Just filled out my primary ballot (all Oregon elections are by mail). Takeaways:
This was the worst laid-out voter information packet I ever saw, they\u2019re usually decent
Two judicial candidates were married but the only clue is their biographies both mentioned having 14 children (12 adopted in China).
A consequence of Oregon recognizing a nonbinary gender is party precinct committees are selected from separate lists of committeemen, committeewomen, and committeepersons (vote for 22 of each, there is a total of one man running.)
An open city council position \u2013 at large, they all are \u2013 has enough candidates to go to top 2 in the general. The two frontrunners are black women, which would be novel. The one the papers endorsed as \u201cthe angry black woman Portland needs\u201d is an ex-legislator repping the neglected Far East Side; the other a more part-of-the-system staffer.
But the dark horse is a white guy architect running as essentially the nice liberal downtown anti-growth NIMBY, sent out a mailer message was \u201cthe homeless tents are coming for your street and I\u2019ll save you\u201d. Talks about solutions, did oppose the shelter down the street. Interesting check of where Portland\u2019s at to see if he makes it into the next round, more interesting in the general if he does.
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