Pastor Don Rivers is running for Congress (again), and he’s determined to swing like crazy—like, really crazy—at incumbent congressman Adam Smith. For example, when Smith accused Rivers of pushing a “bald-faced lie” during the candidates’ meeting with the Stranger Election Control Board, Rivers’s comeback was: “You’re bald.”
As the SECB tried to remember why we were doing this again, Smith conceded: “That’s one thing we can agree on. I’m bald.” Okay! Um. Anyway, guys, from what we can figure out, Rivers thinks Smith isn’t doing his job, shouldn’t represent the recently re-drawn Ninth District, and is “incompetent of culture” (which sounds like a racist dog whistle aimed at a white politician in a district that has a majority population of racial minorities). Yeesh. CONTINUE READING —>

