Oregon
Latest Coverage
See all articles
Oregon Democrats hope to ride blue wave to unseat Bentz in midterms
Five Democratic candidates are running for the congressional seat now held by Republican Rep. Cliff Bentz. The 2nd Congressional District, covering Southern and Eastern Oregon, is among the largest in the country.
The 2nd District Democratic candidates gathered for town hall meetings in Klamath Falls, Grants Pass and Medford this weekend. The candidates include Patty Snow of Phoenix, Rebecca Mueller of Medford, Dawn Rasmussen of The Dalles, Mary Doyle of Bend and Peter Quince of Ashland. Quince only recently filed to run, so he wasn’t included in these most recent town halls. But the party said he’d participate in future events.
Organizers said the town halls were intended in part to draw attention to the fact that Bentz has not held an in-person town hall in Southern Oregon in more than a year and a half. Bentz said he canceled in-person town halls due to disruptions by activists.
The candidates criticized federal immigration enforcement efforts, citing recent deadly encounters in Min