The State Senate and House of Representatives are responsible for making or changing laws and passing a state budget. Sixty representatives serve in the House. The sizes of districts are based on the number of people living there. The Oregon Legislature meets for a long session in odd-numbered years and a short session in even-numbered years. To qualify as a candidate for the Oregon State House of Representatives, a person must be a U.S. citizen, a registered voter, a resident of the district for at least 1 year prior to the General Election, and age 21 or older. The salary is $35,052 plus a per-diem stipend.Term: 2 years. This is a partisan position.
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Contact Phone
503-607-5599
Campaign Phone (public)
503-607-5599
Town Where You Live
Beaverton
Your Experience/Qualifications
I have served as a precinct committee person for about forty years, nominee for State Representative, and delegate to the State Party Platform Convention. I also have a lot of “real life” experience teaching, running a small business, managing an in-home, healthcare staff, and volunteering in my community through church activities and several other non-profits. When I see many good people suffering unnecessarily because of poor government policies, I’m energized to get involved.
County
Washington
Term
2 years
Term Expires
2027
Voters tell me that homelessness and the economy are two of the most pressing issues: decriminalization of drugs has made things worse, resulting in an increase of drug use and crime; raising taxes without accountability solves nothing but hurts businesses and middle-income folk.
I support legislation that replaces housing first with shelter first, funds organizations with proven records of reducing homelessness, enforces public health and safety laws, recriminalizes the sale and possession of hard drugs, and ensures compliance with rehabilitation mandates.
We need to reduce excessive taxes and red tape, increase tax credits for charitable giving, reform land use laws and building codes to increase housing availability, and fight a CBDC.
The legislature should support parents’ rights to choose the best educational options for their children; create Education Savings Accounts; allocate education dollars for teachers and students rather than more administrators and Community-Based Organizations; empower teachers to administer effective discipline; require all curricula be easily available for public scrutiny; require all medical and academic records be easily available to parents; raise the cap on charter school enrollment.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." Our Declaration of Independence asserts this kind of equality, based on natural law, is “the equal and impartial administration of the laws in a context in which all are subject to the laws, including the lawmakers” (from a discussion, National Constitution Center).
This equality assumes first a self-government, a degree of self-mastery of one’s capabilities and responsibilities to achieve virtue and self-government.
Income inequality is simply one of many differences among people—differences beyond our control, of our own efforts, or a combination of the two. The legislature should have no interest in trying to make people the same where they naturally are not.
