I agree with your endorsement in this race. Alley is actually the more progressive of the two candidates; he doesn't so much think outside the box as beyond it, and what you characterize as his political naivete is actually a complete lack of "beholdenness." He doesn't owe the powerbrokers anything, on the left or the right, so he's free to be pragmatic as well as visionary. His election would be very good for Oregon.

I disagree with your characterization of Pixelworks. Pixelworks today is healthy, generating cash, providing jobs, and has a positive balance sheet. It's selling almost $100M a year in products; its newest products likely power the projectors you use in your business and will use next year, and its finest image enhancement technologies likely will make your next generation flat panel television so sharp and clear it will take your breath away. That's not a "crashed" or "flamed out" company. What "soared and crashed" is not the company, but its stock price -- and similarly the stock prices of all its competitors in the space. That's the nature of market volatility around tech stocks; long term stable companies that just provide jobs and sell good stuff "don't get no respect."

Bill Campbell? The very same Bill Campbell who works for Ater Winne law firm, which is paid BY Pixelworks?

Those are the same tired talking points we've been hearing for months now. Fact is, Alley is a big part of the Wall Street and George W Bush philosophy that got us to this point in the first place.

But I guess the Willy Week found their token Republican this year.

Who is the dufuss at the westlund campaign who makes up names and tries to lie to people and say that Alley is like Bush... Get real. Westlund could't win Willy Week or the Mercury... Ben is a joke.

Hey, didn't I just hear the managing news editor Hank Stern say (on KPOJ) that Allen Alley lied to his face and in light of the truth he regretted endorsing Allen Alley?

Haven't we had enough of the liars?

To be clear, what I said was Alley gave KPOJ a weasel's answer that's belied by his Facebook page as we reported here wweek.com/columns/murmurs/#34.51.

We're always ticked when a candidate we endorse gives a weasel answer. But if we started pulling endorsements based on a pol's weasel answer or decision, few pols would make it to Election Day.

Allen Alley Outsourced jobs to China

Republican Traitors all

Bush proved the Global Economy is a lie

this is stacy dycus (bens personal aid)... not someone named "homer"