Oregon State Senate

I really appreciate it.

In terms of all of our candidates, the candidate pool, as we called it, which we'll probably bring to the Oregon Senate, gave a great presentation.

I'm not going to call it, by the way, you can go to the website about daddidit, daddidit.com. That's what we call it.

You can come to the Democratic Center.

We can't do them all.

We did Oregon State Senate.

We've done the Washington State House races.

They're in the area.

We are hosting a webinar for this project on October 13th at 6:00 PM Pacific.

We're featuring speakers from the Oregon Department of Transportation, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Oregon State Senate, Southern Oregon Wildlife Cro- Crossing Coalition, and Environment America Research and Policy Center to educate more Oregonians about wildlife vehicle collisions and existing and in-progress crossing projects.

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And to share the tools and training that folks will need to be part of this project to gather a snapshot of data that's focused on wildlife near Oregon's roads between October 17th and 25th.

Coming up on this program.

Today, we're here to learn more about the candidates and their views as they bide for Oregon Senate District 6 position.

I'd like to introduce and welcome the candidates Jack Tibbetts,

We appreciate the sponsors who make our civic work possible, including Lane Community College, lanecc.edu, and the University of Oregon, uoregon.edu. And here's your podcast episode.

I'm Laurelyn Spear.

I'm the president of the Springfield City Club.

And on behalf of our entire board, I welcome you to today's Oregon Senate District 6 Candidate Forum.

The mission of the Springfield City Club is to promote leadership and vision in Springfield by bringing community together for open dialogue and civic engagement.

Uh, naysayers always go to the head of the line.

So Michelle Strode joins me now, who's the Republican candidate for Oregon State Senate District 20 and a two-term Oregon City School Board member.

Ms. Strode, welcome to the program.

Thank you for having me.

I started my career in Congressman DeFazio's office here in Eugene and also in D.C.

I went to work for Richard Devlin, a senior Democrat in the Oregon Senate, and then worked in local public policy before stepping away to stay home with my kids.

Today, I work in technology project management, and I've spent most of my life reading plans and asking one question.

Will this actually do what it says it will? So let me be clear.