Are Willamette Week, The Oregonian and PDX pollster "Proud Minnesotan" John Horvick like Watergate "Dirty Trickster" Donald Segretti? They want Republicans to run Christine Drazan again? Why? Op-ed
Will 2026 be the year Republicans stop being fooled by The Oregonian, Willamette Week and "Proud Minnesotan" PDX DHM political pollster John Horvick? Will Republicans discern now how the PDX Trickster Trio plays them each election cycle? Horvick's polling lacks validity, reliability and transparency because we can't hear the polling phone calls to the 600 reportedly called. Basic 101 Graduate School Research Class, the viewer, the reader must have access to the "research instrument"
If the voting public hasn't seen "All the President's Men" lately, now would be a good time to do so. Remember when Hal Holbrook as Deep Throat tells Robert Redford as "Bob Woodward" to "Look at the overall. Look at who they wanted to run against, McGovern." 
Patterns repeat. The DSA PDX Trio want Christine Drazan so they throw out a few crumbs of hope towards the Republican voters with a wink subtext to get those voters to think 'Oh, look we might win this time, even The Oregonian, the Willamette Week and Horvick think maybe we might win if we choose Drazan!" Will 2026 be the year Republicans quit falling for the trios tricks? Portland's Trio Tricksters?
Remember John Horvick is a "Proud Minnesotan" like former Oregon Governor Kate Brown.
Horvick likes to use percentages to fool Republicans like reporting as ballots came in during the general election in 2022. Horvick was like, 'Oh, look 25% of Republicans have returned their ballots compared to only 20% of Democrats', knowing no one would ask, "Hey, John what's the whole number of those?" The whole number tells you more Democrats cast ballots than Republicans.
The Three DSA PDX Musketeers (the editor's take) don't tell you the group in Portland who dislikes Tina Kotek the most are the DSA (Democrat Socialists of America), they don't like Tina, she is not left enough for them.
Notice the repeat patterns from 2022 when in the primary some unions didn't endorse Tina, but they did in the general after taking her to their verbal woodshed interviews, applying pressure. DSA unions will run that pattern again this November is the prediction. Tina didn't bend 100% totally to DSA, but they'll be keeping her "for now". Salem legislature has four DSA members currently, Travis Nelson, Farrah Chaichi, Mark Gamba and Lesly Munoz. DSA is focusing on upping that number. DSA is playing the long game and the longer Republicans, Democrats and NAV voters don't notice their incremental wins it benefits the DSA.
Who the DSA PDX Trio don't want as governor? Chris Dudley. They were sly and dismissive towards 'the nice guy', Chris Dudley. The DSA PDX Trio, of course, couldn't being telling Portland of his success outside of the NBA from 2003 onward not even his 2010 win for Oregon Governor UNTIL two day later
- Vice President, M Financial Wealth Management (2006–2008): Senior role in investment advising.
- Partner / Wealth Management Advisor, Filigree Advisors (co-founded, since October 2008): Focuses on helping clients with portfolio alignment, asset allocation, tax-efficient strategies, and risk management. He has described experience negotiating billion-dollar deals as treasurer/negotiating committee member for the NBA Players Association.
- Registered Investment Adviser (RIA) background, with emphasis on private-sector business and investing.
- Chairman of the Board, then CEO of Diabetomics (Beaverton, OR-based medical device/diagnostics company): Leadership role in a health-tech firm tied to his personal experience with Type 1 diabetes.
- Involved in efforts to keep the Portland Trail Blazers in Oregon (Rip City Forever group with Marshall Glickman).
- Founder, Chris Dudley Foundation (1994–present): Oregon-based organization supporting children and youth with Type 1 diabetes. It has run a basketball camp for kids with diabetes for decades. Dudley (diagnosed at age 16) was the first NBA player with the condition and has received awards for this work, including the NBA’s J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award.
- Volunteer assistant basketball coach at Lake Oswego High School (2005–2007), mentoring players including Kevin Love.
And the biggest question or "tell" is why in the world would the PDX DSA Trio endorse Christine Drazan who claims to be a "Pro-Life Champion"? All three of her mailed campaign pieces and emails have only been about being "Pro-Life" as though that's the only vote Christine is trying to get. Quite curious.
All people and all groups now should be like Robert Redford's character Joe Turner in "Three Days of the Condor". How did he escape being killed? How did Joe Turner keep outsmarting the CIA? His CIA authority said, "Because he reads everything."
The editor of Truth in the Pacific Northwest dropped in a few years ago at a DSA meeting. The young people were kind, polite and caring. Their concern and active caring for the foreign crews on the cargo ships that come into Portland was an eye-opener. Some foreign crews are nothing more than slaves. I was the only one who was mask free that night and no one harassed me. I felt like I had time traveled back to the late 1970s when I went through a similar experience as a radical feminist in the women's health care movement which I left after being traumatized from watching a baby being dismembered alive; euphemistically called a "a partial birth ab.....n" back then. I saw the little hands and feet drop on the metal table next to the doctor. When the head was crushed and fluid gushed out, I dissociated. I stayed in shock for decades around that witnessing until I saw Abby Johnson's film "Unplanned".
Thus, I have no ill will or unkind thoughts for the young people today who genuinely are attempting to do what they deem to be good things that they are trying to find their place in the world, what paths they will go down.
Kindness is needed now in Portland and it is perhaps the Salem outsider, Chris Dudley who can do that. What choice will Republicans make? That will happen on May 19th.
May 11, 2026
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