Sara Gelser Blouin

VPS - Primary

Occupation: State Senator

Occupational Background: Children with Disabilities and Family Support Coordinator, Oregon DHS; Instructor, LBCC

Educational Background: MAIS, Oregon State University; BA, Earlham College

Prior Governmental Experience: State Representative, Corvallis School Board

Sara Shows Up for Oregon’s Families

• Worked to increase the minimum wage, extend overtime pay to farmworkers, improve workplace protections against sexual harassment and create Oregon’s paid family leave program
• ¿Fighting to make sure schools are open five days a week for every Oregon student
• Voted to protect and expand access to reproductive health care and gender affirming care for ALL Oregonians

Sara Shows Up for Safer Communities and a Sustainable Future

• Spearheaded legislation to clear the backlog of untested rape kits in OregonSecured $28 million to improve the Highway 20 Corridor between Albany and Corvallis
• Voted to transition Oregon to 100% clean energy by 2040

Sara Shows Up to Strengthen Our Social Safety Net

• Led passage of legislation improving safety and oversight of memory care and assisted living facilities
• Championed legislation to stop sending kids in foster care to dangerous out of state facilities
• Working to make quality mental health, addiction services and peer supports available in the community before individuals experience crisis
• Voted to expand affordable housing, protect tenants and create transitional housing to address the urgent needs of the unhoused

Sara Shows Up in Times of Crisis

• Passed emergency legislation to ensure elderly and disabled Oregonians weren’t denied support from trusted caregivers at the hospital during the pandemic
• Successfully overturned discriminatory crisis care rationing policies and passed groundbreaking legislation to protect Oregonians from discrimination in health care settings.
• Helped resolve hundreds of unemployment claims
• Facilitated local access to tens of thousands of dollars in tenant and landlord assistance during the pandemic

ENDORSEMENTS INCLUDE:

• SEIU Oregon
• Basic Rights Oregon Equality PAC
• Planned Parenthood PAC of Oregon
• Oregon League of Conservation Voters
• Oregon School Employees Association
• Oregon Nurses Association
• Oregon State Firefighters Council
• Pro-Choice Oregon PAC

More information at www.saragelser.com

(This information furnished by Sara Gelser Blouin for State Senate.)