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Oregon runs its primary kind of late. In the Fifth Congressional District, Darlene Hooley is retiring, and this looks like one of the few pick-up opportunities for the Republicans. Anyway, Mike Erickson's opponent in the primary, Kevin Mannix, brought out the old story of Erickson paying for his girlfriend's abortion just before the election. It didn't get much play, mostly because the story had been circulating in Republican circles for years, and secondly because it was too close to election day for it to have any impact. Oregon has vote-by-mail, and just a couple of weeks before the primary date, the story didn't have much impact. Erickson munched Mannix and won the Republican primary.
Anyway, the woman involved did not come forward to confirm the story last month. The friend who picked her up after getting her abortion (Erickson just dropped her off at the clinic with three hundred bucks and then drove off) talked to the papers, but the woman herself didn't want to come forward.
Erickson spent the last four weeks alternately ignoring the story and denying that he knew anything about what the young woman was going into the clinic for. He just gave her the money and drove off, is his version, never suspecting that she was going to have an abortion.
It's bullshit, of course.
Now the woman has come forward to verify that she did indeed have an abortion, and that Mike Erickson paid for it. It sort of blows a hole in his candidacy, and in a district that doesn't favor either party and has a lot of independent voters, it could be fatal come November.
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