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Mark Z. Barabak

Mark Z. Barabak: Fight or find common ground? Oregon race a referendum on the direction of Democrats

Kurt Schrader, a seven-term congressman from central Oregon, has belittled Nancy Pelosi, defended Donald Trump and voted against many of the Democratic Party's top priorities.

Still, he insists he is "a solid Democrat" and the very sort who can not only help the party retain its thin-ice majority in the House in November but also end the partisan warfare that has gripped Congress for the past many years.

Ira Erbs, though, is having none of it.

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