Rural Oregonians are equally as stupid as rural Californians apparently. Measure 50 defeated by big tobacco millions!

Some jack-ass spokes-idiot named "J.L. Wilson" for the tobacco whores "took exception" to Governor Kulongoski's characterization of the industry "buying" the election by falsely accusing our Governor of calling voters who opposed measure 50 "stupid". Of course, the Governor would never do something so politically incorrect. So, I'll do it instead. I couldn't care less about political correctness when it gets in the way of children's health care versus conservatives greed and lung cancer producing tobacco giant executives and their paid lobbyists.

"The makers of Camel and Marlboro cigarettes contributed $11.8 million to two committees fighting the tobacco tax proposal, which called for using the 85 cents a pack to pay for children's health insurance and other health programs. The cigarette money paid for a heavy advertising campaign, which included television, radio and direct mail advertisements.

The tobacco money dwarfed the campaign supporting the measure. Yes On The Healthy Kids Plan reported spending $3.4 million, or less than a third as much." [SOURCE]

Giant Tobacco Corporations of North Carolina (for rural Oregonians, that's a state on the east coast of the USA) were able to BUY the votes of rural county voters in Oregon just as they previously had in California.

It is flat amazing how damn dumb some folks can be. Rather than put the facts through their own thinking machinery, they are dependent upon 60-second Ads and bad acting on their BOOB-TUBES to TELL them how to vote. It must be the sheep influence in rural counties. Herd mentality. They're too damn dumb to know when they are being lied to over, and over again. [SOURCE]

Giant tobacco corporations were forced to pay millions in fines because they were found to be guilty of LYING to the public for decades about the poisons in their products. The same giant out-of-state corporations whose products cause CANCER and whose product advertising was banned from television airwaves nationwide! So now they spend their advertising dollars poisoning the voting process in states outside their own with political Ads instead! Then the mouth breathers in rural Oregon counties were stupid enough to actually let the very same lying-sacks lie to them all over again using their zillion dollar blitz of OUT-OF-STATE TV-commercial monies. Nice. 

"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth"--Franklin D. Roosevelt   (apparently it does if you're a turnip-truck-driver from rural Orygun).

This is not my personal issue. Thankfully my family has health coverage. None of us are stupid or weak enough to be addicted to the filthy, low-life habit of smoking. My ONLY two concerns with measure 50's defeat are 1) that there are actually human beings walking around upright who are ignorant enough to have believed the bullshit in those giant Tobacco corporation TV Ads. Wowzers. And 2) that so many thousands of kids will now be without health care due to the fear, gullibility and ignorance of voting age morons in rural Oregon counties. Sad deal for us all.

I was especially amazed by the ones who would get stuck on a single sound byte portion of the TV Ads when interviewed by local news affiliates. For instance, this reasoning was heavily glommed onto by the weak minded: "But it would amend our Constitution!" I even saw some Oregonian interviewed on the news who clearly equated that concern to the U.S. Constitution rather than to the Oregon STATE Constitution, sheez. God knows he'd never READ either, but man he sure knew what those Ads had told him he should know ... it's sacred and should never be amended! Wowzers. Never mind the FACT that Constitutions were DESIGNED to be "amended". Thing is, if the reporter doing the interview had even challenged such answers with a simple, "So what?" follow-on question, it would have left 'em stammering for a response. Man is it ever SAD how damn dumb we've become ... I'll make a comparison to something TELEVISION-related so that rural Oregonians can get their heads wrapped around it ... rural Oregon voters are like one constant rerun of Jay Leno's "Man-on-the-Street" segment.

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."--John Kenneth Galbraith

Cigarettes over children's health care. Nice. We've become like some 3rd-world country it seems. Well, I don't have the millions of dollars it would take to counter the giant out-of-state tobacco corporations' propaganda machine ... but, I'm sure as hell done being even remotely civil to ANY of their addict customers. Hehe ... poor bastards used to whine about how folks were picking on them before ... hehe. According to the Associated Press report linked above, a majority of Multnomah County voters (Portland) voted in favor of Measure 50. I live in Portland and OK, we can't TAX cigarette sales based upon the failed measure 50 ... let's do the next best thing. Let's BAN smoking within Portland city limits altogether. Take away even "designated smoking areas". That'd be fun. Heck they banned something as healthy as plastic drinking water bottles in some California town. New York City banned trans-fats! Surely, Portland can ban the poison that are cigarettes. Rural voters wouldn't be participants in a Portland-only ballot measure. For those lower life forms weak or stupid enough to keep smoking well hey, they can go do it in one of those "rural"counties ... just as long as the rest of us don't have to help pay for THEIR Chemotherapy or their heart treatments and ultimately their burials ... they sure are opposed to paying that of the children impacted by their second hand smoke. Seems perfectly fair that we not have to subsidize theirs through our higher insurance premiums in kind. Besides, by banning the filthy habit in Portland city limits, smokers won't be the picked upon "convenient minority" they cry about being ... they'll be criminals instead. I like it.

Meanwhile, let's gather those signatures and put it right back on the ballot so we can get some more of the Tobacco giants' outta-state Ad monies ... and again, and yet again. And smoke shops ... heck, the animal rights activists were able to run the FURRIER store outta Dodge ... why not do the same for tobacco stores so we can save some HUMANS too! Hey, I saw a report that said second-hand smoke is bad for household pets don't ya know! ;-)

The next ass-hole that lights up around me ... it's going cross-wise up their ass while still lit.

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jasonbball@gmail.com leaves this goofy comment:Why Should I have to pay for your friends kids health insurance? I choose not to have them because I could not afford them? In fact I think YOU should pay her health insurance for her.

BloggerRadio Replies: Why should I, or anyone else have to pay higher health insurance premiums just because you're too damn stupid or weak to break your addiction to cigarettes, genius? And what was all that other crap you were babbling on about?

Who said anything about YOU personally having to pay for anyone's health insurance? Is that what you understood from the giant, out-of-state, tobacco company Ad campaign? If so, you're dumber than you sound. And you "choose not to have" what because you "could not afford them"? Kids? Cigarettes? What the hell were you trying to say anyway? If you don't smoke you wouldn't be paying a cigarette tax anyway. If you do smoke you're stupid.

It was a TAX-"increase" on cigarettes. Here's a news-flash for ya rocket-scientist: if you're a smoker, your cigarettes are already taxed ... so maybe now that you've been clued-in that you are paying taxes with each puff you suck in... maybe that will be enough motivation for you to finally beat your addiction that's killing you and those around you. Ya know, the addiction that makes you a slave to some corporate giant in North Carolina. Wowzers ... I was really only poking-sticks-at-the-animals with that post ... who knew that some mouth-breather would stopping sucking on his favorite butt long enough to embarrass himself with a comment in response. Sheez. Smoke-'em-if-ya-got-'em. And in your case, please do us all a favor, and smoke more, and suck faster.