Forrest Gump would know better than this.
Oregon voters are considering, right now, a pair of ballot measures that include slight tax increases to keep the state solvent through an economic meltdown. All indications are that Oregonians get it, they understand the problem and they favor the measures. Of course, there's a right-wing opposition that equates taxation with leprosy, buggery and incest. The opposition, run by the alchemist Mark Nelson and his Igor, Pat McCormick, have mailed bogus letters to voters, made up numbers that even The Orangeonian has disclaimed as false, and now are airing a television spot filmed in a bakery.
In all of Oregon's, broad, wide expanse, where did they go to find the little bakery in which to film this television advertisement? An advertisement that purports to show how Oregon businesses will supposedly lose jobs if these twin ballot measures are approved? Come on, guess.
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