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THE LONGEST CAMPAIGN TRAIL [OR State Senate]
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| Contributor | WesternDem |
| Last Edited | WesternDem Nov 04, 2006 11:00pm |
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| Category | Commentary |
| Media | Newspaper - Oregonian, The (Portland) |
| News Date | Sunday, November 5, 2006 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | O n a chill, foggy Saturday morning, state senate candidate Paul Evans stands in front of the capitol, deploying his canvassers and occasionally waving to cars. That evening, his campaign would have a rally with a U.S. senator, a congresswoman and a former governor, but this morning he is out with a couple of supporters, doing a candidate's grunt work.
Evans is used to grunt work.
Next Sunday, two days before the election, he will go off with his National Guard unit to Afghanistan for his eighth tour in a combat zone. Evans, the Democratic challenger to GOP incumbent senator Jackie Winters, thought that his two-month deployment wouldn't start until Nov. 15, but it got suddenly moved up.
It seems these things happen in the military.
So when voting starts in the mid-Willamette Valley 10th district, Evans will be either in or approaching an Air Force base near Kandahar -- possibly the only candidate in America this year spending Election Day on active duty in a combat zone. |
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