A state of grace, decorum and unity under the leadership of Oregon candidate Christine Drazan for Governor and Chair Connie Whelchel at the first annual Oregon Republican Party "GOP Unity Event" was duly noted by all in attendance.

A room packed with similar primary candidates and nominees with similar energy is a testament the Oregon Republican Party is the party to, likely, get votes in November from all Oregonians regardless of political party or no political party. Christine Drazan will be a governor for all Oregonians. Christine Drazan's gracious respect towards all her opponents, all fourteen of them shows she operates through strength informed by kindness. Candidate Chris Dudley who shares some of those same characteristics was in attendance declaring his support for the general election in November. He had come close to winning the governorship in 2010 and as he said in his speech, he is "a team player".  With Christine Drazan giving candidate David Medina high respect for the work Medina has done for a long time in Oregon she showed that winning the primary for governor was not about her, but all Oregonians. Medina on the streets of Portland, Oregon has been fearless in engaging people who do not know what they were getting pulled into, but doing so in active caring engagement, another candidate showing strength through kindness. Medina is seen as a respected member of the Republican Party, not as a fringe personality. His voice, his work matters.

Connie Welchel becoming chair of the Oregon Republican Party mirrors the personality, work ethic, strength, pragmatism and kindness of Christine Drazan which attracted others to leadership positions within the ORP, to be in her cabinet which all their work gave the Oregon Republican Party its new birthright. In a packed room unity and good will was the dominant feel and conversation. Strength through kindness might be the winning ticket for the November general election. 

Many of the conversations included having not received a voter pamphlet in the mail or members knew of other voters who had not gotten one, and area TPNW first reported on in 2022. It's the mailmen who decide where to leave these unaddressed voter pamphlets and they decide how many to leave. Thus, in Multnomah County alone 226,000 did not get a voter pamphlet. In talking to neighbors in one neighborhood, many voters wait for their voter pamphlet to then sit down, go through the voter pamphlet then vote.Many voters do not know the Oregon Secretary of State does NOT mail a voter pamphlet to EACH "active" registered voter which is a violation of ORS 251.174(1). That law contains two "shall" requirements. TPNW on May 27, 2026 made a visit to Oregon Secretary of State, Tobias Read (he was not there), to ameliorate, as required by the two "shall" requirements; his paramount duty to encourage voter turnout, but also for the candidates and measures on the ballot who paid to have their statements in the voter pamphlet who thought that all voters got a pamphlet.

With the packed room for the first annual GOP Unity Event success for the Oregon Republican Party looks like a distinct outcome. 

 State Senator Bruce Starr had with him his energetic and productive team. His team in action gives life within that legislative building in the Capitol in Salem.They are hard working and dedicated. 

In addition, the first data coming out of the May primary showed an increase over other years of voter turnout. The biggest percentage increase was within the non-affiliated voter. The next biggest percentage increase was the Republican voter. Democrat was the smallest. The win on "no tax on gas" was a non-partisan issue affecting 3 million Oregonians who have cars. 

The dramatic increase in non-affiliated voter (NAV) turnout could be a promising sign for the general election — especially if Get Out The Vote (GOTV) efforts are ramped up during the general election season.

"Here are the whole-number voter counts (actual ballots cast) based on the chart's percentages and Oregon's registered voter numbers for the May primary:2026 (not final) 

• Democratic: 988,000 registered × 52% = ~514,000 ballots
• Non-affiliated: 1.16 million registered × 21% = ~244,000 ballots
• Republican: 737,000 registered × 60% = ~442,000 ballots
• Total: 1.28 million ballots cast (41% overall turnout)" -GROK research

 With nominee Christine Drazan running to represent all Oregonians with strength and kindness as Chris Dudley did in his run in the primary her win in November might likely be the outcome giving so many Oregonians a sense of relief that better days will be coming. 

The Kate Brown illegal shutdown of Oregon starting in March 2020 devastated many Oregonians, families and children who are still trying to overcome those years. Kindness and community contact will go a long way to help Oregonians heal. 

May 28, 2026  

 

 

Autopsy report on Representative Ed Diehl's failed campaign for Oregon governor. Op-Ed

Some Ed Diehl supporters on social media blame Truth in the Pacific Northwest editor for Ed's primary loss. An unrelenting four months of social media bashing by Diehl supporters towards anyone even trying to have a discussion about the race and other candidates, especially Chris Dudley, resulted in the editor doing a deep dive into the Diehl campaign. Looking into his campaign team led to the company Intellz founded by Mark Campbell with principals Jon Hollis and Bill Collier. TPNW editor has over thirty years of experience in conducting investigations, researching, doing analysis and profiling cases, including being an expert witness in civil law suits primarily related to child injury and deaths in licensed child daycare. Who "chose" this campaign team for Ed? Might it be related to Ed Diehl's history from his first year in office, some unintended consequences?

November 13, 2023 as a new representative in the Salem legislature, Ed Diehl, began hitting it out of the ballpark in supporting constituent concerns about first amendment rights and the surveilling of Oregon citizens on social media by Logically AI by getting public records and putting them on-line for the public to see. It was a revolutionary act for a Salem legislator. Have any other legislators ever done that? From GROK AI:  

"No widespread pattern emerges of many other current or recent representatives routinely filing and publicly archiving PRRs in the same proactive, citizen-facing way as Diehl on high-profile issues like Logically AI. Democrats and Republicans alike have pushed for or against records access reforms, but individual public sharing is uncommon."

 

Indeed, then TPNW praising Ed Diehl was warranted and deserved as a newbie representative in Salem. 

 

The editor of TPNW took Diehl's good work, reviewed the documents and researched Logically AI to discover the company was British Intelligence and Naval Intelligence. The editor gave Ed Diehl high praise for getting those public records. https://truthinthepacificnorthwest.blogspot.com/2024/01/a-united-kingdom-censorship-company.htmlThis year if people are not following "Promethean Action" to know that President Donald J. Trump is finishing our 1776 American revolution and Trump is taking down the British Empire, follow them now. Go to their YouTube channel, those two ladies Susan Kokinda and Barbara M. Boyd have been on this history since 1971.

 After giving Ed Diehl high praise in January and in March 2024, why did Diehl block the editor from his X account site? As well in April 2024, representative Diehl and others drafted and floated a bill out to reverse HB 2002 passed in 2023. In 2024 their bill to stop the sexual mutilation of children's bodies died quietly in committee.Until May 2024, the editor was not aware the Diehl had taken blocking action. After numerous attempts to find out why thinking it was a mistake, Ed commented of being "offended" about the editor's 2022 article on Monkey Pox, an article he had not read. Finally June 12th, 2024 when pressed Ed wrote in an email: <rep.eddiehl@oregonlegislature.gov> wrote: Monkeyvirus related, with some video showing supposedly homosexual animal behavior."

There is no such video in the 2022 article on Monkey Pox.

https://truthinthepacificnorthwest.blogspot.com/2022/08/why-oregonians-now-ignore-oha-cdc-and.html 

 The TPNW article was written in response to Oregon's Minnesotan Governor Kate Brown who issued a press release telling straight couples not to hug, cuddle and kiss when Monkey Pox is only about 99% in the demographic of men having anal sex with other men, and in that demographic those men are a minority, it's mostly those who in engage in orgy type activity for example like on Fire Island.The article contained a screenshot from the CDC website showing CDC's concern that humans could give Monkey Pox to their pets and wildlife. Wildlife? Really? Which humans are licking wildlife? 

 

But how did that article become a factor in Ed Diehl blocking the editor when he'd never even read the article? Diehl unblocked on X and that was that. Water under the bridge. No grudge. Curiosity remained.

 

Fast forward to November and December 2025, the editor praised Jason Williams and Diehl for the successful organization in getting 250,000 signatures in just over a month.  

 

January 2026 Ed Diehl runs for office and attends the Western Liberty Network conference and training. Many Diehl supporters in attendance listened to the training on Get Out the Vote (GOTV) strategy. Diehl wins the straw vote handily. Diehl supporters never do GOTV, not for Diehl and not for "No tax on gas" measure before the primary.

 

Then as the primary got underway, with Chris Dudley now among the pack, immediate bashing comes from the Diehl group as well as with candidate Bethell. 

 

Conservative Facebook accounts were largely taken over by the Diehl group, not allowing conversation to happen, just immediate bashing. No amount or number of times shared about Chris Dudley's history and life makes any difference, the response not only bot farm like, but highly socialist in coming across as anti-family, anti-children, anti-millionaires, anti-business, anti-NIKE, anti-sports, anti-Portland, continuous wave of negative retorts, swarming mob like towards anyone deemed not on the Diehl Team. Quite angry about the Jane Fonda in North Vietnam photo. The issue wasn't about a dumb girl doing a dumb thing in 1972, but other events in her life as well including supporting the sexualization of young girls, "The Vagina Monologues", etc. Her and Oprah. The Diehl supporter responses seemed Liberal Left when the right typically does not like her. 

 

With Diehl not reining in his group, it caused the question as to who was running Diehl's campaign to find out it was Intellz. 

 

A YouTube video from November 2025 was located, including highlighting his campaign manager Mark Campbell. Some of the highlights shared on social media pages included comments by Mark Campbell:

Mark said (about an hour, ten minutes in), "January 6th was not a tour guide." "2020 was not a stolen election." Mark was Cruz's campaign manager in 2016. Mark said it "was baloney that there is no list." Mark had a negative comment about ICE. Mark said "...illegals pay into social security; they saved social security...". Mark said the GOP will lose in 2026. Mark said he was "proud to be a Republican." Mark likes Liz Cheney. He said you had to be Trump supporter or you'd get primaried. He could not or would not name one person out of Trump's administration regarding the possibilities for 2028. Mark added, "Now GOP is a mean-spirited body." Another situation of where "By their fruits they shall be known"? " (574) Warschaw Conference 2025: "From The Off-Year to the Midterms" - YouTube 

 

Jon Hollis of his team worked in Hollywood for fifteen years, seven of those years working closely with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. Posted on Facebook some of that Hollywood background that conservatives usually are concerned about: 

 

 "As well the Diehl camp's closeness to PDXReal? The mean-spirited comments from Diehl supporters? "By their fruits they shall be known." his campaign manager, Mark Campbell said GOP will lose in 2026 because the GOP is "mean-spirited." Diehl supporters take first place on that observation. The campaign firm Ed hired is Hollywood connected including Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, actresses who pushed the sexualization of girls with the "Vagina Monologues" including it is better for girls that women rape them instead of men. After backlash they changed the girl's age from 13 to 16. Look at Diehl's go to "media outlet" sex offender friendly PDXReal whose sex offender husband, Jeff Church, blocks anyone bringing up child sex abuse and trafficking on that "news" site. In that Diehl orbit has anyone ever spoken out or taken action strongly about the violations/trauma done to children, to students? They've been quiet as mice about Tina Kotek being the superintendent over ALL Oregon public schools."

But from Diehl supporters about those issues was crickets, but lots of anger towards those elements being brought up. In addition, Ed Diehl and state senator David Brock Smith showed up at meeting about the 2024 campaign strategy and told women at the meeting to hush up about babies and children that they knew the winning strategy for 2024. Which failed at election time.

 

The third principal of Intellz is Bill Collier who is a former Naval intelligence analyst. Naval Intelligence was part of Logically, AI.  

 

It's an interesting juxtaposition of Ed taking strong action to protect our First Amendment and Fourth Amendment rights in late 2023 and then in early 2024 floating a bill to stop the mutilation of children to 2025 having these three principals on his campaign team as well as Diehl platforming PDXReal (owned/operated by a sex offender, Jeff Church) who blocks people on that X account who speak out against child sex rape and trafficking.

 

 

As many who fight to save and protect children would say, "Make it make sense."  

 

What happened to that great warrior for the people Ed Diehl who emerged in 2023? Was it simple group pressure? Easily targeted and used? Easily compromised? Ego? Something more nefarious? Ed started out as a refreshing new Salem legislator, a Constitutionalist and protector of children.

"Make it make sense."

 

May 20, 2026