Willamette Week wants to paint me as inexperienced and just parroting DSA talking points while also giving me very little time to explain any of our policy ideas and how we’d accomplish them.

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They asked me very few questions. The interview mainly focused on the incumbents. If they wanted to just talk to the incumbents they should have had separate interviews for the incumbents and challengers.

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Willamette Week’s editor Aaron Mesh began the interview by berating Mitch about his tweets from 2020. Mitch weathered it well but it was honestly uncomfortable, destructive, and unnecessarily combative.

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The Willamette Week Endorsement Interview was not done in good faith and was by far the worst of the 3 major newspaper endorsement interviews. Here’s my reflections on the process:

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fwiw i fully acknowledge that i am middle-aged man. you get some of the worst outcomes in life when middle-aged men refuse to acknowledge they are, in fact, middle-aged men.

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