Clackamas County Republican Party September Newsletter

Message from the Chair SEPTEMBER 1, 2018 We need everyone to help get involved if we are to make a difference in our House District State. WE are entering the crucial time 51 Officers of getting out and supporting our Upcoming candidates. There are upcoming Canvassing Traci Hensley – Chair parades, meet and greets, campaign [email protected] Events for events. WE will do our best to work Margie Hughes – Vice-Chair with all candidates to announce all Lori Chavez- [email protected] events so that you can become engaged DeRemer Linda Neace – Secretary and involved in supporting them. [email protected] Please be on the lookout for our emails Saturday’s and updates to the website. Eric Hofeld – Treasurer September 8 Remember a Red begins in September 15 [email protected] Clackamas County. Please contact us September 22 – Traci Hensley, Chair Joint Walk with if you have any questions Knute Buehler For more info visit http://www.lorichavez State Senate CCRP Sign Party deremer.com/contact/ Upcoming Meetings Candidates Saturday th (All Meetings will take place at CCRP District 13 September 15 Offices unless otherwise noted) Kim Thatcher https://kimthatcher.com/ Please join the CCRP Office: and friends for the 612 Molalla Ave District 19 2018 Sign Party. 9:00 David Poulson at the Barn. Oregon City, OR 97045 District 20 Please get in touch Mailing: Alan Olsen with John Lee to map Elephant courtesy of PO Box 1002 http://www.alanolsen.com/ out areas to make sure Clarice Moss,

Clackamas, OR 97015 District 26 our candidates are President of the Mt. Chuck Thomsen supported. This is Hood Republican (971) 808-1145 https://chuckthomsen.com/ important. Woman [email protected]

CCRP Executive Committee New audit says Oregon’s state agencies are bad at audits Meeting If you're ever wondered why state agencies in Oregon seem to be caught with their pants down so often with fraud, waste and abuse, Secretary of State September 10 – 7pm Dennis Richardson may have an answer for you: They aren't bothering to look for it or limit the risk. Richardson's office issued an audit Wednesday lambasting CCRP Central Committee state agencies internal audit functions, saying they had been consistently Meeting understaffed, undervalued and neglected by leadership, so much so that agency directors are largely unaware of the activities of their auditors - if they November 10, 2018 even have one. This is why we need candidates that will provide oversight of Grandview Baptist Church in agencies. Information courtesy of . Click the link at the Beavercreek top to read the full story.

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Become a PCP November Ballot Measures A Precinct Committee Person is the Parties Measure 102, it allows local governments to issue bonds to pay for affordable housing eyes and ears on ground projects that involve nonprofits or other nongovernmental entities. in their community. Measure 103, which would amend Oregon’s Constitution to ban taxes on food and groceries. They are the ones that engage their neighbors Measure 104, which would amend Oregon's Constitution to require a three-fifths and talk about the issues supermajority vote in the Legislature to trim tax breaks or raise fees. important to them. Below is the link to the Measure 105, which would repeal Oregon's sanctuary state status. form. Measure 106, which would ban state funding for abortions in Oregon

http://www.clackamascou For more information about these measures and initiatives click here to read the Oregonian Story ntyrepublicans.org/precinc https://www.oregonlive.com/expo/news/erry-2018/08/6564e184eb471/oregon-ballot-measures-at- t-committee-persons/ 30ye.html#incart_river_index#incart_social_feature

Looking to gain experience and serve in a volunteer New Cato Institute Report capacity. Please think about applying to serve on one House District Captains detailing State by State of the many advisory boards and commissions that (These Leaders work with the PCPs in communicate directly with the Clackamas County Rankings in many different Board of Commissioners. These groups are vital to categories. Click here to different areas to help them get providing insight and perspective to your local read the full report to see engaged) elected officials. This is great experience that will where Oregon stands. info@ClackamasCountyRepublicans. help guide our County. Visit this link for more org information on how to apply. https://web3.clackamas.us/abc/abc.jsp https://cdn.freedominthe50s tates.org/download/2018/pr HD 18 Jason Griswold (Molalla, int-edition-2018.pdf Beavercreek) State Representative Candidates HD 26 Open (Wilsonville) Thank you Senator District 18 District 26 Thatcher for sharing. HD 37 Steve Freiling (West Rick Lewis Richard Vial Linn)

District 37 Candidate for HD 38 JD Pavek (Lake Oswego) Julie Parrish https://www.facebook.com/julie4oregon Governor HD 39 John Savory (Canby)

District 39 Knute Buehler HD 40 Les Poole (Oregon City) Christine Drazan https://christinefororegon.com/ https://knutebuehler.com/ HD 41 OPEN (Milwaukie)

rd District 40 District 48 3 Congressional District HD 48 Rob Wheeler (East Josh Hill Sonny Yellott Tom Harrison Happy Valley

https://tomharrison4congress. HD 51 Mark Fitz (Happy District 51 com/ Lori-Chavez DeRemer Valley, Damascus)

http://www.lorichavezderemer.com th 5 Congressional HD 52 Open (Sandy and the District 52 Candidate Mountain) Jeff Helfrich Mark Callahan https://www.helfrichfororegon.com/ https://callahanfororegon.com/

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