Posted June 12, 2009 at 3:12 AM

Tagged: Mark Hass (OR) Tobias Read (OR) Theodore Kulongoski (OR, National)

http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20090612/LEGISLATURE/906120358/1042

A former television reporter turned legislator thrust himself into the spotlight Wednesday when he was the lone Democrat among 18 in the Oregon Senate to block a corporate-tax increase.