I do not consider myself to be a Democrat. I used to consider myself to be a Republican, but my distaste for the party's shifting attitudes reached a breaking point in the times of the Clinton/Dole debates (I was no fan of Clinton, either).
Anyway, what started out as my decision to not vote to re-elect Rep. Walden shifted from a quiet personal choice to one I decided to voice.
I live in Talent, Oregon, in the state's 2nd Congressional district.
This district is just under 70,000 square miles in size, and covers the central and eastern two-thirds of the entire state. It includes about 684,000 people (in 2010). The population of the entire state in 2013 was 3.93 million.
Greg Walden has been the representative of this district since 1999, and he usually carries the district with about 70% of the vote. I will not be among that 70% this election year.
My first interaction with Rep. Walden came in 2012...