ELECTION
Thursday, July 28, 2022
East Oregonian
A7
Oregon race for governor generates tsunami of campaign cash
By GARY A. WARNER
Oregon Capital Bureau
SALEM — A $100,000
check from a longtime
conservative Oregon polit-
ical donor to Republican
Christine Drazan.
One for $100,000 to
Betsy Johnson’s insurgent
campaign from a construc-
tion industry group.
Two liberal political
action campaigns top off at
the same level in their total
giving to Democrat Tina
Kotek.
The top candidates for
governor continue to pile up
stacks of cash in the race to
the top of Oregon’s political
pyramid.
The trio has raised more
than $17.1 million since
January 2021, on pace to
blow past the 2018 record
of $40 million when Demo-
cratic Gov. Kate Brown beat
former Republican Rep.
Knute Buehler of Bend.
The primaries are two
months past and the general
election more than three
months away. The latest
reports fi led with the Oregon
Secretary of State show a
fl uid fi nancial situation.
Kotek and Drazan are
coming off a May primary
that saw the pair emerge
from a combined roster of 34
candidates lured by the fi rst
TUNE IN TO SEE THE CANDIDATES DEBATE
Contributed Photos
Oregon governor candidates, from left, Republican Christine
Drazan, Democrat Tina Kotek, and unaffi liated Betsy Johnson
have raised more than $17.1 million since January 2021 in their
campaigns. The trio debate Friday, July 29, 2022, beginning at
2 p.m. You can watch the debate at www.eastoregonian.com.
open governor’s race since
2010.
Dollar figures can be
deceiving. Kotek reports
$500,000 in the bank — 10%
of what Johnson has tucked
away.
Drazan has more than
$300,000 from the Republi-
can Governors Association.
Kotek has $53,000 from the
Democratic governors.
Kotek’s spokesperson
Katie Wertheimer said it’s
a wrinkle of post-primary
financial report timing,
not a measure of long-term
strength. Little of the recent
money shows the reaction to
the Supreme Court ruling
in late June gutting Roe
v. Wade abortion rights in
place since 1973.
“We’ve also seen a huge
uptick in interest in volun-
teering to help Tina win in
November,” Wertheimer
said. “We’re confi dent that
we will have the resources
to win.”
Drazan won the Republi-
can primary with 23% of the
vote and now has to rally the
splintered factions behind
her campaign as GOP stan-
dard-bearer. The six-fi gure
national GOP commitment
along with sizeable dona-
tions from business interests
and activist donors is ramp-
ing up into late summer.
“No statewide GOP
candidate in recent history
has enjoyed the fundraising
success Christine has had,”
said John Burke, Drazan’s
communications director.
“We’re excited to have so
PENDLETON — The three leading candidates in the race
to become Oregon’s next governor will appear live at a
forum Friday, July 29, hosted by the Oregon Newspaper
Publishers Association.
Republican nominee Christine Drazan, Democratic nomi-
nee Tina Kotek and unaffiliated candidate Betsy Johnson
are all scheduled to debate starting at 2 p.m. in Welches.
The forum is moderated by Pamplin Media Group Pres-
ident Mark Garber. Questions will come from editors of
newspapers across Oregon.
The debate will be livestreamed on the East Oregonian’s
website, www.eastoregonian.com, beginning at 2 p.m.
July 29.
many new supporters on
board since the primary
and we’re ready to deliver a
historic victory this Novem-
ber.”
On the flip side, John-
son’s $9.5 million in contri-
butions is $1 million more
than Kotek and Drazan
combined.
It’s a formidable amount.
But the former Democratic
state senator from Columbia
County still has to get on the
November ballot and build a
statewide campaign appara-
tus from scratch.
“We are in the home
stretch of signature gather-
ing and will far surpass the
approximately 25,000 valid
signatures we need to secure
by Aug. 16 to put Betsy’s
name on the November
ballot,” said Jennifer Sitton,
Johnson’s spokesperson.
While her money totals
may dwarf her compet-
itors, it’s a head start to
build a bulwark against the
likely fl ood of national party
money that will fl ow into the
race after Labor Day.
“We are proud of our
fundraising, but know the
party institutions are prepar-
ing to back up the Brinks
trucks to spend it all attack-
ing Betsy,” Sitton said.
The 2022 race already is
unique in Oregon political
history and will mark major
shifts no matter the outcome.
There’s no incumbent for
the fi rst time in a decade.
Kotek is looking to run
the Democratic consecutive
win streak in elections for
governor to an even dozen.
She’d be the first openly
lesbian governor in United
States history.
Drazan would be the fi rst
Republican governor since
Vic Atiyeh was reelected in
1982, before half of Oregon
residents were even born.
She’d be the fi rst Republican
woman to hold the offi ce.
Johnson is making the
longest shot, a bid to be the
second governor since state-
hood in 1859 that wasn’t
backed by a major political
party. Julius Meier served
one term after winning an
independent bid in 1930
amid the Great Depression.
Kotek contends John-
son and Drazan are too
far right for progressive
Oregon, especially on gun
control and the environ-
ment. Drazan casts Johnson
and Kotek as a Democratic
duo, who will drive infl ation
higher and increase the size
of state government. Johnson
says Kotek is too far left and
Drazan too far right from
what she says is the moder-
ate middle that is left out of
the parties’ closed primaries.
With the choices cut from
nearly three dozen to three,
the political money will fl ow,
along with daily emails and
texts, YouTube ads, televi-
sion commercials, blizzards
of press releases and polls.
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