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Well Hillary Clinton is coming to Portland for a fund raiser and many Oregon Democrats are to too pleased.
Vets fault Clinton for fundraiser

Not all Democratic activists are pleased that Sen. Hillary Clinton is coming to Portland Friday night to raise money for her re-election campaign in New York.

Several Oregon veterans who worked for John Kerry's presidential campaign in 2004 -- including Jim Rassmann, who says Kerry saved his life in Vietnam -- issued a letter denouncing the former first lady's support for the Iraq war and accusing her of sucking up money that could go to local Democratic candidates.

"As Oregon veterans and members of military families," the letter says, "we are concerned with your fundraising trip to Oregon on two counts: your strong support for the immoral war in Iraq and your plan to take Oregon donations that are needed elsewhere."

Oregon Democratic Chairman Jim Edmunson said the state party tried without success to arrange a joint fundraiser that would benefit both Clinton and Oregon Democratic candidates.

The veterans "do make a good point," said Edmunson, adding that the event will indeed attract money that could go to local candidates.

As you know I don't think too highly of Hillary anyway and would never support her and this is an example of why. She is putting her own ambitions in front of the good of the Democratic Party in Oregon and the nation.