Oregon Republicans Hide From Trump’s NY Elites' Values

Republican state senator Dennis Linthicum has recently sent several propaganda emails (see*1 below) devoted entirely to espousing his distorted “rural values.” Unfortunately and certainly deliberately, Linthicum failed to mention his continued determination that Donald Trump is fit to be President.

Linthicum and all 39 other elected Republicans (see*2 below) who still also endorse Trump’s fitness for the Presidency, conveniently ignore Trump’s demonstrated values which are now inextricably enmeshed into the Republican Party.

Donald Trump And His Republican Party’s Rural Values

• LYING as the basic form of public discourse (see*3 below)
• Multiple marriages and serial infidelity
• Racism
• Public wealth should flow from the poorest to the richest
• Anti-choice
• Anti-environmentalism
• Anti-public education
• Anti-science
• Xenophobia
• Homophobia
• Nepotism
• Greed
• Health care is a privilege for those who can afford it not a right of citizenship
• Using public office for personal profit
• Pretend Christian
• Conservative social issues trump economic justice
• Stiff Creditors whenever possible
• Bankruptcy
• Bribery
• Bigotry
• Self-inflicted carefree ignorance
• Never admit to a mistake; Always blame/attack the other guy
• Extortion
• Theft
• Threats, bullying and military force before diplomacy
• Pay to play politics
• Increase national debt when a Republican is President
• Decrease national debt when a Democrat is President
• The media is the “enemy of the American people.”
• Unrestricted citizen access to automatic weapons
• Authoritarianism/Disrespect for the law
• Embrace the values of Trump’s mentor, the infamous Roy Cohn. (Must Read see*4 below)

Republican state senator Dennis Linthicum and his gang of 39 elected Republicans can NOT separate support for Donald Trump/Republican Party from Trump’s publicly demonstrable values.

Republican state senator Dennis Linthicum and his gang of 39 elected Republicans would have Oregonians believe that elected Oregon Republicans magically march to the tune of a different moral drummer than that of their Republican President Donald Trump.

As long as they consider Donald Trump fit to be President of the United States of America they support his values.

— Richard Ellmyer

Oregon citizen since 1971

Portland Homeowner and Citizen Activist since 1975

NAV, Non-Aligned Voter

Legislative Assistant to State Senator Bill McCoy 1981 session

Senior Policy Advisor to Multnomah County Commissioner Gladys McCoy 1981-1984

Author of The Ellmyer Report, a newsletter that informs, educates and influences on public policy. Occasionally distributed to more than a quarter of million readers in Oregon and beyond.

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*1 - Dennis Linthicum official newsletter, sent April 4, 2018

Man has no authority over the laws of God. God-given rights always remain in effect; they can’t be taken away by the majority, the legislature, the courts, or the mob. [This is an amazing if not frighting statement from a lawmaker.]

Dennis Linthicum official newsletter, sent April 11, 2018

Our own Constitution must be rigorously followed, or it will lose its guiding character.

[“Rigorously followed” is actually a constantly evolving interpretation by whoever the serving nine justices on the Supreme Court happen to be and amendments ratified or repealed by a majority of states. Slavery constitutional. Slavery unconstitutional. Denying non-landowners, women and people of color the right to vote, constitutional. Denying non-landowners, women and people of color the right to vote, unconstitutional. Prohibition constitutional. Prohibition unconstitutional. And so it goes.]

Dennis Linthicum official newsletter, sent April 19, 2018

If we don't stand for rural Oregon values and common-sense, No one will. [Who is “we?” Is “common-sense” not a suburban and urban trait? For list of Republican rural Oregon values see above.]

*2 - Ellmyer Report - Jan. 20, 2018

*3 - In 466 days, President Trump has made 3,001 false or misleading claims - Washington Post

*4 - The Original Donald Trump - By Frank Rich, for New York Magazine, April 29, 2018

“The cancer now consuming Washington was incubated not in that city’s notorious swamp but in the loftiest Zip Codes of New York.”