Julia Shumway
Oregon Capital ChronicleJulia Shumway has reported on government and politics in Iowa and Nebraska, spent time at the Bend Bulletin and was a legislative reporter for the Arizona Capitol Times in Phoenix. Julia is an award-winning journalist who reported on the tangled efforts to audit the 2020 presidential election results in Arizona.
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Oregon Republicans, at the same time, said Biden should retire from the presidency.
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Just two of the more than 50 new laws proposed by Oregonians through the ballot initiative process stand a chance at appearing before voters in November.
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Seven years ago, lawmakers poured more than $5 billion into improving roads, bridges and public transit in Oregon. Now, lawmakers are in the earliest stages of crafting the next likely multi-billion dollar transportation package – but this time around, the focus is more on maintaining existing roads than expanding or building new ones.
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Family members of two ousted Republican senators will take their place in the Oregon Senate next year after primary elections that saw hardline conservatives win in Southern Oregon and more pragmatic Republicans prevail in Eastern Oregon.
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Sen. Dennis Linthicum, a Klamath County Republican running to preside over state elections, was one plaintiff.
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Oregon’s House Republican leader sent state election officials scrambling this week after he used a minor delay in delivering mailed ballots to clerks in two counties to raise doubts about the integrity of the state’s voting system.
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The Democratic primary is a choice between the 2022 nominee and a state representative with a long list of endorsements.
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Three Oregon Republicans running to control the state’s elections have all stoked false claims of voter fraud and indicated they want to end Oregon’s decades-long tradition of running elections by mail.
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Sixteen Republican lawmakers and legislative candidates from Oregon plan to visit the Arizona-Mexico border on Monday, arguing that lax security around the southern border exacerbates the drug crisis in Oregon, 1,000 miles north.
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Nate Monson alleged top lawmakers and legislative staff retaliated against him by publicizing discrepancies in his résumé after he raised concerns.
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A super PAC that focuses on electing Democrats to the U.S. House reserved nearly $10 million worth of broadcast ad time in Oregon as Democrats try to flip Oregon’s 5th Congressional District and keep Democratic incumbents in two swing districts in Oregon and Washington.
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Wallowa County commissioners asked the Oregon and Idaho legislatures and governors to start talking in earnest about moving the states’ borders as eastern Oregon counties continue pushing to move to Idaho.