Deceptive "Women's Voters Guide" from Republican front group [View all]

The Oregon Transformation Project was founded by Republicans. For this mailer, they assembled a panel of five women. Two are ostensibly Democrats, although one describes herself as fiscally conservative and the other says she votes "Republican locally but Democrat nationally." This is supposed to provide the group an appearance of bipartisanship, but on closer inspection is tilted in favor of Republicans. Case in point: the Democrats they recommend are likely to win no matter what. And our female Secretary of State Kate Brown is being targeted for elimination based on an allegation:

"Kate has made some questionable moves. She sponsored legislation that could jeopardize the integrity of our vote-by-mail system by allowing the retention of blank ballots (HB 2256), and she changed an election date which favored a fellow Democrat in a non-partisan race. Challenger Knute Buehler promises to be non-partisan and remove even the perception of fishy business that lingers over Brown's office."

First off, why would a SoS or anyone else worry about which party won a non-partisan race? Second, I seriously doubt a blank ballot could be used to hack an Oregon election with all our safeguards. Oh, but there's a lot of pink on the mailer, so I guess I'll go along with what they say. WTF, do they think we're stupid?

In all, the mailer recommends 56 Republicans vs. 31 Democrats. And we're supposed to believe this is better for women?

My suspicion is the Republicans are trying to knock Kate Brown out of Secretary of State on trumped-up charges so they can compromise and eliminate our successful vote-by-mail system.