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4A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2018 Election: Democrat has fundraising edge in state House District 32 race Continued from Page 1A lic Employees Retirement System. Her state job and her ties to labor have raised ques- tions about whether she would work to address the $25 billion unfunded liability in the pen- sion system. She has acknowledged a problem of affordability among higher-paid recipients, but said public employees are too often vilified. While the state cannot walk back promises to employ- ees, it needs to get creative in paying down pension obliga- tions, such as incentivizing agencies to find cost savings and spending any extra in bud- gets toward paying down the liability, she said. Mitchell has focused her campaign on popular social issues such as making health care and housing more afford- able, while raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations to provide more revenue. She has also called for more fund- ing and career-technical oppor- tunities in education. Lower has emerged as the more industry-friendly can- didate. As of Friday, she had raised nearly $84,000 in cash and $32,000 worth of in-kind contributions. Josi crossed party lines to endorse Lower, who has also gathered some of his support from timber, construction and other trade groups, along with Republican political action committees and incumbents around the state. “He gets that I want to work on bipartisan solutions, and that I get what the timber industry is doing,” she said of Josi’s endorsement. “I get what our fishing industry is doing and what they’re up against, and how they’re already very heav- ily regulated.” Lower, a teacher, has also focused her campaign on improving roads and educa- tion. She has called for more infrastructure improvements to the North Coast’s highways and bridges, including a bypass for commercial traffic around Astoria. Vineeta Lower Tiffiny Mitchell Like Mitchell, she has called for more career-techni- cal educational opportunities, along with career assessments to direct students toward cer- tain career tracks and profes- sional visits to expose them to local jobs. Lower declined to comment on how she would address the unfunded pension liability, or her opinion on a statewide mea- sure to ban taxes on groceries. One area where Mitchell and Lower differ is Measure 105, a state initiative to repeal Oregon’s sanctuary law. Mitchell opposes the mea- sure, saying the state should not waste resources helping law enforcement go after peo- ple whose only crime is being in the country illegally. Lower, an immigrant from India, supports the measure. “If someone is illegal, and they are harming us, I don’t think that they should be protected,” she said. Brian Halvorsen, an Inde- pendent candidate and pro- gressive organizer from Rock- away Beach, has focused his campaign almost exclu- sively on campaign finance reform and economic justice. He recently formed a candi- date committee but as of Friday had not reported any campaign contributions. Like Mitchell, Halvorsen has called on raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations to provide more state revenue. He has also called for eliminating unlimited political contribu- tions by individuals, businesses or unions, and closing tax loop- holes. He advocates for rehab- bing vacant properties and cre- ating publicly funded housing to address affordability. Randell Carlson, a project manager for engineering firm CH2M Hill who lives in Tilla- mook, is the Libertarian candi- date in the race. A native of the Southwest, he moved to the area several years ago to work on semiconductor manufac- turing at Intel in Hillsboro, he said. A former Republican, Carl- son said he became disillu- sioned with the party and inter- ested in libertarian ideas like his father. His campaign focus is largely on decentralizing government. “I’m hoping to return power back to the people at a lower level, to get rid of the national bipartisan argument that goes back and forth,” he said. EDP: Stemper’s music is now on several TV shows Continued from Page 1A After earning her English degree, Stemper sought a change of pace — and cooler weather — and decided to make the journey to Portland. She took a job with Welo- calize, where she would lis- ten to transcripts of requests people would make and then correct their grammar to help develop Siri’s language skills. “The hardest ones to listen to were the ones about break- ups or relationship issues,” she said. While entertaining, Stem- per couldn’t help but feel rest- less and unfulfilled at a desk job. So she quit and decided to head west, driving up and down the Oregon Coast hand- ing out resumes until she landed a job at Pelican Brew- ing Co. in Cannon Beach. She had made the decision to make music her career, “but bills needed to be paid,” she joked. She started recording and sharing new songs and covers aimed for television shows on the music platform SoundCloud. She describes her music as cinematic and ethereal, and draws inspira- tion from her own life and the characters of TV shows she enjoys. “I love writing in other people’s shoes. It’s my way of exploring other emotions,” she said. “At first I thought about just producing and pitching an album, but there’s something fun about being a part of another piece of art.” About a year ago she signed up with Crucial Music, a label that represents artists and pitches their work to television networks. Soon after, she received the news her song “Wilderness” was going to be featured on “The Fosters” and “Once Upon a Time,” two TV shows on the ABC network. Since then, her work has been featured on “The Shan- nara Chronicles” on Spike TV, “You Me Her” on the Audience Network, and “Love Island,” a British real- ity TV show. “That’s when I realized I can really do this,” she said. With her songs streaming on platforms, Stemper can now pay for about half her living expenses with royalty checks, she said. Her profile is slowly rising on the music scene, and she’s not entirely sure where it will take her. 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