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One of the guests made an error about the Attorney General?s race, which was already corrected on Blue Oregon yesterday. Kroger is not connected to Spitzer. Kroger did not work for Spitzer, and Kroger had moved to Oregon before Spizer was even a political force. In September in the [i]Oregonian[/i] Kroger specifically said he was not running to be Spitzer, the relevant part: "I'm not following Eliot Spitzer's game plan. He's not my model for this job. I don't need a model. I know precisely what I want to do."

The [i]Oregonian[/i] article is at [u] http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/steve_duin/index.ssf?/base/news/1190753721155460.xml&coll=7[/u]

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