Newspaper That Made Smith Allegations Hosts Party With Democrats

By David M. Drucker
Roll Call Staff
Dec. 18, 2008, 2:57 p.m.

Down the stretch of the bitter 2008 race that incumbent Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.) lost to state Speaker and now-Sen.-elect Jeff Merkley (D), the Willamette Week newspaper wrote a couple of scathing stories on Smith’s business practices at his frozen food plant that Democrats immediately turned into a series of effective political hits.



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