Hi!!Last weekend I was in San Francisco for my uncle's memorial service. Although it was a sad occasion, I was able to spend time with my parents, siblings, nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, cousins and my best friend from high school Ginina.It turns out I got on the same plane from PDX to SFO as Oregon House Speaker, Jeff Merkley and his lovely wife, Mary Sorteberg. As you know, Speaker Merkley is running against Oregon's Republican Senator, Gordon Smith. As I hope you all know, Gordon Smith is NOT a moderate Republican. He has voted with George Bush 95% of the time. Smith is a right-wing extremist.Anyway, the following photo shows Jeff Merkley, along with 3 other Democratic candidates running against sitting U.S. Senators or Congressmen taken at the Democratic National Convention. Since I had my DNC photos with me to show my family, when we got off the plane I had the opportunity to give Speaker Merkley my copy of the attached photo. He did not already have a photo from his National stage debut and so was very pleased to get the photo from me. FYI, I did not personally take this photo, but it was definitely one of my highlights of the convention!!!
See photo at following link:http://www.flickr.com/photos/demconvention/2805147050/
Here's another good photo available from the Oregonian:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/theoregonian/2805098932/sizes/o/Jeff Merkley is 2nd from left. Other candidates are Tom Allen (ME), Tom Udall (NM-03) and Jeanne Shaheen (NH). Senator Charles Schumer (NY) is on the far right. He introduced the candidates with an inspiring speech urging everyone to help Democrats increase their majority in the House and strive for attaining a filibuster proof majority in the Senate.To help Jeff Merkley unseat Republican Gordon Smith, please donate or sign up to volunteer at:http://www.jeffmerkley.com/
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