PORTLAND, Ore. — Media outlets across Oregon are working together to cover the 2022 governor’s race, and one of the resulting projects is a database of all the candidates' answers to questions about where they stand on the big political issues.
The 2022 Oregon Media Collaboration on the governor’s race is a joint effort that grew out of listening sessions with voters held earlier this year.
The Agora Journalism Center at the University of Oregon and the Oregon Capital Chronicle and Rural Development Initiatives have been reaching out to voters to find out more about what they would like to see in coverage of the 2022 gubernatorial race.
The answer was more information about each of the candidates and to know where they stand on the state's most important issues.
The unique collaboration, which included KGW as well as more than 60 print, digital, broadcast, and radio news outlets from urban and rural Oregon, asked the candidates for governor to answer details questions on five topic areas: climate change and the environment, crime and public safety, education, housing and the economy.
Below you can see their responses, either candidate-by-candidate or issue-by- issue.
Nearly three dozen candidates for governor are vying for their parties’ nomination in the 2022 primaries on May 17. A collaborative of Oregon journalists wrote 15 questions to help you get to know these folks before you cast your ballot.
Click on each candidate’s “card” to see how they responded to our questions on housing, crime, education, the economy and environmental issues.
The following Q&A was compiled by Oregon newsrooms collaborating to cover the 2022 governor’s race. Journalists across the state drafted the following 15 questions, which were distributed to candidates by the Agora Journalism Center at the University of Oregon.
Responses are in the candidates’ own words and have been trimmed at the 300-word limit. Click on the “cards” to see how they responded to our questions on housing, crime, education, economy and environmental issues. The primary election is on May 17.
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