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I am a power user, and I support power conservation and sustainable power generation projects.  I am open to wind turbines where they make sense.  I don't hear enough about the value of open space.  I am very concerned about these turbines popping up on the rimrocks and ridge tops that are our horizons.  I am sickened by the blinking red lights at night in the gorge these days.  I am vehemently opposed to turbines being erected in areas that aren't already polluted with human-made structures.  LEAVE OUR OPEN SPACE FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.  It is an irreplaceable and extremely undervalued resource.

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The urban/rural divide in Oregon troubles me and I think it's something Mr. Kitzhaber needs to address.  When a handful of counties pass a statewide measure like 66 and 67, and when Dudley leads until Multnomah county is counted, it makes rural oregon feel disenfranchised and like they're not represented.  It is fracturing our state.  Our elected leaders have got to make those people feel involved.  if the money really flows west to east, we all need to hear that.  Kulongoski formed a commission that was promptly de-funded because our state can't justify affording councils like that.  Our leaders need to lead the state, and they need to make people understand how the state's business is in their interest, or not.  I don't really care what color this state is, I want the state to be a place I WANT to raise my kid.

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I'm an avid outdoorsman.  I run, swim, bike, scuba dive; you name it out in our great western lands.  I'm frequently at a trailhead or beside the highway in sweaty, grimy gear.  I strip down and change into clean cotton before I jump in my car to drive wherever.

I change my kids' diapers on the tailgate if need be. 

I'm discrete when I can be, and I don't choose to have my nether-regions seen, I just don't go to extremes to NEVER show the area between my waste and my mid-thigh.

NOBODY should legislate my ability to change my, or my kids clothes, wherever that needs doing. 

We have laws in place to protect us (including children) from harm--let those stand.

This idea of outlawing nudity is absurd and insulting to me.  I have no interest in expressing myself through nudity.  I use nudity as the state between dress, and I'm not really sure how to take one pair of underwear off, and get new ones on any other way than to get naked in between.  

I am willing to bet alot of money that some of the people pushing for this anti-nudity law are the same people that complain loudly about too much government spending and waste.  

Legislating nudity and the resulting enforcement required would be a real waste and an insult to my civil liberty.  

Come on!

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