Oregon AFSCME Council 75 has released its preliminary list of endorsements for the Nov. 6 General Election. Action on a few races is still pending.

 

Our union utilizes a democratic endorsement process. Candidates are required to fill out a questionnaire and then interview before a panel of union members; that panel then gives its endorsement recommendations to the union's Political Action Committee (PAC). After review, the PAC forwards those recommendations to the full Oregon AFSCME Executive Board, which has the final say on endorsements.

 

The only exceptions to this process are those state legislators who compiled a 100 percent AFSCME voting record in the previous full legislative session (in this case, the 2011 session) and are running for the same office. Legislators who meet those two qualifications receive an automatic endorsement. The names of candidates who have gained automatic endorsements are denoted in boldface below.

 

Fields left blank indicate that further action is pending, or that no action was taken in that particular race.

 

Please note that if you don't see your state Senate seat on the list, it's because Senate seats are 4-year terms so only half of them are up for election every other year. As there are 30 Oregon Senate seats, typically 15 are up for election each two-year cycle. However, there is one "extra" Oregon Senate election this year in District 17, due to former state Sen. Suzanne Bonamici winning election to the U.S. Congress in mid-term of her Oregon Senate seat. Elizabeth Steiner-Hayward won the seat within Democrat candidates last year (as Bonamici was a Democrat), but under Oregon law the seat opens up in this General Election as a two-year term to fill out the remainder of Bonamici's original term.

 

We will also soon add local union endorsements to this list. Generally speaking, such endorsements are left to the local with employees at that agency; that is, Local 2831, which represents Lane County employees, has "jurisdiction" in making the endorsement decisions for the Lane County Commission, for example. In some cases the Council may then follow with an endorsement of its own. If your local union has made an endorsement for a race in your community that you would like to see listed here, please e-mail that information to Oregon AFSCME Communications Director Don Loving.

 

While this article will naturally "age off" of the website's front page in time, the list will remain easily accessible in the Main Menu's Election Central tab. That is also where the list will be updated. Older endorsements lists are also archived there for a couple of years in case someone would like to look back at a previous election cycle.

 

STATEWIDE PARTISAN

 

Secretary of State — Kate Brown (D)

Treasurer — Ted Wheeler (D)

Attorney General — Ellen Rosenblum (D)

 

STATEWIDE NON-PARTISAN

 

Labor Commissioner — Brad Avakian

Supreme Court Justice — Richard "Dick" Baldwin

Court of Appeals — Jim Egan

 

STATEWIDE BALLOT MEASURES

 

Measure 79 — NO (Real estate transfer tax prohibition)

Measure 84 — NO (Estate tax phase out)

Measure 85 — YES (Corporate kicker repeal)

 

OREGON SENATE

 

Senate District 01 —

Senate District 02 —

Senate District 05 — Arnie Roblan (D)

Senate District 09 — Fred Girod (R)

Senate District 12 —

Senate District 14 — Mark Hass (D)

Senate District 17 — Elizabeth Steiner-Hayward (D)

Senate District 18 —

Senate District 21 — Diane Rosenbaum (D)

Senate District 22 — Chip Shields (D)

Senate District 23 — Jackie Dingfelder (D)

Senate District 25 — Laurie Monnes Anderson (D)

Senate District 27 — Geri Hauser (D)

Senate District 28 —

Senate District 29 — Maryl Graybeal Featherstone (R)

Senate District 30 —

 

OREGON HOUSE

 

HOUSE DISTRICT 01 —

HOUSE DISTRICT 02 —

HOUSE DISTRICT 03 — Wally Hicks (R)

HOUSE DISTRICT 04 —

HOUSE DISTRICT 05 — Peter Buckley (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 06 —

HOUSE DISTRICT 07 —

HOUSE DISTRICT 08 — Paul Holvey (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 09 — Caddy McKeown (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 10 — David Gomberg (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 11 — Phil Barnhart (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 12 — John Lively (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 13 — Nancy Nathanson (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 14 — Val Hoyle (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 15 — Andy Olson (R)

HOUSE DISTRICT 16 — Sarah Gelser (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 17 — Sherrie Sprenger (R)

HOUSE DISTRICT 18 —

HOUSE DISTRICT 19 —

HOUSE DISTRICT 20 — Vicki Berger (R)

HOUSE DISTRICT 21 — Brian Clem (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 22 — Betty Komp (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 23 — Jim Thompson (R)

HOUSE DISTRICT 24 — Kathy Campbell (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 25 — Paul Holman (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 26 —

HOUSE DISTRICT 27 — Tobias Read (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 28 — Jeff Barker (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 29 — Ben Unger (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 30 —

HOUSE DISTRICT 31 —

HOUSE DISTRICT 32 —

HOUSE DISTRICT 33 —

HOUSE DISTRICT 34 — Chris Harker (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 35 — Margaret Doherty (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 36 — Jennifer Williamson (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 37 — Carl Hosticka (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 38 — Chris Garrett (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 39 — Bill Kennemer (R)

HOUSE DISTRICT 40 — Brent Barton (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 41 — Carolyn Tomei (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 42 — Jules Bailey (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 43 —

HOUSE DISTRICT 44 — Tina Kotek (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 45 — Michael Dembrow (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 46 — Alissa Keny-Guyer (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 47 — Jessica Vega Pederson (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 48 — Jeff Reardon (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 49 — Chris Gorsek (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 50 — Greg Matthews (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 51 — Shemia Fagan (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 52 — Peter Nordbye (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 53 — Gene Whisnant (R)

HOUSE DISTRICT 54 — Nathan Hovekamp (D)

HOUSE DISTRICT 55 — Mike McLane (R)

HOUSE DISTRICT 56 —

HOUSE DISTRICT 57 — Greg Smith (R)

HOUSE DISTRICT 58 — Bob Jenson (R)

HOUSE DISTRICT 59 — John Huffman (R)

HOUSE DISTRICT 60 —