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Novick's 2nd choice: Frohnmayer
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| Last Edited | Craverguy Apr 17, 2008 10:07pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Oregonian, The (Portland) |
| News Date | Friday, April 18, 2008 04:05:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Democratic Senate candidate Steve Novick says the most qualified candidate in the race besides himself is not one of the other Democrats but independent John Frohnmayer.
Novick, a Portland lawyer and consultant, does say that he would back his chief rival, House Speaker Jeff Merkley, if he wins the nomination. But he told The Oregonian on Thursday that Frohnmayer "would be a better senator than Jeff Merkley."
Novick's views, first broached in a Willamette Week interview posted on the Internet, is another example of Novick's willingness to break with his party. His comments also raise questions about whether the Democrats will have trouble unifying after the increasingly antagonistic primary campaign.
Novick, Merkley and two other candidates in the Democratic primary, Candy Neville of Eugene and David Loera of Salem, were asked in the weekly newspaper's joint endorsement interview who in the room they would support if they couldn't vote for themselves.
Merkley immediately said he would back Novick. But Novick said, "I'd vote for John Frohnmayer." When he was asked what other Democrat he would support, Novick paused for a long time and said, "I have a hard time answering that."
Then, after another long pause, Novick said he would have to wait to see if Merkley "continues to run the kind of campaign he's running against me."
Finally, Novick said, "Given what I know now, I would vote for Candy Neville," a real estate broker who has made opposition to the Iraq war the centerpiece of her candidacy.
Novick added that Frohnmayer's positions are "extremely progressive" and concluded, "I will vote for the Democratic nominee, but if I could vote for the person I think is best qualified other than myself, I would vote for John Frohnmayer." |
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