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Newspaper Page TextWEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2018 HERMISTONHERALD.COM • A3 LOCAL NEWS Umatilla County approves drug court provider HERMISTON HERALD CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Oregon Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Wooldridge speaks at the 2018 Dorchester Conference in Salem. Former Navy captain sets sights on governor’s mansion By JADE MCDOWELL STAFF WRITER Greg Wooldridge is hop- ing to use his sterling mil- itary career to propel him into Oregon’s highest office. Wooldridge, one of 10 Republicans running for governor in Oregon, vis- ited Hermiston on Friday. If elected, he said he hopes to heal the urban-rural divide, to heal the school systems, the PERS system and the lack of trust in Oregon’s government. The former Navy cap- tain has never held elected office. But he points to his experience running a naval airbase in the San Joaquin Valley — including ser- vices for thousands of fam- ilies living on-base and bil- lions of dollars in aircraft assets — that earned the Presidential Installation of Excellence Award for being “the best Navy base in the world.” “It was the same kind of span of control in work- ing with people and trying to get good outcomes and managing a budget,” he said. He said he is also the only person to serve as flight leader of the Navy’s Blue Angels three different times, working to elevate morale and performance until they were performing 400-mile-per-hour maneu- vers 18 inches apart instead of 36 inches. He later worked with FedEx to elevate the com- pany’s air freight operations and now trains companies on elevating performance. He hopes to elevate the state government’s per- formance by setting clear expectations for depart- ment heads and “bringing the legislature together.” “I don’t like the term ‘drain the swamp’ because I don’t think there’s a swamp,” he said. “I think they’re good people.” Wooldridge said beyond holding departments more accountable, he also believes that it would be good for the Democrat- ic-controlled legislature to know that any legislation they pass will be headed to the desk of a Republican governor. “When they want to get something through, they’re going to have to talk about it,” he said. At the same time, he said although he holds conservative ideals he is a “realist” about getting things done and doesn’t feel bound to always fol- low the party line. Infrastructure, the Pub- lic Employees Retirement System and education are Wooldridge’s three main focuses. He wants to provide the funding to decrease class sizes at the elemen- tary school so that chil- dren don’t get frustrated with school early, then fol- low up with getting more hands-on classes at the high school level that help moti- vate teens to stay in school and graduate with “labor- ready” skills like welding or computer programming. Wooldridge said the state also needs to step up its investments in transpor- tation infrastructure. “You can’t move com- merce without working infrastructure,” he said. He also wants to tackle the growing PERS deficit. “I want to take PERS from a defined benefit to a defined contribution, more like — and this is a dirty word with some of the unions — but more like a 401(k),” he said. When asked about immigration, Wooldridge said he understood that Oregon depends on immi- grant labor for agriculture. But he said the government needed to find ways for those jobs to be filled with- out a system that encour- ages people to come into the country illegally and be exploited because of their status. He also said he would work as governor to end Oregon’s sanctuary status. “I think it’s a public safety issue, because peo- ple are being let back on the street that shouldn’t be on the street,” he said. He also said he’s pas- sionate about improving mental health services. He got choked up recount- ing a story when he saw a woman standing on the edge of a bridge, preparing to jump. Wooldridge and another passerby managed to pull her down and called the police. “The Beaverton Police came and they were so good and handled things so well, but that was a wake-up call to me that these issues are out there,” he said. 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