Alley won’t commit to full term as state treasurer
By Britten Chase, PolitickerOR.com ReporterBEND -- State treasurer candidate Allen Alley (R-Lake Oswego) refused to commit to serving a full term in the office during a debate on Tuesday.
“I won’t give a yes or no answer,” Alley said when asked if he would commit to finishing the four-year term. “I am taking some advice from the governor, who told me, ‘Allen, in politics you can never predict where you will go or what you will do.’ I would love to serve four years. I would love to serve eight years. But I don’t know the future.”
Alley’s campaign rival, state Sen. Ben Westlund (D-Tumalo) said if he were elected he would enthusiastically serve the entire term as the state’s executive of financial resources.
“I wanted to run for this position in 2000,” Westlund said, adding that he held off because current State Treasurer Randall Edwards is a friend. “I am much more qualified for the position now, and these are much more interesting times. I am absolutely willing to commit to four years.”
Constitution Party candidate Michael Marsh also said he would commit to serving the full term, unless he was given a rather extraordinary promotion.
“Now I hope this doesn’t happen, but if John McCain is elected, and he dies in office, and Sarah Palin says ‘Mike Marsh, come be my vice president,’ I may leave,” Marsh said, eliciting a laugh from the crowd.
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That's a GOOD thing!
The only thing better than having Allen Alley not commit to a full term would be to have him commit to a term of 0 days.
That would be ideal.
Even in that amount of time he would still find some way to screw up the state, like he did at Pixelworks, while personally profitting from it, like he did at Pixelworks, but at least the mop up could start sooner - too late for Pixelworks.
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