Обнаружен с…клад…

Никак не мог пропустить это… Нашел у Анатолия Шария, — здесь.

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Когда смотрел, очень смеялся.

А потом подумал, вот интересно, кто-то и правда поверит в эту туфту?

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Немного вокала…

Мне понравилось.

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И еще немного от тех же исполнителей.

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Вспоминая уходящего Губернатора…

И то, что он сделал для Орегона…

SALEM, Ore. — Although John Kitzhaber is currently embroiled in ethics and criminal investigations surrounding his work with his fiancee, Cylvia Hayes, he leaves behind a lasting legacy that includes decades of public service and contributions that transformed the state.

Prior to becoming governor in 1994, Kitzhaber paid his political dues in the house and senate before being elected to the states highest office.

Following his work as an emergency room doctor, Kitzhaber was elected to the Oregon House in 1978, then the Oregon Senate in 1980. He served three terms in the senate, eventually becoming Senate President.
His first term as governor was in 1994. He was since elected in 1998, 2010 and 2014.

Kitzhaber was one of the first advocates for government-run health care. He pushed the plan on the national stage — including an appearance on the Today Show in 1988.
He also pushed for health care reform, joining President Clinton at the White House in 1994, just after he announced he was running for governor.
Kitzhaber was chief author of the state’s government-funded health care plan, known as the Oregon Health Plan. It brought health care to the poor and became a model for other states, which he mentioned in his resignation speech.

“We have transformed our health care system, improving access and quality while lowering costs through our new coordinated care organizations, ” said Kitzhaber. “Tonight over 95 percent of Oregonians will go to bed knowing they have health insurance coverage.”

Recently, the governor took serious heat for the botched Cover Oregon website.

Kitzhaber also made headlines when he issued a reprieve for a convicted murderer scheduled to die by lethal injection, saying he wouldn’t allow the death penalty to be carried out in the state while he was governor.

Governor Kitzhaber focused on education, introducing plans to help at-risk children and their families.

Kitzhaber has been a vocal defender of the environment. Perhaps his biggest environmental achievement was the Oregon plan for salmon and watersheds, which is helping to restore threatened salmon species.

Kitzhaber was known as much for the bills he did not pass as the ones he did.

As governor, Kitzhaber was never afraid to veto bills. During his first two terms, he got the nickname “Dr. No” for his record-setting 202 vetoes. At the end of his second term, he said that partisanship was making the state ungovernable.

Полностью — здесь.

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Письмо Китцхабера об отставке…

Достаточно любопытный документ…

I am announcing today that I will resign as Governor of the State of Oregon.

It is not in my nature to walk away from a job I have undertaken – it is to stand and fight for the cause. For that reason I apologize to all those people who gave of their faith, time, energy and resources to elect me to a fourth term last year and who have supported me over the past three decades. I promise you that I will continue to pursue our shared goals and our common cause in another venue.

I must also say that it is deeply troubling to me to realize that we have come to a place in the history of this great state of ours where a person can be charged, tried, convicted and sentenced by the media with no due process and no independent verification of the allegations involved. But even more troubling – and on a very personal level as someone who has given 35 years of public service to Oregon – is that so many of my former allies in common cause have been willing to simply accept this judgment at its face value.

It is something that is hard for me to comprehend – something we might expect in Washington, D.C. but surely not in Oregon. I do not know what it means for our shared future but I do know that it is seriously undermining civic engagement in this state and the quality of the public discourse that once made Oregon stand out from the pack.

Nonetheless, I understand that I have become a liability to the very institutions and policies to which I have dedicated my career and, indeed, my entire adult life. As a former presiding officer I fully understand the reasons for which I have been asked to resign. I wish Speaker Kotek and President Courtney and their colleagues on both sides of the aisle success in this legislative session and beyond. And I hope that they are truly committed to carrying forward the spirit of bipartisanship and collaboration that has marked the last four years in Oregon.

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