WIllamette Week, October 13, 2010
This is an easy call for the incumbent. Kotek, the House majority whip, earned high marks in her second term across the board on GBA for integrity, brains and effectiveness. She co-sponsored a bill during the special session to bar employers from using applicants’ credit history against them and a measure requiring restaurants with 15 or more locations in Oregon to post calorie counts on their menus. Her opponent is Republican Kitty Harmon, a tea partyer who’s pleasant enough and concedes she’s “far out of her comfort zone” in making her first run. Harmon says she’s running in this overwhelmingly Democratic district to give voters a choice. OK, we’ve made ours.
