matt lindland
Mixed martial arts (MMA) veteran and Olympic silver medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling (2000), Matt Lindland, defeated Phyllis Thiemann in the preliminary political race to capture the Republic nomination for the Oregon House of Representatives in District 52.

“The Law” earned 59 percent of the vote –- a wide margin that can be attributed to the baseless smear campaign of his opposition who attempted to brand him a convicted felon (he isn’t).

He will now advance to the next stage of the process and lock horns with the democratic nominee, Suzanne VanOrman. The general election on November 4 will determine the winner.

Prior to that, however, Lindland will have to take care of some MMA business. He’s slated to fight Fabio Negao at Affliction: “Banned” from the Honda Center in Sacramento, Calif., on July 19.

Interesting dichotomy.

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Comment by Haze
2008-05-22 09:09:27

Hope he wins, good luck

 
Comment by PW
2008-05-22 09:16:26

Wow, I just asking a few buddies the other day if Matt Lindland supports an economic stimulus refund program over the trickle-down theory of tax cuts for businesses and wealthy individuals.

Comment by chefdaddy
2008-05-22 09:23:23

I don’t know about that, but I hear he doesn’t support soap and water.

Comment by the heat
2008-05-22 09:49:23

lmao

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Comment by PW
2008-05-22 09:53:34

From what I hear, most of Portland falls into that category.

 
Comment by NewGuyTheGunMan
2008-05-22 12:22:19

Economic stimulas refund is perhaps the dumbest idea they have ever come up with. Most things arn’t made in America anyways, so guess were the money goes… Capitalism has recessions and booms, there is no way around that. oh and as for who blaim the president for something like this, he doesn’t even handle the finances, guess whos fault it is… thats not the point, but it doesn’t have very much to do with the government.
Thats was the funniest way to put an election mania…

 
 
 
 
Comment by reagan
2008-05-22 13:45:31

Hope he goes ape shit and mauls his Liberal enemies….lol

 
Comment by Luppers
2008-05-22 19:27:08

Cro-Cop of Oregon!

 
Comment by Jonathan Zungre
2008-05-28 11:28:22

i freaking love this….

 
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