It seems that I’ve missed yet another Emilie Oy screed, this time posted right on the front of her campaign website. In it, she first assails the local blogosphere and then proceeds to gun for just about everyone else.
As with all her most recent communications, she includes a warning that “partial reprints maybe [sic] obtained by submitting articles with the partial text” so that she may aprove of them in advance.
Her critique of the blogosphere is nothing new, as she accuses us of being “obsessed with the blogging community” whereas there is “a whole community of normal Portlanders who don’t care” about sites like Blue Oregon, or debate events put on by Willamette Week, and proceeds to roll out a series of real-world concerns which at least some portion of the local blogosphere, in fact, does discuss.
Oy then takes aim at politics. Having headed a political campaign rife with problems, she returns to her views that the system is to blame, not her, by comparing politics to “a game of dungeons and dragons or participation in the Society for Creative Anachronisms.”
Whatever the problems the system has (and, of course, it has plenty) you’ll notice that what she’s really doing is fleshing out even further than she has previously her belief that she bears none of the responsibility for her own campaign. She, you see, is but a victim.
Most of the rest of the piece is devoted to the issues Oy believes should be at the forefront of discussion. It’s entirely possible that many of them are both legitimate issues as well as legitimate positions on the issues. But after the way she conducted her campaign, I’m left to wonder if anyone else who might champion these issues would want to be involved with her.
Along the way, she also takes a dig at Chuck Currie, although not in his capacity as part of the local blogosphere she loathes so much.
She also touches upon something she refers to as “imminent domain”. Yes, “imminent”. I’m not really sure what to say about that. Later, she pushes her own version of faith-based initiatives.
And, of course, she addresses the much-discussed issue of just how she and her daughter were making use of the Internet in Oy’s campaign.
“My daughter and I have developed a process of electronic marketing that goes well beyond sending out spam,” Oy writes. “We have keys to over 35,000 internet groups where we monitor chatter, trends, and even individual information posted freely by people into the public domain on the information highway.”
That process, Oy says, is a trade secret. But notice in the above that she doesn’t she that they didn’t spam, only that their process also “goes well beyond” spam. I’ve covered this issue ad nauseum, of course, so I only bring it up to observe that she’s still trying to spin this one.
Oh, hey, look. I’ve quoted her piece without first obtaining her approval.
Addendum: Oy also seems to think that local bloggers wish she would just go away. But, honestly, I think she’s too entertaining for any of us to wish that.
