By Oregonians for Food and Shelter,
The 2024 election is finally behind us, giving us some clarity on what the State Government will look like in 2025. Democrats continued their dominance of statewide offices, winning open races for Secretary of State, State Treasurer and Attorney General. At the federal level, Democrats gained one Oregon congressional seat, with Janelle Bynum taking Oregon Congressional District 5 from incumbent Chavez-DeRemer by a narrow margin. That leaves just one republican congressional seat for Oregon, Cliff Bentz in Congressional District 2.
Down the ballot, it appears very little will change in the state legislature. Only one seat of 90 changed hands: Senate District 27 in the Bend area, which will hand Democrats an 18-12 supermajority in the upper chamber. While no incumbent in either chamber lost their seat, notably, three Republicans well known in Oregon’s natural resource community will join the Senate: Bruce Starr (R-Polk County), Mike McLain (R-Powell Butte), and Todd Nash (R-Enterprise). Democrats will maintain their 35-25 advantage in the House.
With statewide ballot measures, OFS only took a position on one of them: Measure 118, the proposed massive tax on corporate sales. Voters roundly rejected the universal basic income concept, with the “no” vote approaching 80%.
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