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Facing the future

The Eugene Register-Guard‘s editorial today had a great line about Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski and the state’s financial planning for the next few years:

“The state leader who shows the strongest evidence of a willingness to face hard choices about Oregon’s future turns out to be the one who is best positioned to avoid those choices.”

Because, as the editorial pointed out, Kulongoski won’t be in office much longer, and he has the option simply to punt. Instead, he seems to be devoting his last year in office to prepping the state, as much as he can, for the dark economic realities hitting the state now and continuing on.

He’s been clearer on the subject, overall, than either of the two major contenders to replace him in January. (Of course, that could change, but the wise wouldn’t count on it.)

That probably should be borne in mind when, late this year, people start considering Kulongoski’s governorship.

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