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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.
Wooldridge said despite
choosing to settle in the
Portland area after the
Navy (he grew up in Illi-
nois), he does want to look
out for the interests of rural
Oregon through support-
ing agriculture and better
management of Oregon’s
forests.
“City folks want to enjoy
the natural resources in our
way and then say nobody
else can touch them,” he
said.
Wooldridge’s lack of
experience as an elected offi-
cial and his urban address
might create some barriers
toward winning over rural
Republicans in Oregon,
but he said he “absolutely”
believes that a Republican
can beat Governor Kate
Brown this year and that he
is the one to do it.
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new treatment provider for
Umatilla County’s rebooted
drug court.
The county’s Commu-
nity Justice Department
oversaw drug court until
funding ran out last year.
Under a new plan, local
state courts and the public
safety coordinating coun-
cil will operate a treatment
court starting in July. Com-
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missioners at their meet-
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