There's also the choice of Mike Beilstein, who has been on the Corvallis City Council and has run against DeFazio and Robinson on behalf of the Green Party.

The timber barons would prefer someone more ideologically compatible than DeFazio, but he's their guy when it comes to clearcuts.

DeFazio has written in the pages of the RG that building more highways reduces pollution.  Talk about being "anti-science!"

Interesting, too, that all but one of Robinson's biggest donors are not from Oregon.