You could fill this board with all the crap out there on this bunch.

Here's just a tiny preview of what the opposition can potentially hang on Measure 74, and then ask the public -- "Do you want to vote for these nuts?"

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Kevin Mannix and the Millionaire Sex Weirdo

According to an Oregonian story last November 30th by Jeff Mapes (no longer online) and the Money in State Politics database, millionaire Loren Parks basically bankrolled Mannix’s losing campaigns for AG in 2000 and governor in 2002.

Parks gave Mannix $350,000 for his governor’s race, $310,000 for an AG run and $361,800 to Mannix’s law firm (which then turned around and paid Mannix $327,000 for “research.” As David Sarasohn pointed out in a column in 2002, the Republican candidate has become Park’s “Million-dollar Mannix.”

In the article last fall, Mannix spokesman Jack Kane would not reveal how much Parks has given Mannix since then.

It’s a strange relationship, made even more strange by Park’s interest in – and there is no other way to describe it - sexual weirdness. How does Mannix, a social and religious conservative, reconcile himself to Park’s proclivities?

Have you guys checked out his website: psychresearch.com? It's got audio files you can listen to online to help cure everything from dyslexia to fear-of-flying to sexual frustration and erectile dysfunction. It's also got WAY too much personal information about his own sex life, including his claim that one of his sexual partners once climaxed 57 times in a row.

It’s just bizarre. And yet, Mannix has accepted well over a million bucks from this weirdo.

The good news is, of course, that Parks has been backing losers. Mannix lost and so did the two “judicial reform” measures Parks paid nearly a million dollars for in 2002. As Sarasohn pointed out, Park’s interest in the judiciary seemed to increase after he was sued for sexual harassment by a former employee. Willamette Week has all the juicy details. And photos.

Now Parks is back, sprinkling money around to Oregon’s right-wing supplicants like a deranged rich uncle. He’s supporting Sizemore again. He’s supporting Russ Walker. Two other supposed social conservatives. But as we've learned, it’s all about the money.

Here’s what Loren Parks isn’t supporting: anything that would make lives better for average Oregonians or solve any of the real problems in our state. Of course, what does he care? He lives in Nevada.