasn't he in the legislature?' You would be correct on both of those fronts, but few people know anything more about Wilson than that. We hope this article will shed some much-needed light on his background for APIC members and the public.<br />
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Manley J Wilson represented Columbia and Clatsop County in the Oregon House of Representatives (HD 23) for four terms prior to being elected to the Oregon Senate in 1950. In the 1940s. Timber, Fishing and Farming were the mainstays of daily life in Columbia County. This is the community Wilson represented. They were union families and they were Democrats. Wilson himself was Editor of the Woodworker, the official publication of the International Woodworkers of America.<br />
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In his first race for State Representative, he defeated Republican Fred Herman to represent both Clatsop and Columbia counties. He was part of the freshman class in the Oregon House with Richard Neuberger. Writing for United Press, Neuberger mentioned that Wilson was one of the three new outstanding members. The war years in Oregon were filled with highs and lows for Oregon Democrats. During the 1946 legislative elections, Wilson was one of only TWO Democrats elected to the Oregon House out of 60 members. <br />
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His State Senate district covered Columbia, Multnomah, and parts of Clackamas County. He had defeated Irving Rand in the November 1950 elections for the seat in the upper chamber of the legislature. During his one session in the Senate, The Salem Statesman Journal ranked him one of the most liberal members of the body.<br />
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During his tenure in the legislature, he sought to pass legislation to advance the rights of workers to organize and form unions, to protect working families when times were difficult or 'welfare' bills as they were commonly called during that era. One notable item was a bill to protect small logging operators from having their logging trucks and equipment repossessed unfairly. He noted that repossession of these trucks was nine times greater in Oregon than in Washington after Washington had passed a similar bill. Wilson also championed progressive reforms of the state unemployment insurance system so more workers could qualify for benefits. <br />
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As the 1948 elections were approaching, no Democrat had filed to run against Senior Oregon Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Cordon">Guy Cordon</a>. At the last moment, he filed and paid the $150 fee. So what about the political items of Senator Wilson? I've been actively collecting Oregon political items since 2006 and I have only picked up two items in all that time. Here are several newspaper clippings of campaign ads used throughout the state. <br />
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Aside from Franklin Roosevelt, it was very hard for Oregon Democrats to win statewide offices during the war years. Roosevelt carried Oregon all four times he ran, but by his win in 1944, he had only carried the state with 52% of the vote. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_United_States_presidential_election_in_Oregon">1948</a> would see now-President Truman attempt to carry on the Democratic banner in Oregon. It was a very close election at the presidential level, but not so close in the Senate race. Joe Miller explains in his book <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=FVDNZKbBmGMC&lpg=PA16&ots=RyZoKqRcW_&dq=Manley%20J%20Wilson%20Oregon&pg=PA16#v=onepage&q=Manley%20J%20Wilson%20Oregon&f=false">The Wicked Wine of Democracy</a> that Wilson did not campaign much outside of the Portland metro area and labor union halls. He had little financial support outside of grassroots democratic groups and some friends in organized labor. Wilson would lose 35/36 counties, carrying only his home county of Columbia County. Contrast his wipe out with the close election where President Truman won 16 counties. Dewey and Cordon would win Oregon, but only Cordon was going to DC. The presidential race nationally went to Truman.<br />
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There are two buttons known at this time. One is a larger (just a little smaller than a 3" pin, but larger than a traditional 2.25" pin) that makes the wearer a 'Personal Representative" of Wilson. There is no union bug that I have been able to find on it, which seems unusual for a union candidate.<br />
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I have seen this pin in a couple other collections of APIC Local collectors. The one I see less frequently is a much smaller, perhaps 1.75" green and white pin that simply reads 'Manley J. Wilson for U.S. Senator'. It has a union bug stamped in the metal on the reverse and a union bug printed on the curl. <br />
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His political career seems to have been cut short from complications from an operation in Portland. He died at the age of 46 shortly after
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<br />Carl Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038684160362672630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8210781652507752887.post-82823340364842099272020-02-16T19:03:00.001-08:002020-02-16T22:28:14.015-08:00Bucks for Morse Button <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is a follow up to Preston Malcolm's <i>Keynoter</i> article <i>Odd Man Out Wayne Morse of Oregon</i> that first appeared in the Summer 1981 issue. The article identifies the Volunteer Solicitor Bucks for Morse pin as one of the more scarce Morse pins. It seems to be very scarce based on conversations and posts on social media with fellow locals collectors. I have not been able to find one of these pins yet in Oregon. I was able to pick one up a few years ago in one of Norm Eavenson's online sales. I was ecstatic to find one finally! The one I purchased was number 987. Since finding the button and tracking down a few more in other collectors collection I started asking around about what campaign it was used in and who issued it. Little seemed known from other collectors. They just knew like me that it was from the 1950s and was very hard to find. The button is a 3" celluloid pin with a Portland, Oregon union bug on the face. Known numbers in private collections include 41, 331, 592, 610, 848, and 987. If you have one, please be kind and send me your number. <br />
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I started trying to find out more about the button from the archives of the <i>Oregonian</i> and other Oregon newspapers. There is not much out there. The phrase 'Bucks for Morse' did show up in several articles about the 1956 campaign. This was the campaign right after Wayne Morse switched from Republican to Independent and finally became a Democrat. The Republican Party of Oregon nominated former Governor Douglas McKay, at the time he was serving in Washington D.C. as President Dwight Eisenhower's Secretary of the Interior. One instance of the phrase Bucks for Morse was found in the August 31, 1956 edition of the Salem <i>Statesman Journal</i>. The news clips section reads: <br />
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In the mid-fifties, the union was one of the most powerful in the country and was starting to come under intense scrutiny both locally and nationally. By December of 1956, it was clear that investigations and hearings would begin in the new year by the McClellan Committee. <i>Oregonian</i> investigative reporters Wallace Turner and William Lambert had just spent the last year diving deep into investigations to expose organized crime connections to local government. This led the committee and it's Chief Counsel Robert Kennedy, to investigate racketeering by union officials in multiple cities across the United States.<br />
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Morse and his allies like the Teamsters' were outspent according to what few reports exist in the newspaper archives. McKay spent an estimated $188,000 while the Re-elect Morse Committee spent $89,000, and a PAC supporting Morse spent $87,000, bringing a total near $176,000 between pro-Morse forces. In the same election that President Eisenhower won Oregon with 55% of the vote, Morse only underperformed Eisenhower by 1%, earning 54% of the vote against the Douglas McKay who earned only 46% of the vote <br />
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The button stands out as the largest known Morse pin from 1956. Nearly all the other Morse pins identified from that year are 1" inch sized pins. Rumors also speak of a Stevenson-Morse coattail pin, but it has never been proven to exist. Until someone shows us one, the best Morse pin of 1956 will remain the Bucks for Morse pin. <br />
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<br />Carl Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038684160362672630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8210781652507752887.post-23059373187292343862020-02-16T00:04:00.000-08:002020-02-16T00:04:02.119-08:002020 Political Buttons Part 8: Bennet & Patrick Items The New Hampshire primary has now come and gone. President Trump easily won the GOP contest. The Democratic contest had a fair amount of competition. In the end, Bernie Sanders and Mayor Pete seemed to be the top two finishers. After the problems in volunteer reporting of the Iowa caucus the week before, politicos were excited about the first state-administered primary. Instead of taking days to report results, we had the results within hours.<br />
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Each election night we see winners move onto the next state and we see some candidates bow out of the race. The night of the New Hampshire primary we saw three prominent candidates end their campaigns. Andrew Yang or New York, Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado, and former Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts. We will look at a small selection of items from the campaigns of Bennet and Patrick in this post. Yang had a large following and produced many items during the primary. That we will cover in a stand-alone post.<br />
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Senator Bennet used bumperactive store to fulfill items purchased from his campaign. Two buttons were sold via the online store. They both have a CWA union bug on the face. One is a generic Bennet for America pin and the other is a neat Bet on Bennet button. It is possible this button with the gambling theme was intended to appeal to Nevada, which is next door to Colorado.<br />
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A third button can be found that is similar to the Bennet for America pin above. It was issued for the <a href="http://oregonapic.blogspot.com/2019/11/2020-political-buttons-part-6-minnesota.html">Minnesota State Fair</a>. We have written about this set in a previous post and you can view the pin there. When we covered the <a href="http://oregonapic.blogspot.com/2019/10/2020-political-buttons-part-5-iowa.html">Iowa Steak Fry</a> items we showed you the Bennet foam gavel. Perhaps one of the most unique items to come out of the 2020 campaign so far. </div>
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Deval Patrick entered the race in November of 2019 and dropped out the day after the New Hampshire primary in February of 2020. Patrick made a few trips to Iowa, but he seemed to focus more on his short campaign on New Hampshire. I have seen a few handouts, stickers and rally signs. Only two buttons seem to have been produced by the campaign. </div>
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This first pin was sold on his campaign store. It appears he contracted with bumperactive to sell his promotional products. <br />
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The second pin was issued by his campaign and could be picked up in New Hampshire. It has a distinct union bug from the bumperactive one and reads it was paid for by Deval for All. So far these are the only two buttons that have turned up from the campaign. We will be keeping our eyes open to see if any others show up. </div>
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This pin is 3" and seems to be from NH Booker efforts. It was given out to students going back to school and recruited as Campus Fellows in September as part of a campus outreach effort. I am not sure if these were also given out in Nevada, South Carolina, and Iowa. <br />
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Julian Castro also dropped out of the race this winter. Unlike many of the other candidates, he quickly turned around and endorsed Senator Elizabeth Warren.<br />
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Most of the Castro pins you could find from his online store were standard 2.25" pins. There are two versions of several of the pins. There was a theme called Adios Trump that was made into several different kinds of campaign items. Pictured in the buttons below is a version of Cruz Ortiz's design of Adios Trump with the lightning bolt. This pin is slightly larger than the standard 2.25" pins sold on the website. This pin was one of two Castro pins picked up in Iowa during the campaign. It has a distinct union bug from the one of bumperactive in Texas.<br />
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The other button picked up in Iowa was one of the Julian for the future pins. It has a read union bug and appears to be a heat-sealed cello version of the pin offered on the Castro website. The other Adios Trump button comes from his website and the JULIAN pin also could be purchased online from the campaign. The simple Castro 2020 was issued early on by the Texas Democratic Party. <br />
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The Julian Castro pin with the large union bug on the face is from the Minnesota State Fair collection and the 3" Julian pin was part of the 2019 Celsi set. The final 3" pin was custom made for me. Castro and I met at the Oregon Wayne Morse in 2018.<br />
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Two buttons that I have yet to pick up are a 3" button from Castro's Campaign Kickoff and a 3" button from a Native American presidential forum in 2019.<br />
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If you have a Julian Castro pin we did not feature here please send us a photo and description. Carl Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038684160362672630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8210781652507752887.post-48874639171326179282019-11-21T23:04:00.001-08:002019-11-21T23:04:38.985-08:002020 Political Buttons Part 6: Minnesota State Fair <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a name='more'></a>Here are most of the 2020 candidate pins offered for sale at the DFL booth at the 2019 Minnesota State Fair. I was able to get all the pins from the candidate collection except for the Harris and Booker pins. The Warren pin is not pictured here, because I got it separately. The full set appears to consist of 21 pins (my photo is minus the Warren, Booker, and Harris pins). I am unsure if the Klobuchar pin was part of the set or offered separately at her campaign booth. If the Amy ferris wheel pin is part of the set, then that would bring us up to 22 candidate pins. <br /><br />
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The hardest to get pin out of this set is probably the <a href="https://www.joesestak.com/">Admiral Joe Sestak</a> pin. Most collectors have not been able to secure an Adm Joe pin from the campaign itself. I'm not even sure if the campaign has pins. All these pins are union-made by Minnesota shop RJFKRAMER. They all feature the same union bug on the face and most have an RJFK sticker with a union bug on the back. The Sestak pin is the only pin without a union bug on the face. It leads me to suspect it was a very late addition to the set offered at the fair.<br />
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Six of the candidates featured in this set have already dropped out as of this post. Gillibrand, Inslee, Hickenlooper, Beto, Ryan, and Moulton. Several of the candidates that jumped into the race in the last several weeks of this post were not in the race during the time of the fair: Patrick & Bloomberg (seems like he's still deciding).<br />
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Some of the other pins from the booth are pictured below.<br />
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<br />Carl Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038684160362672630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8210781652507752887.post-74644766646325454822019-10-12T19:06:00.000-07:002019-10-12T19:06:25.334-07:002020 Political Buttons Part 5: Iowa Steak Fry Had an amazing trip to Iowa for the Polk County Democrats Steak Fry event in September. APIC member hosted a couple Oregonians. The trip included a visit to the Iowa State Capitol building, a Star Trek Museum in Riverside, Iowa and many, many visits to campaign offices. Of course, you don't get APIC members in the same room without getting into buttons. Getting a tour of John's collection was amazing. He collects VOTE materials and Theodore Roosevelt. The wildest thing I saw was VOTE toothpaste. I thought I had seen everything. Here is a commercial from 1968.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>The Steak Fry was a fun event. There were loads of signs, stickers and t-shirts to be had. It seemed every campaign had something to offer. Some campaigns had very unique items to offer Steak Fry attendees. One such item came from Michael Bennet's campaign. A foam gavel.<br />
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A pretty neat item. I've seen foam fingers and gloves before, but never a foam gavel. Sure to be a sleeper item from the 2019 Iowa Steak Fry. During the parade into Steak Fry Bennet's campaign carried huge gavels with them.<br />
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It is all based a qoute from the Des Moines Register about Bennet pounding truth into the 2020 campaign. The campaign took it and ran with it right to foam gavels. The other items that seem to be making a political comeback it seems are political fans. Warren, Booker, Biden, and Beto all have put out political fans of some kind. I was able to pick up a Beto and Booker fan at the Steak Fry.<br />
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Ok, onto the main event. The BUTTONS! Here are my two scans of the buttons I was able to pick up in Iowa. <br />
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Adios Trump was picked up at the Castro booth early in the morning. It is a heat sealed cello and has a different union bug than the version you can buy from his online store. The John Delaney pin was picked up at the Des Moines campaign office. I'm a Voter was given out at the Iowa SOS office. There are three Amy Klobuchar pins pictured. Two are from her campaign. The staff told me that the Unidos con Amy were brand new and the Steak Fry was the first event they were giving them out at. That pin and the green Amy pin looked to have been made in Minnesota. The caracature pins were designed by Iowa political cartoonist Brian Duffy. He teamed up the folks behind t<a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/unpresidented/the-unpresidented-deck-political-playing-cards">he UnPresidented Deck</a> and they sold buttons at the Steak Fry. The Kamala pin is also different from the pin of the same design that you can buy from her website. This is an Iowa issued pin with a Des Moines union bug. The Tulsi pin is a standard cello, different from what you were able to purchase from her website early on in the campaign. It also features a different union bug. Veterans for Pete and Caucus for Pete were being given out like candy at Mayor Pete's table.<br />
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The special pins in this image are the 'Ask me about Warren' pin and the Cory Booker Bold and Bald pin. The Warren pin has proven to be very popular. It is 3 inches and was given out to volunteers at the Steak Fry. The first one to sell on ebay went for over 150 dollars. I suspect that in the next couple of months the price will come down on this pin as more people that attended the Steak Fry hear about what they think they can get for the pin online. The Cory Booker pin was designed by me for an event he did in Portland in August. Thanks to John Olson and his friend, Cory's driver for the day, he signed this one for me.<br />
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There is a far rarer version of the pin that was worn by friends of Barry Greenberg at the 2019 Rose City Comic Con (pictured above). Barry Greenberg is featured in the middle of the pin.<br />
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In this photo we had more of the Brian Duffy pins. The 3" Warren pin was given out by staff if they got you to commit to caucus for Warren and you wrote in what town you were going to caucus from. The Bernie pin was from a booth outside Coe College for the LGBTQ+ forum the night before the Steak Fry. The Marianne pins were also from the event at Coe College. These are the same pins that you can find on her website. The Kamala pin was being given out by a Harris Super Volunteer. The Castro pin is a heat sealed cello, which is different from the standard cello you can get from his website. It also features a differnt union bug. The two best pins here have to be the Barnstormers for Pete pin and the Iowa Pete pin. The Barnstormers were given out by a group that are preparing to Barnstrom for Pete in early November.<br />
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The final button from the Steak Fry that I was able to get, I only got after I came back home and searched ebay for. The volunteers I ran into were determined to keep this pin. Thankfully, ebay came to the rescue.<br />
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I'm pretty sure I was able to grab an item from most of the campaigns during my several days in Iowa. Visiting the different offices and discussing the campaign with the staff was really fun. It was interesting hearing from all the different campaigns they worked on in the last cycle, many while they were still in college.<br />
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I will leave you with just two other photos of the items from the Steak Fry. Did you attend? Did you get an item worth showing off?<br />
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<br />Carl Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038684160362672630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8210781652507752887.post-59385610630715539852019-09-10T20:19:00.002-07:002019-09-10T20:19:48.903-07:002020 Political Buttons Part 4: Kirsten GillibrandIn our last update on 2020 campaign items, we covered a series of candidates that had dropped out of the race over the summer of 2019. It seems that as soon as we hit publish on a post there is something worthy of an update. A few days after our last post, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announced she was dropping out of the race for the Democratic nomination. She decided to because of the campaign was unable to qualify for the next round of Democratic Debates. She was unable to secure higher polling numbers and the required unique donors.<br />
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This was just as her campaign, only a couple weeks before this had begun to offer buttons in her campaign store. It would be interesting to know if she would have reached the 130,000 donor threshold had she offered buttons on her website a few months ago, instead of a few weeks ago. Here is the button that was offered on her website.<br />
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This Gillibrand button was part of a set produced by the Texas Democratic Party that came out last fall. They have since taken these pins off their website.<br />
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There was also a Gillibrand button in the Multnomah County Celsi dinner set. We have covered this set in several posts. We know there was a Minnesota State Fair button for the Gillibrand campaign as well. Other than what has been mentioned here, I have not seen many Gillibrand buttons for 2020.<br />
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If you found some interesting Gillibrand items please feel free to share them with us! <br />
Carl Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038684160362672630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8210781652507752887.post-28962169429953228062019-08-27T16:30:00.000-07:002019-08-27T16:30:18.273-07:002020 Political Buttons Part 3: The Campaign Is Over For ThemWe are fast approaching Labor Day in the United States. A traditional time for many candidates to be starting their campaigns and known as the time when the pubic during general elections, traditionally starts to pay closer attention to the race. The next Democratic presidential debates are not until September and the last debate was at the end of July. Between these two events, we have already seen several candidates drop out of the race in just the last week. <b>Seth Moulton, Jay Inslee, and John Hickenlooper</b> have all dropped out in August. They joined <b>Mike Gravel and Eric Swalwell</b> after they bailed on the race in July. While these campaigns may not have made it to Iowa or New Hampshire, many of them did participate in the first two debates, had supporters and even generated a button or two. Let's take a look at the items produced by some of these campaigns.<br />
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The first presidential candidate to come from the Pacific Northwest in more than forty years sought to raise the profile of the climate change debate in the United States. Governor Inslee started his quest for the Democratic nomination in March of 2019 and ended it on August 21, 2019. He was able to qualify for the first two debates, but only met 1 of 2 qualifiers for the September and October debates. He was able to gather over 130,000 individual donors but not able to secure 2% or more in 4 qualifying polls. After coming to the conclusion that he could not raise his profile enough to raise his poll numbers he opted to drop out and run for a third term as governor of Washington. Here are some of the items, especially buttons, produced to promote his presidential campaign. There are a fair number of vendor items out there and right now you can also find pretty good deals on items issued by the campaign or supporters.<br />
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This first pin comes from a set of fifteen 3" inch pins created for an auction basket for the Multnomah County Democrats Dick Celsi Dinner & Auction. At the time, March 2019, there were only 14 candidates announced. The set included the 14 announced candidates and a pin for Jeff Merkley, who had just announced he was not running for President. The pins were included with a couple bottles of wine and auctioned off during a silent auction. Somehow, the one set auctioned off made all the way to the <a href="https://www.krpoliticaljunkie.com/">Political Junkie Ken Rudin!</a> <br />
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There are three 2 1/4" pins that you should have been able to find pretty easily. The one on the top and the pride button were sold via his online store. They were both made and shipped by Bumperactive, the official vendor of the campaign. The pin with his web address started showing up in Iowa before the summer. The union bug 60 is not one used by Bumperactive. This pin has been showing up on eBay for several weeks. I think I paid just a little bit more than you would have paid for for the standard pin on his website.<br />
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Inslee made at least two swings through Portland on his presidential campaign in 2019. Early on he did a house party at the home of a local elected official. On July 8, 2019, he held a fundraising reception prior to a public talk on climate change. This 3" inch pin was made by local supporters to celebrate the event and was given out to those attending. Some guests were also wearing a much smaller standard logo pin button, maybe a 1 3/4" pin or 1 1/2" pin. I was not able to snag one of those pins before the end of the event. Those attending the fundraising reception regardless of how much they donated got to spend a few minutes with Governor Inslee.<br />
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The last pin that was issued on his website was the 'specs' pin. All campaigns try to find some like this for their candidate. Something that would identify them from the others. It's an interesting concept for a pin and I like the artwork. I wonder how many of these were sold, given they didn't show up in his online store until the final weeks of the campaign. If you didn't get one, you should try to seek out someone that bought from the online store, each order included two pins. This pin, like the others from the official store, was made by Bumperactive. </div>
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Other items are out there, and we will update soon. A pin was made for Jay Inslee to be sold at the Minnesota State Fair at the Democratic-Farm Labor booth. I'll post a photo of that once it arrives. If you see a Jay Inslee button or interesting item that we have not featured, please send us a pic and a description. </div>
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Not many people outside of Massachuttess knew who Seth Moulton was prior to his long-shot presidential campaign...and probably not that many more know much more about now that he's ended his campaign to focus on re-election to Congress. He never polled above 2% in any poll taken of the presidential race. This kept him out of all the debates because he also could not meet the individual donor threshold for the first two debates. His campaign was togeather enough to open an online store to generate donations by selling stickers, shirts, hats, and buttons. There are at least two known Moulton buttons. </div>
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This one comes from his online store and is another made by Texas based Bumperactive. The other pin is very similar but was issued by the Minnesota Democratic-Farm Labor party to sell at their State Fair booth. I will include a picture of that pin when I can find a good photo. </div>
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His campaign produced one button via his online store and there was a button issued by the Minnesota DFL for the state fair. I will post a photo of that pin as soon as I can. Both pins look to be a 2 1/4" pin. Hickenlooper, again, contracted with Bumperactive based in Texas. I heard from lots of collectors and noncollectors when I would share my buttons that while they probably wouldn't vote for Hickenlooper, they did like his logo. It almost looks like something you would see on an outdoors or adventure clothing store logo. </div>
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Governor Hickenlooper was one of the first 14 candidates to enter the race and was in during the Multnomah County Democrats Celsi Dinner & Auction. He made it into the set of 15 pins that were auctioned off at the dinner. The Inslee button is above. Here is the Hickenlooper button. </div>
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The most interesting campaign from 2020 seems to be that of former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel. He did not actively choose to seek the nomination but was convinced to enter by young progressive activists looking for a candidate. In something akin to the old Front Porch campaign, Gravel mostly stayed at home and interacted with folks via social media and the press. He met with the teenagers that were interested in promoting his political issues. He entered the race at that point. His goal was to get into the debates. While he qualified via the 65,000 individual donors for the 1st and 2nd debates, because more than 20 candidates qualified, he was eliminated by tie-breakers. The "#Gravelanche", was able to raise some money and qualify, it wasn't enough to edge him into the debates. He withdrew as a candidate in the summer of 2019, encouraging supporters to vote for Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard. He formally endorsed Sanders shortly after that. </div>
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Now, this is where things get interesting. Gravel, after some prodding, did issue buttons for his 2020 campaign. They were promoted heavily and sold via his website for $4.20! Get it? If not, get someone under 65 to explain it. For a donation to help qualify him for the debates, you were able to get a set of buttons (pictured below). </div>
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Great artwork, very Gravel themes. Sadly, I do not know a single person that has told me they ordered the pins, that the pins have arrived or even been sent. Several fellow APIC members have checked in at various points with Gravel's campaign team and they have said they HAVE the buttons and are getting orders out to people as fast as they can. I myself send an order in either April or May. I can't remember anymore. I check the mail every day to see if my contribution to the #Gravelanche will be in the mail. Every time they check in with the pesky teenagers that ran the campaign, they explain they are volunteers and trying to process the orders as fast as they can. The world wouldn't function without volunteers. Good luck folks on getting those orders out! </div>
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<br />Carl Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038684160362672630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8210781652507752887.post-86792522019598331992019-07-14T16:00:00.000-07:002019-07-14T16:00:06.812-07:002020 Political Buttons Part 2Back in May, we started highlighting the items generated by the 2020 presidential campaigns. You can read <a href="https://oregonapic.blogspot.com/2019/05/2020-political-items-part-1.html">Part 1</a>. We have prepared another installment with a run down of more items generated by the campaigns and grassroots groups supporting them.<br />
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Many of the campaigns have turned to a Texas company called '<a href="https://store.bumperactive.com/campaigns/">BumperActive</a>'. It is very uncommon for so many campaigns to use the same vendor as their official source of campaign materials. Some campaigns are not using this company (notably Joe Biden, Andrew Yang, Marianne Williamson). Some campaigns even switched over from their previous vendor to BumperActive (Cory Booker). All this is to say, that there are a lot of items out there if you are interested in getting some from a campaign this cycle.<br />
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<b>Let's take a look at Cory Booker Items</b><br />
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Booker started out with three large 3" inch designs on his website. For $10 dollars + shipping, you got three pins. Here are the pins from his original website.<br />
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For some reason unknown to those of us outside the campaign, at some point in late spring (shortly before June Pride month) the campaign switched vendors and produced the same pins in the more standard size of 2.25". Through the new vendor, you could buy each pin in sets of 2 for $5 for each set.<br />
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They also introduced their Pride pins consisting of two new designs, selling 2 for $4 each.<br />
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All in all, not a bad set of pins for just over $20 dollars. You get two pins of each, so you can trade one away or give one to a friend supporting Booker. There was a square Cory pin produced for a fundraiser back in New Jersey. Collector Rich Gannon brought this one to our attention. <br />
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It is unknown if any other collectors were able to get access to this pin, as it was made for a fundraising event at a private home. Sure to be one the toughest Booker pins to get out of New Jersey for the 2020 collector or fan of Cory Booker.<br />
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When Joe Biden entered the 2020 campaign, he brought a lot of buttons with him. He's been running for office since the 1970s and you can find Biden items from just about every campaign he's ever run. His earliest presidential campaign buttons date back to the mid-1980s, to help him gear up for his first of three presidential campaigns in 1988. One day, some brave collector will write a lengthy article about all of the Joe Biden items out there to find. Here are the items offered so far from his campaign.<br />
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The first wave of pins were all 2.25" issues. Mostly plays on his new logo. A lot of people have commented on how they like the photo pin of him in sunglasses. <br />
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This pin was issued by <a href="https://www.insidernj.com/june-fischer-joe-bidens-prez-run-ill-walk-scranton-tonight/">June Fischer</a>, a long-time former DNC member, and Biden supporter. It looks like it was made by the same company that made the Booker New Jersey pin above. If you look closely you will see that New Jersey is reflected back in his glasses. <br />
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<b> </b>Biden's team also issued Pride buttons shortly before Jun 2019. These pins are different from the first wave of Biden pins. They are all 3" pins. Using the lines as an E will no doubt be a campaign staple over the coming months of the nomination race.<br />
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<br />Carl Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038684160362672630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8210781652507752887.post-27529091988121177852019-07-03T19:38:00.000-07:002019-07-03T19:38:59.716-07:00Portland Made Humphrey Stickers We have recently come across a green HHH sticker made in Portland, Oregon. For a long time we had known of the smaller blue HHH sticker. Many members have it in their collections. Both of these stickers have Portland, Oregon union stickers on the face. Pretty neat to find a second sticker.<br />
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The two stickers have different photos of HHH in them, but with the same slogan. Note that the different union bugs are position in the same location on each sticker. It makes me wonder why a photo of Humphrey and Muskie were not used on these stickers, even if the stickers mention both candidates. <br />Carl Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038684160362672630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8210781652507752887.post-88961400695863263112019-05-18T11:43:00.000-07:002019-05-18T11:43:24.594-07:00Norma Paulus Remembered <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Paulus">Norma Paulus</a> was the first woman to ever be elected to statewide office in Oregon history. 1976 was the first presidential election after Watergate and voters made their feelings known throughout the country about the shenanigans of the Republican Party and President Nixon. President Ford would seek the GOP nomination and have to fend off a strong challenge from California Governor Ronald Reagan.<br />
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In Oregon, Republicans had held most statewide offices for decades. Paulus was elected after Clay Myers had held the position. She would be the last Republican Secretary of State until 2016 when Dennis Richardson was elected. The Oregon Republicans had held the Secretary of State office from 1878 to 1985. Norma Paulus paved the way for women gaining statewide office in Oregon. She won two successful campaigns for Secretary of State and two terms as Oregon's Superintendent of Public Instruction.<br />
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The read oval button is from one of her Secretary of State campaigns. The large photo pin is from 1980 and was made by a women's political PAC that was interested in nominating women for Vice President at the GOP National Convention in Detroit.<br />
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8 of the buttons are from her <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_Oregon_gubernatorial_election">1986 campaign for Governor of Oregon</a>. She won a 7 way primary to become the Republican nominee. <a href="https://newswithviews.com/author/betty/">Betty Freauf</a> was the social conservative challenger, her campaign would give way to many of the more conservative nominees that would vie for the leadership and electoral clout of the Oregon Republican Party in the 1990s and early 2000s. She was active in the Oregon Republican Party and even ran for the legislature in 1988.<br />
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Woodsy Weirdos for Neil was a button making fun of the hippy environmentalists that folks outside of Portland stereotyped as Goldschmidt supporters. Remember, 1986 was just the start of the economic and environmental battles between industry and conservationists about timber, fish, and spotted owls.<br />
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Nowhere Loves Norma was one that she always got a kick out of as a button. It was based on a comment Neil Goldschmidt had made that no one lived in the Bend area, where they were negotiating for a debate.<br />
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I'm not sure where the button and ribbon combo came from. Could either be her campaign kick off or even election night party.<br />
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Brent Walth wrote a wonderful retrospective of the 1986 campaign for <a href="https://www.pdxmonthly.com/articles/2016/10/10/the-battle-of-86-how-oregon-last-great-election-came-down-to-one-fatal-mistake">Portland Monthly</a>. You can read more details and insights about that race than I will offer here.<br />
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One of the neatest campaign items I have found is a Norma Paulus sand dollar. I got mine from a longtime Oregon collector and on the reverse side was a note saying these were given out by the Benton County Republicans.<br />
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The last button in the image is from either her 1990 campaign for Public Instruction. She replaced Verne Duncan shortly before the election and was able to run as the incumbent. She won re-election in 1994. I don't have any items from that race or her last race for U.S. Senate. After the resignation of Bob Packwood, she was one of several Republicans to run in the 1995 Special Election Primary for the seat. She lost to Gordon Smith, who would go on to lose the election to Congressman Ron Wyden.<br />
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She collaborated with two writers to finish an autobiographical work <a href="http://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/only-woman-in-room">The Only Woman In The Room</a>, published by OSU Press. Here is her obit from <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2019/02/norma-paulus-pioneering-oregon-woman-politician-and-former-secretary-of-state-dead-at-85.html">the Oregonian. </a><br />
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I'm still looking for items from her legislative career and U.S. Senate Campaign. Do you have any Norma Paulus items to share?<br />
<br />Carl Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038684160362672630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8210781652507752887.post-64031777097910585012019-05-06T21:11:00.002-07:002019-05-06T21:11:57.132-07:002020 Political Items Part 12020 items seem to be popping up as fast as the campaigns announced. For a current list of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election#Democratic_Party">2020 Democratic Presidential nominees</a> you can visit Wikipedia. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries">Republican field for 2020</a> currently consists of President Donald Trump and frm. Massachuttess Governor Bill Weld. We've covered some of the really early items from candidates that had announced in 2017 and 2018.<br />
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On to the items!<br />
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All four of these buttons come from the candidate's official web stores. You might notice that they all have the same union bug. At least half of the field of Democratic candidates appear to be using the <a href="https://store.bumperactive.com/campaigns/">bumperactive</a> as the source of their campaign items. You will have to visit the individual links in our campaign stores section to visit each store. <br /><br />
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Here is a fun 3" pin made for the 2019 Wayne Morse Gala in Oregon. The pin features all the Democratic candidates that had announced prior to 4-13-2019. Only 125 were made for the dinner. It features a photo of Senator Morse being asked if he plans to run for president and a response. Even with plenty of candidates, more seem to keep on entering the race.<br />
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Marianne Williamson is one of only two campaigns currently selling 3" pins. The Beto for America pin is also from the same TX-based firm as many of the other campaigns. <br />
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The Kamala pin is being sold on her website via the company in Texas. The Warren sticker came in a snail mail solicitation. <br />
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The Tulsi pin being sold on her website is very nice and one of the few items that are not being supplied by the company in Texas. A word of caution. Ordering this pin is easy...waiting for it to come in the mail is the hard part. My pin took over a month to get to me.<br />
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<a href="https://petepals.org/">The Pete Pals</a> are a grassroots group to support Mayor Pete Buttigieg. At the time of his initial campaign launch, Mayor Pete only offered shirts on his official website. Now that he has made his official announcement to enter the race, his website offers all the traditional items. <br />
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Frm. Congressman John Delaney of Maryland was the very first 2020 candidate announce back in 2017. His website did not have a store for most of the campaign until this year. Not only were there buttons and stickers, but erasers and bottle openers.<br />
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More 2020 items to come in the coming weeks. Have you found any interesting 2020 items you would like to share? Like collecting political items? You should join the American Political Item Collectors (<a href="http://www.apic.us/">www.apic.us</a>).Carl Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038684160362672630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8210781652507752887.post-59354150949120225942019-04-28T18:57:00.001-07:002019-04-28T18:57:18.269-07:00Vintage Lawn Art: Roberts & Whiting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have been recently gifted two vintage lawn signs from the 1970s and 1980s. The first one that was given to me was from the campaign of a local Tigard office holder. Her name was Patricia Whiting. After the creation of single-member districts, she was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives. The owners of Whiting's former home found the sign in the garage when they purchased it. I traded them a Whiting bumper sticker for the sign. <br />
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Whiting was first elected in 1972 and served through 1979. This was the time of Governors McCall and Straub, and of memorable legislation that contributes to the mythos of the Oregon Story. Legislation like the bottle bill, beach bill, and Oregon's groundbreaking land use planning system (SB 100). <a href="https://calisphere.org/item/110b882073d35bedf629dae859643041/">The University of California</a> has an interesting archive of some of her records. That's where I found these images (McCall above and lawn sign drying below)<br />
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I thought this lawn sign photo was interesting. I work in politics and campaigns for a living and I didn't know what they were doing with these signs (which match the sign above). APIC John Silvertooth explained that the signs are drying. In the old days, campaigns didn't normally have access to finished lawn signs (imagine the plastic bag ones or corrugated plastic ones of today). Volunteers had to print them and then dry them. That's what's going on in this photo.<br />
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After Pat's time in the legislature, she would continue to be actively involved in the community. She served on the local Citizen Participation Organization and was a key advocate for protecting the unincorporated community of Metzger from being annexed by Tigard. She helped organize the Local Improvement District to support Metzger Park and helped make sure that when it was time for Metzger school to be rebuilt, it was rebuilt on the existing property. She was very passionate about her community. This <a href="https://pamplinmedia.com/component/content/article?id=32192">Tigard Times article</a> summarizes her contributions to the community and reported on her passing. <br />
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I was able to get another vintage lawn sign. These are from the 1984 campaign of Barbara Roberts in her first run for Oregon Secretary of State. A friend told me he won them at a local party auction and they had been sitting in his basement. I sent this photo to Governor Roberts and she said 'oh the memories!'<br />
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Lawn signs are not a popular thing for collectors and I usually avoid them, especially if someone expects money for them. They take up a lot of space (most collectors have limited space for storage). These signs are an exception. They are from two people I deeply admire, and one I have known since I was a freshman in college. I will gladly find a way to display these on my wall.<br />
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Do you have any antique campaign lawn signs? Send us your pics. Carl Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038684160362672630noreply@blogger.com0