Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader: Getty ImagesApparently Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama won’t be the only presidential contenders to visit Oregon over the next week .

Next Tuesday, Oregon’s favorite consumer advocate Ralph Nader will be in Portland, campaigning in a city where he was able to attract almost 10,000 people (at $7 a ticket nonetheless) to a Memorial Coliseum rally back in 2000. He won 5 percent of the Oregon vote that year, but it was the last time he was able to make it onto the state’s ballot.

In the Merkley-Novick-Obama skirmish, Novick has been taking some flack for his 1998 letter which praised Ralph Nader. Jeff Mapes reported on Monday that in 1996 Novick put his money where his mouth was when he voted for the failed presidential candidate.  read more »