MCRP in PDX is no longer batshit crazy, thus Extremist batshit crazy Dems are worried. Monday night's turn-out of 25 candidates and 9 governor candidates showed a number of good candidates have put their hats into the ring.

Multnomah County Republican Party held a well attended forum of meet & greet, a panel of governor candidates and Congressional candidates. MCRP's invite went out to all candidates, unbiased and not using any qualification vetting to cull anyone out. The vibe, the tone, the respect, the organizational ability earned kudos from those attending. Some candidates who haven't gotten much visual play showed there is a depth of field that voters will want to know about.  

 How did the Democrats show they are worried? Some primary candidates in the Republican Party got a two page "drop out of the primary race now" letters in the mail. Kind of like Tokyo Rose announcements to the US troops in World War II about how terrible things were for them, that things were going badly so quit fighting. Now, finding out how MCRP has turned itself around and gotten its act together, there is reason for the extremist Democrats, yes, the extremes do need to worry.  When Governor Tina Kotek with great hubris blew off 94% of Oregonians who told her "No to tax hikes", the Democrat caucus in the Salem legislature didn't bother to tally how many emails they received from citizens saying no. No citizens mattered, Tina did not care about her Democrat base in the slightest.

Some Democrat legislators didn't like what Tina was doing, but she pulled out her "whip" and told them to get in line. Tina's role modeling so extreme, yet so casual Rep. Jason Kropf did such a "whipping" in full view of a camera and an audience to Rep. Tran when she voted in a way he (Tina) didn't like. Democrats dirty laundry has been piling up. In families who have secrets it's always, "Nobody needs to see our dirty laundry." Oregonians are seeing Tina's dirty laundry right now.

There are some credible Republican candidates running, two of them for governor who would have wide appeal with non-Republican voters. Given the metric out of the "No Tax Oregon" campaign, ten percent of Democrats are, likely, angry at the governor over taxes. 

Now Oregon has two governor candidates who would appeal to non-Republican voters, including Brad T. Peters who spoke at the MCRP candidate forum, Monday night, March 30, 2026 with some very specific ideas and solutions. Peters has that down to earth, calm presence similar to Chris Dudley who only missed winning the governor's race in 2010 by 22,000 votes.  People are drawn to and like hanging with these types of guys.

Peters could be a DOGE kind of guy bringing transparency to all Oregon government agencies. Peters could draw in the younger voting population to his candidacy. He'd also get the rural vote being from a Roseburg logging family, a homesteader who built his own log home on 70 acres, but also like Dudley has an educational background, including an MBA and a business background with such big corporations as IBM and Intel.  Some of Peters' solutions below:With over ten or so candidates in the governor's field if Oregon voters do their due diligence, guard their vote like it's their most valuable asset, don't give it impulsively, out of all their interactions with the candidates they can make the right choice in the May 19th primary election; and perhaps choose the candidate a majority of Oregonians might agree with in the general election, November 3, 2026.

The race for the Oregon governor has many primary candidates and Oregonians are going out to their meet and greets, doing their due diligence as to who will be the candidate that a majority of Oregonians would find trustworthy. The room was packed with attentive voters who will have to pick the nominee who can get over 250,000 non-Republican votes to win. Will this be the historical general election where the non-affiliated voter gets respect?There is still enough time for voters to come out for meet and greets and other panel forums to make that choice of what is for the greatest good of all Oregonians?