Birdies For Special Interests. Bogeys For Working Families.

Now we understand why Gordon Smith supports President Bush’s failed fiscal policies and votes with the special interests rather than with Oregon’s working families.

He has a skewed economic perspective from too much time in the country club, not enough time with Oregon’s working families.

So much time, in fact, he thinks golf clubs are a good deal at $300,000 each.

Yes, $300,000 per club, or more than the cost of many homes in Oregon.

“Smith has always been a true golf fanatic. He once paid $1.25 million for four really vintage golf clubs - including a putter owned by King James IV in 1504 - and can speak at passionate length about golfing in Scotland, having done so several times.

In 2005, Golf Digest reported that Smith's handicap was 8.2 - good enough to put him at 41st on their list of D.C. movers and shakers who play the game.”
(Way West Of The Beltway, The Oregonian, 3-7-08)

“If Gordon Smith thinks paying the cost of four homes for four golf clubs is a good deal, no wonder he’s blindly supported tax windfalls for big oil, policies to keep big pharma raking it in and reckless tax cuts for the wealthy. Smith has no concept of the economic challenges facing Oregon families. When it comes to working families, he can’t find the fairway," DPO Communications Director Marc Siegel said. "The special interests have spent millions and millions buying Gordon Smith’s negligence on climate change, his opposition to reducing the cost of prescription drugs and his out of step positions on other issues. It turns out they could have just sent him a set of clubs.”

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