Ultimately, all elections are local.
Even presidential votes are accounted locally and accumulated to indicate state preferences. The Electoral College means that a candidate gaining the most votes nationally may not become president.
Locally, we ask whether a candidate convicted of 34 crimes, rape and tax fraud, campaigning to be a dictator and committed to exonerating his own criminal actions and those of insurrectionists supporting him, should become president.
The Oregon Republican Party states on Page 23 of the Jackson County Voters’ Pamphlet for the recent Oregon primary election (sos.oregon.gov/elections/Documents/pamphlet/book3.pdf) that “the rule of law, equally applied to all with due process, makes good sense.”
Following Trump’s conviction by a jury of 12 everyday New Yorkers on 34 counts of fraud designed to quash evidence that might have undermined his election in 2016, national Republicans have claimed that Trump should be exonerated by the Supreme Court.
Do local Republican candidates reject democracy and the rule of law? Do they support Trump and authoritarian rule?
Alan Journet
Jacksonville