Oregon Governor Megathread

[Shaula🏳️‍⚧️]

LOL he'll clearly win the GE if he wins the nomination, but you can't get more "liberal elite" than this. The OR GOP will have a field day

[Shaula🏳️‍⚧️]

This is a sleeper race. Brown is the least popular governor in the nation right now and it's a democratic midterm. Lean D.

[Shaula🏳️‍⚧️]

Betsy Johnson gets some additional momentum & support.

Article is beyond the Oregonian paywall unless you use your free monthly article for "subscriber exclusive content".

Here is an exerpt:

"People for Portland co-founders join Oregon governor’s race as advisers to Betsy Johnson


Two of Oregon’s top political consultants have officially signed on to help former state Sen. Betsy Johnson launch an independent bid for governor.

The pair, Dan Lavey and Kevin Looper, more recently worked together on People for Portland, an anonymous, well-funded advocacy campaign pushing local elected leaders to take urgent action on crime, homelessness and other livability issues that have bedeviled the state’s largest city.

Lavey told The Oregonian/OregonLive on Monday that he and Looper will provide messaging, strategy and advice to Johnson, a moderate Democrat who has garnered substantial financial support from an array of business, civic and political backers.

Filings show she has amassed more than $3.4 million to date, an amount that far outpaces any of her rivals. The increasingly crowded field include Democrats such as House Speaker Tina Kotek, state Treasurer Tobias Read and former New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, while House Minority Leader Christine Drazen, physician Bud Pierce and Sandy Mayor Stan Pulliam are among the Republican contenders.

....

Lavey and Looper co-founded People for Portland, which placed ads on TV and online and directed a mass emailing campaign to members of the Portland City Council, Multnomah County Board of Commissioners, Metro Council and state lawmakers who represent Portland.

The dark money group disclosed it spent more than $500,000 in the three months ending Sept. 30, city lobbying reports show.

....


"


https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2021/12/people-for-portland-co-founders-join-oregon-governors-race-as-advisers-to-betsy-johnson.html

Is this a left-leaning or right- leaning independent?

[Shaula🏳️‍⚧️]

Betsy Johnson gets some additional momentum & support.

Article is beyond the Oregonian paywall unless you use your free monthly article for "subscriber exclusive content".

Here is an exerpt:

"People for Portland co-founders join Oregon governor’s race as advisers to Betsy Johnson


Two of Oregon’s top political consultants have officially signed on to help former state Sen. Betsy Johnson launch an independent bid for governor.

The pair, Dan Lavey and Kevin Looper, more recently worked together on People for Portland, an anonymous, well-funded advocacy campaign pushing local elected leaders to take urgent action on crime, homelessness and other livability issues that have bedeviled the state’s largest city.

Lavey told The Oregonian/OregonLive on Monday that he and Looper will provide messaging, strategy and advice to Johnson, a moderate Democrat who has garnered substantial financial support from an array of business, civic and political backers.

Filings show she has amassed more than $3.4 million to date, an amount that far outpaces any of her rivals. The increasingly crowded field include Democrats such as House Speaker Tina Kotek, state Treasurer Tobias Read and former New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, while House Minority Leader Christine Drazen, physician Bud Pierce and Sandy Mayor Stan Pulliam are among the Republican contenders.

....

Lavey and Looper co-founded People for Portland, which placed ads on TV and online and directed a mass emailing campaign to members of the Portland City Council, Multnomah County Board of Commissioners, Metro Council and state lawmakers who represent Portland.

The dark money group disclosed it spent more than $500,000 in the three months ending Sept. 30, city lobbying reports show.

....


"


https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2021/12/people-for-portland-co-founders-join-oregon-governors-race-as-advisers-to-betsy-johnson.html

Is this a left-leaning or right- leaning independent?

Betsy Johnson is a registered Democrat who has served in both the OR State House and Senate since 2001 predominately representing rural areas along / near the Oregon Coast, first in SW Oregon and then relocated to the NW OR Coastal area.

She has frequently voted with Republicans in the State Senate on Environmental, Taxation, and Gun Control issues.


https://www.opb.org/article/2021/12/14/oregon-state-senator-betsy-johnson-resigning-governor-race/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy_Johnson

https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/biography/46663/betsy-johnson

If she polls well, this could be an R flip then.

[Shaula🏳️‍⚧️]

Getting KS-2018 vibes here

[Shaula🏳️‍⚧️]

Getting KS-2018 vibes here

How so? Republicans lost there in a blue year because they nominated an unpopular extremist too conservative for the meidan voter. In OR, Democrats don't appear to be considering nominating an extremist/radical who'd cost nearly enough votes to lose the GE.


EDIT: Forgot to manually correct thread title and did so now.

I'm talking about a governor election in a likely/safe state in a wave year where the party the national environment doesn't prefer has a term-limited extremely unpopular governor, and there is a spoiler independent candidate taking votes from the same party.