Oregon’s still a mess and Tina Kotek wants four more years. That’s the joke.
She walked in day one, declared a homelessness emergency, and promised 36,000 new homes a year. Production never got close. Unsheltered people are still everywhere. The 2025 count still showed tens of thousands homeless and more than 16,000 unsheltered. She added shelter beds and press releases. The streets didn’t get the memo.
Jobs? Private-sector growth near the bottom of the country. Unemployment stuck above the national rate. Paychecks growing at half the national pace. Her own Prosperity Council basically said the state is sliding and she needs to signal we’re open for business. High taxes, a brutal estate tax, and more regulation. People and companies notice.
Schools? Near the bottom nationally. NAEP scores lag. Kids still aren’t proficient. More money went in. Results did not.
Then the office drama: staffers warning about using the governor’s office for her wife, paid scheduler, aides walking out. A judge struck down her union-labor mandate as illegal. Agency after agency blows up and she fires people after the scandal hits the paper.
Crime in Portland finally came down from the worst years. That happened *despite* years of failure, not because the big problems got solved.
She’s been governor almost four years. The same crises she ran on are still here. Re-electing her is choosing more of the same and hoping the next press conference fixes it.
Oregon deserves better than another term of this.
We must come together and vote Drazan. A vote for anyone else is a vote for Kotek.
Sep 14, 2026 · 2:18 AM UTC
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