Campaign Phone (public)
5037097669
Town Where You Live
Portland Oregon
Your Experience/Qualifications
Business management, CPA, Pdx Mayor Staff
County
Multnomah
Term
2 years
Term Expires
12/31/26
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Contact Phone
980-621-5529
Town Where You Live
Portland, Oregon
Your Experience/Qualifications
Lifelong Oregonian, Surgeon, Professor, & Director for Strategic Outreach (Oregon Health and Science University); Vice-Chair, Oregon Health Authority Value-based Benefits Subcommittee; Oregon Health Authority Health Technology Assessment Subcommittee
I am proud to be the climate candidate in this race with official endorsements from the Oregon League of Conservation Voters and The Street Trust Action Fund. I support an environmental justice approach to climate change, which combines a rapid transition away from fossil fuels with policies that uplift communities most impacted by the climate crisis and other systemic inequities. We need a green infrastructure revolution, bringing housing, transportation, and industry to net carbon neutrality, while also providing hundreds of thousands of good-paying, union jobs. We must sufficiently fund our natural resource agencies, invest in wildfire prevention and mitigation, pass robust clean water policies, and rapidly phase out single-use plastics.
Gerrymandering is wrong. Period. I support the implementation of independent redistricting commissions because no political party should be able to manipulate the outcome of our elections. It is deeply inappropriate to have elected officials drawing their own districts. An independent commission would take that power away from these partisan officials and give it to neutral actors who can make unbiased decisions. Unfortunately, ending gerrymandering alone will not fix our democracy. We must also protect voting rights, especially for BIPOC communities, restore voting rights to disenfranchised individuals, pass automatic voter registration, protect mail-in voting, and pass robust campaign finance reform legislation.
Democracy operates on the principle of majority rule, not minority rule. The reality of democracy is that you win votes and you lose votes, but you take a principled stand and continue fighting for what you believe in. Walkouts, caused by Oregon's abnormal quorum requirement, are inherently undemocratic because they allow a minority to halt legislation from even being considered by the legislature. I reject walkouts by either party and would not participate in them as a representative. Oregon should join the vast majority of other states by establishing a simple majority (50% + 1) for quorum.
Campaign Phone (public)
971-248-4909
Town Where You Live
Portland, Oregon
Your Experience/Qualifications
I’m a practicing Oregon attorney with extensive experience as an environmental lawyer working around the world on climate change issues. Working closely with the Obama Administration and the United Nations, I had a hand in crafting the landmark Kigali Amendment, which significantly limited the global use of HFCs (a kind of greenhouse gas). I built a broad-based coalition to achieve this policy goal, and now I’m ready to take that experience to Salem to protect Oregon’s natural environment.
County
Multnomah
Term
2 year
Term Expires
Jan. 2027
I would immediately move to pass legislation that enshrines the climate mitigation work of the Climate Protection Program into law. The Climate Protection Program was an Executive action undertaken because efforts to pass more comprehensive climate legislation were frustrated when Republicans walked out of the session in 2019 and 2020. As an Executive action undertaken by the Governor and administrative agencies alone, the Climate Protection Program can be undone by the Executive action of a subsequent Governor. Our climate policies need to be safeguarded through legislation. Now that Oregon has passed a measure punishing lawmakers to walk out of the legislature, we should move climate legislation forward and revisit the cap-and-trade.
Yes, I would support an independent redistricting commission to draw new district lines in a fair, non-partisan way. I believe voters should choose their politicians – not the other way around. We have seen examples around the country of how extreme “gerrymandering” has disenfranchised minority communities and led to inequitable representation at the state and congressional levels.
Yes, I would support reforming Oregon’s quorum rules to match those of the 45 other states that require a simple majority to conduct legislative business. It is unacceptable that a small minority of legislators has killed critical environmental protections and common-sense gun laws by walking off the job and disrupting our democratic processes.
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