Filing Day: The Big Board, Oregon House

Kari Chisholm

One of the enduring traditions in Oregon politics is the gathering in the House chamber for the closing couple of hours of filing day. Politicians, lobbyists, hacks, and reporters gather to watch a Big Board of filings.

Well, since we're not there, I've produced a big board of our own - based on the filings reported online by the Elections Division. These are all the filings posted online through 6:20 p.m. (One caveat: Some late filings may have yet to appear online, as they can be submitted on handwritten forms - and have to be data-entered by staff.) Update, 9:20 a.m.: Nothing new online, gotta assume this is final.

This is the board for the House. Democrats on the left, Republicans on the right, incumbents in bold.

	Democrats	Republicans
1	Eldon Rollins	Wayne Krieger
	Lynn Kindred
2	Harry McDermott	Tim J Freeman
3		Wally Hicks
4	Richard (Rick) Levine	Dennis Richardson
5	Peter Buckley	Sandra A. Abercrombie
6	Lynn Howe	Sal Esquivel
7	Sara Byers	Bruce Hanna
8	Paul R Holvey	Simone Gordon
9	Arnie Roblan	R Scott Roberts
10	Jean Cowan	Becky Lemler
		Edward Johnston
		George Goldstein
11	Phil Barnhart	Kelly R Lovelace
12	Elizabeth Terry Beyer	Sean VanGordon
13	Nancy Nathanson	Bill Young
14	Val Hoyle	Dwight Coon
15	Bud Laurent	Andy Olson
16	Sara A. Gelser	Rose Cook
17	Richard Harisay	Sherrie Sprenger
		Bruce Cuff
18	Rodney E. Orr	Vic Gilliam
19	Claudia Kyle	Kevin Cameron
20	Mike Powers	Vicki Berger
21	Brian Clem	John Alamarez
		Ken Jacobs
		Marvin Sannes
22	Betty Komp	Kathy LeCompte
		Tom M Chereck Jr
23	Wesley W West	Jim Thompson
24	Susan Sokol Blosser	Jim S Weidner
25	Jim Dyer	Kim Thatcher
		Douglas J Heuer
26	Sandy Webb	Matt Wingard
27	Tobias Read	Dan Lucas
28	Jeff Barker	Bill Berg
29	Katie Riley	Katie Eyre Brewer
30	David Edwards	Shawn Lindsay
31	Brad Witt	Ed DeCoste
32	Deborah Boone	Lew Barnes
33	Mitch Greenlick	Michael Bieker
34	Chris Harker	Tyler Hill
35	Margaret Doherty	Gordon Fiddes
36	Mary Nolan	Diane Schendel
37	Gerritt Rosenthal	Chael Sonnen
	Joelle Davis
	Will Rasmussen
38	Chris Garrett	Rob Gardier
39	Toby Forsberg	Bill Kennemer
40	Dave Hunt	Deborah J Gerritzen
41	Carolyn Tomei	Hugo Schulz
42	Jules Kopel Bailey	Cliff Hutchison
43	Lew Frederick
44	Tina Kotek	Kitty C. Harmon
	Richard Ellmyer
45	Michael Dembrow	Anne Marie Gurney
46	Ben Cannon	Russell Turner
47	Jefferson Smith	Dee Flowers
48	Mike Schaufler	Kayla Fioravanti
49	Nick Kahl	Matthew Wand
50	Greg Matthews	Andre Wang
51	Cheryl Myers	John Swanson
		Patrick Sheehan
52	Suzanne VanOrman	Mark Johnson
53	John Huddle	Gene Whisnant
54	Judy Stiegler	Jason Conger
55		Mike McLane
		Mike Wendel
56		Bill Garrard
		Karl Scronce
57	Jean A. Falbo	Greg Smith
		Colleen MacLeod
58	Pete Wells	Bob Jenson
		Michael Mathisen
59	Will Boettner	John E Huffman
		Britt Storkson
60		Cliff Bentz

A few things worth noticing:

Republicans have candidates filed in 59 of 60 races. (Only Lew Frederick is going unchallenged.) Democrats have candidates filed candidates in 57 races.

Six incumbent House Republicans are facing primary challenges - Sprenger, Thatcher, Garrard, Smith, Jenson, Huffman. There are contested Republican primaries against three House Democratic incumbents - Clem, Cowan, Komp. And there are contested Republican primaries for two open seats (51 and 55.)

There is only one primary challenge to a Democratic incumbent - the challenge to Tina Kotek by perennial candidate Richard Ellmyer. There are only two other contested primary races, one in the open seat in HD 37, and one for the right to challenge Wayne Krieger in HD 1.

In short, the Democrats seem much more united in 2010 than do the Republicans. Interesting stuff.

By Kari Chisholm March 09, 2010