Pacific Green Party

But, yeah, I think in part both this and the governor's race, when you have a rematch and you have sort of recycling things that infuriated both candidates two years ago kind of coming back in this race, it has felt like that a little bit, talking to both of these candidates.

There's also a third person in the race as well, Pacific Green Party.

But it has felt like that.

Yeah.

I think it was about eight, eight points, eight percentage points.

This year we have Brett Smith running as a member of the Pacific Green Party.

Could that be a factor in this race?

I mean, I, I've been very intrigued by that question, and I've probably written more about it than it needed to be.

"Lars, my husband, uh, and I noticed while reading, uh, through our Oregon voters' pamphlet something very glaring to us.

How is it that the Pacific Green Party of Oregon has a candidate running for governor, US senator, US representative for the fourth district? As you know, independents make up the state's largest third party.

How is it possible for this very small Pacific Green Party to be the third choice in these important positions in Oregon's government? What qualifications had to be met to get them on the ballot? I started researching and found the majority of their support is from Democrats from the SEIU," that's the purple-shirted thugs labor union, "the AFSCME," A-F-S-C-M-E, the American Federation of State County Municipal Employees.

"There's something very nefarious and rigged going on by the Democrats.

Just thought I'd share this with you.

He ran for Congress actually two years ago as a nominee of the Independent Party.

But this year he is running for governor as the nominee of the Pacific Green Party.

And he's turning heads, at least among some political watchers, for a couple of reasons.

The first is that It's very rare that there is just three candidates in a gubernatorial race.

And what we found when we crunched all the numbers is, you're right, Drazen had a very tiny lead.

She got 47% of support to Kotex, 46%.

Brett Smith, that Pacific Green Party candidate I mentioned, had 3%, and 4% of people were undecided.

Should note, it was a 3.24% margin of error on that.

So, uh, OPB polled 915 likely voters throughout the state of Oregon to, to get a sense of where we stand, uh, roughly a month out from Election Day.

Um, a- and the first thing we asked is, "Hey, if you had to vote today, w- which gubernatorial candidate would you pick?" And w- what came back there was 46% of folks said Christine Drazan, uh, 44% of folks said Democratic Governor Tina Kotek, 3% of folks said, uh, Brett Smith, who's a Pacific Green Party candidate, and 8% were undecided.

Hmm.

Drazan, I should say, is a r- a Republican state senator.

Um, I, I should mention that the, the margin of error for this poll is 3.24%.

But then what our pollsters did is said, "Okay, hey, undecided voters, let's say, l- what candidate would you lean toward? We know y- you haven't made up your mind, but what candidate would you lean toward if you had to vote today?" And that gave us a little bit different result.

Um, i- in that result, we got 47% of respondents saying Drazan, 46% of respondents saying Kotek, 3 with Smith, that Pacific Green Party candidate, a- and four said, "No, I'm not gonna answer.

I, I'm still undecided." So basically, we came away with Christine Drazan, at that stage in the race when we were polling, had, we think, around a 1% lead.

Welcome to the CCC News Podcast.

Today we're talking with Josiah Dean, a Dufour resident and Pacific Green Party candidate challenging 13-term Republican State Representative Greg Smith for Oregon House District 57.

Dean, 63, entered the race late and acknowledges he faces a steep climb in a district that has reliably elected Republicans for more than two decades.

But he says Smith's recent primary challenge, along with concerns about corporate influence, rural economic development, and accountability in Salem, has created an opening.

I just

want to make that clear.

So you're running as a Pacific Green Party candidate.

That is true.

He actually ran for president.

Senate years ago for the Pacific Green Party.

He did not get elected.

He's actually currently a member of the Portland Elections Commission, which is which is charged with overseeing Susan's program.