{"id":1721487,"date":"2022-11-02T12:02:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T16:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1721487"},"modified":"2022-11-02T12:20:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T16:20:41","slug":"why-lifelong-oregon-dems-are-ready-to-vote-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-lifelong-oregon-dems-are-ready-to-vote-red\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Lifelong Oregon Dems Are Ready to Vote Red"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fwhy-lifelong-oregon-dems-are-ready-to-vote-red%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=1721487&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 class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure><a class=\"image-link is-viewable-img image2\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68648b4e-9937-4b45-95ca-deb4e19ea592_1024x683.jpeg\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"image2-inset\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" \/><img src width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-attrs=\"{\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><figcaption class=\"image-caption\">Gubernatorial candidate Christine Drazan during a rally on October 18, 2022 in Aurora, Oregon. (Mathieu Lewis-Rolland via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>PORTLAND, ORE.\u2014Christine Drazan\u2014a pro-life, pro-gun rights Republican best known for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/news\/2020\/02\/oregon-house-republicans-plan-1st-walkout-to-slow-democrats-progress.html\" rel=\"\">fighting a state climate-change bill<\/a><span>\u2014is in a dead heat to become the next governor of Oregon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I repeat: Oregon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>Oregon, where Democrats have controlled the governor\u2019s mansion for four decades, and the state legislature for 15 years. Oregon, where medical marijuana has been legal since 1998 (trailing only California) and assisted dying is a birthright and hippies have long been a major constituency. (In 2013, the real-estate blog <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kval.com\/news\/local\/it-was-known-all-along-that-eugene-would-be-no-1-because-it-just-is\" rel=\"\">Estately<\/a><span> ranked Eugene the No. 1 city in America for hippies.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you want to know why super-progressive Oregon is thinking about voting red, consider one small community of people living in houses floating on the Columbia River.<\/p>\n<p>Linda Donewald is one of them. She moved here from the Phoenix suburbs because her husband dreamed of living on the river. They\u2019re not especially political. They love Portland for the same reason most people love Portland. \u201cThe downtown area is filled with history and a variety of restaurants, shops, theaters, and an awesome Saturday Market on the Waterfront,\u201d Donewald said of the Portland she knew a few years ago. Now, she said, downtown Portland \u201clooks like a war zone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>Until recently, the city\u2019s biggest homeless encampment stood just across the street from the floating-homes community, in what\u2019s called the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.portlandoregon.gov\/bes\/article\/129798\" rel=\"\">Big Four Corners Natural Area<\/a><span>. The camp was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmercury.com\/news\/2018\/01\/31\/19643600\/portland-has-a-brand-new-houseless-community\" rel=\"\">founded<\/a><span> in 2018 by homeless activists on a protected wetlands site. They used to call it the Village of Hope.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By 2020, hundreds of people were living in the Village of Hope, and crime was rampant. Houseboat community residents started finding their car windows smashed in. Thieves stole their catalytic converters, and then their cars. On one occasion, a resident returned to his floating home to find someone in his bathroom taking a shower.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe considered hiring a nightly foot patrol, but it was too expensive,\u201d said Denise Olson, another floating home resident. \u201cWe felt terrorized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sound of gunfire became routine, residents told me when I visited the site last week. One said you could smell the paint thinner-like odor of meth labs in the encampment, which burst into flames on several occasions. City firefighters refused to go into the encampment; it was too dangerous.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then the homeless started stealing neighborhood dogs for ransom, Kevin Dahlgren, the president of a Pacific Northwest homeless advocacy group, told me. One homeless person told Dahlgren that bodies of deceased camp residents are buried in the site\u2019s marshy ground.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trying to get the city to do something about it was useless.<\/p>\n<p>Residents said they got bounced from one unresponsive government agency to the next, until they finally got a meeting with an aide to their state representative, Democrat Zach Hudson, Olson told me.<\/p>\n<p><span>The aide told the houseboat owners that their homeless neighbors \u201cjust need a hand-up.\u201d She suggested they organize a barbecue for the homeless. <\/span><em>A barbecue?!<\/em><span> The houseboat owners were stunned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve never experienced anything like this,\u201d said Donewald, who, with Olson, created a neighborhood security committee. \u201cThere\u2019s been a failure of leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure><a class=\"image-link is-viewable-img image2\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdd5ea87a-c790-437b-b8b4-ca06c01cfd1f_1024x683.jpeg\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"image2-inset\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" \/><img src width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-attrs=\"{\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><figcaption class=\"image-caption\"> A sign informing visitors of a temporary bank branch closure hangs from a broken window during an Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage protest. (Nathan Howard via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>It seems like everyone here is talking about \u201cfailure of leadership\u201d right now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>The outgoing, term-limited governor, Kate Brown, a Democrat, is the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/morningconsult.com\/2022\/04\/28\/governor-approval-ratings-2022-election\/\" rel=\"\">least popular governor in America<\/a><span>. In April, a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/pdf\/OPB%20Election%20Survey--Annotated_1650480521631.pdf\" rel=\"\">poll<\/a><span> showed Oregon voters preferring a generic Republican over a generic Democrat by <\/span><em>18 points.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>For most of October, Drazan <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/polls\/governor\/2022\/oregon\/\" rel=\"\">led<\/a><span> her Democratic rival, Tina Kotek, by a few points. In the last week, the race has tightened, with both candidates now at 39.1 percent. They are joined by third-party candidate Betsy Johnson, a moderate Democrat, with just under 14 percent. (Drazan and Kotek overlapped in the state House, with Kotek serving as Speaker from 2013 to 2022, and Drazan serving as Kotek\u2019s counterpart, minority leader, from 2019 to 2021.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Homelessness is the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/politics\/2022\/10\/oregon-governors-race-homelessness-policy-could-make-or-break-the-election.html\" rel=\"\">number one issue<\/a><span> among Oregon voters, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/politics\/2022\/10\/homelessness-is-the-most-important-issue-for-portland-area-voters-oregonianoregonlive-poll-finds.html\" rel=\"\">particularly in Portland<\/a><span>, followed by drugs and crime. The gubernatorial race has become a referendum on political leaders\u2019\u2014and, really, Democrats\u2019\u2014handling of these issues, and on the general deterioration that has taken place on their watch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Signs of that deterioration are everywhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>The murder rate is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/portland\/2022\/10\/deaths-on-the-streets-homeless-homicides-in-portland-eclipse-2021.html\" rel=\"\">surging<\/a><span> in Portland, especially among those living on the street. In a recent <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/silicon-forest\/2022\/10\/downtown-portland-feels-even-less-safe-now-than-months-into-pandemic-oregonianoregonlive-poll-finds.html\" rel=\"\">survey<\/a><span> of Portland residents, 84% of those polled said they felt unsafe downtown at night, and 61% felt the same way during the day. Eighty-two percent want more police in the city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Drug addiction is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/health\/2022\/09\/oregons-drug-decriminalization-effort-sends-less-than-1-of-people-to-treatment.html\" rel=\"\">as bad as ever<\/a><span>. \u201cThere is no evidence that Measure 110 has reduced drug use, drug-related crime, or overdose in the state,\u201d Keith Humphreys, a psychologist who specializes in addiction and served as a senior advisor in the Obama administration, told me, referring to a progressive 2020 initiative that decriminalized drug possession. Meanwhile, Mexico\u2019s Sinaloa drug cartel is active in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/pacific-northwest-news\/2013\/06\/drug_cartels_in_oregon_violenc.html\" rel=\"\">\u201cevery corner of the state\u201d<\/a><span>, as <\/span><em>The Oregonian<\/em><span> puts it. (Police in Eugene recently seized <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/katu.com\/news\/local\/eugene-police-find-18lbs-of-fentanyl-largest-bust-in-department-history-oregon-portland-drugs\" rel=\"\">18 pounds of fentanyl<\/a><span> in a single traffic stop, enough to kill most of the state of Oregon.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And, for the first time in over a decade, Portland is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wweek.com\/news\/city\/2022\/03\/24\/portland-metro-population-declines-amid-american-flight-from-major-cities\/\" rel=\"\">shrinking<\/a><span>, with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/data\/2022\/07\/multnomah-county-lost-12000-people-in-past-year-heres-who-drove-those-declines.html\" rel=\"\">young adults<\/a><span> leaving in particularly large numbers: between 2020 and 2021,\u00a0the county that includes Portland had a net loss of more than 4,000 residents between the ages of 25 and 29. Oregon as a whole has experienced one of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewtrusts.org\/en\/research-and-analysis\/articles\/2022\/04\/25\/a-third-of-states-lost-population-in-2021\" rel=\"\">biggest slowdowns<\/a><span> in population growth in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>All of which has led lifelong Democrats to reassess their loyalties.<\/p>\n<p>Angela Renteria, a longtime Portland resident who used to work for a downtown branch of U.S. Bank said she\u2019s watched Portland \u201ccompletely turn to shit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe homeless situation has skyrocketed,\u201d she said. \u201cMental health has gone downhill.\u201d The decline has cast a pall over public life. Renteria is a smoker, and every time she lights up a cigarette outside, she said, she\u2019s accosted. \u201cI work really hard for my $10 pack of cigarettes,\u201d she said. People come up to her and ask to bum one after another after another. When she says no, they call her \u201ca fucking bitch,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe biggest thing to me, though\u2014the most off-putting thing, is open defecation,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m walking down the street with my kids going to a bookstore, and someone is squatted on the sidewalk taking a shit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy kids, there are times they want to go to Portland and check out shops,\u201d Diana Sapera told me. \u201cNow, I don\u2019t feel comfortable doing that. My kids are scared, seeing grown adults yelling, hitting things, throwing things. They see needles and are like, \u2018What is that?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know one person who says \u2018I want to go downtown today, want to come?,\u2019\u201d said Olson. \u201cNobody wants to go there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sapera, a social worker who has voted Democratic her entire life, said: \u201cIt feels like night and day from even just this last year.\u201d She cast her mail-in ballot for Drazan.<\/p>\n<p>Sapera\u2019s husband, George Carillo, was similarly disgusted with Portland\u2019s spiral. Like his wife, Carillo has been a lifelong Democrat. Now he\u2019s not so sure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s single-party control,\u201d he told me. \u201cThings are going downhill: inflation, crime, homelessness, addiction, overdoses. Here in Oregon, look outside\u2014you see the homelessness, people dying in the streets from overdoses, people having psychotic breaks. It\u2019s in shambles right now. It wasn\u2019t always like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carillo became so frustrated with the status quo in Oregon that he ran for office for the first time in his life in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. After dropping out, instead of going with his party\u2019s nominee, he threw his support behind Christine Drazan.<\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure><a class=\"image-link is-viewable-img image2\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff5b3e59-e735-4091-9e84-7e9990a38645_6122x4081.jpeg\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"image2-inset\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" \/><img src width=\"1456\" height=\"971\" data-attrs=\"{\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><figcaption class=\"image-caption\">People gather in a protest camp near the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon. (Spencer Platt via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Drazan has positioned herself as a moderate\u2014unlike many Republicans, she acknowledges that Joe Biden is the freely and fairly elected president of the United States\u2014but the caucus she comes from is far from it. Last year, a Republican state representative <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/politics\/2021\/01\/video-clearly-shows-rep-mike-nearman-helping-right-wing-demonstrators-breach-oregon-capitol.html\" rel=\"\">opened the doors<\/a><span> of the state Capitol to allow armed, anti-lockdown protesters inside. The protesters pepper-sprayed cops and attacked journalists. A month later, the Oregon GOP called January 6 a \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Oregon_GOP\/status\/1351656484392759297\" rel=\"\">\u2018false flag\u2019 operation<\/a><span>\u201d and compared it to the Nazis burning down the Reichstag.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Even so, 13% of undecided voters leaning toward Drazan are registered Democrats, according to a recent <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1BcVjJwXXIQSGnKkYIrjeEpW5ABR986AI\/view\" rel=\"\">poll<\/a><span>. (Among undecided voters leaning toward Kotek, only 4% are Republicans.) In an era of hyper-partisanship, that degree of party disloyalty is remarkable. According to a Pew <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2020\/10\/21\/large-shares-of-voters-plan-to-vote-a-straight-party-ticket-for-president-senate-and-house\/\" rel=\"\">study<\/a><span> from 2020, only 4% of voters that year cast ballots for a major candidate of the opposite party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Key to her appeal is Drazan\u2019s break with the status quo on homelessness\u2014rejecting the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcd.ca.gov\/grants-funding\/active-funding\/docs\/housing-first-fact-sheet.pdf\" rel=\"\">Housing First<\/a><span> philosophy that has become orthodoxy in progressive cities up and down the West Coast. Housing First posits that the main reason people are living on the streets is lack of affordable housing, and the best way to solve the problem is to build more of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Drazan thinks the real problem is drug addiction\u2014not high rent. She wants to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/politics\/2022\/10\/oregon-governor-candidates-what-would-they-do-to-address-homelessness.html\" rel=\"\">\u201cend encampments,\u201d<\/a><span> repeal Measure 110 and expand addiction-treatment services, in addition to building more housing. \u201cWe have to help Oregonians get sober and stay sober,\u201d she <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/article\/2022\/08\/16\/republican-christine-drazan-answers-opb-questions-on-homelessness-crisis\/\" rel=\"\">said<\/a><span> in August in response to a series of questions posed by Oregon Public Broadcasting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>If Drazan wins, it will be \u201ca shock to the system,\u201d said <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cn4partners.com\/team\/parker-butterworth\/\" rel=\"\">Parker Butterworth<\/a><span>, a Democratic consultant who works frequently for Oregon candidates. Democrats will be relentless and myopic in positioning themselves to win the seat back in four years. \u201cRight at the beginning she has to make the case to Democrats, to the center left, that she\u2019s not an enemy. She needs to tap into that old Oregonian way of independence and populism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>George Donnerberg, the developer behind the floating-home community, has seen this return to political independence among Portland voters firsthand.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Donnerberg, who traces his family history in Portland to 1864, lives in one of the floating homes himself. The mayhem he has witnessed from the Big Four Corners camp compelled him to run for state representative\u2014as a Republican. His district, like pretty much all of the Portland area, is overwhelmingly Democratic\u2014\u201cI&#8217;m walking a tightrope on this thing,\u201d he told me. But, he said, he keeps meeting disillusioned Democrats while knocking on doors.<\/p>\n<p>One of those disillusioned Democrats, a self-described \u201cunion guy\u201d from a union family, told me that nearly every vote he\u2019s ever cast has been for Democrats. This time, he\u2019s voting for Drazan. He insisted on staying anonymous out of fear of drawing attention to himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a stunning amount of violence from Antifa,\u201d he said, referring to the self-styled radical \u201canti-fascist\u201d activists who are particularly numerous and active in Portland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Antifa has become the most dramatic symbol of the city\u2019s lawlessness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Angela Renteria\u2019s old job, at U.S. Bank, was near where the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020 happened. \u201cThey had to shut down the branch\u2014people were blocking the streets, throwing trash cans at cars,\u201d she told me, adding: \u201cRight after Columbus Day, they spray-painted our bank. Our higher-ups and security instructed us on what to do if things got out of hand: you\u2019re going to lock yourselves in the vault.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said the entire time she worked at the branch, she saw \u201cmaybe two police cars the whole time. I saw ambulances, fire trucks, but no cops. They just let them do their thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Denise Olson, the floating-house resident, echoed Renteria. \u201cA solid year of rioting\u2014daily, nightly,\u201d she said. \u201cThe city of Portland allowed that rioting to go on for so long.\u201d She believes the rioting contributed enormously to the crime in her neighborhood by tying up the police downtown and leaving the rest of the city to fend for itself. \u201cIf there wasn\u2019t an immediate life or death situation you weren\u2019t going to get a response,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The question is where all these people\u2014these newly unaligned voters\u2014go next. After the midterms are over. After 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Republican Party has almost nothing to offer me,\u201d the unnamed \u201cunion guy\u201d told me. He described himself as a \u201c1960s Civil Rights type,\u201d the kind of person who believes that \u201cthe best way to end discrimination is to end discrimination.\u201d In 2016, he voted for Bernie Sanders. Now, he said, the Democrats are all about dividing the world into victims and oppressors. \u201cIt seems to be their goal,\u201d he said. \u201cThey want more division.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>Olson is likewise disillusioned with the party she grew up in. She was born and raised in Portland, in a Catholic family, and she mostly voted Democratic. Now, she felt embarrassed to admit where she came from. When people asked, she\u2019d say, kind of sheepishly: \u201cI\u2019m from Port\u2026land.\u201d Everyone in her floating home community agreed that it was great that the city recently <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/katu.com\/news\/local\/destruction-at-the-big-four-corners-natural-area-portland-oregon-camps-cleared-homelessness-homeless-trash-environmental-impact\" rel=\"\">cleared away<\/a><span> the homeless encampment across the street, but it took ages, and there was no guarantee they wouldn\u2019t come back, and if they did, you couldn\u2019t rely on the old Democratic leadership to take action.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Olson\u2019s politics are shifting. The first time she voted for a Republican was in 2016\u2014for Donald Trump. She couldn\u2019t stand Hillary Clinton. \u201cThe Democrats will stay with the status quo, and nothing will change,\u201d she said of this year\u2019s election. \u201cKate Brown has had eight years, and I can\u2019t recall one thing that was a good thing that she\u2019s done. I\u2019m voting for Christine Drazan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>Diana Sapera told me that she had hoped to be able to support Tina Kotek. She was a <\/span><em>social worker<\/em><span>, after all. Social workers vote for progressives. But she couldn\u2019t do it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Because of the three-way race, whoever wins next week will almost definitely have less than 50% of the vote, Butterworth said. The victor will have a lot to prove. Symbolism and ideology won\u2019t be enough\u2014voters need the kinds of results they can see with their own eyes in places like downtown Portland. Speaking of the mood of Oregon voters, he said, \u201cThis sort of tribalism\u2014I\u2019m left, you\u2019re right, we have nothing in common\u2014has got to go.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gubernatorial candidate Christine Drazan during a rally on October 18, 2022 in Aurora, Oregon. 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