Author: Dirk VanderHart

J. Schuberth, who is running for Oregon governor as Pencil, speaks with voters and curious passersby as they walk around downtown Portland, Ore., to campaign on April 23. Schuberth is an advocate for reforming the state’s K-12 school system. Eli Imadali/OPB hide caption toggle caption Eli Imadali/OPB PORTLAND, Ore. — The downtown Saturday farmer’s market is one of this city’s bedrock institutions – a blocks-long parade of vendors and buskers in the shade of soaring elms. And on a recent Saturday, gladhanding through it all, came a six-foot-tall talking pencil. “My name is Pencil,” the pencil told an attendee, pressing…