Oregon State House District 31
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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Jordan Gutierrez
(Dem)
What changes, if any, would you support in the state legislature to address the issue of climate change?
Would you support or oppose the creation of an independent redistricting commission to perform state and congressional redistricting, and why?
Would you support lowering the state legislature’s quorum requirement to 50% of its members? Why or why not?
Contact Phone
503-341-6152
Campaign Phone (public)
503-341-6152
Your Experience/Qualifications
Tax Professional (LTC, EA), Trader in Securities, Investment property owner.
County
Columbia, Multnomah, Washington, and Yamhill
Though I believe that human development across the globe has effected climate change as we know it today, I'm also honest enough with myself to know that Oregon's already minuscule carbon output is inconsequential to what we are all living through today. One of the best things Oregon can do to fight climate change is by expanding tree-planting programs as well as the planting heavy carbon-eating crops like industrial hemp, both of which have the ancillary benefit of reducing landslides, a very real and unfortunate reality of climate change we see all too often in our state. This problem is very real, but I believe the resources available to the Oregon Legislature to solve it are extremely limited.
We have seen in states as politically opposed in their political temperament as California and Idaho have adopted supposed “independent redistricting” commissions and in both cases, all such a reform did was put a veneer of non-partisanship on a still markedly partisan process, with both State's still containing extremely partisan gerrymandering in the majority of their legislative districts. For that reason, and many others, I think it is better to maintain the process as it is now, warts and all, so the people of our State can watch the legislature's work fully aware of the partisan nature of the exercise and judge them accordingly rather than adopt a phony “non-partisan” system to deceive Oregonians.
I think Measure 113, which forces legislators with repeat unexcused absences to give up their right to seek re-election, should have a chance to work before we decide to amend the State Constitution yet again regarding such a partisan issue. State Courts have upheld the constitutionality of Measure 113, and since that ruling, there have been no legislative walkouts. That said, if the problem of legislative gridlock by partisan walkout persists, I would certainly consider an Amendment lowering quorum to 36 members in the House and 18 in the Senate, but not to a bare majority. I believe that if a single party is to control the entire legislative process, without the input of any opposition, that they should at least have a mandate.
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