Monday, October 29th, 2007...8:38 am
Just the Daughter of a Sharecropper, I Suppose
Saturday’s Political Notebook had a bit on the baby dolls that had been appearing around Rodney Glassman’s signs.
[Lori] Oien said she had no idea that the dolls were set under the Glassman signs, although she said it was interesting that someone in the community felt the same way she does. “I had nothing to do with it,” Oien said. “I don’t have money in my budget to spend on baby dolls.”
“Golly, I am not rich like Rodney is, so I couldn’t afford a stunt like that.”
Ya know, this current Republican harping on Glassman’s wealth and how he came by it is quite amusing given that they are the party of George W. Bush.
Also, something else that sticks in my craw about this. Check out this photo from Lori Oien’s website, captioned “Lori on her Purebred Arabian Mare.” That outfit would probably cost most folks I know a week’s salary. The costs of breeding and boarding Arabians, a pursuit she brags about on her website, puts it of reach of the urban working class. When someone talks about breeding Arabian horses, I think of Bazy Tankersley rather than Joe Six-pack.
So, let’s stop with this “who is poorer” BS and talk about who is capable of representing City residents, eh Lori?
13 Comments
October 29th, 2007 at 10:36 am
Its really amazing to me that this was her quote.
Even if you are insincere, the way to address that type of thing is something like:
“That is really juvenile and dispicable…it would never come from my campaign…if it did, I would put a stop to it immediately”
Then a bit more about how you differ on the issues and vision but that some things are below the belt.
I guess we can say that Oien was honest.
October 29th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
You really must stop and think before you make generalizations, Ted. You do that a lot. We can no longer assume that the Dem party is the party of the ‘working class’. I thought most folks already knew this. My dad is working class, in fact most of my family is and they are all fanatical republicans. Bush’s prior success had come primarily from connecting with the working class. So, regardless of this Glassman/Oien class issue, Ted, I’ve been reading your blog for some time now, and I’ve noticed an alarming tendency to make broad and sweeping generalizations about republicans and democrats. It does neither party any good to that, so for the dems sake, and their valted reputation of being the party of inclusion and progressiveness, please knock it off. Thanks.
October 29th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
This is Ted’s blog and he can write whatever he wants.
He has no responsibility to you or anyone else but himself. Ted is smart enough to know what he can/can not do on his blog, that he does on his own time.
Please, if you dont like it, feel free to start your own.
Thank you.
October 29th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Ted is the smartest man of all time. And I am not just saying that to get a new comment on the blog roll.
October 29th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
Indy -
I think you may have missed my point. I was trying to point out how silly it is for Oien to be making class-based arguments, when she ain’t exactly one of the teaming masses herself. I was saying that making the class argument was ridiculous. In a way, you are agreeing with me.
October 29th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Lori Oien is working class. Rodney has no class.
October 29th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
Tedski that is a real inferential leap on your part to read into Lori’s words. A real big stretch but whatever gets you through the night, pal.
Did you know that horses are a lot of work? Yup. A lot. Gabby told us so in the commercial, so it’s not some partisan comment on my part. A bipartisan fact that owning horses is a lot of work. It’s not the polo ground fantasy that you must be evoking. You’re the one that is making this into a class-based argument. It’s also a bipartisan fact that Rodney has more money in his campaign budget than Lori.
When I think of “rich”, I think of someone who has the kind of cash to blow on something frivolous like renting a billboard to seduce a girl. But that’s just me.
Kral, she did say “I had nothing to do with it”. Answered the question directly and succinctly. People already know the action was juvenile and despicable. It was also despicable what some folks scrawled on Graf signs. That’s why it’s against the law.
By the way, who is more qualified to lead on the issues of community safety and crime prevention? Maybe the person who was recognized by the governor for her acheivements in the area. I think I saw a photo of Lori Oien getting recgonized by the governor for her achievements in that field. I think that’s an actual argument centered on the issues and candidate qualifications.
Now you can all go back to your class-baiting although I’m not sure who we’re supposed to be against now that you think you’ve established that both candidates are “rich” and therefore despicable.
October 29th, 2007 at 11:00 pm
Horses are a lot of work? yes, to the people that actually take care of them every day, feeding, walking them 1 hr a day, cleaning their stall every day, cleaning their feet, bathing them, etc. Fortunately, people like Oien pay someone to do that for them, every day (hence the stables).
The place where Oien boards her horse is very expensive, and I should know. I used to clean their offices.
As far as horses, Arabians are not a “working man’s” horse. They are highly nervous, and unsafe for children and rodeos (and rodeo parades).
Glassman has more money? Didn’t he raise it with only $20’s? why are we criticizing? I imagine anyone else running could have raised just as much or more, if only they wanted it bad enough.
October 29th, 2007 at 11:50 pm
Horses? Horses?
Who gives a royal tird about something that should be dog food let alone the topic of discussion before a city election?
We’ve got violent gangs on the rise, people killing two week old babies, a Chief of Police that won’t enforce the law (he says the jail is full and therefore his officers will only arrest “violent” criminals; issuing citations for lesser crimes) now property crime is spiraling upward.
The city’s infrastructure in shambles; sewers and water lines almost 100 years old and constantly breaking. A nut case is proposing a draconian ballot initiative because someone didn’t deliver on a promise to repeal a garbage tax. Then there’s the Councilwoman that wants to give away $600K to starving artists that suck so bad that Big Lots won’t even buy their art. We also have the twisted logic of a council that tells downtown businesses to go pack sand because they don’t want “big brother” surveillance camera’s downtown to help curb crime but see nothing wrong with “big brother” shaking down motorists for the all mighty dollar by putting cameras on intersections.
Then let’s not forget the Big Box issue, where again the council that supposedly looks out for “the working class” decided to screw over “working class” residents that overwhelmingly wanted the Wal-Mart so they could get jobs and save some money. A political stunt at the expense of the poor all so just so an anti-business, socialist, councilman could appease the elitist, Nordstrom shopping, anti-Wal-Mart crowd.
Meanwhile we have a candidate that ran a business into the ground then asked the current Ward 2 council woman to bail his sorry butt out at TAXPAYER EXPENSE. Is this who you want managing your tax dollars???
Then there are the issues related to his family’s environmental record. Where are all the rabid environmentalists? Had this been a Republican…. well we know there’s a double standard so let’s move on. Don’t even get me started on the federal farm subsidy!!!
Trust Fund Baby????? I wouldn’t call him a trust fund baby, the guy’s a GOVERNMENT WELFARE BABY. What kind of man that has millions of dollars in family wealth turns to the working class taxpayers? You people want to elect a spoiled brat that got to where his is on the backs of hard working taxpayers.
Disgusting hypocrites are what you are.
So go ahead and distract with your BS horse story. You guys deserve everything you get.
October 30th, 2007 at 8:30 am
I find it amusing that a guy who claims to be Libertarian is demanding the government do more.
October 30th, 2007 at 9:56 am
I didn’t quite see where he wanted the government to do more, only that they should do more of what they’re supposed to be doing by city charter; things like provide public safety and maintain infrastructure.
Is that asking government to do more? It’s not like he asked for universal healthcare or the Nanny State cradle to grave social welfare system, or even surrendering your children to the government school system.
He specifically railed against government interference in the Wal-Mart, Farm Subsidies and what I assume to be the ice skating rink bail out. He also advocated for repealing a tax and holding people accountable for screwing up the environment.
Sounds pretty Libertarian to me. Libertarians aren’t opposed to government in general, just opposed to big, nosy, tax levying, oppressive government. What they do want is too see government DO MORE without government getting bigger or more obtrusive.
I think he hit the nail on the head though. Can you really have confidence in someone running your city and spending your money that seems to run to the taxpayers to bail him out that whenever he gets into financial trouble?
The reality is that Glassman will likely win. The other reality is you had better watch your wallets, here comes more taxes.
October 31st, 2007 at 11:45 am
Hey Libertarian people—- if I ever see you walking on a sidewalk, I will immediately demand that you reimburse me 5 cents, because you’re using something that isn’t yours that was paid for by my hard-earned tax dollars and which you believe could be done better by a private company. If you guys ever get into office (which is never), I’m going to set up a sidewalk construction and maintenance company that will have little toll booths next to sidewalks to charge people who use them, because I can obviously do it better than the big bad scary gub-mint. However, I won’t have to worry about following up on that promise, because you’re all too crazy and too busy talking about freedom indexes and who is a real libertarian and who is a fake one to actually do anything to get elected.
And Ron Paul? Screw that guy, he should be returning all of that socialist money he gets from being a US House Rep to the American taxpayer, namely, me. Just because some idiots in Texas were dumb enough to vote for a crazy person doesn’t mean I should have to subsidize their stupid decisions.
June 24th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Just to set the record straight…
My mom made the costume I am wearing. My dad built our barn and I cleaned the stalls everyday.
I also took care of and cleaned the stalls for wealthier kids, so I could afford riding lessons, I also trained my own horses, no professional trainer. I kept my horses at my parents house in mid- town Tucson.
Sienna you are lying, my parents did not own a business.
You know nothing about my family and our struggles. My mom worked for the UA in Food Service and my dad was a Local #427 Equipment Operator.
So what I have accomplished has been because of my hard work and sacrifice of my parents not a hand out.
Just setting the record straight…
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