Congressman Peter DeFazio

Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) on Tuesday coasted to an easy win, predictably crushing his 24-year-old opponent Matthew Robinson, the son of DeFazio's once and future Republican opponent, Art Robinson.DeFazio won 90 percent of the vote in Oregon's 4th Congressional District, and led by as much as 94 percent in his home territory of Lane County, according to The Register-Guard. With the younger Robinson, a graduate student in nuclear engineering at Oregon State University, soundly defeated...Read Full Story

DeFazio breezes past primary | The longtime congressman now faces another contest with his primary opponent’s father, Art Robinson. Congressman Peter DeFazio cruised to an easy victory in the Democratic primary Tuesday night, brushing aside the unconventional last-minute campaign of challenger and former Republican Matthew Robinson, son of DeFazio’s GOP rival, Art Robinson…….Filed under: politics, social issuesRead Full Story

A staunch Ron Paulist backed by Libertarian Party in 2010 ElectionFrom Eric Dondero:Art Robinson was a Ron Paul-style Constitutionalist candidate for US Congress in Oregon in 2010. He opposed longtime incumbent Democrat Rep. Peter DeFazio. In an ultra-liberal district he posted a respectable showing of nearly 44%. He has announced a re-match for 2012. Now this announcement from Robinson, published at Gateway Pundit (via WND) "Leftists Move to Have Prominent Republican’s Children Expelled From...Read Full Story

The first order of business of the new U.S. Congress after the 2006 elections should have been the impeachment and removal of the entire George W. Bush administration. Had the Congress done its job and the Senate done its, the entire planet would have been vastly better off. Nancy Pelosi and John Conyers are directly to blame. They are way too weak of their own making. The second order of business should have been shutting off all the money for Bush’s illegal wars, occupations, secret...Read Full Story

The FBI says four shots hit a federal courthouse in Oregon late Wednesday night or early Thursday, with three of them breaking windows in U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio's office. No one was in the office at the time.The FBI said Thursday it's not known whether the Democratic congressman's office in Eugene was the intended target.Agency spokeswoman Beth Anne Steele says she's not sure whether the building had surveillance video.The FBI said that between 9:30 p.m. Wednesday and 7 a.m. Thursday, three...Read Full Story