Oregon farmers and forest landowners are innovators and as much a part of Oregon’s future economy as they have been in the past – perhaps greater. The tone of the question suggests you are dismissing the future of the agriculture, wood products and tourism and hospitality industries in our rural communities.

We can do this carefully and with great engineering, and with great care for our state. We need to talk to the experts, real experts and utilize every type of resource and pull our state back to one of balance. We have been left with a state of destruction, and they don’t care, they got rich, how do they sleep at night? I really want to know. The people who claim who have been on our side clearly haven’t. Everyone can agree that we need to work together becuase if we do not, we will suffer even more than we already have. It is 2022 we can do this, we have to stop being stone walled, and start being lifted up. Look, we need to think about engineering smartly without destroying property lines and still creating energy that will crack down on the inflation crsis. We need to start talking about our natural gas industry, the jordan cove was a marine gel pipeline. As governor, what are the first three steps you would take to build a stronger economy in rural Oregon? Amber R Richardson – RepublicanĪgain, we must de-regulate the red-taping on our businesses, bring our resource industries back, like our logging industry. Agriculture is consolidating, natural resource extraction is in decline, and tourism provides mostly minimum-wage jobs.

The question: Much of the economy of rural Oregon is based on agriculture, natural resource extraction and tourism. To learn more about the candidates: Candidates for Oregon governor tackle state issues in unique Q&A Responses are in the candidates’ own words and have been trimmed at the 300-word limit. The primary election is May 17 and voting is underway now with Oregon’s vote-by-mail system. This is part of an unprecedented collaboration among newsrooms to provide voters better information about those who would be governor. Journalists across the state drafted the following 15 questions, which were distributed to candidates by the Agora Journalism Center at the University of Oregon. Rural Oregon would get a lot more attention from Salem based on positions staked out by those running for governor.Įvery candidate running was invited to address questions on key issues facing the state.

Edger Lives by David Beem