Oregon Senate 6

Good afternoon, everybody.

It's nice to be here with you all, and thank you for taking the time to come out and listen to what we have to say as candidates for Senate District 6.

I'm Jack Tibbetts, and I guess the thing I should start with telling you is, so why are you running? I'm a farmer and I'm a business owner and I'm a father of two boys, Casey and Luke, who are three and five years old.

And I am very happy living my life as a farmer and a business owner, but it just became really apparent to me after years and years and years of doing it that it's getting more and more difficult.

It's getting more difficult to make farms make money.

It's getting more difficult to be able to function efficiently on a farm.

And that got me starting to pay attention very closely to not just public policy and politics, but just what's going on at the state as a whole.

And one of the things that I found was a really dismal record.

You know, the state of Oregon is failing in almost every metric there is nationally.

Our unemployment rate is roughly 1% higher than the national average.

We're ranked 47th in education.

We're ranked 46th in jobs in the economy.

And we're ranked 45th for affordability.

So when you kind of see that record and then you take a step back and say, you know what, this makes sense to me because this is what I'm feeling in my own home, I thought, well, I'd like to put my hand up in the air and run for office and be a candidate.

So that's why I have the opportunity to sit here before you today.

I look forward to your questions.

So I hope you'll ask a lot.

Thanks.

My name is Caleb Ticer.

I'll start by saying I am not a very great public speaker, so sorry if it seems like I have a little bit of stage fright.

I do.

I've lived in Oregon my whole life, and it's always been a part of who I am.

It's going out into the woods, going to the lake.

Politics has never been a goal of mine, and it's never been anything that I've really... until recently tried to have an ambition towards but I started realizing recently that we can't afford to not get involved everybody needs to and I try to help my community as much as I can everywhere that I can and very often I hear people say why don't you go do something about this and for the longest time I didn't think that it was possible I'm not the kind of guy that A political party is going to come and say, hey, we want you.

I have a tendency to be a little too honest sometimes.

Good afternoon, everybody.

It's nice to be here with you all, and thank you for taking the time to come out and listen to what we have to say as candidates for Senate District 6.

I'm Jack Tibbetts, and I guess the thing I should start with telling you is, so why are you running? I'm a farmer and I'm a business owner and I'm a father of two boys, Casey and Luke, who are three and five years old.

And I am very happy living my life as a farmer and a business owner, but it just became really apparent to me after years and years and years of doing it that it's getting more and more difficult.

It's getting more difficult to make farms make money.

It's getting more difficult to be able to function efficiently on a farm.

And that got me starting to pay attention very closely to not just public policy and politics, but just what's going on at the state as a whole.

And one of the things that I found was a really dismal record.

You know, the state of Oregon is failing in almost every metric there is nationally.

Our unemployment rate is roughly 1% higher than the national average.

We're ranked 47th in education.

We're ranked 46th in jobs in the economy.

And we're ranked 45th for affordability.

So when you kind of see that record and then you take a step back and say, you know what, this makes sense to me because this is what I'm feeling in my own home, I thought, well, I'd like to put my hand up in the air and run for office and be a candidate.

So that's why I have the opportunity to sit here before you today.

I look forward to your questions.

So I hope you'll ask a lot.

Thanks.

My name is Caleb Ticer.

I'll start by saying I am not a very great public speaker, so sorry if it seems like I have a little bit of stage fright.

I do.

I've lived in Oregon my whole life, and it's always been a part of who I am.

It's going out into the woods, going to the lake.

Politics has never been a goal of mine, and it's never been anything that I've really... until recently tried to have an ambition towards but I started realizing recently that we can't afford to not get involved everybody needs to and I try to help my community as much as I can everywhere that I can and very often I hear people say why don't you go do something about this and for the longest time I didn't think that it was possible I'm not the kind of guy that A political party is going to come and say, hey, we want you.

I have a tendency to be a little too honest sometimes.