Breaking Up With Wehby: How Would GOP Candidate Face a Senate Loss?

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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

By Carla Axtman, GoLocalPDX MINDSETTER™

With autumn nipping at our heels, it’s perhaps a bit early to call Oregon’s US Senate race for Democratic incumbent Jeff Merkley.

But if you listen closely, the fat lady is definitely warming up in the wings.

Independent polling shows Merkley with a tremendous lead. It’s so tremendous that “Merkley leads in every gender, age, education and income group tested, and holds a slight lead with independent voters, 35 percent to Wehby’s 31 percent. He also takes 16 percent of Republicans,” according to Alexandra Jaffe of TheHill.com.

Yowza.   

And while polling at this stage is certainly no guarantee of a win, opponent Monica Wehby has so far utterly failed to gain any real traction.

Wehby’s nationally publicized stalking allegations against former boyfriend Andrew Miller have certainly contributed to her downward spiral.  A report that she allegedly harassed ex-husband James Grant is simply an additional anvil for an already sinking ship.

But think about it, Oregon. If Wehby loses at the polls, will that really be the last we see of her? Is it really a good idea to say “no” to this woman? She doesn’t seem to take it all that well.

Republican candidate Monica Wehby

Wehby is persistent

Scrutinizing the reports on the Miller allegations, one finds pretty intense stuff. The report states that Wehby spent days banging on Miller’s door and ringing his doorbell when he broke up with her. And when he wouldn’t give in, she let herself into his house through the back while he threatened to call the police. She texted him back telling him to go ahead.

Imagine the texts she’ll send to us if she loses: “Wait, you really don’t want me? But I want YOU, Oregon.”

When the police did show up at Miller’s home, reports say, Wehby was still hanging around in her car, waiting.  She was loitering about the streets near his residence in her silver Mercedes when stopped by police for questioning.

So if Oregon voters give her the cold shoulder, will she take the hint?

We all should be prepared for unwelcome Facebook messages along the lines of: “I get it. I get it. But I’m not going away until the voters give me closure. And no, losing at the ballot doesn’t count. I want you to tell me to my face, each and every one of you.”

Be prepared, Oregon, this could take a while.

Think of Wehby if she loses, driving the lonely two-lane roads of rural Oregon in her sedan, desperately searching for the few Republicans who actually voted for her. She’ll long to look into their eyes to find affirmation for her incoherent health care plan or her cribbed version of Mitt Romney’s economic agenda.

Will she run down to the California border, stand at the “Welcome to Oregon” sign and rap at it with her knuckles, demanding to be let in? Will she skulk up Smith Rock and scream at all those within earshot about how if “we’d just let her explain…”

Or will it be a series of Koch brothers' TV ads berating Oregonians for refusing to hand over our US Senate seat to their protégé?

Bolt your doors and lock your windows, fellow citizens. Should Wehby not prevail in November, we could be in for a long, unfortunate breakup.

Carla Axtman is a landscape photographer, communications expert and rabblerouser extraordinaire. You can see her work at Carla Axtman Photography.

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