Christine Drazan is the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/republican-party">Republican</a> candidate for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/oregon">Oregon</a> gubernatorial seat in a three-way race against a Democrat and an unaffiliated candidate, in what could be a major upset and a GOP win for the first time in <a href="https://www.nga.org/former-governors/oregon/">43</a> years.
Drazan told The Daily Wire she is running for governor because she’s seen firsthand how people with a minority political view in Oregon are ignored. As the House Republican leader in the state, she saw how single-party control resulted in ultra-progressive ideologies being the only ones prioritized or valued.
“This election is an opportunity to stand up for families and individuals that have been ignored and left out for far too long,” she said. “I am determined, as the next governor of the state of Oregon, to lead our state in a new direction that actually gives Oregonians our government back, actually respects Oregonians and the diversity across all regions of our state and their own unique needs for their own local economies to thrive, for their local schools to be strong, and for their local communities to be safe.”
“Oregon is really about to turn red,” she said. “It’s just an extraordinary year. We are seeing unprecedented momentum in grassroots support and financial support and enthusiasm across the state.”
As Drazan has traveled the state, she has noticed that Oregonians want change, noting, “it’s not a Republican, Democrat, Independent issue right now. Oregonians are looking around saying, ‘this is a mess and we have got to fix it.’ And they really view this election cycle as the opportunity to really right the ship.”
Drazan described homelessness as “an issue that touches every corner of our state,” and while it’s a “tragic experience for folks who are living on the street,” it also impacts the communities where it is happening. The overall feeling of safety for Oregonians has dramatically shifted. She said “property crimes are through the roof” and Portland has a “207% increase in its murder rate over the course of the last two years.” Oregon also has some of the highest addiction rates in the country, she said, while simultaneously, “we&#8217;re really really far too low on access to recovery services and helping folks get back on their feet.”
“Oregonians feel that,” she said, noting that these aren’t partisan problems, but rather “quality of life issues.” She said Oregonians realize that Democratic, single-party rule, for the last ten years “hasn&#8217;t helped. It’s made it worse,” particularly regarding the homelessness problem. She added that Oregonians are aware that the “housing first approach” of Democrats hasn’t fixed the problem.
Regarding Drazan’s opponents’ policies on the issue, she pointed out how Tina Kotek, the Democratic candidate, “spearheaded legislation that created tent cities.” The view of allowing homelessness to be “permanent and chronic” rather than “rare and temporary” is Kotek’s “brainchild,” she explained. “That is the reason that we are experiencing homelessness the way we are in our state,” she said, noting that the other side wants state-funding housing, and the government to own the land and projects.
She said over a billion dollars have been put toward creating support for the homeless, which she said are “important investments,” but are not addressing the entire picture.
“We have to recognize that this is a humanitarian crisis that is about individuals that have somehow sort of lost their connection to their family and their community and the people that would otherwise help them and, you know, help them regain their footing,” she said, adding that they are “isolated,” often begin to self-medicate, and are faced with addiction.
“Once you get to that point, you have got to help the human side of the problem as well,” she added, saying the “housing first approach is part of what we have to do, but it cannot be the only thing we do.”
When asked about the rise in crime, she said progressive cities have “activist district attorneys who have made the decision to not prosecute crime.” One such region is Portland, where Drazan attributed the rise in crime to the smaller number of police, as well as a district attorney who is not holding criminals responsible for their crimes. “We have Democrats in Oregon that have been in recent years determined to treat police like criminals and criminals like victims,” she said, which is resulting in Oregonians being less safe.
Governor Kate Brown (D-OR), she noted, is the least popular governor in the country. She maintained business and school lockdowns to a drastic degree during the COVID pandemic. Drazan pointed out that her opponents, Kotek and Betsy Johnson, would be a third term for Brown. During COVID, she said, they “never stood up; they never said anything; they never fought back; they never pushed back. They just went along. Single party control is how Oregon lagged behind the rest of the nation in recovery from COVID for our economy and our kids.”
Drazan pointed out how public and private polling shows her leading both candidates, which is “unique for Oregon.” She acknowledged that for a Republican to be in such a place at this point in the campaign is a situation that Oregon hasn’t seen in a long time.
“It&#8217;s really reflecting the fact that Oregonians need change, they want change. And this is the year that we&#8217;re going to pull this across the finish line and deliver that change for my fellow Oregonians,” she concluded.

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Christine Drazan, GOP Candidate For Governor Of Oregon, Says Oregonians Want Change

Christine Drazan, Republican Candidate For Governor Of Oregon, Says Oregonians Want Change Instead Of Opponents Tina Kotek, Betsy Johnson

2022 Election

2022 Midterms

Oregon

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Political analysts are starting to shift their projections for the Oregon governor’s race, signaling a potential Republican gubernatorial win in the state for the first time in 40 years.
Cook Political Report recently <a href="https://www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/governors/oregon-governor/oregon-governor-moves-likely-lean-democrat">shifted</a> its rating for Oregon from “Likely Democrat to Lean Democrat,” pointing to the three candidates involved in the race as a primary reason. The site noted that if a third-party candidate, in this case, unaffiliated candidate Betsy Johnson, a longtime moderate state senator, is “well-funded,” this can give the minority party a chance to see success.
Political analysis site FiveThirtyEight also <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2022-election-forecast/governor/">shows</a> Oregon as a “lean D” state for the governor’s race, giving former Oregon House Minority Leader Republican Christine Drazan a 31% chance of victory as of Wednesday.
The Cook report discussed the recent non-partisan poll by Nelson Research, which was <a href="https://www.koin.com/news/elections/new-poll-finds-oregon-governors-race-neck-and-neck-between-drazan-kotek/">conducted</a> in late May and revealed that Drazan was in the lead with nearly 30% of likely voters saying they would elect her. Democratic candidate and former speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives Tina Kotek received around 27.5% support in the poll, and Johnson received around 19.4%.
&#8220;Our momentum is unmistakable, Christine Drazan is ready to flip Oregon this November,&#8221; John Burke, Drazan&#8217;s communications director, told The Daily Wire in a statement. &#8220;Oregonians from all walks of life are stepping up and calling for change. Unlike Tina Kotek and Betsy Johnson, Christine is ready to deliver for them.&#8221;
A <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2022/07/poll-commissioned-by-betsy-johnson-shows-tina-kotek-johnson-as-frontrunners-in-race-for-oregon-governor.html">poll</a> paid for by Johnson’s campaign showed Kotek in the lead, Johnson coming in second, and Drazan in last place. Another poll, funded by Republicans, <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2022/07/poll-commissioned-by-republicans-shows-christine-drazan-tina-kotek-as-front-runners-in-race-for-oregon-governor.html">showed</a> Drazan at 32.4% and Kotek at 31.4%.
Dr. Jim Moore is a psephologist — who studies voters’ habits in elections — and professor at Pacific University in Oregon. Moore told The Daily Wire via email that polling has revealed “a three-way race” since the primary election.
“Cook, which is good on polls but not that good on history and context in individual states, is right to move the race into a more competitive category,” Moore added, saying the race is still Kotek’s to lose. While Democrats don’t win by landslides in the state, he said, “Republicans have a real hard time getting more than 40–45% of the vote.&#8221;
While Oregon’s gubernatorial bid does include a third-party candidate and other factors, the state is also experiencing much of the political distress of the rest of the country, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/28/briefing/joe-biden-democrats.html">pointed</a> out last month.
A DHM Research poll from May <a href="https://www.opb.org/article/2022/05/13/portland-oregon-crime-homelessness-gloom-election-politics/">showed</a> that a mere 8% of voters said Portland, Oregon, was going in the right direction. Before the pandemic, that number was at 38%. The area is very liberal. In the last presidential election, 79.2% of the people in Portland’s Multnomah County, Oregon, <a href="https://www.bestplaces.net/voting/city/oregon/portland">voted</a> Democrat.

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Analysts Move Oregon Governor Race From ‘Likely’ To ‘Lean’ Democrat, Signaling Potential GOP Win

Cook Political Report Shifts Oregon Governor Race From ‘Likely’ To ‘Lean’ Democrat, Signaling Potential GOP Win For Christine Drazan

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The Republican candidate for Oregon governor released her first general election ad on Monday, drawing attention to the radicalism of her opponents at a time when some think the governorship could flip red for the first time in decades.
Christine Drazan is running against Tina Kotek, the Democratic candidate, and Betsy Johnson, a former Democratic state senator who is <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/oregon-gop-gubernatorial-nominee-drazan-targets-democratic-leaders-first-general-election-ad-blitz">running</a> as an unaffiliated candidate. Although Oregon has not been represented by a Republican governor since the 1980s, the polling website FiveThirtyEight currently gives Drazan a 3 in 10 chance at winning.
In the ad, Drazan takes aim at the Oregon Democrats who have &#8220;only made things worse.&#8221; She also said over a thousand dangerous criminals have been let go into Oregon neighborhoods and noted the &#8220;devastating&#8221; effects of the homeless crisis.
&#8220;If you are looking for a third term of Kate Brown, you’ve got two great choices &#8211; Tina Kotek and Betsy Johnson,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But if you’re looking for a new direction – someone who has actually stood up to Kate Brown &#8211; then let’s do this.”
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpWc5Mwzr7Q&amp;ab_channel=ChristineforOregon">WATCH</a>:
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Drazan served as the minority leader in the Oregon House before deciding to run for governor. Her bid has some thinking that Republicans could win the race for the first time since the 1980s.
“Yes a Republican candidate for Governor has a real opportunity in Oregon this year,” Tom McCabe, president of the Freedom Foundation, told The Daily Wire over email. McCabe pointed to the fact that Oregonians are &#8220;tired of Kate Brown’s lockdowns, mask mandates, and advocating for homeless encampments, drug abuse and more crime.”
In 2010, Democratic candidate John Kitzhaber narrowly <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2010/results/oregon.html">beat</a> Republican Chris Dudley by 49.4% to 47.9%. A Republican win would have been <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Oregon_gubernatorial_election,_2010">considered</a> an upset in the politics of the state.
“Drazan has a better chance than any Republican since 2010,” Dr. Jim Moore, associate professor at Pacific University in Oregon, told The Daily Wire in an email. He cited Betsy Johnson&#8217;s presence in the race as an unaffiliated candidate.
“Johnson is not a spoiler—if Drazan has a 3 in 10 chance of winning, Johnson has a 2 in 10 chance of winning. Democrats far outnumber Republicans in the state (34% of registered voters to 24% Republicans),” he noted, “but unaffiliated voters are also 34% of registered voters. That is where the competition is—which candidate can get more of that unaffiliated group to cast a ballot in her favor.”
Leonard Bergstein, a political analyst who has previously worked in Oregon state politics, told The Daily Wire that several factors in Oregon are making this race “unique and unprecedented.”
“Christine Drazan has kind of a gambler&#8217;s odds, I think, to win or to show well in this race,” primarily because there are three dynamic women running for the governor’s seat. He notes that Kotek is thought to be the “odds on winner,&#8221; but also says that Oregon is &#8220;in flux,&#8221; and there are a lot of people upset about the direction of the state.
The debates for the gubernatorial race will <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2022/07/oregon-governor-candidates-will-make-their-pitches-to-voters-at-debates-starting-july-29.html">start</a> on July 29. All of the candidates are set to take part.

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Is A Red Wave Coming For Deep-Blue Oregon?

Portland residents cry out for help as homelessness spreads across parts of the city — including their front yards. 
&#8220;I want to cry,&#8221; Christina Hartnett, a resident, told <a href="https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/homeless/neighbors-homeless-cry-help-southeast-portland-neighborhood/283-76e1a75b-8f80-461f-88fb-9f439aba71ee">KGW8</a>.&#8221; I just want my house back. My lawn is now becoming a public bathroom.&#8221;
Hartnett said she has lived in her neighborhood for five years, and she is now fearful of leaving her house just to get to work.
&#8220;When you have grown men meth raging in your driveway, the last thing I feel safe doing is going out and saying, &#8216;Hey, can you please move so I can go to work?'&#8221; she said. 
Central City Concern Clean Start Crews told KGW8 that residents had reported approximately 1,900 homeless encampments just in the Southeast Portland neighborhood, with 272 sites posing greater health and safety risks.
&#8220;I have to report from like four different bureaus,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And I have to report that report to report, and then I have to report that report to a second report — it&#8217;s the only way to get any kind of traction.&#8221; 
&#8220;I feel like nobody hears us,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Nobody cares about us.&#8221;
Other residents also expressed their concerns for their safety. 
Tess, who has lived in the neighborhood for 35 years, told KGW8 she now has installed security cameras around her home and boarded up her front door windows after some homeless individuals smashed them.
&#8220;Scared because I don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re going to do next,&#8221; she said. 
Cliff Perce, an employee at Bucket Brigade Sports Bar &amp; Restaurant, said when customers arrive, they are met with people overdosing on the sidewalks in front of the restaurant. 
However, those experiencing homeless say they want to coexist with the neighborhood but often get mistreated by residents living in a house.
&#8220;It&#8217;s just a matter of some homeless people are resentful towards the neighborhood because of the way they treat them,&#8221; Jennifer Czupryk, a homeless woman who lives in a broken down van that is parked on a boulevard in Southeast Portland, told KGW8.
Other homeless residents have said they understand the neighborhood&#8217;s frustration as the violence has increased among some homeless communities.
&#8220;It&#8217;s just gotten more bold — more rash,&#8221; Brendan Harvey, a homeless resident, told KGW8. &#8220;People aren&#8217;t as afraid to do things that are, you know, have to do with criminality.&#8221;
Frustrations from the residents are getting louder just as the city&#8217;s housing director announced she&#8217;s officially resigning on Aug. 1 after five years of leading the city&#8217;s response to the affordable housing crisis.
&#8220;I can truly say that the work we do at Portland Housing Bureau, alongside our community partners and jurisdictional partners, changes lives for the better,&#8221; Shannon Callahan, director of Portland Housing Bureau, <a href="https://www.opb.org/pdf/Portland%20Housing%20Bureau%20Director%20Shannon%20Callahan's%20Departure%20Statement_1658182759454.pdf">said</a>. &#8220;It has been a privilege to work with the dedicated, passionate, and exceptional team of public servants at the bureau.&#8221;
Multnomah County, including the City of Portland, tallied its bi-annual Point in Time Count, showing that homelessness increased by 30% since its last count three years ago. In 2019, the count totaled just over 4,000 individuals experiencing homelessness. That number currently stands at 5,228 homeless individuals — most of which occupy Portland.
However, the city&#8217;s Joint Office of Homeless Services <a href="https://www.multco.us/johs/news/news-release-tri-county-point-time-count-numbers-shared-regionally-first-time-show-shifts">said</a> the data should be considered more of an undercount as it doesn&#8217;t definitively find, survey, and count every homeless individual. 
&#8220;Across the country, it is common knowledge that the methodology behind the Point in Time Count is fundamentally flawed,&#8221; Dan Ryan, city commissioner and liaison for the Joint Office of Homeless Services, told <a href="https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2022/05/04/new-count-shows-1200-more-homeless-residents-in-multnomah-county-than-three-years-ago/#:~:text=In%20Multnomah%20County%2C%205%2C228%20homeless,30%25%20increase%20in%20three%20years.">Willamette Week</a>. Multnomah County has added in-depth interviews and layers of complexity to the process. 
&#8220;This approach gets us even farther from the requirements of this federal compliance exercise, and it simply doesn&#8217;t work,&#8221; he added.
Adding on to the city&#8217;s uptick in homelessness, Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) <a href="https://www.opb.org/article/2022/06/01/city-of-portland-lost-million-dollars-but-city-leaders-mum/">reports</a> Callahan&#8217;s departure comes two months after the &#8220;single biggest theft in Portland government history&#8221; when the housing bureau experienced a &#8220;cybersecurity breach.&#8221; 
 $1.4 million originally meant for a new 100-unit affordable housing project was redirected to a fraudulent account, an anonymous official told OPB.
KGW8 reports the city only has enough resources to remove 50 encampments a week and generally assesses each site within 48 hours after some reports the encampment. 
 Officials said they receive hundreds of reports of high-risk sites every day.
&#8220;It is going to take one of us getting severely hurt or killed before they will do anything to come help us,&#8221; Hartnett said

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‘My Lawn Is Now Becoming A Public Bathroom:’ Portland Residents Fed Up With City’s Homeless Population

Portland Residents Fed Up With City's Homeless Population

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Homelessness

Portland

A 22-year-old University of Oregon student-athlete has died in a cliff-diving accident, the Lane County Sheriff&#8217;s office confirmed Thursday.
Spencer Webb, a tight end for the Oregon Ducks football team, was found west of Triangle Lake, Oregon, on Wednesday afternoon, when police responded to &#8220;rock slides&#8221; and a report of an injured person. 
&#8220;Upon arrival, deputies learned that a 22 year old male recreating in the area fell and struck his head,&#8221; the Sheriff&#8217;s office <a href="https://flashalert.net/id/LaneSheriff/155965">said</a> in a press release. &#8220;Bystanders and responding paramedics were unable to revive him. Lane County Sheriff Search and Rescue personnel responded to assist with bringing him back to the roadway as he was approximately 100 yards down a steep trail.&#8221;
&#8220;There is no evidence of foul play and his death appears to be accidental,&#8221; the press release added.
The office confirmed on Thursday that the 22-year-old who died was Webb.
Webb red-shirted his freshman year and was heading into his fifth year on the Ducks&#8217; roster.
<a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/report-oregon-tight-end-spencer-webb-dies-in-cliff-diving-accident-at-age-of-22-141208920.html">According</a> to Yahoo Sports, Webb played nine games in 2019, with 18 receptions and three touchdowns. After a COVID-shortened 2020 season, the tight end garnered 13 receptions and one TD in 2021.
Webb opened up about his upbringing in 2016, <a href="https://www.sacbee.com/sports/high-school/joe-davidson/article174441301.html">telling</a> The Sacramento Bee that his parents did not raise him.
“I never really had a mom or dad in my life. They chose to do other things, so it’s been me and my brother [Cody],&#8221; Webb said, according to Yahoo Sports. &#8220;I had a dream, he had a dream, and we’re making that dream happen.&#8221;
“It doesn’t really bother me now not knowing my mom. She missed out,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I’ll see my dad every once in a while. I tell him I love him, but he understands the role my brother has in my life, that my brother is my everything.”

Colorado v Oregon

Oregon Ducks Tight End Dies In Tragic Accident At 22

College Football

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Oregon Army <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/breaking-texas-national-guardsman-drowns-attempting-to-rescue-migrants-on-u-s-border/">National Guard</a> medics came through with a daring rescue on Saturday, complete with a precarious mountaintop landing, to airlift a stranded, injured climber from the dangerous slopes of Mt. Hood.
The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office issued a press release detailing the rescue process on Sunday, sharing a photo of the landed chopper waiting for medics to load the injured climber for evacuation.
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&#8220;Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office deputies launched a search-and-rescue mission after a climber fell several hundred feet near the Old Chute area of Mt. Hood. The climber was transported off the mountain with serious injuries to an area hospital,&#8221; the press release began, before going into details of what had actually happened.
&#8220;At around 6:30 am on Saturday, July 2 a 43-year-old man from Happy Valley was climbing Mt. Hood, when he fell several hundred feet and sustained serious injuries. Witnesses reported the climber lost his ice axe and fell approximately 600-700 feet from the summit ridge to the rocks above the Hot Rocks fumarole,&#8221; the release continued.
A large-scale <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/dramatic-rescue-boeing-cargo-plane-makes-emergency-landing-in-waters-off-of-hawaii/">search-and-rescue</a> mission had begun then, including local authorities and volunteers — but when rescue crews reached the climber, they determined that an airlift was going to be necessary.
&#8220;Around 1 p.m. a helicopter from the <a href="https://www.oregon.gov/omd/ONG/Pages/default.aspx">Oregon Army National Guard</a> arrived at the location and dropped off 2 medics. A litter was also lowered,&#8221; the press release stated. &#8220;The medics packaged the patient in the litter and the litter was hoisted into the helicopter. The injured climber was flown to a Portland-area hospital where he is receiving medical care.&#8221;
In the press release, the sheriff&#8217;s office also noted that the steep slopes and icy conditions make Mt. Hood a dangerous place to climb regardless of the season — and mentioned that another serious accident had occurred only about a week earlier.
&#8220;On June 24, a 31-year-old woman from Portland was climbing Mt. Hood, when she fell several hundred from the summit ridge down the Old Chute, resulting in critical injuries and a helicopter evacuation,&#8221; the sheriff&#8217;s office added.
But once the photo began circulating on social media, all anyone could talk about was the skillful manner in which the pilot had landed on the mountain.
&#8220;Wow amazing to set a helo down on Mt Hood like this,&#8221; NPR&#8217;s Bill Chappell <a href="https://twitter.com/publicbill/status/1543732759960625152">tweeted</a>.
&#8220;A+ parking job,&#8221; Business Insider&#8217;s Thomas Maxwell <a href="https://twitter.com/tomaxwell/status/1543730963229790209">added</a>.
Ian Petchenik <a href="https://twitter.com/petchmo/status/1543722869678641152">declared</a>, &#8220;You&#8217;ll never be able to convince me that piloting a helicopter isn&#8217;t a form of sorcery.&#8221;
Oregon Office of Emergency Management chief Andrew Phelps <a href="https://twitter.com/andrewjphelps/status/1543710578622861312">added</a>, &#8220;Way to stick the landing, @OregonGuard! Wishing the climber a full and quick recovery! A lot of search and rescue missions over the holiday weekend. Make sure you have a plan and are prepared to SAFELY enjoy all that Oregon has to offer.&#8221;

Bootleg Fire Continues To Burn Across Southern Oregon

PHOTO: Army Chopper Pilot Nails Insane Landing To Airlift Injured, Stranded Climber

Oregon Army National Guard Chopper Pilot Nails Insane Landing To Airlift Stranded Climber

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Melissa and Aaron Klein, the Christian bakers who faced $135,000 in penalties that were later dropped for refusing to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple, are working on relaunching a new business.
Following the shutdown of their Oregon-based Sweet Cakes, the Kleins are raising funds to start a new business while their case is potentially headed toward the Supreme Court.
“Over the last several years we have been strong as a family and strong as part of our church body. With life’s stresses comes a void that can sometimes be overwhelming. That void for me was my loss of love for baking and the joy that came with that. I’m here to say it never went away but it was a struggle to fall in love with it again,” Melissa wrote in her fundraising description.
“Almost 2yrs ago we moved to Montana. I had said I was never going to open a bakery again, but God has seemed to change my heart with this. It’s been 10 years since having my shop in Oregon and I greatly miss it along with all my sweet customers, she added.
The Kleins are seeking $50,000 to fund the downpayment of a new location in Montana. More than $17,000 has already been donated toward the goal.
“Showing resilience and faith that God is the rock we stand on and His love will conquer all fears,” Melissa wrote in thanking supporters for their help.
The Kleins faced a government mandate from the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) over refusing to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding in 2013, claiming doing so would violate their religious beliefs.
In January, the BOLI reversed a previous attempt to stop the fine.
“We adhere to our prior decision upholding BOLI’s determinations that Aaron unlawfully discriminated against the Bowman-Cryers based on sexual orientation,” <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-bakers-punished-for-not-baking-gay-wedding-cake-to-relaunch-business.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> Circuit Judge Erin Lagesen, the author of the panel opinion. “We reach a different conclusion with respect to our prior affirmance of BOLI’s noneconomic damages award,” ruled Lagesen.
Earlier this year, however, an Oregon Court of Appeals upheld its original finding and threw out the fine over a claim of subtle bias against the religious beliefs of the Kleins.
“The court was right five years ago and is still right today,” attorney Jennifer Pizer, who represented the lesbian couple, said in a <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.opb.org/article/2022/01/26/oregon-appeals-court-sweet-cakes-bakery-same-sex-discrimination-ruling/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. “The Kleins’ faith does not give them a pass to ignore Oregon’s Public Accommodation Law.”
“The court adhered to the position that the Oregon courts had previously taken that nondiscrimination laws can be taken to protect same sex couples, regardless of religious beliefs,” Jim Oleske, a law professor at Lewis &amp; Clark, <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://twitter.com/JimOleske/status/1486376826754592776" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on Twitter. 
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Oleske noted that the court’s conclusion in the ruling emphasized “that the hostility potentially evidenced by the prosecutor’s statement may have influenced the agency’s decision to award damages.”

Melissa Klein

Christian Bakers Who Faced $135K In Penalties For Refusing To Make Wedding Cake For Lesbian Couple Plan To Relaunch Business

Gay Rights

Lawsuit

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As the Supreme Court overturned <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/roe-v-wade">Roe v. Wade </a>on Friday, several <a href="https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2022/06/24/abortion-laws-by-state-roe-v-wade-00037695">states</a> will move to restrict or ban abortion entirely while others have already taken measures — and will continue to further instill laws — that will maintain abortion availability in the states.
On Friday, the Supreme Court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/united-states-supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade-leaves-abortion-restrictions-to-states">voted</a> 6-3 in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which has the effect of overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the majority opinion, “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” adding, “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”
As of last month, Alaska, Oregon, Colorado, New Mexico, New Jersey, Vermont, and Washington, D.C., had no <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/05/14/abortion-state-laws-bans-roe-supreme-court">limits</a> on abortion. However, several states, including California and Washington, allow abortion until viability but provide exceptions to the latter standard to protect the life or health of the person seeking an abortion.
After the ruling was <a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/06/24/west-coast-states-launch-new-multi-state-commitment-to-reproductive-freedom-standing-united-on-protecting-abortion-access/">announced</a> on Friday, the governors of Oregon, California, and Washington “issued a Multi-State Commitment to defend access to reproductive health care,” including abortion and birth control, and “committed to protecting patients and doctors against efforts by other states to export their abortion bans to our states.”
The governors of the three states released a video describing how the West Coast will remain an area in which women will be able to get an abortion.
Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) said the Supreme Court “want[s] to strip women of their liberty and let Republican states replace it with mandated birth,” saying that the justices want to go back to a time period “when women were not treated as equal citizens under the law.”
Governor Kate Brown (D-OR) said, “For all the Americans today feeling scared, angry and disappointed — for everyone who needs an abortion and does not know where they can access safe reproductive health care — please know you are not alone, and the fight is not over.”
Governor Jay Inslee (D-WA) added that over half of the population in the U.S. “now lacks safe access to a medical procedure that only a patient and their doctor can and should make for themselves. Instead, law enforcement, vigilantes and judicial systems can force patients to bear the burdens of forced pregnancy and birth.” Inslee added that Washington will keep committing to “protecting the ability and right of every patient who comes to our state in need of abortion care.”
The governors laid out the ways that each of them has expanded abortion, such as Newsom proposing a $125 million Reproductive Health Package to, in part, prepare for women coming into the state from areas that restrict abortion. California Democrats also recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-dems-to-introduce-bill-enshrining-abortion-contraception-rights-into-state-constitution">introduced</a> legislation to enshrine abortion and contraception rights into the state’s constitution. Newsom also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-moves-radical-on-abortion">signed</a> a measure that eliminated out-of-pocket costs for abortions, making abortion essentially free for most people with insurance.
In 2017, Oregon codified abortion into state law when Brown signed the Reproductive Health Equity Act, which also broadened so-called reproductive health care for all citizens of Oregon.
Earlier this year, Inslee <a href="https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/state-politics/washington-state-abortion-law-jay-inslee/281-a2a3e9b9-6c21-4a1e-9c92-f5be7676cbfb">signed</a> a bill that would not allow lawsuits to be brought against those who try to get an abortion or those who provide them.
New Jersey is another state that could act as a “safe haven” where women will get abortions from other states in which the procedure is banned or restricted. Last year, the state altered its rule for who is <a href="https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/health/2022/06/24/supreme-court-abortion-new-jersey-legal-roe-v-wade-dobbs/7683890001/">allowed</a> to perform abortions, allowing some licensed medical workers other than doctors to do so. Governor Phil Murphy (D) has proposed even more access, including forcing insurance companies to pay for abortions with no out-of-pocket costs for the woman.
The piece of draft <a href="https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/bill-search/2022/A4350">legislation</a> would also prohibit prosecutors in the state from working with investigations across states or <a href="https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/health/2022/06/24/supreme-court-abortion-new-jersey-legal-roe-v-wade-dobbs/7683890001/">extradition</a> attempts of New Jersey abortion doctors or people who go to them. It would provide $20 million &#8220;with $15 million for an abortion care clinical training programs and $5 million for security guards and security equipment to protect abortion facilities from attacks,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nj.com/politics/2022/06/murphy-sends-nj-lawmakers-bill-to-expand-access-to-abortion-but-its-unlikely-to-pass-sources-say.html">according</a> to NJ.com. This draft legislation has so far not gained much traction in the state legislature in New Jersey.
&#8220;We&#8217;re never going to be a state that looks like Texas or Georgia or other states — Oklahoma — that are going in the direction of taking rights away from people,&#8221; Murphy reportedly said in a recent NPR interview. &#8220;We are going to expand rights.”
New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) <a href="https://gothamist.com/news/supreme-court-roe-v-wade-abortion-new-york-new-jersey-explainer">told</a> New Yorkers Friday that “an abortion remains safe, accessible and legal in New York,” adding, “Our state will always be a safe harbor for those seeking access to abortion care.”
In Michigan, there is a law from almost a hundred years ago that would ban abortion in the state if Roe was overturned, but Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michigan-supreme-court-poses-questions-to-whitmer-in-abortion-lawsuit-looks-into-taking-up-case">challenged</a> the law, along with another lawsuit, to get rid of the potential ban. The law is currently paused by the state court.
“The 1931 law would punish women and strip away their right to make decisions about their own bodies,” Whitmer <a href="https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2022/06/gov-whitmer-ag-nessel-condemn-roe-decision-work-to-stop-michigan-abortion-ban.html">said</a> in a statement, as the punishment for providers would reportedly be felony manslaughter. “I am deeply disappointed that Michigan’s Republican legislative leaders have been in court defending this draconian ban, to the detriment of women and families.”
Governor of Pennsylvania Tom Wolf (D) has <a href="https://whyy.org/articles/supreme-court-roe-abortion-rights-pennsylvania-new-jersey-delaware/">said</a> he will continue opposing pro-life bills while he is governor, but his term ends in several months.
In Alaska, abortion is <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/abortion-stands-state-state-state-breakdown-abortion-laws/story?id=85390463">protected</a> under the state constitution and law, but Republican Governor Mike Dunleavy <a href="https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2022/05/04/alaska-political-fight-brewing-roe-v-wade-looks-be-overturned-soon/">said</a> last month that he thinks “turning over Roe v. Wade, if that happens, will cause a renewed conversation in Alaska as to where Alaska wants to go on this particular issue.”
On August 2, Kansas voters will decide whether the state constitution should be altered to state that there is no right to an abortion.
The <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/abortion-stands-state-state-state-breakdown-abortion-laws/story?id=85390463">states</a> that protect abortion by legislation or codified laws include California, Colorado, Delaware, Kansas, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington, where the state’s code does not allow interference with someone’s right to abortion.
Other states that have a right to abortion protected in their constitution include Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, and Oregon.

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Pro-Abortion States Seek To Become ‘Safe Havens’ For Women Seeking Abortions

Pro-Abortion Legislatures And Governors Seek To Make States ‘Safe Havens’ For Women Seeking Abortions

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Part of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/two-sunken-ships-found-near-holy-grail-of-shipwrecks-artifacts-from-estimated-17-billion-treasure-revealed">wreck</a> of a three hundred year old Spanish galleon believed in part to have inspired &#8220;The Goonies&#8221; was found in sea caves off the coast of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/oregon">Oregon</a>. 
Timbers from the 17th-century ship&#8217;s hull were discovered in sea caves along Oregon’s coast. They were removed in a coordinated effort that gave archaeologists only an hour and a half to remove the ship’s remains due to tide conditions. 
“The extraordinarily rare hull remains were removed from sea caves near Manzanita earlier this week in a risky emergency recovery mission involving archaeologists, law enforcement personnel, and search-and-rescue teams from multiple state and local agencies,” National Geographic <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/legendary-spanish-galleon-shipwreck-discovered-on-oregon-coast">reported</a>.
The Maritime Archeology Society (MAS), which has been working on the project for 15 years, discovered parts of the ships and were able to move the ship&#8217;s remains to a local museum. Members of Nehalem Fire and Rescue, the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, and SEARCH Inc, also helped out with the mission.
The National Geographic Society also gave money to help fund the expedition. 
Archeologists say that the Spanish ship, which was carrying Chinese silk, porcelain, and beeswax for candles, likely went down sometime around 1693 off of Oregon’s coast.
Researchers say the ship was likely the Santo Cristo de Burgos, and was a type of ship used by the Spanish constructed in Asia known as a Manilla ship. It was likely on a trading expedition from the Philippines to Mexico. 
Not very many wrecks of Manilla-style Spanish ships have been discovered, and Director <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/steven-spielberg">Steven Spielberg</a> was reportedly inspired by stories of ship hunters and hidden treasures from Native Americans along the coast of Oregon. His story idea became the hit film “The Goonies” in 1985.
The film is about a group of kids in Astoria, Oregon, who find a treasure map and look for the lost treasure of a pirate whose treasure was supposed to have been hidden somewhere in the area.
The search for the Santo Cristo has been ongoing for years, with Chinese porcelain, beeswax, and ship pieces being discovered around the Nehalem River in Oregon. This led researchers to question if the Santo Cristo was actually the ship known in the area as the Beeswax Wreck, because of all the beeswax that had washed alongside the Oregon shoreline. 
“A catalog of Spanish ships published in the 1930s—a source still widely consulted by archaeologists—claimed that, according to Spanish records, the Santo Cristo burned somewhere in the middle of the Pacific,” National Geographic explained. “But the volunteer group raised money to fund research in Spain’s exhaustive naval archives, which eventually told a different tale: Despite a multi-year search by the Spanish crown, Santo Cristo de Burgos had simply vanished.” 
Now the ship has been found and its remains will be kept at Astoria’s Columbia River Maritime Museum.

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Shipwreck Credited With Inspiring ‘The Goonies’ Found Off Oregon Coast

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Four police officers will not be charged after a man was shot and killed during an evacuation last summer when he pointed a loaded weapon at them.
An officer who was near the gun said it was “the darkest hole I’ve ever seen in my life pointing directly at me,” according to a nine-page letter Siskiyou County District Attorney Kirk Andrus gave the officers’ bosses, which told them he was clearing the officers of charges.
Soobleej Kaub Hawj, 35, was stopped at a checkpoint near the California-Oregon border in Siskiyou County. On June 24, officials were evacuating the area as the Lava Fire was burning toward thousands of the area’s illegal cannabis farms.
The Sacramento Bee <a href="https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article262521522.html">reported</a> that Hawj’s blood had methamphetamine and amphetamines in it. He also had illegal weapons in his truck and a $50,000 warrant from Colorado out for his arrest. Court records also reportedly revealed that he was wanted for firearms and marijuana crimes.
During an evacuation of the area, Hawj pointed a loaded gun at authorities, drove his truck in their direction, and ended up dying in the exchange of gunshots, according to Andrus.
In the letter, Andrus detailed how officers were instructing drivers how to depart the region, telling them to go west. When Hawj got close to the checkpoint, he tried to turn east instead, prompting authorities to attempt to gain his attention and get him to stop.
“One of the officers made eye contact as the truck got close enough, and he slapped the hood to get Hawj’s attention, Andrus said. That’s when the officer said Hawj grabbed a .45 caliber handgun and pointed it at him, Andrus said,” per the Bee.
Andrus noted how Hawj might have misunderstood the police officers’ actions.
“He had a cash crop in the back of his truck that he apparently was willing to defend,” Andrus wrote. “He may have had the misapprehension that residents were being funneled into an area where they would be searched for marijuana. He would have been wrong.”
Last summer, the incident became a story across the country that some portrayed as one in which officers used too much force, alleging that the shootout was racially motivated in an area that had been trying to rid the region of the illegal farms. Many of the cannabis farms are operated by Hmong people.
The county and authorities in the area had been cracking down on the illegal cannabis growing, and Siskiyou County had prohibited the growing of cannabis on a large scale. Last year, officials estimated that the Big Springs region still had around 5,000 to 6,000 greenhouses cultivating marijuana. The rules imposed on the farms were already the center of racism allegations, and some said the shooting was part of a racist attempt to get the cannabis farms out of the region, as well as the Asian Americans who work on them.
Asian American protesters gathered in the area after the shooting, with one activist <a href="https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/kare11-sunrise/soobleej-kaub-hawj-siskiyou-county-california-minnesota-hmong-community/89-9d3627ab-f9f5-4655-a32f-dcb8e0c70043">saying</a>, “He was in his car running from a wildfire with his wife and three kids behind him so why did he end up dead?”
Andrus, however, pressed that Hawj’s decisions alone led to the shooting.

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Four Police Officers Cleared Of Charges In Shooting That Some Said Was Racially Motivated

Police Officers Cleared Of Charges After Shooting Last Year

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A majority of Oregon voters think public K-12 education is heading in the wrong direction and would prefer to see tax dollars follow students, according to a new poll provided exclusively to The Daily Wire.
About 55% of Oregon voters said they believe Oregon’s public K-12 education system is &#8220;headed in the wrong direction,&#8221; while only 16% said they think it&#8217;s on the &#8220;right track,&#8221; according to the poll commissioned by the grassroots group <a href="https://www.oregonmomsunion.com">Oregon Moms Union</a>.
An even bigger majority, nearly 73%, said they generally support <a href="https://www.schoolchoicefacts.org/?gclid=CjwKCAjwtIaVBhBkEiwAsr7-c7fbA9n1ekCQE3-163Oof-Q9S934JDABH_ac4JVf0zhNN9HcR2osmRoCGzYQAvD_BwE">school choice</a>, which lets parents use the tax dollars designated for their child’s education to send their child to the public school or private school of their choice. About 56% said they strongly support school choice, and nearly 17% said they somewhat support it. Only 24% of Oregonians said they oppose school choice, and less than 17% said they strongly oppose it.
&#8220;Oregonians are demanding more options for parents and kids. It&#8217;s time politicians began to listen to the choices of parents instead of imposing their own will on students,&#8221; MacKensey Pulliam, president and co-founder of Oregon Moms Union told The Daily Wire.
A majority, 57%, also said they support school vouchers, which help parents pay to send their child to a private school rather than a public school. Only 35% said they oppose school vouchers.
About 70% said they support open enrollment, which allows parents to send their child to the public school of their choice, even if the school is not in their district. Oregon allowed open enrollment from 2012 to 2019, but it is now <a href="https://www.oregon.gov/ode/schools-and-districts/Pages/transfers-between-districts.aspx">illegal</a>. Less than 22% said they oppose open enrollment.
A majority, 63%, also said they support taxpayer-funded education savings accounts, which help parents pay for their child&#8217;s education expenses such as private tutoring or textbooks.
Majorities also said they would support legislation to give parents more school choice and eliminate virtual charter school caps.
A majority, 54%, said they agreed with the statement, &#8220;School choice strengthens our education system because it allows parents and students to choose the education that best serves their needs.&#8221; Less than 33% said they agreed with the statement, &#8220;School choice weakens our education system because it potentially takes money out of local public schools that are already struggling.&#8221;
The poll surveyed 727 Oregon voters in early June and has a 3.6% margin of error. It was conducted by Oregon-based public opinion survey research firm Nelson Research.
Oregon has received <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2021/08/oregon-school-board-politics-have-never-been-so-polarized-partisan-and-hostile-to-racial-equity.html">backlash</a> from parents for adopting progressive policies in its K-12 public schools over the last several years.
Oregon&#8217;s state education board adopted updated health education <a href="https://www.oregon.gov/ode/educator-resources/standards/health/Documents/2016ORHEStandards.pdf">standards</a> in 2016 requiring kindergarteners and first-graders to come up with examples of &#8220;how friends and family influence how people think they should act on the basis of their gender.&#8221;
In second grade, children in Oregon are taught how to &#8220;recognize differences and similarities of how individuals identify regarding gender,&#8221; and in third grade, the kids must be able to &#8220;define sexual orientation.&#8221;
Meanwhile, the “Menstrual Dignity Act,” which was <a href="https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2021R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB3294/Enrolled">passed</a> last year by the Democrat-controlled Oregon legislature and signed by Governor Kate Brown, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/parents-social-media-react-to-oregon-requiring-tampons-in-boys-school-bathrooms">requires</a> that all Oregon public schools provide free menstrual products like tampons and pads in boys and all-gender restrooms by the end of the upcoming school year, including at elementary schools.
Earlier this year, the Oregon Moms Union <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/desantis-joined-oregon-parents-push-school-curriculum-transparency-1693161">called out</a> an elementary school in the North Clackamas School District, saying the school gave fifth graders a lesson about gender identity that included a graphic called the &#8220;Genderbread Person&#8221; without getting parents&#8217; permission.

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Poll Shows Majority Of Oregon Voters Think K-12 Heading In Wrong Direction, Want Money To Follow Students

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A new poll shows that the Republican candidate for governor in the traditionally deep-blue state of Oregon holds a slight lead in the upcoming election.
The poll of 516 likely voters, conducted between May 25-27 by Oregon-based polling firm <a href="https://oregoncatalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/OR-STATE_Governor_6.1.22_TOPLINE.pdf">Nelson Research</a>, found that former Oregon House Minority Leader Christine Drazan, the Republican nominee in the governor’s race, holds a 2-point advantage, 29.5%-27.5%, over Democratic nominee and former Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives Tina Kotek. Independent candidate Betsy Johnson, a former Democratic State Senator running as a non-party affiliated candidate, came in third with 19.4% of the vote. The remaining 23.6% of voters were undecided.
Drazan&#8217;s lead is currently within the poll&#8217;s 4-point margin of error, but the poll&#8217;s <a href="https://oregoncatalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/OR-STATE_Governor_6.1.22_CROSSTAB.pdf">crosstabs</a> show that Drazan has several factors working in her favor. Drazan garners more support from her own party than Kotek does: 68.2% of Republicans supported Drazan, while 57% of Democrats supported Kotek. Drazan garnered more support from Independents as well: 19.1% of independents backed Drazan, while 14.7% backed Kotek. Johnson siphoned off a significant chunk of voters from both parties, but took more votes away from Kotek than Drazan: 18.4% of Democrats backed Johnson, compared to just 13.9% of Republicans.
The poll also presented some findings that may spell trouble for Democrats in other races in the state in 2022. A plurality of the voters surveyed, 40.1%, identified as Democrats, while 33.5% identified as Republicans, and 26.4% identified as Independents or non-affiliated voters. Despite those margins, Drazan maintains the edge, and Republicans also hold a 1-point advantage in the generic ballot, 40.0%-39.0%.
Republicans also hold a slight advantage in voters who are more likely to vote for them in November: 31.2% of respondents said they were &#8220;strongly&#8221; likely to vote for a Democratic candidate in the general election, while 35.9% of respondents were strongly likely to vote for a Republican. Republicans also held a strong advantage among Independents, the poll found.
In the generic ballot, Independents favored Republicans by a nearly 10-point margin, 33.1%-23.6%. Among voters who were &#8220;strongly likely&#8221; to support a party, Republicans held an even bigger advantage: 25.7% of Independents said they were &#8220;strongly likely&#8221; to support a Republican candidate, while just 14% said they were &#8220;strongly likely&#8221; to back a Democrat.
Drazan is basing her campaign on fixing the issues brought on by Democratic leadership, including outgoing governor Kate Brown, as well as Kotek. Drazan&#8217;s priority issues include reversing Brown&#8217;s COVID-19 mandates, as well as addressing the ongoing crises of crime and homelessness in the Beaver State. She also lists education, election integrity, the cost of living, gun rights, and pro-life as other key issues on her <a href="https://www.christinefororegon.com/issues/">website</a>.
Oregon has not elected a Republican governor since 1982, but recent political trends might favor Republicans in 2022. Kate Brown won a special election in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/results/oregon">2016</a> by just 7.2 points, then won election to a full term in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/06/us/elections/results-oregon-elections.html">2018</a> by just 6.4 points. President Joe Biden&#8217;s approval rating is underwater by 5 points, 46% disapprove-41% approve, according to <a href="https://civiqs.com/results/approve_president_biden?uncertainty=true&amp;annotations=true&amp;zoomIn=true&amp;map=true">Civiqs</a>.
On top of that, the Cook Political Report&#8217;s <a href="https://www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/house/house-overview/house-rating-changes-eight-races-move-republicans-direction">Dave Wasserman</a> notes that, at least at the Congressional level, &#8220;the political environment has deteriorated for Democrats&#8221; so much that &#8220;no Democrat in a single-digit Biden (or Trump-won) district is secure, and even some seats Biden carried by double-digit margins in 2020 could come into play this fall.&#8221;

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Republican Candidate Holds Lead In Traditionally Blue Oregon Governor’s Race: Poll

Republican Christine Drazan Holds Slight Lead In Traditionally Blue Oregon Governor's Race: Poll

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