Charlie O. Porter died quietly Sunday night at age 86. It is hard to sum up Charlie in words, but here's an effort by one Eugene Register Guard reporter. Porter is "brash, glib, witty, smarter than hell, younger than springtime, a political disaster, a martyr who won't stay dead, a chronic meddler, a thick-skinned egomaniac who;s lovable as a puppy, persistent as a bulldog, optimistic as a bride, moral as a preacher, imaginative as a mad scientist and beneath it all, where it really counts, an authentic American hero."
I didn't and don't know much about Porter. My Dad, a former Oregon democrat, always speaks of him with a twinkle in his eye (which he reserves for folks he truly admires.) I'm familiar with some of his more highly publicized work; the de-crossing of Skinner Butte - second story down, or his success in getting Oregon Democrats to publically call for an investigation of the "Felonious Five" that stole the Presidential election for W. in 2000. These have been reported on more or less recently, but I will be curious to see what else I can learn about Porter. He seems like my sort of cultural hero.
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