Oregon attorney general candidate
John Kroger got some high-profile national publicity this week from
The Nation magazine's Associate Publisher Peter Rothberg, who featured Kroger's campaign on his
Act Now! blog.
What this blog will attempt to do over the coming months is to feature worthy candidates you may not have heard about who are animated by a commitment to social and economic justice and who have a real chance to win a state race.
Up first is John Kroger, running hard in the Oregon Democratic primaries, in a contest that will determine the next state Attorney General.
...I'm convinced that he's someone most Nation readers would find well worth supporting.
From everything I've read in the local press and blogs, the Oregon AG's office has not been an aggressive or effective force for law enforcement under previous administrations. In fact, the office seems to have functioned as much as the corporate counsel for the State as an independent office that can bring lawsuits on behalf of the state's people to accomplish important social ends. Kroger's opponent, Greg McPherson, is squarely within this business-as-usual tradition. Kroger says he will bring the full weight of the office to bear on real things that matter to real people and will never be the tool of the local business class.
Read the entire post
HERE.
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