After a month of statewide ads bashing Governor Kulongoski on taxes, Saxton is now ducking tax questions of his own - specifically the question of the local school levy in Portland.

As KGW reports, Saxton is refusing to take a position on the measure. How he squares this with his pledge to "oppose and veto any and all efforts to increase taxes" is unclear. But what is clear is that Saxton continues to say whatever he think it will take to get him elected.