Fentoine Lum
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In Oregon:
After 40 years as a Republican, Lori Stegmann has had a change of heart – and political party.
Stegmann, elected a Multnomah County commissioner in 2016, has changed her affiliation to Democrat, she said in an interview Tuesday.
Stegmann, 58, said she can sum up the reason for the change with one word: Trump. She added that she "cannot condone the misogyny, the racism, and the unethical and immoral behavior of the current administration."
Stegmann represents District 4 on the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners. That district includes Gresham, Troutdale, Corbett and other small east county communities.
She said she is a political moderate, owing in part to her experience growing up in her district, as a businesswoman working in insurance and as a Republican who admired party greats like Sen. Mark Hatfield and Gov. Tom McCall.
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2018/07/republican_racism_spurs_gop_of.html
I am hoping this is a trend, and that moderate Republicans will not just abstain from voting, but will cross the line at least for the mid-terms, to flush Congress of some of the Trash politicians.
Not surprising given that Chuckie, Nancy, Washermanschitz and Co have run to the Reich chasing republican voters pushing republican "solutions" for decades to our societal economic cannibalization by the aristocracy. Choose us, the less racist corporatist party.
