By JEFF BARNARD "Sarah Palin could have hardly picked a more crunchy granola town to give a speech in than Eugene.
Despite its pioneer and logging heritage, the town where Nike running shoes were born from a waffle iron is high on organic food, snobby about craft beers and tattoos, home to the University of Oregon and dependably votes Democratic. Last year, the mayor declared the first week in May as Medical Marijuana Awareness Week.
Yet the Lane County Republican party couldn't be prouder of landing the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate, who uses "granola" as a term of derision, as the headliner for its Lincoln Day fundraiser dinner Friday night.
"She's a pretty brave woman, I think," said Bill Young, a Eugene veterinarian and chairman of the Lane County Republican Party."
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