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Republicans lead council races, charter changes approved
Bethell to county commission
seat, Thatcher defeated by
Fagan for secretary of state
By KEIZERTIMES STAFF
As Americans throughout
the nation hold their breath
waiting to fi nd out who the
next president of the United
States will be, more local elec-
tions appeared to have been de-
termined decisively.
The tallies in this story do
not represent fi nal totals, but
were the most up-to-date fi g-
ures available at press time
Wednesday, Nov. 4.
KEIZER CITY
COUNCIL POSITION 1
Keizer City Councilor Lau-
ra Reid appeared to have fend-
ed off challenger Mike De Blasi
in her bid for a second term.
Reid collected about 61.3%
and De Blasi ended his cam-
paign with roughly 38.7%. That
amounted to 8,305 votes for
Reid and 5,241 for De Blasi.
“I would like to think this is
a vote for unity,” said Reid of
the voters’ endorsement. “The
council has always worked in
unity and we’ve gotten away
from that in meetings lately. We
need to work together instead
of at ends.”
In a second term, Reid said
she hopes to become more in-
volved in the regional aspects
of local government such at the
Mid-Willamette Valley Council
of Governments or the League
of Oregon Cities. She also
hopes to do more to improve
the council’s outreach as a way
of moving some of the more
tense discussions forward.
“We have to reach out in
ways that will be more pro-
ductive. Making city hall a
welcoming place is one thing,
but maybe it means taking the
meetings out of the building,”
Reid said.
Reid is a teacher at McNary
High School. De Blasi is an
employee of the state working
in natural resources manage-
ment.
KEIZER CITY
COUNCIL POSITION 2
Keizer voters picked attor-
ney Ross Day for Position 2 on
the Keizer City Council. Day
appeared to be wining with
55% of the vote to opponent
Dylan Juran’s 45% at press time.
Day amassed 7,381 votes to Ju-
ran’s 6,041.
Juran is a technology con-
sultant with a education-based
non-profi t.
Day said he was excited to
dig into the conversations re-
garding how Keizer can grow,
but also had a long conversa-
tion with Mayor Cathy Clark
about homelessness.
“I don’t like seeing people
on the streets or in tents, but I
don’t think they have any oth-
er choice,” Day said. “I fi nd it
morally repugnant that we live
in such a beautiful and prosper-
ous area and we can’t provide
for those individuals.”
He found Clark to be of a
similar mindset.
“Getting the opportunity
to be part of the council is still
sinking in, but I want to be part
of Keizer’s leadership on the
paths that lay ahead,” said Day.
KEIZER CITY
COUNCIL POSITION 3
The race for Position 3 on
the Keizer City Council was a
squeaker. Kyle Juran (50.17%)
was leading opponent Michele
Roland-Schwartz (48.83%) at
press time.
Juran, owner of Remodeling
by Classic Homes, had 6,733
votes to Roland-Schwartz’s
6,688 votes.
Roland-Schwartz is the ex-
ecutive director of the Oregon
Attorney General’s Sexual As-
sault Task Force.
KEIZER MEASURE 24-
453 (CITY CHARTER)
Keizer voters approved
changes to the city charter that
will remove anti-LGBTQ lan-
guage from the city’s found-
ing document. Voters found
overwhelming favor with the
revised charter. Nearly 67% of
voters (9,676 voters) approved
of the changes, just 33% (4,794
voters) opposed them.
The anti-LGBTQ language
was put into the charter with
by a vote in 1992. The 67%
majority approving of the
changes was a strong rebuke of
the 55% percent that approved
the anti-LGBTQ changes in
the 1990s.
MARION COUNTY FIRE
DISTRICT 1 LEVY
Marion County Fire Dis-
trict 1’s (MCFD1) resolution
(Measure 254-2) to renew the
local option levy appeared to
have been denied by the slim-
mest of margins by voters on
Tuesday.
The levy would institute
a property tax of $0.71 per
$1,000 of assessed property val-
ue for a fi ve-year period, which
is the same rate as it was from
2016 to 2020.
However, the ballot measure
fell just eight votes short of be-
ing approved.
Out of 16,688 casted votes,
8,999 people voted in favor of
the proposal while 9,126 voted
against the levy. It is the second
failed levy of the calendar year
for MCFD1.
MARION COUNTY
COMMISSIONER
Keizerite Danielle Bethel
appeared to have won an open
seat on the Marion County
Commission. Bethell (51.24%)
defeated Democrat Ashley
Carson-Cottingham (45.89%).
“I’m elated with the results,”
said Bethell.
She is looking forward to
collaborating with fellow com-
missioners on the board and
“bringing people together to
work for county-solutions.”
Bethell is currently Keiz-
er’s representative on the Sa-
lem-Keizer School Board and
will serve as executive direc-
tor of the Keizer Chamber of
Commerce through the end
of the year. Bethell received
65,865 votes to Carson Cot-
tingham’s 58.989.
DISTRICT 25 STATE
REPRESENTATIVE
Bill Post has been elected
for his fourth term as House
Representative for Oregon
District 25. On election night
he was cautious to claim a
victory until every vote was
counted.
“I always feel like politicians
who say, ‘I’m going to do this
during my next term,’ are kind
of presumptuous. You have to
win fi rst,” Post said.
He does not have any plans
or priorities for his next term
as his energy has been focused
on getting re-elected.
“I’m going to do what I’ve
always done, represent my con-
stituents and vote,” Post said.
Post won the support of
17,488 voters (56.14%) to
challnger Ramiro “RJ” Navar-
ro’s 13,617 votes (43.71%)
SECRETARY OF STATE
Keizerite Kim Thatcher (R)
was defeated by Shemia Fagan
(D) in the race for Secretary of
State. Fagan received 1,068,793
votes (51%) while Thatcher
collected 888,984 votes (42%).
Kyle Markely and Nathalie
Paravicini each received less
that 4% of the votes.
Fagan spent more than $3.1
million on her campaign, more
than tripling the amount of
Thatcher.
Thatcher was fi rst elected to
the Oregon House District 25
in 2004, which serves Keizer.
She remained in that position
until Jan. 12, 2015, when she
was elected to fi ll Oregon State
Senate Seat 13. Her term in the
state senate ends in 2023.
U.S. REPRESENTATIVE
In the race for U.S Repre-
sentative (5th District), incum-
bent Kurt Schrader (D) defeat-
ed Amy Ryan Courser (R),
receiving 50.33% of the vote.
Ryan Courser, who served
on the Keizer City Council
from 2015 to 2018 fell 3,806
votes short, receiving 47.26%
of the vote.
Libertarian candidate Mat-
thew James Rix fi nished in
third, only receiving 2.41% of
the votes.
Schrader, who has held Or-
egon’s Congressional District 5
seat since 2008, will be serving
his seventh term in offi ce.
Oregon’s 5th congressional
district represents Oregon’s
central coast through Salem,
north to the southern Port-
land suburbs, and east to the
summit of Mount Hood. It
includes Lincoln, Marion and
Polk Counties, most of Clack-
amas and Tillamook Counties,
plus parts of Benton and Mult-
nomah Counties.
MEASURE 107
Measure 107, which allows
for local laws limiting cam-
paign expenditures, was passing
with more than 78% percent of
the vote throughout the state.
MEASURE 108
A measure that will add
to the tax on tobacco-related
products and tax vaping prod-
ucts for the fi rst time,was pass-
ing with more than 66% of the
vote.
MEASURE 109
Oregon became the fi rst
state in the union to lessen reg-
ulations on the manufacture of
psilocybin, a hallucinogenic, for
therapeutic purposes.
MEASURE 110
Measure 110, which reduc-
es penalties on a number of
drug-related infractions and di-
verts money to treatment pro-
grams, was passing with rough-
ly 59% of the vote.
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