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Oregon Firearms Federation Political Action Committee has graded
the candidates for the Oregon Legislature. (For information
on Federal races, please go here.
This is Gun Owners' Of America's candidate rating.)
Third party candidates, if you are interested in completing
an OFF survey, please click here.
In order to give gun owners the greatest possible amount of
information on candidates, OFFPAC is making available, on our
website, statements from
candidates describing their position on gun rights. Statement
posting is available to any candidate who has filed. Contact
information for all candidates is available here.
Candidates, if you wish to have your statement posted, please
send it to us by e-mail.
You can download our candidate
grades here.
The candidate's grades were derived from several sources. Our
candidate survey was an important factor, but not all candidates
will go on the record. So, whenever we had experience with a
candidate, their history and record was used to derive their
grades.(You
should know that the Republican leadership has advised candidates
NOT to answer our survey.)
As you know, because of your efforts, virtually no anti-gun
bills have been voted on in both houses for several years. As
a result, there are incumbent legislators who have never been
forced to take a stand on gun rights. Grading candidates who
have no record and refuse to respond to our survey is difficult.
In cases where we simply have no information on a candidate,
that candidate received a "0." (Please
note, at the time we first posted this page, we rated Ron Saxton
as a "0" because he had no voting history and refused
to answer our survey. Since that time we have received additional
information that makes Saxton's candidacy even more troubling.
Please use this
link for more information.)
Furthermore, candidates who have come down on both sides of
the issue got a "0" as well.
Double pluses (++) were given to candidates who are solidly
pro-gun. Single pluses (+) were given to candidates who leaned
pro-gun. Single and double minuses (-) (- -) were given to candidates
who leaned anti-gun or were committed to an anti-gun agenda.
We also contacted the three candidates for Supreme Court.
Judges in Oregon, as elsewhere, have far more power than they
were ever intended to acquire. That is a dangerous thing.
The three candidates for this position were: Gene Hallman, Virginia
Linder and Jack Roberts.
You can learn more about each of these candidates by viewing
their websites.
Hallman
*Please note, Gene Hallman contributed to anti-gun Ballot Measure
5. He received the fewest votes in the primary and is now out
of the race. The run off in the general election will be between
Roberts and Linder. Their websites are linked below.
Linder
Roberts
Linder is supported by some of the most vocal and militant gun
haters the state has ever known, including Senator Kate Brown,
Neil Bryant and John Kitzhaber.
Although none of the candidates would respond to our questions
about their stands on gun rights, when Jack Roberts ran for
governor, he made an effort to reach out to gun owners.
We cannot endorse a candidate that won't make their positions
known, but we believe that Roberts is less of a danger to gun
rights than Linder would be.
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