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he’s gone so far to the right that most of the
time when I’m talking to people, they’re sur-
prised he’s an actual Democrat.”
Schrader regularly comes under fire from
Democrats and Republicans seeking to un-
seat him.
They use every argument they can throw
at him, from his voting record (it’s not unusu-
al for him to go out of lockstep with Demo-
crats to vote against a bill) to campaign con-
tributions (he gets a lot of them).
This time, he’s got to convince new voters
to choose him.
McLeod-Skinner, who has run for Con-
gress in the second district and Secretary of
State in the past four years, points to her suc-
cess in winning Deschutes County in elec-
tions, despite it being a heavily Republican
district. But she hasn’t been voted into an of-
fice in Oregon.
“This district, except for Bend, is entirely
new,” said Jim Moore, a professor of politics
at Pacific University. “They don’t know her.”
According to the Redistricting Report
Card, the district is projected to vote 52%
Democratic and 48% Republican, and three
forecasters pick the district as likely to go for
the Democrat.
The incumbent, Kurt Schrader
If re-elected, he could become the sec-
ond-longest tenured Representative from
Oregon behind Earl Blumenauer. (Peter De-
Fazio isn’t running for re-election). Schrader
has represented the fifth district since 2009.
He’s won each of those seven elections by
at least 5% of the vote, and most times he’s
won by more than that.
To reach the new voters who don’t know
him, Schrader said he’s made multiple trips
to areas of the redrawn district like Linn
County, Central Oregon and Portland to meet
local leaders and voters.
His detractors often point out his voting
record in Congress, especially when he goes
against the Democratic Party.
Schrader went against party lines by vot-
ing against the first version of the American
Rescue Plan, though he later voted for the
package after it was approved by the Senate.
He said his Problem Solvers Caucus – a
bi-partisan group of moderates in the House
– came up with a plan that was adopted by
the Senate and eventually signed into law.
Schrader said his priorities if re-elected
are to get a long-discussed bill that would cap
prescription drug prices passed, work on af-
fordable housing and make investments in
climate change.
“Actually develop a vegetative manage-
ment plan that power companies would
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on his hands.
“The first thing I did was get involved
with Meals on Wheels in the Portland area,”
he said. “And I started delivering a weekly
route. I was then asked to join their board
and sat on their board for six years and was
really proud of the work we did there.”
After volunteering on the board of the
Oregon Ballet Theater and helping that or-
ganization come back from the brink of
bankruptcy, he was asked to join other
boards, including the Portland Japanese
Gardens.
“I think being on five non-profit boards
might have been spreading myself a little
thin, but yeah it was really rewarding
work,” he said.
Crumpacker moved to Bend four years
ago; he’d spent time there as a child when
his parents bought a farm in the 1970s.
Crumpacker placed fourth in the Repub-
lican primary for the Second District in
2020. Now he’s one of the frontrunners in
the Fifth District.
“This is my full-time job. I shut down my
fund. This is the sole focus of my life,”
Crumpacker said.
He said one of the key issues for Con-
gress is to get inflation under control. He
said the country needs to work on its ener-
gy policy and cutting federal spending. He
said the state needs to do a better job man-
aging forests to prevent wildfires.
“I live in the district, that is something
that I think voters care about,” Crumpacker
said. “They want to be represented by
someone who lives in the district. There are
numerous areas where I think I have an ad-
vantage over my opponents, and I’m will-
ing to fight.”
Crumpacker raised $467,195 as of March
31, according to filings with the Federal
Elections Commission, the most among
the Republican candidates, but less than
either of the Democrats that are running.
His campaign had spent $29,226 and
had $437,968 on hand.
Most of his donors were individuals
from out of state, including Olympic rowers
– and founders of Facebook forerunner
HarvardConnection – Tyler and Cameron
Winklevoss.
Crumpacker has been endorsed by Ore-
gon Right to Life.
Lori Chavez-DeReamer
Chavez-DeReamer is the most political-
ly experienced candidate in the field.
She was elected to the Happy Valley City
Council in 2004 and served in that position
for six years. She was elected mayor, the
first female in the position, and was in that
have to be required to take down hazardous
trees near their lines. They could not ignore
that, and that was a big problem in the Bee-
chie Creek fire. That’s the type of stuff I
would want to be working on over the next
several years.”
When it comes to campaign cash,
SchraIder far outpaces his opponents.
His campaign has raised $2,120,690 from
Jan. 1, 201 to March 31, according to the Feder-
al Elections Commission, to go along with his
sizable campaign war chest. His campaign
has spent $1,880,536, but it still had
$2,703,441 on hand.
“He’s a classic example of the incumbents
get the money because he’s not a powerful
member of Congress,” Moore said.
The challenger, Jamie McLeod-Skinner
McLeod-Skinner is known in Central
Oregon from her 2018 run for Congress in
which she lost by 17 percentage points to
Greg Walden. She’s been putting in the effort
to introduce herself to the rest of the district.
“It’s obviously spending a lot more time in
the Willamette Valley and the metro area,
south Metro area,” McLeod-Skinner said. “To
your point, it’s really about the fact that folks
know Kurt is a plus minus for him. They rec-
ognize his name, but especially in the past
year, it really hurts him.
“He doesn’t seem to get the urgency of
now.”
McLeod-Skinner said she was born in the
Midwest and raised by a single mother, a
teacher who also drove the school bus to
make ends meet.
“In the summer, she was a farmworker,”
McLeod-Skinner said. “She picked fruit in
the orchards. My advocacy for farmworkers
is not theoretical.”
When McLeod-Skinner was a child, her
mother took a teaching job in Tanzania and
she moved to Africa, returning to the United
States to live in Ashland.
A standout athlete in high school, she
placed third in the OSAA Class 3A state track
and field meet in the 800 meters.
McLeod-Skinner spent a year at Lewis &
Clark, then transferred to Rensselaer Poly-
technic Institute in New York, where she
earned a bachelor’s in civil engineering and
then earned a master’s from Cornell.
After college, she went to work in Bosnia
after the war and worked on projects includ-
ing a sanitation system in Kosovo.
She spent a few years at a refugee reset-
tlement office in the Bay Area, then got back
into planning.
She worked as an environmental planner
for the Santa Clara Valley Water District for
six years and was elected to the Santa Clara
City Council and was on that board from
2004 to 2012.
McLeod-Skinner returned to Oregon in
2014 to attend the University of Oregon’s law
position for eight years.
Chavez-DeRemer ran for the state
House of Representatives in 2016 and 2018,
but lost both times to Janelle Bynum.
She’s also the candidate her opponents
often point out doesn’t live in the district.
State law allows candidates to run outside
of their district.
“If I turn my camera around, you can see
the fifth,” she said from her home in Happy
Valley. “We know who was in control, and
the Democrats for sure did not want me in
this district and it’s a nice way to just carve
out a nice little section. I’m not going to let
them dictate where my 22 years has been
spent, and it’s really been involved in the
fifth.”
Chavez-DeRemer grew up in Hanford,
California, south of Fresno. She graduated
from Fresno State with a business degree
and married her “high school sweetheart”
Shawn.
They were both working in health care
after college and decided to go to medical
school. She stopped medical school to sup-
port Shawn, taking jobs such as cooking,
babysitting and teaching math and algebra
to pay bills.
“It was close to $400,000 in debt when
we moved here at 31 years old,” she said.
“With credits, with living, with raising ba-
bies, we chose to have our children during
medical school, and it was expensive.”
After moving to Oregon, they started
Anesthesia Associates Northwest with five
employees, and grew it to 150 employees.
Then they started Evolve Health, which fo-
cuses on health and wellness.
“I do special projects, kind of in business
development and special projects market-
ing,” she said.
Chavez-DeRemer said her experience as
a community leader gives her the edge
against the other Republican opponents.
“I’ve had my cell number on my card
since day one,” she said. “I know that seems
silly. That’s really all they’re asking for is a
voice. You’re fighting for them, make sure
that you do what you say you’re going to do.
“Be honest, fight hard and just be who
you were when you left. It’s not, ‘go to
Washington, D.C. and be somebody differ-
ent.’ I’ve never done that, and I don’t plan
to.”
Among the issues she wants to tackle in
Congress are water shortages that impact
much of the state, funding police depart-
ments and closing the country’s southern
border and fixing the immigration system.
“I am Hispanic,” she said. “I understand
what it means to come across, not me per-
sonally, but my family, legally and what
that meant to be an American and why the
Hispanic population believes in faith, fam-
ily and freedom, and they want to be part of
that.
“We’re hindering these on the back of
these drug cartels and these coyotes who
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school, from where she graduated in 2016.
“I’m an attorney with a focus on natural
resources law,” she said.
She is on the boards of the Jefferson
County Education Service District and the
Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board.
Following the Alameda Wildfire of 2020,
she was asked to take the job of interim city
manager in Talent in January 2021, a South-
ern Oregon city that lost half of the town to
wildfires.
It had been a few chaotic months with
staff in the city, and she focused on hiring the
right staff for the city.
McLeod-Skinner said she helped bring in
over $5 million from the state government for
recovery and took steps like Spanish trans-
lation of city materials to help reach more of
the community.
She commuted between her home in Ter-
rebonne and Talent − she lives in the second
district − and worked 14-hour days.
“It was very much a labor of love. I re-
member joking with my wife, ‘Don’t tell this
to the city council, but I would totally do this
for free.’”
McLeod-Skinner’s campaign has raised
$545,505 as of March 31, according to the
FEC. She points out that her campaign
doesn’t take money from political action
committees. Her campaign has spent
$235,395, but still has $310,110 on hand.
Does McLeod-Skinner have a shot at pull-
ing off the upset and knocking off one of Ore-
gon’s most well-known politicians?
“If It’s a low turnout election, I think she
does,” Moore said. “If it’s a regular turnout, I
don’t think she does.”
are taking true advantage of the Hispanic
culture, and I would like to be a voice for
that.”
Chavez-DeRemer’s campaign raised
$455,930 as of March 31, and spent
$247,415 of that. It had $208,515 remaining.
Most of her campaign cash has come
from individual donors from Oregon, in-
cluding over $30,000 of her own money.
Chavez-DeReamer has been endorsed
by Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, State
Senator Chuck Thomsen, former State
Representative Bill Post, Linn County Com-
missioner Roger Nyquist and State Repre-
sentatives Shelly Boshart Davis and Jessi-
ca George among others.
stroyed our economy, destroyed our ability
to feed poor people that were on the edge of
starvation and poverty.”
DiPaola’s campaign raised $53,125 as of
March 31 and spent $23,996 of that.
John Di Paola
Di Paola grew up in a working-class Ital-
ian-American family in New Jersey in the
1950s. He started college in the early 1970s,
but dropped out after his father grew ill and
he had to support his family.
He had various jobs including as a truck
driver and as an orderly at a hospital. Di
Paola said that job ignited his interest in
medicine and took a job as an X-Ray tech-
nician while finishing his pre-med degree.
While attending medical school at Rut-
gers, he started a contracting business do-
ing remodels to pay his way through school.
He came to Portland in 1982 and trained
as an orthopedic surgeon at OHSU.
He started a practice in Tualatin to ex-
clusively treat injured workers. After dec-
ades building up the practice, Occupational
Orthopedics, he sold it and retired in 2020.
“When I was a college dropout driving a
truck in New Jersey, you could just ask any-
body if I would ever be a doctor and they
could tell you unequivocally no, this guy
doesn’t have anything he needs to be a doc-
tor,” he said. “The thing I do have is I’ve
been blessed with intelligence and my cul-
ture has been hard work and I’m generally
an optimistic person.”
Di Paola opted to run in the fifth district
where he lives in Wilsonville.
“I really wanted to flip a seat,” Di Paola
said. “I really feel that where an opportuni-
ty exists, it would be really important to
move a Democrat out of a seat and move a
conservative into the seat.”
He said his priorities if elected are secur-
ing the border with Mexico, protecting the
American way of life and how the United
States handled the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We were all denied our rights through
arbitrary mandates that were implement-
ing procedures of it already proven to be in-
effective,” he said.
“We already knew that lockdowns,
quarantining people, wearing masks and
past exposures to infectious disease, it was
pretty clear that was not an effective strate-
gy. And yet they implemented it not only in
our country, but around the world. De-
Kurt Schrader
Residence: Canby
Family: Wife, Susan, and eight children.
Occupation: Congressman
Previous elected offices: 5th District seat
since 2009; Oregon Senate, 2003-09; Oregon
House, 1997-2003.
Jamie McLeod-Skinner
Residence: Terrebonne
Family: Married
Occupation: Attorney
Previous elected offices: Santa Clara (Cali-
fornia) city council member, 2004 to 2012.
Bill Poehler covers Marion County for the
Statesman Journal. Contact him at
bpoehler@StatesmanJournal.com
Madison Oatman
Madison Oatman wasn’t a bad student
at West Salem High School, he just didn’t
show up much. He was more fond of
spending time outside than in a classroom.
He played football for years growing up
and admits he wasn’t great at it.
“Around the same time as Brett Smith,”
Oatman said. “I played football with him a
little bit as well. He was a little bit younger
than me, but I was on the team when he
was coming up, so to speak.
“I was pretty small in high school, so I
played mostly wide receiver and defensive
back.”
Oatman said he would have graduated
in 2010, but was kicked out his senior year
because he skipped class too much. A few
years later he took his remaining classes at
night at Chemeketa Community College
and attained his high school diploma.
“So how it kind of all got started for me is
everybody’s done dumb things throughout
their lives like me,” he said.
He lives in Bend and works in the con-
struction industry, doing demolition on
water and fire-damaged buildings.
Oatman said every time he and his fam-
ily get together, the conversations go to pol-
itics. That’s what made him want to run.
Oatman said there aren’t many people
of his generation – he is 30 years old – who
are serving in Congress.
“My generation, we are not prepared to
take over and run a country,” he said. “My
generation specifically sits back and we
really don’t do anything about it.”
He said his priorities in Congress are en-
suring people’s individual freedoms, open-
ing up federal forests for logging and clean-
ing up of lands, and instituting term limits
on Senators and Congressmen.
“We have term limits for presidents,
why are we allowing people to serve in
Congress and Senate for 40 years?” Oat-
man said. “It was never meant to be a ca-
reer.”
Oatman hasn’t reported any campaign
finance activity.
Laurel Roses
Laurel Roses was born and raised in
Boring. In the summer between her junior
and senior years at Barlow High School, she
met and later married Dave Roses.
“I’m going to have my family now, and
then I’m going to do my stuff,” she recalls of
thinking at the time. “By the time I was 30, I
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