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Christine Drazan

Running for Governor in Oregon

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Will make our lives WORSE

Subverted Democracy to Kill Climate Action

We pay legislators to show up, debate, and vote — win or lose. Christine Drazan had a different idea: when she couldn't win the vote, she shut down the Legislature itself.

When Christine Drazan couldn't win a vote on climate, she made sure nobody could vote at all. We deserve better.
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Blamed Oregon When Trump Sent In Troops, and Wants to Hand the State to ICE

Whether white, black, or brown, we should all be able to live in Oregon and exercise our constitutional rights without fear that law enforcement will turn on us.

But the current administration has created a masked, unaccountable immigration force that national security officials told ProPublica has become "an unfettered and unaccountable national police force" — one that has held more than 170 U.S. citizens against their will. When President Trump sent federal troops into Portland, Christine Drazan's response was to attack Oregon's own leaders.

Christine Drazan would put Oregon's police at the service of an out-of-control federal force — and when Trump sent troops into Portland, the people she blamed were Oregon's own. We deserve better.
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Celebrated the End of Roe and Promised Vetoes on Abortion Rights

Decisions about pregnancy should be made by a woman, her family, and her doctor — not by politicians. Oregonians overwhelmingly support that principle. Christine Drazan doesn't.
  • When the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in June 2022, Drazan greeted the news with a two-word tweet: "Life wins!"
  • She considers Oregon's abortion laws "extreme" — and has said that as governor she would veto legislation that would "push Oregon further outside the mainstream."
  • Oregon Right to Life, the state's pre-eminent anti-abortion group, endorsed her — and was blunt about why. "We're always looking at what is our best opportunity to move the ball," its executive director told OPB. "Clearly one of our best chances this cycle is this governor's race."

A governor's veto pen is exactly how abortion protections die in a blue state. Christine Drazan has already told us she'd use it. We deserve better.
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Is Bankrolled by a Billionaire and the National Party Machine

Who pays for a campaign tells you who a politician will answer to. Christine Drazan's last run for governor took in $22 million. Here is where it came from.
  • Her single biggest backer wasn't a person or an Oregon business — it was the Republican Governors Association, at $7,161,926, nearly a third of everything she raised.
  • On October 6, 2022, Nike co-founder Phil Knight — "Oregon's richest man" — donated $1 million to her campaign, switching sides after already spending $3.75 million propping up unaffiliated candidate Betsy Johnson.
  • Nineteen days later he wrote her another $500,000 check — $1.5 million from a single billionaire.
  • Rounding out her top donors: the Oregon Republican Party, timber outfits Swanson Group and Murphy Plywood at $600,000 and $500,000, the National Association of Realtors, the Associated General Contractors, and the American Hospital Association.

Christine Drazan answers to a national party committee, a billionaire, and the industries that want a friend in Mahonia Hall — not to us. We deserve better.
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Targets Transgender Kids to Score Political Points

Every Oregon kid deserves the chance to grow up without being turned into a political football. Christine Drazan has made targeting transgender students a signature issue.

Christine Drazan is importing Trump's culture war into Oregon's schools. We deserve better.
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Opposed Oregon's Gun Safety Law a Month After a Mass Shooting

On August 28, 2022, a gunman walked into a supermarket in Bend, Oregon and fired more than 100 rounds, killing two people before killing himself. A month later, the three candidates for governor met for a debate in Bend itself, and were asked about Measure 114 — a ballot initiative requiring a permit to buy a gun.

Two Oregonians were shot dead in a Bend supermarket, and a month later Christine Drazan stood in that same town and said gun laws wouldn't have helped. We deserve better.
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