Personal profile for Clackamas Co. Commissioner Ben West; Lieutenant, U.S. Navy Reserve Officer; Cardiology RN. I cherish classic liberalism and Western values.
Wilsonville, OR
Joined June 2012
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1/ @TinaKotek is the superintendent for Oregon Public Schools.
My son and I met her on Labor Day at a picnic, and she even used our picture in her Labor Day campaign ad. 😬
Pause at the 8 second mark to see us.
facebook.com/watch/?v=106114…
ALT A brave Oregon mom and her son ask the Oregon Superintendent of Schools for help.
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I rarely write opinion pieces. I don't view that as my job.
But what happened to Braiden Bell — worthy of some thoughts written down.
Braiden Bell: Hired for the right reasons, fired for the wrong ones. thedesk.net/2026/10/braiden-…
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The Trail Blazers hired 29-year-old Braiden Bell as their new TV play-by-play announcer.
Hours later, they FIRED him over offensive tweets he posted as a teenager in 2012 and 2013.
@ClayTravis reacts to another case of old social media posts costing someone their career:
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"He was hired to be an NBA announcer... and these journalists are like 'Hmm, I wonder if he ever said anything problematic! I'll dig through his tweets from 2012!'"
"That's a psychotic impulse... You need to REPENT, in therapy."
My take on the bizarre Portland Trail Blazers witch hunt.
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Portland Mayor Keith Wilson refuses to endorse city council candidates who support police abolition, viewing it as irresponsible policy that harms the community. kgw.com/article/news/local/s…
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Councilor Mitch Green countered that he and Portland police alike don't want to be judged for their conduct circa 2020. kgw.com/article/news/politic…
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🚨🚨🚨PORTLAND POLICE ASSOCIATION calls on PDX City Councilor MITCH GREEN TO RESIGN:
Portland Police Association Calls on Councilor Mitch Green to Resign
PPA President implores elected leaders to publicly repudiate Green’s statements
PORTLAND, OR— “Absolute monsters.” “Bastards.” “Infamously cowardly.”
Portland Councilor Mitch Green’s professed “pure hatred for the Portland police” is disqualifying, and shocking.
But he didn’t stop there. His words celebrating violence against business owners and calling for destruction of
private property demonstrate his deep, personal animus against first responders, their selfless work, and all ofPortland.
When people say who they are, we must believe them. Deleting tweets won’t erase his reckless, destructive, and
violent ideology. It’s more than just “not a good look,” as he said. His beliefs, expressed in his own words, are disqualifying for an elected official.
Any city employee, let alone a police officer, caught even muttering such virulent comments under their breath
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Shelly Boshart Davis says Oregon keeps asking taxpayers for more while locking up revenue that “literally grows on trees.” Her warning: arbitrary forest rules can fail their own goals while devastating families, jobs, and rural communities.
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Naah people aren’t gonna appreciate how hard this is to do over 1000 shots 🤯 I’ve always said if it wasn’t for Steph we’d talk about him different. Easily the best player & shooter I’ve ever played with. 👌🏼
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The achievements of Oregon’s past were big. Some changed our state, and some changed the world.
Today, I introduced The Drazan Plan because there’s no reason our greatest achievements have to be behind us.
This election, we have the chance to write the next great chapter in Oregon’s history.
thedrazanplan.com – at Portland, OR
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Kermit the Frog singing a tune with Dolly Parton on her 1987 TV series, "Dolly."
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How did Eugene, Oregon make it into the lyrics of a Dolly Parton song? The country music icon, who has died at age 80, shared the story in this interview from the KATU archives: youtu.be/KuSqt9273Co
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The Democratic Party is becoming the party of socialism.
58% view socialism positively.
50% view capitalism negatively.
I’m a proud free market capitalist.
This is lunacy.
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Portland, fresh off a $170M budget shortfall that threatened police and other essential services, is dispatching city employees to check on residents’ recycling practices.
From The Oregonian:
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The people behind IP 28 will be back, and so will the next group of extremists with another extreme idea. Oregon has paid the price for bad ballot measures before, and we can’t afford to make that mistake again. Rather than waiting for them to come after Oregon families, communities and businesses again, it’s time we fight back.
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Kind of funny that those looney liberal politicians have run business after business out of the city - and the economy there is lagging behind pretty much every major metro - but sure, head down the path of forcing another one out. I’m sure it won’t have any consequences and things will certainly get better. 🫡
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Damian Lillard has made an effort to learn Chinese to help his teammate Yang Hansen feel welcomed and more comfortable in Portland 🥹
"He's learning a lot of Chinese. Every day in the morning we shake hands and he tells me "Zao Shang Hao", which means 'Good morning'."
(via Sean Highkin)
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I just read through the DSA's new platform.
It is the most utopian/dystopian, bat-sh*t insane thing I have ever read.
It includes:
1. No more bills for anyone
2. Government-run food, housing, medicine, transportation, and nationalizing all other large corporations and essential industries
3. The drafting of a “new constitution”
4. Defunding the Department of War
5. Slavery reparations
6. Unlimited free abortion and “gender-affirming care” for all, including minors
7. Have taxpayers pay off everyone’s entire student debt & fund unlimited “free” higher education for all
8. Taking “steps toward fully abolishing the police and prison system”
9. Ending ALL deportations, providing amnesty for ALL illegal immigrants, and allowing unlimited migration to America
10. Abolish the Presidency, Supreme Court, and Senate
Other than that, their plans seem super realistic, practical, and not at all naive, revolutionary, or dystopian.
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