{"id":1700837,"date":"2022-10-18T08:01:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T12:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1700837"},"modified":"2022-10-18T08:03:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T12:03:45","slug":"nike-co-founder-phil-knight-will-do-anything-to-stop-democrats-from-winning-oregon-governor-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nike-co-founder-phil-knight-will-do-anything-to-stop-democrats-from-winning-oregon-governor-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Nike Co-Founder Phil Knight Will Do Anything to Stop Democrats From Winning Oregon Governor Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnike-co-founder-phil-knight-will-do-anything-to-stop-democrats-from-winning-oregon-governor-race%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1700837&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">With only weeks to go until Election Day, Phil Knight, the billionaire co-founder of sportswear giant Nike, shocked Oregon by donating $1 million to Republican gubernatorial candidate Christine Drazan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">The million-dollar donation to the Republican comes after Knight\u2019s previous donation of more than $3 million to former Democrat Oregon Representative Betsy Johnson, who jumped into the race as an independent to run against Dem. Candidate Tina Kotek and Republican Drazan, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kgw.com\/article\/news\/politics\/elections\/phil-knight-doesnt-want-tina-kotek-to-be-governor\/283-549f0334-2f11-4744-ac69-61ff42f5e453\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KGW NBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/15\/us\/politics\/kotek-drazan-oregon-governor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times<\/a>, Knight is willing to do anything to prevent the Democrats from staying in power in the Beaver State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Nike founder Oregon supporter Phil Knight during the second half of a football game between the University of Oregon Ducks and the University of Arizona Wildcats on October 8, 2022, at Arizona Stadium in Tucson, AZ. (Christopher Hook\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Knight reportedly relayed the story of a recent political cartoon that described how disgusted he is with Oregon\u2019s politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the political cartoons after our legislative session had a person snorting cocaine out of a mountain of white,\u201d Knight said. \u201cIt said, \u2018Which of these is illegal in Oregon?\u2019 And the answer was the plastic straw.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With his two big-dollar donations to the Republican and the Independent in the hopes that either of them would beat Democrat Kotek, Knight told the Times that he is less \u201cfor\u201d the other two candidates and instead views himself as \u201can anti-Tina person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Polls in Oregon have Republican Drazan and Democrat Kotek neck-and-neck, with Johnson lagging back in a distant third place. But what is shocking is that Nike\u2019s Phil Knight, who is reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celebritynetworth.com\/richest-businessmen\/ceos\/phil-knight-net-worth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worth $40 billion<\/a>, has not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/search?order=desc&#038;q=Phil+Knight&#038;sort=A&#038;type=donors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">donated<\/a> to the Democrat as he frequently does.<\/p>\n<p>A poll reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/article\/2022\/04\/21\/oregon-votes-2022-governors-race-issues-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oregon Public Broadcasting<\/a> found that Oregon voters are very unhappy under current Democrat Gov. Kate Brown. The key finding is that more than 70 percent of respondents said that Oregon is \u201con the wrong track.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Kate Brown, governor of Oregon, speaks during an interview in Portland, Oregon, U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016. Brown, a Democrat, joined the state House of Representatives in 1991, was later elected to the Senate, and served as secretary of state since 2009 before taking over as governor in February. (Meg Roussos\/Bloomberg via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oregon has other troubles, too. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koin.com\/news\/oregon\/oregon-second-worst-state-in-u-s-for-addiction-survey-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KOIN<\/a>, the Beaver State is the second-worst state for substance abuse and addiction. Even worse, it is at a rock bottom 50th in access to treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Oregon also had some of the strictest COVID policies in the country and only removed its mask mandate on March 31, making it among the last states to do so, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kgw.com\/article\/news\/health\/coronavirus\/oregon-indoor-mask-mandate-lifted-end-of-march\/283-5969b91c-7d8a-4c5e-8834-c0c0bef1e37e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KGW added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nike, of course, was right in line with Oregon\u2019s strict COVID policies and, in 2020, even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/companies-hit-pause-button-as-coronavirus-infects-economy-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">closed all its stores<\/a> nationwide over its hysterical fear of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Nike is one of the most left-wing corporations in the U.S.A., so left-wing that it couldn\u2019t even see its way clear to release a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With only weeks to go until Election Day, Phil Knight, the billionaire co-founder of sportswear giant Nike, shocked Oregon by donating $1 million to Republican gubernatorial candidate Christine Drazan. The million-dollar donation to the Republican comes after Knight\u2019s previous donation of more than $3 million to former Democrat Oregon Representative Betsy Johnson, who jumped into &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1896002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1700837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1700837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1896002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}