Our nominations
In every election, WFP members will ask the candidates tough questions on issues that matter most — like jobs, healthcare and schools — and only support those who are committed to putting working families first.
2019 Oregon Special Election Endorsements
OWFP 2019 School Board Policy Principles
- Resisting and reversing the corporate reform model of education
- Fully supporting career and technical education
- Utilizing Project Labor Agreements or Community Benefit Agreements on school bond construction
- Implementing anti-racist education
- Supporting special needs students and curriculum
- Ending the school to prison pipeline
- Improving employee working conditions and upholding the right to strike
- Opposing the use of public funds for private for-profit charter schools, vouchers, non-certified teachers in publicly funded classrooms, and other schemes that weaken public schools and accelerate the privatization of public education
- Fighting for tuition-free higher education
OWFP 2019 Local Endorsements
Clackamas County:
- Emma Lugo – Oregon City School Board #6
- Pamela White – Oregon City School Board #7
- Chelsea King Martin – West-Linn Wilsonville School Board #2
- Jordan Ferris – West-Linn Wilsonville School Board #4
- Libra Forde – North Clackamas School Board #3
Columbia County:
- Steven Hanson – Port of Columbia County
Lane County:
- Gordon Lafer – Eugene (4J) School Board #4
- Martina Shabram – Eugene (4J) School Board #5
- Deanna Chappell Becher – Eugene (4J) School Board #7
- Lisa Fragala – Lane Community College Board #7
- Todd Mann – Springfield School Board #1
- Chris Wig – Willamalane Parks & Recreation District
Linn/Benton Counties:
- Tony Lapiz – Linn-Benton Community College Board #6-7
- Michael Thomson – Greater Albany School Board #3
Marion/Polk Counties:
- Raul Marquez Guerrero – Salem-Keizer School Board #2
- David Salinas – Salem-Keizer School Board #4
Multnomah County:
- Ricardo Ruiz – Reynolds School Board #5
- Ana Isabel Gonzalez – Reynolds School Board #6
- Yesenia Delgado – Reynolds School Board #7
- Sahar Yarjani Muranovic – David Douglas School Board #4
- Sumitra Chhetri – Centennial School Board #3
- Amanda Beach – Gresham-Barlow School Board #7
- Shanice Clarke – Portland Public Schools #2
- Michelle DePass – Portland Public Schools #2
- Michael Sonnleitner – Portland Community College Board #3
- Andrew Speer – Mount Hood Community College Board #3
- Kenney Polson – Mount Hood Community College Board #5
- Courtney Helstein – Mount Hood Community College Board #6
Washington County:
- Alex Diaz Rios – Portland Community College Board #7
- See Eun Kim – Hillsboro School Board #4
- Lisa Allen – Hillsboro School Board #5
- Yadira Martinez – Hillsboro School Board #7
- Gimena Olguin – Tigard-Tualatin School Board #2
- Narce Rodriguez – Forest Grove School Board #5
- Ashley Hartmeier – Tualatin Hills Parks & Rec District #3
- Heidi Edwards – Tualatin Hills Parks & Rec District #4
- Tya Ping – Tualatin Hills Parks & Rec District #5