Dear Friends and Neighbors,
Thank you for visiting my campaign web site. I am truly honored and privileged to be chosen once again to represent Oregon’s 3rd Senate District. As we enter the 76th session of the Oregon Legislature our state faces billion dollar budget shortfalls and skyrocketing demand for vital social services. I believe inherent in this crisis is the opportunity to not just meet the challenge of balancing the budget, but also to fundamentally restructure the way we deliver human services and education in Oregon.
Together we can innovate and produce substantive and dynamic reform that helps
grow our community’s standard of living while at the same time balancing the
budget. Some of the key pieces of legislation I am most excited to work on
along these lines include several major systematic health care reform measures,
sustainable woody biomass for energy and job creation measures, mortgage foreclosure
reform, education reform measures, and foster care reform.
This session we have an opportunity to not just plaster over the cracks and
leaks that make up the house of Oregon, but to rebuild from the foundation
and set up Oregon to lead the nation now and into the next century. I will
continue to work in a bi-partisan fashion to do what is right for Oregon because
I know that the enormous challenges we face can only be met by working together.
The priority remains jobs; we must bring healthy and sustainable job sector growth to southern Oregon. In everything we do and plan for this remains my number 1 agenda item and it will remain so as we go through this session.
Please follow the progress of our key legislative items on this website. Also, please contact my office via email or telephone in Medford or Salem at any time to discuss any issue or idea you may have, together we will meet this challenge.
Alan Bates