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Mr. Dudley how do you feel on Don't Ask Don't Tell? As a Veteran I'm in favor of equality for all Americians and DADT needs to be repealed. Will you stop any Oregon National Guards from being fired for being gay?

Most NATO countries allows their service members both gay and straight to serve without any problems, why do you think we are so far behind on this issue.

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This for Kurt Schrader, with Federal Retirees and Social Security not recieving a COLA again this year, how can we trust the government to negogiate Health benefits when as retirees we have our Health Care Premiems up at least 9% in my case?

Simple solution is to have  a 2 tier for Health Benefits one for retirees and one for still employed workers.

OPM should hold premieum increases to 0 when we do not have a COLA. This takes more of my retirement that can't be spent helping the economy recover. This also costs the government since 2/3 of my premieum is covered by Federal funds.

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Scott Brunn, how will you vote on Don't Ask Don't Tell and how will you support Veterans returning from Irag and Afghanistan?

Will you support gay marriage here in Oregon?

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