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Starnes feeling optimistic about governor run
- CARISA CEGAVSKE Senior Staff Writer Roseburg News-Review
Patrick Starnes’s optimism about his Democratic primary run for governor has been bolstered by an endorsement from the Oregon Progressive Party.
Starnes, who ran on the Independent Party ticket in 2018, formerly lived in Douglas County, but now calls Brownsville home. He met with a News-Review reporter Friday to talk about how the campaign is going and what he’d like to accomplish if he were elected to the position.
Dedicated to an ideal of getting big money out of politics, Starnes has stayed true to that in his campaign. He’s refused donations from corporate and union PACs, along with donations of more than $1,000 from any individual. It’s an approach that he said has left him free to pursue the policies the people want rather than the policies big money donors want.