Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Republican VS Republican

By Ron Beasley



It what is destined to be a bad year for House Republicans they may have had a chance to pick up Oregons's 5th congressional district since the incumbent, Democrat Darlene Hooley, retired.  The 5th district leans to the right. The Republican primary between Kevin Mannix and Mike Erickson was nasty from the start but as I reported here about a week before the election Mannix dropped a "swift boat" bomb on Erickson accusing him of paying for a girl friend's abortion.  It didn't work or perhaps even backfired as Erickson beat Mannix in yesterday's election.  Now it gets really interesting - Mannix now says he will not support Erickson in the general election.

Lake Oswego businessman Erickson defeated perennial contender Kevin Mannix in a race for an open congressional seat.



Erickson was defeating Mannix by a margin of 50 percent to 45 percent, with 69 percent of the total expected vote counted.



Mannix waited until Wednesday morning to concede and he said he would not support Erickson in the general election.



"I think this a critical character issue... without my support because of character issues, I don't see how far he can go, even with million of his own dollars," Mannix said, referring to issues that came up during the campaign when Mannix said he learned that Erickson had paid for a girlfriend to have an abortion.



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"That's just Kevin Mannix and dirty politics," Erickson said. "He's done it before against Ron Saxson. he's done it in his other races."



In November, Erickson will face state Senator Kurt Schrader of Canby, who easily defeated several Democratic rivals for the chance to replace retiring U.S. Representative Darlene Hooley.

The Democratic candidate, Schrader, should be able to attract enough independent and even Republican votes to win easily in November.



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