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video producer, host of NW Fresh, 10 yrs in TV news previously: @KOINnews @KGWNews @betheoutlier

Portland since 2006
Joined April 2011
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andy chandler
2 months
If you're a Portland/Oregon candidate and focused on: - Foreign policy 1000's of miles away - Abortion which isn't on the ballot - Carbon instead of our trashed city - Protecting criminals over victims - Anti-car, anti-working class policies Time to get back to local issues that
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1 year
@mcuban mark jumpin in with his own pharma ad plug 😂
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andy chandler
9 months
@DAMikeSchmidt No bias crime charged in the attack on gay Asian-American @MrAndyNgo but we all know you don't really prosecute Antifa
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andy chandler
8 months
Ah yes 90 days will solve it 😂
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andy chandler
10 months
@NBCNews Are slurs part of @NBCNews style policy in the newsroom?
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andy chandler
2 months
Portland is still reeling from the long-term damage from ex-commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, it will take years to undo and restore some aspects of livability. Thinking an endorsement from her is positive and meaningful is delusional. Beware of this kind of regressive and unethical
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andy chandler
5 months
At KGW I'd be covering an event where Antifa was present and I'd ask them point blank if they wanted a free press (while they harass/assault me and my reporter). The answer was of course "no". It's an extremist organization that looks up to groups like Hamas and engages in
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andy chandler
2 months
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say PAT @pdxteachers and education unions have done more harm than good here. Just absolutely damning stuff, we spend spend spend on education and it gets us dead-last rankings nationwide. Link:
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andy chandler
7 months
@MrAndyNgo If you want to see change in Portland livability now is a great time to read Andy's book documenting the rise of Antifa in 2020 and subsequent protection from riot criminal charges via the ideologically-driven DA @DAMikeSchmidt
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andy chandler
2 months
If you're a Portland candidate posting about: - Not accepting fossil fuel money - Proudly anti-police - Defending ADA violating camping - Downplaying addiction - Downplaying dead-last economics - Focusing on unneeded bike shit - How our issues are "big city" probs You're
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andy chandler
1 month
Progressive Portland lost the ability to disagree years and years ago, and has been instrumental in monolithic thinking, anti-nuance, and stamping out voices it doesn't like with violence, harassment, and intimidation. Protest city Portland may be, but only ones that align with
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andy chandler
8 years
@AjitPaiFCC @rajneilkamath I don't think unwealthy families will support you after removing subsidized broadband.
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andy chandler
1 year
@mcuban @costplusdrugs decent sarcasm but mark there's no way you can be impartial on public health bc you are downstream from @pfizer @EliLillyandCo @Merck
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andy chandler
5 months
What's going on at PSU is an embarrassment and @Portland_State should face the same level of scrutiny and grilling that Columbia, Penn State, Harvard faced about the level of hostile anti-Semitism on campus from either Congress or a state congress.
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andy chandler
7 months
Seeing Portland City Council candidates post about global foreign policy? This is a huge red flag and an indicator of candidates that will avoid genuine local issues and problems bc they're too distracted and worried about signaling what they see as the correct virtue. Avoid
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andy chandler
2 months
Kristin @rationalinpdx was attacked in downtown Portland, it was sadly a matter of time next to the downtown library. Portland needs dramatic change.
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andy chandler
2 months
Portland can't staff its fire & police departments but PCEF is overflowing with money for all the non-profits 🤔 Unacceptable that basic services are treated as a distant priority, placed far below getting money to organizations with crappy logos and buzzword mission statements
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andy chandler
3 months
No.
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andy chandler
3 months
I started my show NW Fresh so that a place in media exists for unfettered conversations that welcome moderate voices. As someone who spent 10 years in Portland news I can say 99% of news orgs are overwhelmingly progressive/far-left in their staff and editorial output. We have the
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andy chandler
2 months
Debunked concepts still being pushed by Portland/Oregon candidates: - Unsheltered camping is ethical - Addiction isn't real, or deadly - Defunding police didn't happen - OR has no state rent control (it does) - PPS schools are great (despite data) You are deeply out of touch
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andy chandler
9 months
Run as a moderate in Portland you'll get your office smashed up multiple times and your cars torched. Is this the democracy progressives pine about constantly?
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9 months
Press Release: Arson Investigation Underway After Car Fire Outside City Commissioner's Home Link:
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andy chandler
6 months
The NPR stuff has been brewing for many years now and if you're still in an NPR-silo you're not getting journalism, you're getting activism.
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andy chandler
4 months
For years Portland and PBOT has overinvested in bike infrastructure while basic services and roads deteriorate. Now that WFH is here to stay bike lanes and cooridors sit empty as the laptop-class never have to leave their home on a weekday. Time to get back to basics, and
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andy chandler
10 months
@DAMikeSchmidt Portland is done with ya bud. You had your time.
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andy chandler
7 years
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andy chandler
1 year
@KOINNews ...says the worst ranked Governor in the United States
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andy chandler
1 month
"Both sides of the aisle" doesn't exist in Portland. As a result compromise is not an actualized concept to most Portlanders, and is often viewed as a hostile threat (despite the "in this house we respect..." diversity lawn signs) I've heard a lot of this undemocratic rhetoric
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andy chandler
2 months
Dissolve Metro. Bloated unnecessary third layer of government what could go wrong? Link:
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andy chandler
10 months
@shanedkavanaugh The scariest part about this entire strike is @pdxteachers still don't understand that lockdowns and shutdowns impacted kids for life
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andy chandler
7 months
This is not a solution to our ongoing ambulance crisis @jvegapederson :
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andy chandler
6 months
Moderates scare hyper-progressives & extreme-left in Portland because they represent complexity, practicality, pragmatism, realism, and the political shift that damaged progressives and Democrats (self-inflicted) for the long-term.
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andy chandler
2 months
We are leading the way
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andy chandler
1 year
@wweek recording in public is a win for the First Amendment, @wweek should know this
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andy chandler
1 year
@KATUNews This is a pattern of @multco blaming anyone but themselves for the problems they've created and watched for years
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andy chandler
6 months
If you're seeing Portland City Council candidates suggest putting our Portland population through more of the same debunked woke ideas that have devastated livability, you know who to leave off your ballot this November.
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andy chandler
6 months
Watch my episode with @LeslieBienen on why we need a Covid Commission and her help in writing the paper with @DrJBhattacharya and others to get the commission started:
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The Vigilant Fox 🦊
6 months
Bill Maher Drops Stunning Monologue on the COVID “Experts” Who Got It Wrong “A lot of the dissenting opinions that were suppressed and ridiculed at the time have proven to be CORRECT.” This includes, but is not limited to: • COVID came from a lab • Ivermectin worked • Masks
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andy chandler
7 years
Stunned. @greggturkington has been wrong all these years. Props to @NicholasMQ for letting the truth be known. cc: @timheidecker #ElectricSun20Trial #OnCinema #GreggTurkingtonScandal
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andy chandler
3 months
If there's a poster child for failed homelessness & addiction policy it's JVP. From boofing kits, foil & needles, to passing out the same tents (violating ADA Act) that cost the city big money to constantly sweep, to focusing on failed Housing-First ideology instead of
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andy chandler
6 months
There are unfortunately still a few Portland City Council candidates that are 100% anti-law enforcement, anti-victim, and anti-livability. This misunderstanding stems from lack of life experience, lack of connection to Portland, and never having been poor/lived in a neglected
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andy chandler
8 years
THERE's my chippy. Thanks @ericwareheim & @timheidecker in time for Chrimbus
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andy chandler
1 year
@KATUNews it is ranked the best for fentanyl and horse tranq
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andy chandler
3 months
We are the county of dysfunction and JVP is our queen. Link:
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andy chandler
9 months
@SenSanders People are still doing this??? 😂
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andy chandler
5 years
@timheidecker Maybe needs a touch of Pitzman's Mustard?
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andy chandler
11 months
@DAMikeSchmidt everyone except crime victims, Portland has no ethical DA
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andy chandler
1 year
@KatieDaviscourt way too many (like @OPB ) still call Antifa "protestors". its organized crime.
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andy chandler
10 months
@davidmedinaofa From disrupting child development to disrupting working adults trying to get to and from work, is there anyone more tone deaf than @pdxteachers ?
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andy chandler
3 months
Portland City Council candidate Andra Vltavin "loves camping". I think this candidate missed the memo that urban camping instead of shelter and treatment has helped Portland achieve the highest increase in fentanyl overdoses nationwide (CDC), violates ADA law (city lawsuit), and
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andy chandler
3 months
Portland is at a crossroads in 2024 local elections to either (1) build a sense of compromise and moderate openness or (2) return to the close-minded ideologically blinded leadership that's been voted out multiple times now. The latter has kept Portland one of the dead-last
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andy chandler
5 months
I know this may come as a shock 😂 but OPB is directly downstream from NPR which is by now a well-known hyper partisan activist organization, and in many ways OPB is far more ideologically-driven than NPR. Donate instead to Willamette Week where efforts at journalism are made.
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andy chandler
10 months
@KGWNews Pro-learning loss supporters close bridge, harm students another day
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andy chandler
22 days
USBank leaving Big Pink: "U.S. Bank tells KATU News the company made a business decision not to renew its lease at Big Pink...Some employees will move to other facilities downtown, but several hundred will move out of downtown. Many are expected to move to a U.S. Bank facility in
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andy chandler
10 months
@pdxteachers Can we get a class-action lawsuit going against @pdxteachers for extended and unnecessary damage to kids mental/physical health and failure to deliver education of any quality?
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andy chandler
5 years
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andy chandler
4 years
Please check out my latest sketch - @Tsoukalos @davidhchildress
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andy chandler
5 years
@timheidecker @greggturkington I think we all know where that "Medicaid" money went
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andy chandler
10 months
@KOINNews You lost us after "Oregon is good at making decisions"
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andy chandler
7 months
Say it with me "This coming May, Multnomah County gets a new DA" ⚖️⚖️⚖️ @VoteVasquez24
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andy chandler
1 year
@KATUNews interesting there's a change of heart suddenly when an election is 12 months away
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andy chandler
4 months
Portland area candidates that don't mention fentanyl don't understand addiction and the scope of our addiction problems.
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andy chandler
8 months
When you see activist news orgs posting about a dip in Portland crime--the long term damage is already done and hasn't quit.
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andy chandler
5 months
Watch @VoteVasquez24 explain @DAMikeSchmidt 's protest policy he implemented in 2020 which made Antifa start to refer to Mike as "Papa Mike" and an ally due to the policy which created a "Get Out of Jail Free" card and dismissed crimes committed by Antifa.
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andy chandler
7 months
The absolute last thing this upcoming Portland City Council needs is more activists leading with ideology-first, leaving livability in the dust
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andy chandler
3 months
Multnomah County needs a total reset with a laser-focus on back to basics governing. Starting this November we need a commission that has teeth with the help of @VoteVadim2024 so that we can delete the veto-power JVP has over the agenda, which allows her to stomp out ideas that
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andy chandler
1 year
@wweek @TinaKotek and @repblumenauer are about 3 years late in noticing a problem
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7 years
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andy chandler
7 months
Looking forward to a new DA this May who's fair and effective:
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andy chandler
10 months
@nbcsnl If you haven't tuned out of SNL yet now is a great time, they quit doing comedy years ago
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andy chandler
4 months
Can we just rename PAT to the indoctrination union? Link:
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andy chandler
5 months
Iconic downtown charms like the Portland Elk are destroyed by Antifa and it takes the city 5 years (end of 2024 if no delays, just in time for more riots) to return it so the city can complete feasibility studies and the rest of the stuff that makes us The City That Doesn't Work.
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andy chandler
1 year
@DAMikeSchmidt Portland currently has no functioning DA. Sad for all the victims of unprosecuted crime. But we CAN have a DA again if we @VoteVasquez24
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andy chandler
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One of the worst and most naive arguments I've heard from Portland city council candidates is that to deal with Portland's dramatically understaffed police we shouldn't hire more officers but instead "move around" some of the currently police to different roles to be more
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andy chandler
20 days
Serious campaign violation stuff for @lykinsforpdx
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In an email thread from mid-August, at least four Portland City Council candidates agreed to contribute to each other’s campaigns in order to reach the 250-donor threshold needed to qualify for matching taxpayer funds.
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andy chandler
10 months
@jamiep72061 You'd think @pdxteachers would at least know to not dox people but based on their track record I guess not
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@erosegolden @pdxteachers We can thank @pdxteachers for creating tremendous learning-loss in what is already the worst ranked education in the country
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andy chandler
9 months
@KATUNews Is there any evidence @pdxteachers do anything positive & ethical for students?
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andy chandler
11 months
@KGWNews Can Portlanders fine @multco for catastrophic loss of livability and neglect over 3+ years?
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andy chandler
2 months
"Multnomah County still hasn't figured out key aspects of its deflection program, but it has determined the nonprofit that will run it." First priority? Get the non-profits their money of course. More horrible af leadership from JVP, listen instead to @BrimJulia in this article.
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andy chandler
4 months
One of the many reasons I speak out against Antifa so much (in addition to being assaulted on the job by them) is that all my grandparents participated in the military during WW2 and one eventually made it to the rank of Major in the Army and my grandma Molly helping the RAF in
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andy chandler
8 months
@stoolpresidente Like watching George Lucas create Star Wars
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andy chandler
3 months
@KOINNews I think my old employer KOIN is asking the wrong kind of "why" here. In fact I don't think they asked any actual questions all this info from a press release/website.
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andy chandler
9 months
@portlandmercury Villainize anyone not inside the monoculture that's the Mercury 😂
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andy chandler
1 year
@multco can Portlanders get a class action going against @multco for loss of life and catastrophic damage to livability?
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andy chandler
1 year
@choeshow this is the society @GovInslee wants for America
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andy chandler
5 months
A new low for @trimet and public transit/public safety in the Portland Metro area:
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andy chandler
5 months
This election season if you see candidates still using the phrase "meet people where they're at" when talking addiction this is 🚩🚩 to avoid that candidate. Harm-reduction is a debunked dated concept in the age of the most cheap, powerful, addictive drug on the planet, fentanyl
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andy chandler
4 months
Portland and the west coast successfully patented the transformation from progressivism to regressivism
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andy chandler
6 months
Had an excellent discussion with @VoteVasquez24 on fixing the DA's office in Multnomah County and Nathan's 24 years of experience in the DA's office!
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andy chandler
2 months
"KATU made multiple attempts to interview Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson who has been leading the charge on the program. When asked for an interview in person on Wednesday, Vega Pederson declined, when asked again via email she again declined. A spokesperson
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andy chandler
10 months
@oregonfoodbank Oregon Woke Bank
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andy chandler
6 years
@TheOnion lol this is heavy even for Onion
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andy chandler
5 months
More not good news for Portland Metro economy:
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andy chandler
1 year
@DAMikeSchmidt @VoteVasquez24 Just this week @DAMikeSchmidt decided not to prosecute a well known convicted serial sexual predator known as the Trimet Barber
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andy chandler
3 months
Once again via her response to this letter about the ambulance policy crisis, @jvegapederson digs her ideological heels in and continues to work against the residents she's supposed to be serving and pit the county against the city of Portland. And the people of Multnomah County
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andy chandler
11 months
@pdxteachers Time to start thinking about the kids and not the adults. Lifetime of shutdowns has hurt kids.
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andy chandler
10 months
@RonWyden Term limits for Oregon senators
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andy chandler
1 year
New episode with @rationalinpdx and @cocainemichelle tonight at 730!
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andy chandler
3 months
Ah yes, the Oregon education system that can't even teach kids reading by 3rd grade 🤔 Link:
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andy chandler
6 months
Recorded a really great episode with @Real_EdDiehl and @hunnybadgermom talking about some of rural Oregon's problems and state elections in 2024.
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