Rep. Tina Kotek of North Portland's District 44 cites the interrelatedness of Oregon's challenges: in business climate, quality of life, education and healthcare delivery. Fixing one must not hurt the other. Kotek, a Democrat, faces a thoughtful newcomer, Republican Kitty Harmon, engineering program counselor at the University of Portland. Harmon says Oregon has a spending problem, not a revenue one, and proposes that every state agency be examined to justify its programs.
Harmon offers rich life experience. But Kotek, despite having championed the damaging Measure 66/67, is an accomplished young leader whom voters should re-elect.
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