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You people up here in Northern Oregon have no idea what it is like to live below Cottage Grove.  Over half  the property is owned by the federal government down there.  Only in the confined valleys is there level land to build on and you had better be within twenty miles of I-5 if you are going to make some kind of living.  To supplument my living on less than 25K a year I would fly my friends packaged weed to Southern Cal.  My friend had a large grow operation in the Applegate Valley and she helped several of her friends to make a living.  Its about time that weed is made leagle. 

One time while I was refueling my aircraft at the Medford Airport when two Marine Corp Helicopters landed having flown up from 29 Palms.  One of the Helo's was a Cobra Gunship and other a Huey which was the support helo for the Cobra.  You people at OPB who don't have a clue on what it cost to fly anything let alone military aircraft ( better start looking at police operations and their aviation costs).  Those two Marine Helo's cost over 20K per hour and it took at lest four hours to fly up to MFR.  Jackson Co. used that Cobra in an operation called "Coyote" to look for weed grows on public land.  So instead of flying off to my landing area I just kept my plane at MFR and watched then.  When ever they left I would tell my friends which heading the Corbra has heading.  I knew how much fuel that helo can carry and how long it could stay in the air. 

Southern Oregon needs to develop new jobs weed is just part of the answer because you people in Northern Oregon don't give a rats a--- on how citizens in the region make a living.

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For the past year I have gone before venture cap gropes like O.E.N. and was coldly received here in Portland. My invention is not I.T. it's not a
"Green" venture it's a product that would be used by the military. I was in a room of over 100 individuals and not one came up to me to seek more information about my invention after my presentation. This State has no interest in technologies that are military related. This state has to bring into it all types of business that develop living wage jobs that this state so badly requires. My invention will allow single-engine turbo-prop aircraft to be turned into aerial refueling tankers for unmanned aircraft and light utility helicopters. The unmanned aviation industry is today a $3.5 Billion dollar "Per Year" industry in this country and its still growing here and globaly. Two years ago the Pentagon put out the call that unmanned aviation assets need to be refueled in mid-air the need has been addressed I have a product to supply too that need and do you think I can get one interest from the Oregon investment community here in this town.
Forget about it. I'm a pilot and inventor and all I have hit are brick walls trying to find venture capital for a technology that can tap into a global multi-billion dollar per year industry and all I here is the sound of crickets from the locals. Oregon better wake up not all the jobs are in the IT or Green world this State has to broaden its field of industries to come to our state if it wants to have living wage jobs and tax dollars to support what citizens want from there government. I want to bring Defense and Home Land Aviation Security jobs to Oregon but with the response that I have so far have received from the Oregon Venture Community no wonder this state ranks at the bottom of defense monies coming into our state. People like me move out of state and take with it the jobs where the venture monies are. Oregon VC wake up the world is a dangerous place and this nation will need tools to control conflict there defense monies to tap into and bring those monies and jobs back to Oregon. All I have seen is that Oregon venture capital is to narrow minded. Alan S.

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