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The party selected former congressional candidate Art Robinson as chairman Saturday in a 55-52 vote over party Vice Chairman Bill Currier, The Oregonian reported.

Robinson, a chemist and outspoken skeptic of human-caused global warming, ran unsuccessfully against U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., in 2010 and 2012. He ran for the party chairman position in February but was eliminated in the first round of balloting.

Robinson replaces Suzanne Gallagher, who resigned Friday just ahead of a recall vote brought by party officials accusing her of mismanagement. Gallagher had led the state GOP since February, and in stepping down she warned that if the party is perceived as "divided and dysfunctional," funding from national Republican groups could suffer.

"The events in the last couple of months are a testimony to why Republicans are not seen in a good light," Gallagher said. "The actions of some members have demonstrated the character flaws perceived by the public as uncaring, angry and antagonistic." http://www.katu.com/politics/Oregon-GOP-picks-Art-Robinson-as-new-chai
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It’s hard to do justice to the extreme views of the new chairman for Oregon’s Republican party. But reports on Art Robinson often didn’t even come close, merely mentioning that he is a “skeptic of human-caused global warming,” while leaving out the chairman’s anti-scientific statements on evolution, AIDS, and nuclear waste.

Robinson is best known for organizing a petition rejecting climate change that claims to have 31,072 American scientist signatories, with “scientist” defined as anyone who claims to have a bachelor’s degree in various fields including computer science, statistics, and metallurgy. Robinson, who is a chemist but has not done any scientific research into climate change, has acknowledged that fake names such as the Spice Girl’s Geri Halliwell made it onto the list. The petition says little to rebut the consensus of the vast majority of scientists, as it does not state what percentage of people responded to the survey. Robinson told the conspiracy website WND.com in 2002 that “”[t]here is absolutely not a shred of evidence that humans are causing any change in the climate by generating CO2.”

The Associated Press characterized all this by simply stating that Robinson is “a chemist and outspoken skeptic of human-caused global warming,” echoing The Oregonian, Oregon’s largest newspaper.

Furthermore, at no point during Robinson’s candidacy for GOP chairman did the two largest Oregon papers (The Oregonian and The Eugene Register-Guard mention that Robinson has made several other claims that run counter to scientific research.

He’s also a long-time contributor to World Net Daily (published from Joe Farah’s survivalist compound outside of Grant’s Pass*). He ran his son in the 2012 DEMOCRATIC primary as a “Democrat”, evidently to game the election and force the incumbent to spend cash. His son then ran Robinson’s GOP campaign in the general election. The Oregon Republican Party has successfully transitioned from being the party of Mark Hatfield to a carnival freak sideshow. http://themoderatevoice.com/185526/what-is-wrong-with-the-orp/#77M2Dtf
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