Oregon: Gordon Smith

Republican Gordon Smith, sounding relaxed nearly four months after the loss of his Oregon Senate seat to Democrat Jeff Merkley, gave an interview this week to his hometown paper, the East Oregonian of Pendleton. There's no hint presented in the...

Over at NW Republican, Ted Piccolo is saying that state GOP chairman Bob Tiernan is telling people that Gordon Smith is thinking of staging a comeback by running against Ron Wyden in 2010. Tiernan brought up some issues that he thought were rather exciting. One is that Smith already has high name ID and it would force Wyden and the Democrats to spend a great deal of money and actually have to defend a senate seat they might normally simply take for granted. ... Personally I don't know what to think. Of course my first thought is that Wyden is...

Well I had a conversation with Bob Tiernan yesterday and he mentioned some pretty interesting and I am not sure how I feel about it.

Tiernan told me that he has spoken with former Sen. Gordon Smith...

PORTLAND-- U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Pendleton) received a shout-out from ESCO Corporation CEO and Oregon Business Chair Steve Pratt in his opening remarks at the Oregon leadership summit Thursday morning.

“Senator Smith has been a great friend of the Oregon business plan,” Pratt said. “He has worked in a bipartisan way to set the tone with his colleagues and get work done.”