{"id":1624081,"date":"2022-08-27T09:35:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T13:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1624081"},"modified":"2022-08-27T09:36:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T13:36:23","slug":"gubernatorial-race-in-deep-blue-oregon-now-a-toss-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gubernatorial-race-in-deep-blue-oregon-now-a-toss-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Gubernatorial Race in Deep Blue Oregon Now a Toss Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgubernatorial-race-in-deep-blue-oregon-now-a-toss-up%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1624081&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Oregon hasn&#8217;t had a Republican governor since 1982, but the 2022 gubernatorial race is now a <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/politics-policy\/elections\/atorial-race-updated-toss-potential-gop-win\">&#8220;toss up,&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0according to election handicapper Larry Sabato at the University of Virginia&#8217;s Center for Politics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are finding Oregonians want change because of the life we&#8217;ve been living under Democratic control,&#8221; GOP gubernatorial nominee Christine Drazan told the John Solomon Reports podcast.\u00a0&#8220;It hasn&#8217;t just been COVID. It really has been a decade of single party control in Oregon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<article class=\"align-center\">\n<\/article>\n<p>Citing the atmosphere of lawlessness and disorder pervading the state&#8217;s largest city, Drazan said her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christinefororegon.com\">campaign<\/a>\u00a0is emphasizing issues like\u00a0education, homelessness, and public safety.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our local mayor in the city of Portland, who was basically asleep throughout all of the 100-plus days of rioting in Portland, has kind of woken up a little bit,&#8221; said Drazan, former Oregon House Republican leader.\u00a0&#8220;He decided to clear homeless camps on the route for kids to walk to school. I can&#8217;t believe he had to declare an emergency to get that done. That&#8217;s the state that we find ourselves in in Oregon, and Oregonians deserve change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Drazan represented the 39th district in the Oregon House of Representatives from 2019 to 2022, rising\u00a0to House minority leader in\u00a0September, 2019. She has served on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/oregonvotes.gov\/voters-guide\/english\/christinedrazan.html\">Canby School District Budget Committee<\/a>, as well as the\u00a0Clackamas County Planning Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Current Democratic Gov. Kate Brown touched off state and even national\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/politics\/2021\/08\/gov-kate-brown-signed-a-law-to-allow-oregon-students-to-graduate-without-proving-they-can-write-or-do-math-she-doesnt-want-to-talk-about-it.html\">controversy after signing a bill<\/a>\u00a0in 2021 that allowed students in Oregon to graduate high school without proving they could write or do math. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a mom of three,&#8221; Drazan said. &#8220;My kiddos went to public school, and I care really deeply about our public education system. And what I have really discovered in all this is we need a couple things: We need accountability, we need high expectations, and we need an awful lot more opportunities for families to make choices that better serve their own students.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Drazan touched on how the high cost of alternative energy threatens the state&#8217;s economy.\u00a0&#8220;Here in Oregon, in particular, we have this amazing legacy of hydropower,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;It&#8217;s given us access to a reliable, affordable, no-emission energy source in the Pacific Northwest for years and years now.\u00a0And we have leaders that are pushing an alternative, saying it&#8217;s not green enough or good enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The state&#8217;s ruling Democrats are discussing taking out the dams used for hydropower with no backup plan for what to replace it with, Drazan warned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t run on solar and wind here exclusively \u2014 we&#8217;ve got to have access to affordable, consistent, reliable energy sources,&#8221; Drazan emphasized. &#8220;And sitting leadership doesn&#8217;t see that. They are prioritizing this global agenda rather than recognizing the impacts it has on businesses and families here in our own state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oregonians are fed up with one-party, Democratic rule, Drazan believes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be a very tight race,&#8221; she predicted. &#8220;I need Oregonians to vote. I need them to choose change. And I&#8217;m gonna raise the money and do the hard work to get out there and introduce myself and talk about the issues that matter to people.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oregon hasn&#8217;t had a Republican governor since 1982, but the 2022 gubernatorial race is now a &#8220;toss up,&#8221;\u00a0according to election handicapper Larry Sabato at the University of Virginia&#8217;s Center for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1624083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1624081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1624081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1624083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1624081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1624081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1624081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}