Liz Kimmerly, Online Director for Steve Novick writes about todays's coverage of Les AuCoin's endorsement for Novick's campaign. Steve Novick is a committed progressive taking on Gordon Smith for the U.S. Senate. You can find out more about the fighter with the hard left hook at his (newly upgraded!) website and help support his campaign at ActBlue.
Novick Picks Up Endorsements from Former Congressman AuCoin and a Team of
Others
This morning, a legion of Oregon progressives stood up for Steve Novick.
Led by former Congressman Les AuCoin, these nabobs for Novick laid out why
Steve is the strongest, most progressive, most dynamic choice for U.S.
Senate.
The Oregonian's political blog started the day off with news of the endorsements:
Democratic candidate Steve Novick held a morning press conference
to announce an endorsement by former U.S. Rep. Les AuCoin, D-Ore., the
best-known backer his campaign has attracted so far. Joining AuCoin in the
endorsement parade for Novick were Portland City Commissioner Erik Sten and Multnomah County Commissioner Jeff Cogen.
These great public servants came to Steve for an array of reasons, from the
need for fundamental change in Washington to their intimate knowledge of
Steve's values and fighting character. Rep. AuCoin gave his thoughts on
the race yesterday to the Ashland Daily Tidings:
"This is no ordinary time and we can't afford to let this be an
ordinary election," AuCoin said Sunday in a telephone interview while
traveling from his second home in Bozeman, Mont. to make the endorsement
announcement today at Portland State University.
Few have better expressed why Steve is the right man to take on Gordon
Smith.
"That's an epic fight, and I believe that Steve Novick is the
shrewder, tougher and better fighter against that galloping madness," said
AuCoin..."Steve is no ordinary fighter. In a debate against Gordon Smith,
Gordon will not know what hit him."
Over at the Register Guard, David Steves takes a look at AuCoin's lengthy career in Oregon politics and surveys Steve's other big endorsements.
AuCoin served in Congress from 1975 until he gave up his House
seat to run a close but just-short race against Sen. Packwood in 1992—a
race he might have won had revelations of Packwood’s pattern of sexual
harassment been reported before, rather than after the election. Besides
the AuCoin endorsement, Novick will use the event to highlight nearly 100
public officials who are backing him. Among them are Portland City Council
members Randy Leonard and Erik Sten, Multnomah County Commissioners Jeff
Cogen and Maria Rojo De Steffey and Washington County Commissioner Desari
Strader.
Team up with Rep. AuCoin, Commissioners Leonard,
Sten, Cogen, Rojo De Steffey and Strader and join Steve's fight to bring
progressive values back to the U.S. Senate.