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Flock Of Candidates Run For Senate In Oregon

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Ron Wyden, Democrat

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Mark Callahan, Republican

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Shanti Lewallen, Working Families Party

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Eric Navickas, Pacific Green & Oregon Progressive Parties

For a place with a lousy reputation, lots of people want to become members of the U.S. Senate. 

And four of them want to oust a long-entrenched Oregon incumbent to get there.  Democratic Sen.Ron Wydenis running for another six years in the November election. 

He faces challenges from Republican Mark Callahan, Libertarian Jim Lindsay, Shanti Lewallen of the Working Families Party, and former Ashland city councilor Eric Navickas, running as the Pacific Green Party candidate. 

They've all got ideas about what they'd like to do if elected.  We sit each of them down in turn to hear those visions.  

 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.