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Newspaper Page TextnorTHwEsT lAbor PrEss | June 1, 2018 | PAgE 11 PolITICs oregon May primary election results: labor union edition Val Hoyle (left), candidate for Oregon Labor Commissioner, attends a February rally with Heather Buch, a candidate for Lane County Commissioner. Both had strong labor backing in the May 15 primary. Buch placed ﬁrst and faces a November runoﬀ. Hoyle won out- right. Her win means a la- bor ally will be in charge of enforcing wage and hour laws, setting the prevailing wage on pub- lic construction projects, and overseeing state- registered apprentice- ship programs. Oregon labor unions backed 55 candidates in 41 contested races in the May 15 primary. Here’s how they fared. Unionists across Oregon breathed sighs of relief on Elec- tion Night with the victory of Val Hoyle to be Oregon’s next top labor law enforcer. Hoyle won with 51 percent victory over Lou Ogden’s 36 percent, despite his receipt of $200,000 in the last three weeks of the campaign from four conserva- tive business owners. The win means that Hoyle — a former Democratic House Ma- jority Leader with a strong pro- labor voting record — will be Oregon’s next labor commis- sioner in January at the conclu- sion of Brad Avakian’s term. La- bor commissioner is a non-partisan statewide elected position, in charge of the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries, which enforces wage and hour and civil rights laws, sets the pre- vailing wage on public construc- tion projects, and oversees state- registered apprenticeship training programs. It’s a job that gets little notice from the public, but it’s of great importance to organized la- bor and working people. Ogden, in his campaign, said BOLI has been out of balance favoring labor over industry. Hoyle got tremendous sup- port from Oregon unions in the campaign. Labor-endorsed incumbent gov- ernor Kate Brown easily won the Democratic primary with 81 percent of the vote against two challengers who raised no money and didn’t campaign. Brown will face Republican State Rep Knute Buehler in No- vember; he came in first place in the Republican primary with 47 percent in a field of 10. There were no surprises in Democratic Congressional pri- maries, with all four Democratic incumbents winning the party’s nomination. In Oregon’s 2nd Congres- sional District, Jamie McLeod- Skinner won a seven-way race with 43 percent of the vote; she’ll challenge incumbent Re- publican Greg Walden in No- vember. McLeod-Skinner, a for- mer AFSCME member, was backed by Oregon’s teachers union. Another former union member in the race, Eric Bur- nette, was backed by UFCW Local 555 and the Teamsters, but came in sixth place. orEgon sUPrEME CoUrT Judge, Position 3 Meagan flynn defeated state securities attorney Van PoundsFlynn was endorsed by the Oregon Machinists Council and the Oregon Education Association. orEgon CoUrT of APPEAls Judge, Position 10 rex Armstrong, the incumbent, won re- election. He was endorsed by the Oregon Education Association. orEgon sEnATE District 3 (Medford) Union-backed Athena goldberg, D, got 36 percent, losing to jeﬀ golden, a long- time public TV and radio broadcaster. Her candidacy was considered a priority for the Oregon AFL-CIO. District 11 (Salem) Labor-backed incumbent Peter Court- ney, D, won 65 percent of the vote, surviv- ing a primary challenge from Joyce Judy. District 13 (Keizer) UFCW-backed law professor Paul Diller, D, outpolled American Federation of Teach- ers-local union president sarah grider by 58 to 41 percent, winning the chance to challenge Republican incumbent Kim Thatcher. Grider was endorsed by AFT. District 24 (East Portland) Former deputy district attorney Marty wilde, D, outpolled SEIU law clerk kim- berly koops by 53 to 46 percent. Both candidates had union backing. UFCW-endorsed incumbent john sweet took ﬁrst place with 46 percent and will face katy Eymann (28 percent) in a No- vember runoﬀ. District 18 (Silverton) Position 3 UFCW-backed barry shapiro, D, won by 69 to 30 percent and will face Republican incumbent rick lewis. UFCW-endorsed incumbent Melissa Crib- bins won outright against two challengers with 55 percent. District 32 (North Coast) State child welfare worker Tiﬃny ClACkAMAs CoUnTy Mitchell, D, with support from four pub- lic-sector unions, won with 41 percent in a ﬁeld of three. Former state rep Tim josi, who was backed by UFCW and the State Building Trades Council, ﬁnished third. Mitchell will face Republican teacher Vi- neeta lower to succeed Democrat Debo- rah Boone, who’s retiring. District 45 (NE Portland) Incumbent barbara smith warner, D, backed broadly by labor, easily defeated a primary challenge (90-10). District 52 (Hood River) Anna williams, D, outpolled Aurora Del Val by 76 to 22 percent. The two candi- dates shared dual endorsements from three unions. Del Val withdrew from the race in April but her name was still on the ballot. Williams will face Republican jeﬀ Helfrich in November. METro Scandal-plagued incumbent Sherry Hall got 43 percent of the vote and will face union-backed Pamela white (32 percent) in a November runoﬀ. orEgon HoUsE Council, District 4 (W, Hillsboro) Coos CoUnTy Position 2 Chair Incumbent Deborah kafoury, with broad union backing, won 72 percent of the vote against three challengers. Commissioner District 2 Union-backed susheela jayapal won outright with 61 percent in a ﬁeld of four. Auditor In a ﬁeld of three, union-endorsed jen- nifer Mcguirk narrowly outpolled Scott Learn (42-41) and will face him again in a run-oﬀ. wAsHIngTon CoUnTy Chair Metro Council member kathryn Harring- ton had broad union backing and placed ﬁrst with 38 percent. She’ll face incumbent commissioner bob Terry (30 percent) in a November runoﬀ. ryan Deckert, a former Democratic state rep and business lobbyist who was endorsed by six building trades unions, came in third with 23 percent. District 2 Pam Treece, a former PaciﬁCorp executive and head of a business advocacy group, de- feated incumbent greg Malinowski by 58 to 41 percent. Both had union backing. District 4 Union-backed activist kimberly Culbert- son lost to Hillsboro mayor jerry willey, who was backed by real estate and busi- ness groups. District attorney ClATsoP CoUnTy UFCW-backed incumbent lianne Thomp- son won re-election with 59 percent. CITy of PorTlAnD ColUMbIA CoUnTy Commissioner, Position 2 Henry Heimuller, the incumbent, ﬁn- ished ﬁrst and will face Port of St. Helens Commissioner Paulette lichatowich in November. Heimuller was endorsed by UFCW and the NW Oregon Labor Council. Position 1 (West) joe buck outpolled three other candi- dates with 38 percent, and will face Chris- tine lewis (23 percent) in a runoﬀ in No- vember. Both have union endorsements. MUlTnoMAH CoUnTy Prosecutor kevin barton defeated UFCW- backed defense attorney Max wall by 70 to 30 percent. lAnE CoUnTy Non-proﬁt executive juan gonzalez de- feated Laborers Local 483 shop steward Dana Carstensen 55 to 44 percent. Both had union endorsements. District 11 (Eugene) Clerk lynn Peterson, broadly backed by labor, won 79-20 against an opponent who did not actively campaign. Council, District 2 (S/SE) Incumbent Caddy Mckeown, D, backed by the Building Trades and OEA, easily over- came a challenger by 81 to 19 percent. Paul savas, backed broadly by labor, eas- ily won re-election outright with 60 per- cent of the vote against two challengers. President Former state rep shemia fagan, D, with support from public-sector unions, de- feated longtime incumbent rod Monroe, who was backed by IBEW and the State Building Trades Council. Fagan got 62 per- cent to Monroe’s 22 percent. District 9 (Coos Bay) Commission, Position 2 Gary Williams (31 percent) in November. Incumbent jay bozievich won outright with 56 percent, surviving a challenge from union-backed OEA member nora kent (39 percent) and AFSCME member bev- erly Hills (5 percent). Bozievich did have the endorsement of IBEW Local 280. Position 2 (Springfield) With broad union backing, joe berney defeated incumbent sid leiken 52 to 48 percent. Leiken’s hostility to a strike by members of AFSCME Local 2831 was a fac- tor in the race. Position 5 (East) Union-backed Heather buch won 31.27 in a ﬁeld of six and will face incumbent Commissioner, Position 2 Incumbent nick fish, who had broad union backing, won a four-way race with 62 percent of the race; julia Degraw, backed by a trio of smaller union endorse- ments, came in second with 32 percent. Commissioner, Position 3 Former state rep jo Ann Hardesty took ﬁrst place with 44 percent of the vote in a ﬁeld of six; she’ll face second-place ﬁnisher and current Multnomah County Commis- sioner loretta smith (22 percent) in a run-oﬀ in November. Hardesty had four la- bor endorsements; Smith had 11, including the Northwest Oregon Labor Council. A third candidate, Andrea Valderrama, was backed by AFSCME Local 189, the largest City union; she came in fourth place. CITy of sAlEM City Council, Ward 8: Oregon Labor Candidates School graduate Micki Varney, a union steward with SEIU Local 503, came about 250 votes short of defeating incum- bent city council member Jim Lewis.