Margo Logan

Mark Owens

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.)

Marty Wilde

Representative Marty Wilde grew up in rural Oregon. His father was an organic farmer on the coast range, his mother was an educator. His family was poor but were able to survive with the support of his community and the government. Investments in programs like Medicaid, food stamps, and public schools allowed him and his sister to succeed. This experience formed the base of his belief that the government should care for its citizens and his desire to serve his community to pay back that debt.

After graduating from University of Maryland, Marty decided to commit himself to public service by joining the Oregon Army National Guard and later the Air National Guard. Through his 25 years of military service Rep. Wilde has fought forest fires in Oregon, worked on converting a coal plant in Alaska, prosecuted cases of sexual assault in Qatar, hunted down war criminals in Bosnia, and served as Chief, Rule of Law in Afghanistan. He was awarded a Bronze Star Medal for his work in Afghanistan.

While in the Oregon National Guard, Marty attended Law School at University of Oregon. Between his deployments, he volunteered as a Court Appointed Special Advocate and served as an Assistant District Attorney in Texas and later as a Deputy District Attorney in Albany, Oregon. In Texas, he earned a Master of Laws in health law at University of Houston. Later, he completed a Master of Science in Healthcare Administration from the University of Maryland.

He moved back to Eugene in 2010 where he began to work more directly to improve the community. He served as President of City Club of Eugene for two years, served on the Eugene City Budget Committee for three years, and volunteered as a Long Term Care Ombudsman. In Eugene, he continued to support survivors of domestic violence as a volunteer with the Senior Law Service, while also working in a family law practice. He transitioned to serving as the Executive Director of the Lane County Medical Society where he worked to help improve access to care for patients on the Oregon Health Plan, unionize physicians, and organize a Women’s Circle to help female physicians network and support one another. Marty lives in Lane County with his wife, Monique, and his two children.​

Mary Middleton

Max Sherman

Michael Steven Newgard

Mike Nearman

Miriam Cummins

Nancy Nathanson

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 goodpaying 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.)

Paige Hook