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Mark Meek

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Occupation: Small Business Owner; State Representative

Occupational Background: Owner, Avid Real Estate Executives, LLC; U.S. Air Force

Educational Background: B.S. Management/CIS – Park College

Prior Governmental Experience: Clackamas County Planning Commission; Clackamas County Economic Development Commission; Oregon Public Lands Advisory Committee

Rooted in Service: Mark Meek is a father, small business owner and State Representative who serves our community with heart, dedication and action. From coaching local youth sports, to serving our country in the Air Force, to making a difference for families as State Representative – Mark is committed to strengthening our community.

“Mark Meek has been an effective legislator on the issues that matter most to Clackamas County families. He listens and knows how to bring people together. Mark will be a strong voice for our communities in the State Senate”.
– Happy Valley City Councilor Brett Sherman

Standing up for Oregon Schools: Education made the difference in Mark’s life. He knows every student deserves that same opportunity. That’s why he voted to pass unprecedented investments in early learning and K-12 schools, which benefits every public school in our district.

Standing up for Affordable Housing: Oregon needs to build more housing. Mark is tackling the housing crisis in the Legislature by supporting new funding for local affordable housing and promoting more affordable housing construction. He also helped pass a new program that will put homeownership within reach for more first-time buyers.

Standing up for Our Health: Everyone deserves access to high-quality affordable care. In Salem, Mark fought pharmaceutical companies to stop price hikes for prescription drugs and protected Medicaid coverage for over 1 million Oregonians.

Endorsers:

U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley
Oregon AFL-CIO
Oregon Education Association
Planned Parenthood PAC of Oregon
Basic Rights Oregon Equality PAC
Oregon League of Conservation Voters
Oregon Coalition of Police and Sheriffs
State Representative Janelle Bynum
Metro Councilor Christine Lewis
David Emami, Happy Valley City Councilor
Denyse McGriff, Oregon City Commissioner
Craig Morrow, Local Small Business Owner

www.VoteMarkMeek.com

(This information furnished by Friends of Mark Meek.)

 

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Mark Owens

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Occupation: State Representative, farmer, small business owner, school board member

Occupational Background: Farmer, small business owner, Harney County Commissioner

Educational Background: Sam Barlow High School

Prior Governmental Experience: Crane High School Board Chair; Ground Water Advisory Committee; Co-Convener of Place Based Planning; Harney County Planning Commission

Since day one, I’ve said my number one priority is being your voice in Salem. To the best of my ability, I’ve upheld that commitment and advocated for our eastern, rural and frontier communities.

The reality is, despite the best and most earnest efforts, legislative dynamics often prevent good policy from moving ahead and bad policy from being stopped. Party politics are running roughshod on good people and smart ideas.

It has to stop. Oregon’s future depends on us, its citizens. We need to commit to working together and finding commonalities, and less on differences that divide. This doesn’t mean compromising our values, it means making logical decisions.

Our kids should be priorities, not pawns. Local governments and school boards need local control, not marching orders. Businesses should be supported, not stifled. Rights should be protected, not violated. Farmers and ranchers need to be able to farm, not fill out paperwork. We need checks and balances, not sole-authority rule. Elected leaders, myself included, need to be held accountable for decisions we make.

We need to get our priorities straight. I want Oregon to be a place we want to leave for our children and grandchildren. It will take all of us to get there. It starts now and it starts with us.

Join me in spending more energy developing relationships, collaborating, learning from one another and moving Oregon forward.

www.MarkOwensForOregon.com

Endorsements
Senator Lynn Findley
Oregon Farm Bureau Federation
Oregon Right to Life PAC
Patty Dorroh, Harney County
Kristen Shelman, Harney County
Dan Joyce, Malheur County
Jim Hamsher, Grant County
Sam Palmer, Grant County
Mark Bennett, Baker County
Bruce Nichols, Baker County
James Williams, Lake County
Barry Shullanberger, Lake County

(This information furnished by Mark Owens for Oregon.)

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Maxine E Dexter

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Occupation: State Representative; Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician

Occupational Background: Chair, Board of Directors, Northwest Permanente Medical Group

Educational Background: University of Washington, B.A., M.D.; University of Colorado, Certificate of Public Health

Prior Governmental Experience: Chair of the House COVID-19 committees, member of Healthcare and Judiciary Committees, PPS Advisory Committee

LET’S KEEP A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE!

As a parent and a physician, I will continue to fight for a future where every Oregonian has the ability to live a healthy life, in a healthy community, on a healthy planet.

Homelessness and Housing

“The solutions are simple – more shelter, more housing, more mental health and addiction treatment, and better paying jobs for our workforce. Getting from here to there is not simple. That’s why we need complex problem solvers like Dr. Maxine Dexter to lead the way.”

Governor Barbara Roberts

Community Safety

“Maxine understands that true community safety is about the need to increase police accountability while investing in prevention, decriminalization, and helping communities get their basic needs met – which are proven community solutions to increase safety long term.”

Candace Avalos, Community Leader

Reproductive Justice

"We are facing unprecedented threats to reproductive freedom. Maxine is a tireless champion we can depend on to lead the fight with us."

Christel Allen, Pro-Choice Oregon

Climate Action

"We need leaders who will stand up for young people and our right to a livable future. I trust Representative Dexter will continue to fight for climate action, healthcare, youth engagement, and more for me and my peers all across the state."

Ukiah Halloran-Steiner (16), Youth Climate Justice Organizer

PROUDLY ENDORSED BY:

Planned Parenthood PAC of Oregon

Basic Rights Oregon Equality PAC

Oregon League of Conservation Voters

Oregon Nurses Association

Oregon State FireFighters Council

Oregon Education Association

Oregon AFL-CIO

Teamsters Joint Council 37

U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley

U.S. Senator Ron Wyden

Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum

Senator Elizabeth Steiner Hayward

Senator Akasha Lawrence Spence

Representative Lisa Reynolds

Commissioner Carmen Rubio

https://maxinefororegon.com/

(This information furnished by Maxine for Oregon.)

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Michael Steven Newgard

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Nancy Nathanson

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Occupation: State Representative

Occupational Background: Library Program Manager

Educational Background: University of Oregon, BS 1975

Prior Governmental Experience: Eugene City Council, 1993-2005; Eugene Planning Commission, 1987-1993; Lane Council of Governments Board

A Leader In Salem Achieving Results

Nancy works hard to get Salem’s priorities straight and maintain fiscal responsibility for state government. She set clear priorities for higher education, job skills training, mental health treatment, and K-12 improvement. Her immediate focus is on urgent priorities: homelessness, child care, safe communities, resilience to emergencies like climate change and wildfire, and an economy that works for everyone.

Nancy has helped create good–paying jobs by promoting community improvements so our economy grows into the future, advocating for local priorities including child care facilities, YMCA, Civic Park, and Lane County Fairgrounds.

Nancy puts people first: expanding access to affordable health care and services for veterans. She passed legislation to stop runaway fees on college student debit cards and increase protections for seniors in residential care. She helped pass the strongest paid family leave law in the nation. She led efforts to protect mobile home residents and championed safe sleep sites and “tiny homes” to reduce homelessness.

Nancy focuses on making government more efficient and accountable. She passed bills to ensure fairness in courts, increase accountability for public contracts, and shed light on “dark money” in campaign spending. She’s pushing back on excessive testing for K-12 students.

Nancy championed increased funding for addiction and recovery treatment, and school health clinics. She led efforts to add wildfire cameras for early fire detection, and called attention to the urgency of cybersecurity to protect Oregonians.

Promoting Oregon’s economic rebound, Nancy focuses on our strengths: helping small businesses, investing in schools, advancing job skills training, and fostering research for new industries and energy technologies.

A proven track record for common sense and success.

Supported by parents, consumers, teachers, nurses, food and home care and construction workers, conservationists, and more.

www.NancyNathanson.org

(This information furnished by Friends of Nancy Nathanson.)

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Pam Marsh

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Occupation: Oregon State Representative, House District 5 (2017-present)

Occupational Background: Executive Director, Ashland Emergency Food Bank (2012-2016); Co- owner, Green Springs Inn and Cabins (1994-present); Administrator, OnTrack (2005-2012); Coordinator, Santa Clara County Cities Association (1992-1994); Field Representative, California legislature (1984-1988)

Educational Background: Southern Oregon University, BA 2005; UC Berkeley, (1973-1975)

Prior Governmental Experience: Ashland City Council (2012-2016); Ashland Planning Commission (2006-2012); Ashland Charter Review Commission (2004-2006)

Member: State Broadband Advisory Council, Oregon Retirement Savings Board

Legislative Committees: Environment and Natural Resources (Chair); Wildfire Recovery (vice chair); Revenue; Housing; Agriculture, Land Use and Water; Joint Committee on Information Management and Technology,

Awards: 2021 Women Living Leadership (United Way of Jackson County); 2021 Environmental Champion of the Year (OLCV); Cooperator of the Year (2021, Oregon Rural Electric Cooperative Association); Rock Solid Award (2021, Oregon People’s Utility District Association); Consumer Champion Award (2019, Consumer Utility Board); Daffodil Award (2019, Family Nurturing Center); Excellence in Telecommunications Policy/Legislation (2019, Oregon Connections Telecommunications Conference)

Since September 2020, I have been intensely focused on our region’s recovery from the devastation wreaked by the Almeda fire. While we are starting to see signs of rebound, I continue to do everything I can to ensure that every individual or family can return to the community.

We need to expand programs to keep our community as safe as possible, including funding for defensible space and forest restoration projects that protect public health and minimize the threat of wildfire. As the climate continues to warm, we need policies like 2021’s 100% Clean Electricity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Acknowledging changing conditions, we must invest in programs that will help residents cope with smoke events and deadly heat spikes through acquisition of air filtration and energy efficient cooling devices.

I will continue work on other issues that confront us, including illegal hemp operations, rural internet connectivity, homelessness, and critical support for post-pandemic recovery of schools, health care and small businesses.

Heartfelt thanks for your support.

RepresentativePamMarsh.com

(This information furnished by Pam Marsh.)

 

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Paul Evans

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Occupation: Teacher, Chemeketa Community College; State Representative HD-20.

Occupational Background: Teacher (PSU, and WOU); Senior Policy Advisor to Governor Kulongoski; Master Air Battle Manager, US Air Force.

Educational Background: M.A., Oregon State University; B.S., Western Oregon State College; Central High (Independence, Oregon).

Prior Governmental Experience: Board of Directors, Central School District; (2008–2011); Chair, Governor’s Task Force on Veterans Services (2008); Monmouth Mayor (1999–2002); Monmouth City Council (1989–1992). Military Experience: USAF; Oregon Air National Guard; Deployments: Afghanistan, Iraq, Central America, Europe, and Southwest Asia; Retired 2013. Service: As an elected official, teacher, volunteer firefighter, and in the U.S. Armed Forces. Paul demonstrates the values of duty, honor, and service to his nation and community.

Dear Neighbor,

Few could have predicted the whirlwind of the past two years. A pandemic, global economic shutdown, and two historically violent wildfires impacted communities around our state.

This election is about moving us forward, fixing what we must while refocusing on the opportunities of tomorrow. As your State Representative, I want to share some of what we have done, and a few of the things I believe we can do in the future.

  • Oregon responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. We met the challenges of the 2020 and 2021 wildfires and made progress in assisting our impacted neighbors to rebuild.
  • We established new programs for stabilizing essential service providers, small businesses, and working families to counter the catastrophic impacts of the global “shut down” of manufacturing supply-chains.
  • To confront homelessness, we are accelerating affordable housing creation and humane strategies to help people get off the streets.
  • We reformed our statewide emergency management response and recovery systems, improved training requirements, and secured a new stockpile program aligned with lessons learned.

Now we must look forward: to reinvigorate our K-12 education system, invest in workforce development, small businesses, and our economy, and rehabilitate our aging infrastructure. We must move Oregon forward -together.

Paul Evans. Our State Representative.

See more at PaulEvans.org

(This information furnished by Friends of Paul Evans.)

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Rick Lewis

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Occupation: Oregon State Representative, House District 18

Occupational Background: Retired law enforcement officer with more than 28 years as a Chief of Police in 3 Oregon cities

Educational Background: Bachelor's Degree Criminal Justice – University of Wyoming

Prior Governmental Experience: A lifetime of public service including service in the U.S. Army from 1968 to 1971, followed by 2 years in the National Guard. I served as a law enforcement officer for 39+ years including more than 28 years as an Oregon Police Chief. I served as an International Police Trainer for the U.S. Department of Justice in Baghdad, Iraq in 2005, training the Iraqi police leadership. I was the interim City Manager in Silverton for 6 months and retired from law enforcement in 2012. I was elected to 2 terms as Mayor of Silverton, and I resigned as Mayor in early 2017 to accept an appointment as State Representative for House District 18. I was elected to a 3rd term as State Representative in 2020.

My Legislative Priorities:

  • Supporting law enforcement officers and safe communities
  • Push for accountability in the Measure 110 drug treatment funding
  • Halting the erosion of law and order across Oregon
  • Combatting inflation and supporting efforts to lower the cost of living for working families
  • Supporting small business as the economy recovers from harmful executive orders and mandates
  • Standing against new taxes and cutting back on wasteful government programs
  • Ensuring veterans receive quality care and necessary programs
  • Working for affordable housing in rural Oregon
  • Standing up for small farmers against government over-regulation

I am proud to be endorsed by:

  • Oregon Right to Life PAC
  • Oregon Farm Bureau Federation

Learn more about my campaign at www.RepRickLewis.org

(This information furnished by Rick Lewis.)

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Ricki Ruiz

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Occupation: Community Services Coordinator

Occupational Background: Government

Educational Background: Warner Pacific University, Bachelors. Reynolds High School

Prior Governmental Experience: Reynolds Board Director 2017-2022

Growing up in Gresham I learned about the challenges that our communities faced. A lot has changed and as a legislator I must continue to advocate for the needs of our Gresham & East County communities.

As a lawmaker for Gresham:

  • Secured $1 million to build the Gresham High School Health Based Center
  • Secured $300,000 to expand Gresham Youth Recreation

I am committed to:

Education: It is important that we continue to expand investments in our education system. I believe that our students deserve to stay in school, and we must do everything to ensure students receive the best supports. In order to take care of our students we must also take care of our teachers.

Economy: We must continue to expand opportunities to ensure small businesses stay operating. The challenges of workforce continue to affect the operations of many. I was able to secure needed resources to expand workforce apprenticeships thus helping build the future workforce of our state.

Housing & Affordability: Housing is a human right. Important investments passed ensuring that we address the homelessness crisis, build and preserve affordable housing, and improve access to homeownership. It is my commitment to see these resources go to full effect.

Public Safety: Gun violence and crime is on the rise. I secured a $2 million investment that will commit much needed resources to start collaborations, interventions, and prevention efforts. It is important to address the root causes of violence.

I am proudly supported by:

U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley

Oregon Nurses Association

Basic Rights Oregon Equality PAC

Joint Council Teamsters No 37

SEIU Oregon

East County Rising

Oregon League of Conservation Voters

PNW Regional Council of Carpenters

Oregon & Southern Idaho District Council of Laborers (LIUNA)

Oregon State Building & Construction Trades Council

See more information at ricki4oregon.com y en Español

(This information furnished by Ricki for Oregon.)