Curt Ankerberg represents the Republican id. He is the Marjorie Taylor Green of the local GOP.
He is a candidate for Medford City Council.
If Republicans are unhappy with him, they can clean their own house.
In prior campaigns I have warned voters about Curt Ankerberg. He is a perennial candidate for local offices. This time I will leave that job to others.
Very occasionally I will publish comments on this blog by Curt Ankerberg. I reject most of his submissions, but sometimes he reveals something about the political mood among Republicans in this community and he does it without being obscene or defamatory. I publish some of those.
This week he was triumphant in a proposed comment. I posted it. It is an unguarded statement of what a Republican majority in Salem or the Congress might do. It is a warning. Kevin McCarthy and Jim Jordan, the two most likely Republican successors to be Speaker of the House, both propose to do exactly as Ankerberg predicts:
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are going down hard, as is Pelosi. The GOP is going to make Pelosi's January 6th committee look like Amateur Hour.
Christine Drazan will reverse the tranny-mania currently polluting the Oregon school system.
Oregon will be saved from Tina Kotek and her Marxist radicalism. No more climate change and New Green Deal nonsense.
Ankerberg's comments in the Voters Pamphlet give a flavor for what kind of city council person he would be. Voters can decide if they like it:
Medford is more corrupt than a Banana Republic. The Chamber of Commerce good old boys have spent millions of dollars getting their puppet candidates elected, and in-return our corrupted, bribed city council has given hundreds of millions of your tax dollars to the Chamber good old boys to subsidize their privately-owned projects. The Chamber controls the lying, corrupt, Marxist local-media. . . .
Over the years Ankerberg has sent me multiple emails and proposed comments. Some express his happy contemplation of my death. (I send those to local law enforcement.) More frequently his comments accuse me and various prominent local people of sexual crimes. He particularly targets named employees of the Mail Tribune. I moderate comments so I can stop their publication.
Ankerberg reflects tension within the GOP between the populist, anti-elitist Trump GOP and the establishment Trump GOP. The local Chamber of Commerce PAC has become a reliable funder for Republican candidates. They make token contributions to sure-winner Democrats, but their endorsements and their multiple $10,000 and $20,000 contributions are to Republican candidates. Meanwhile, the local newspaper, the Mail Tribune has made a turn toward the political right, in alliance with Sinclair. Although Ankerberg criticizes both of them, I consider Curt Ankerberg to be their problem now. He is on their team. Ankerberg won almost 50% of the GOP vote in a state senate primary campaign against a moderate Republican candidate who outspent him 50-to-one. Ankerberg reflects the GOP's position on abortion, election denial, and 2020 fraud. Like nationally prominent GOP officeholders, Ankerberg makes accusations of grooming, pedophilia, and corruption against political opponents. Locally and nationally, GOP leaders and donors overwhelmingly support Trump and candidates who support Trump.
Ankerberg makes obscene comments and accusations, which must create some embarrassment to local GOP leaders. Still, this is a party whose officeholders lead cheers of "F--- Joe Biden." Donald Jr. and Eric Trump sell "Let's Go Brandon" and "FJB" merchandise. Ankerberg is not a typical Republican, but he is no longer an outlier Republican. He isn't different, except that he names names among Republicans, not just Democrats. He is less racial than current Republican thought leaders. Mostly, Ankerberg is more and cruder. But he is a Republican of the Trump populist mode. He doesn't represent every Republican, but he represents a lot of them.
If Republican leaders in Southern Oregon don't like Curt Ankerberg as a visible example of their party, then they can deal with him. They can either speak up against him, or they can hope he self-destructs by his own words. If he is elected to the City Council, they can secretly enjoy the vivid way he condemns Democrats as corrupt pedofile Communists. Or they can decide he goes too far when he includes Republicans in his attacks, and they can try to recall him.
He threatened me personally when I was helping Medford Parks with their efforts to build a water park- saying “I know where you live” and so venomously crude and hostile that I requested a uniformed officer be present when I had to attend city council meetings. This man is way over the edge of civility and I believe genuinely dangerous- I hope I never have to be in the same room as this vile man again. The MailTribune ran a previous column about how unhinged he was and the threats he made to their employees- just Google it folks.
Well I certainly have to disagree with Mr Ankerberg in his view that Democrats are communists. The Democrat party is no longer the party of Karl Marx as it has been since the party convention of 1896 as I understand it, when they officially "closeted" Thomas Jefferson only to bring him out at certain times as a prop, and officially became a socialist progressivist antagonist party and was championed by the likes of Woodrow Wilson. No longer the party of Karl Marx, who, by the way, was raised as Christian Methodist. so don't ever let anyone bullocks you with accusations of anti-Semitism. He was a Methodist thanks to his father's conversion. The modern Democrat Party has gone back even further to become the party of the Marquis De Sade, and the medical science ideology of Joseph Mengele.