🚀 go-pugleaf

It was a couple of guys named Hoffman Ruibin that were threatening to
march on Portland that weekend.  (I'm sure, however, that they would have
welcomed Wayne with open arms if he'd wanted to join them!)
-- 
Randy Chase
randy@kelloggcreek.com
http://www.kelloggcreek.com/r_home.htm


> ronf@plaza.ds.adp.com (Ron Finley ) wrote in article
<4qndpq$gjn@myst.plaza.ds.adp.com>...
> In article <4qk54k$hah@rational.rational.com>,
> Don Baccus <donb@rational.com> wrote:
> >In article <jrenaud-2206960644460001@ip-pdx01-25.teleport.com>,
> >jason renaud <jrenaud@teleport.com> wrote:
> >
> >>I was ten at the time but remember Vortex was planned to divert hippie
> >>protests of a American Legion convention...
> 
> >Anti-war protests.
> >
> >Not all opponents of the war fit the "hippie" stereotype, for example
> >Oregon Senator Wayne Morse (though he never took to the streets, just
> >the Senate floor).
> 
> So, Don, let me see if I have this straight.  Are you claiming that
> they organized Vortex because they were afraid that Wayne Morse was
> going to disrupt the American Legion convention?  And they thought
> they could prevent that by luring the distinguished senator from
> Oregon out to McIver Park for a rock festival?
>