Nathalie Paravicini Withdraws as Governor Nominee

She notes new commitment to campaign finance reform by Tina Kotek. Other candidates for Governor lack this commitment.​

​Statement of Nathalie Paravicini

August 30, 2022
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Oregon's governor's race must have a pro-democracy candidate who prioritizes campaign finance and electoral reform.  Winning an election is not only about getting elected but also about raising alternative solutions and changing the debate. That objective was advanced when Tina Kotek last week made specific public commitments to prioritize campaign finance reform.

Andrew Yang's "Forward Party" Endorses Backward Oregon Candidate

The Forward Party is led by Andrew Yang, after his 2020 run for President as a Democrat.  The party appears to lack progressive intellect.

A central plank of the Forward Party's platform is support for "Open Primaries."  We think that is a very bad idea, for reasons stated at Save Oregon's Democracy.  We have twice led campaigns to defeat "top two open primary" ballot measures in Oregon (2008 and 2014), funded by millions of dollars from a former Enron energy trader and another billionaire.

In June 2022, the Forward Party endorsed Betsy Johnson for Governor of Oregon.  As a state senator, she opposed every significant piece of climate legislation since 2001.  Her campaigns are funded mainly by the timber and fossil fuel corporations, including Koch Industries.  She has a 100% rating from the NRA and has received awards for opposing gun safety legislation.  On gun control she has voted:

• NO to prohibiting weapons on school grounds
• NO to requiring background checks for firearm sales
• NO to allowing courts to prohibit suicidal individuals from owning guns
• NO to prohibiting convicted stalkers from possessing firearms
• NO to authorizing schools to prohibit guns on campuses 

The Forward Party's endorsement of a right-wing anti-environmentalist who opposes gun safety shows its basic lack of knowledge about Oregon or its lack of progressive intellect.

 Starnes feeling optimistic about governor run | Elections | nrtoday.com

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.