Art Robinson, the Crazy Man is Running for Congress Again

It what has become a biennial tradition in the fourth congressional district in Oregon, the landscape is once again littered with Art Robinson signs and we are reminded of this crackpot who is seemingly never going to give up in his quest of replacing Peter Defazio; our longtime Congressman.

He ran in 2010 and lost.  In 2012, not only did he run, but his son Matthew also ran in the primary on the Democratic ticket against Congressman Defazio….suffice to say, they both lost.  And so here we are in 2014 faced with another run by Art Robinson.  Seemingly the only thing different this time is that in the interim Dr. Robinson has asked Oregonians to send him urine samples in the name of some sort of scientific experiment (this is true).

I’m sure by now Oregonians (and the rest of the country?) are all too familiar with Robinson and his assertions that radioactive waste is good for us and should be dumped in the ocean and put in foundations of homes, that AIDS is a government conspiracy, that public schools should be abolished and his home-school curriculum kit containing a 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, a King James Bible and novels written by G.A. Henty...an unenlightened racist, represent true academia.  And we’ve probably all seen his classic meltdown on Rachel Maddow’s program.

This short film was produced in 2012 to highlight just what Oregonians would be getting if they voted for Art Robinson.  But it is still relevant today, and highly entertaining!