r/Medford • u/DonCarlitos • 19h ago
Medford Senate Race Turns Ugly - Hicks Goes Low
The avalanche of ads and doorhanger fliers is getting crazy. Hicks latest flyer brings up 20-year-old allegations, later dropped as not prosecutable, against an person on a Colorado-based campaign consultancy who Krause employed in the primary election. No one claimed that Krause had anything to do with anything improper, but it was an attack point in the primary election and Hicks brought it up again. That is the hit: you cannot trust Denise Krause. What a bunch of BS. Hicks began his campaign with the strongest possible message -- look at me, Mr. Nice Guy, Mr. Nonpartisan, and so clean-cut and earnest. If that were the real Brad Hicks voters might have bought it. But he could not sell it. Nor could he do it for the two decades at the Chamber of Commerce, where his organization was unabashedly partisan Republican. What we see now is nasty guilt-by-association thuggery. Krause is a retired healthcare manager, but he likens her to a sleazy lawyer from a TV show…Hicks is not Mr. nice guy after all.