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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2018
Buehler wins GOP nomination for governor Hoyle becomes
Bureau of Labor
and Industries
commissioner
Bend doctor set to face
Gov. Brown in November
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
WILSONVILLE — State Rep. Knute Bue-
hler won the GOP nomination for governor
Tuesday and will face Gov. Kate Brown in
November.
“The change we all need has started with
victory tonight and the road to a better Oregon
begins tomorrow in earnest,” Buehler said to a
crowd of 200 supporters.
Supporters erupted in cheers and applause
just after 8 p.m. at the McMenamins Old Church
& Pub, where the state representative from Bend
hosted a watch party.
Buehler — at 47 percent of the vote —
defeated Bend businessman Sam Carpenter,
who gleaned 29 percent, and Portland retired
Navy pilot Greg Wooldridge, who garnered
about 19 percent. Brown easily cinched the
Democratic nomination with 81 percent of the
vote.
Buehler spoke to the crowd shortly before
the initial results arrived and thanked them
for their support in laying the groundwork for
seeking the nomination for the past four years.
“Tonight is the first step in a long journey,” he
said.
Kate Firmin of Lake Oswego said she was
relieved when Buehler announced his plan to
run because his moderate platform appealed to
her. “I am right in the middle of the road, and I
think that most Oregonians fall in that spot, yet
because we have so few people registered for
primaries it feels like all of the candidates are far
to the right or far to the left, so I am just excited
that we have someone running for governor
who is right in the middle who I think represents
the views of most Oregonians,” Firmin said.
Despite a large Democratic majority in the
state, Buehler said he is confident he can win
independents and Democrats.
“I’ve run two difficult elections and won in
a district that is overwhelmingly Democratic
actually more Democratic than the state as a
whole,” Buehler said.
“With our experience with winning in a very
Democratic district in Bend combined with win-
ning experiences in other states, I am confident
that can occur in Oregon. If it can happen in
states like Massachusetts and Maryland, it can
happen here.”
By MOLLY HARBARGER
The Oregonian
Jamie Valdez/Portland Tribune
Knute Buehler celebrates with supporters after winning the Republican nomination for
governor in Tuesday’s primary election.
Brown’s campaign responded that Brown
has supported bipartisan legislation that Buehler
opposed.
“Gov. Brown has proven herself as a biparti-
san leader,” said Christian Gaston, a spokesman
for her campaign. “The state’s largest transpor-
tation package, funding for the Oregon Health
Plan and the bill to establish the employer incen-
tive fund to address our pension liability all
passed with bipartisan support. Buehler voted
against them all.”
The election results countered the results of a
poll} last week that suggested the race between
Buehler and Carpenter was much closer. The
poll was conducted by a Democratic polling
firm and was first published by POLITICO.
Soon after the poll was released, Buehler and
Wooldridge released attack ads against Carpen-
ter, suggesting he might be a bigger threat than
initially perceived.
The candidates’ first and last joint debate on
the Lars Larson Show Friday highlighted some
of the differences between the candidates. Car-
penter modeled his platform after that of Pres-
ident Donald Trump and adopted the motto,
“Make Oregon Great Again.”
Brown’s campaign on Tuesday announced
that she would agree to three debates with the
GOP nominee. She also agreed to jointly appear
with the nominee at a number of newspaper edi-
torial board endorsement meetings, including at
the Portland Tribune.
Buehler has focused on fiscal conserva-
tism. His pro-choice stance and support of leg-
islation to make contraceptives more accessible
prompted anti-abortion activists to seek an alter-
native in the primary.
Buehler raised $1.3 million in the first four
months of the year but goes into the general
election with less than $500,000, according to
campaign finance records. He spent heavily in
the two weeks before the election on attack ads
against Carpenter. He faces a challenge in catch-
ing up with Brown’s campaign stores. She had
$3.8 million on hand as of Tuesday.
Wooldridge’s campaign thanked supporters
and called on Republicans to unite behind Bue-
hler after the difficult primary.
“Oregonians are demanding greatness from
our government ,and our governor has totally
failed,” Wooldridge said in a statement. “Gov.
Kate Brown’s failed leadership has run the ship
of Oregon aground. Dr. Knute Buehler is our
party’s nominee, and it’s time to back him and
demand change.”
The Capital Bureau is a collaboration
between EO Media Group and Pamplin Media
Group.
Val Hoyle will take the helm of the Ore-
gon Bureau of Labor and Industries after
claiming 51 percent of the vote Tuesday.
Hoyle, a former Democratic state repre-
sentative with a family history of union orga-
nizing, outraised Tualatin Mayor Lou Ogden
in the surprisingly competitive race. Though
the office is nonpartisan, the candidates
traded partisan insults and lobbed unsubstan-
tiated allegations of campaign violations at
the other.
Ogden had 36 per-
cent of the vote.
Hoyle, 54, said she
wants to make Ore-
gon a friendlier place
for small businesses
by cracking down on
bad actors, as well as
invest more in trade
skills and job train-
Val
ing for youth. She also
Hoyle
wants to help reorient
the state’s workforce
to keep pace with advances in technology
and larger employment shifts, such as the
move from unionized taxi driver to freelance
ride-hailing work.
Hoyle served as the House majority
leader in the state Legislature before launch-
ing an unsuccessful run for secretary of state
in 2016. But the BOLI job is the one she’s
made for, she said.
Hoyle said that she plans to be as dogged
as her Democratic predecessor, Brad Ava-
kian, who drew criticism for his aggressive
pursuit of civil rights cases. Hoyle has not
taken a position on the same-sex marriage
discrimination verdict against Sweet Cakes
by Melissa, but said she thinks that’s an
important part of the office.
Ogden would have been the first Repub-
lican to hold the office since 2002. He
called many of Avakian’s civil rights cases
“overreaching.”
Mitchell: ‘I think that my message just resonated with voters’
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The three sought to replace
state Rep. Deborah Boone,
D-Cannon Beach, who will
retire when her seventh term
ends in January.
Mitchell received 41 per-
cent of the vote to Orr’s 29
percent and Josi’s 29 per-
cent, according to unofficial
results.
“I think that my message
just resonated with voters,”
Mitchell said of the strong
showing in her first campaign.
She credited volunteers
for helping to get her name
and message out after filing
just before the deadline in
March. She said she person-
ally knocked on more than
3,000 doors.
Mitchell will face Republi-
can Vineeta Lower, a teacher,
and Independent Brian Hal-
vorsen, a progressive orga-
nizer, in the November elec-
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tion. Democrats have long
dominated in House District
32, which includes Clatsop
and Tillamook counties, along
with a small portion of west-
ern Washington County.
Some in Clatsop County
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time for the winner to listen to
the residents of House District
32.”
The Democratic primary
attracted more than $200,000
in political contributions.
Josi
gathered
nearly
$115,000 in donations as of
Tuesday, including the backing
of Boone and state Sen. Betsy
Johnson, D-Scappoose. Mitch-
ell raised nearly $100,000,
while Orr’s campaign, mostly
backed by local donors, raised
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were concerned Mitchell and
Orr would split the county
vote and tip the primary to the
more conservative Josi, who is
from Bay City.
In his concession speech,
Orr, who was edging Josi for
second place, congratulated
Mitchell.
“I still wonder why this
election had corporations and
organizations from around
Oregon campaigning for my
opponents,” he said. “Now it’s
less than $17,000.
Forest management prac-
tices became a focal point of
the primary.
Mitchell and Orr had
both called for limits on tim-
ber harvesting when it could
have negative environmental
effects. Josi, who chairs the
Forest Land Trust Advisory
Committee, called for max-
imizing timber harvests and
said environmental concerns
have been overstated.
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