Gubernatorial Candidate Questionnaire - Chris Dudley

8/8/2019 Gubernatorial Candidate Questionnaire - Chris Dudley

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Name: Chris Dudley

Party affiliation(s): Republican Party

Age: 45(We want to be accurate. So if you have a birthday between now and theelection, please indicate when your birthday is so that we can get your ageright.)

City of residence: Lake Oswego

Number of years you have lived full-time in Oregon: 8 years

Family (name of spouse/partner, number and ages of children if athome, number of grown children): Wife: Chris Love Dudley. Three Children:

Charles 11, Emma 10, and Sam 8.

Current employer/job:Financial Advisor, Filigree Advisors; President, Chris Dudley Diabetes Foundation

Employment, military and volunteer history:M Financial; National Basketball Association - 16 years (6 years Portland TrailBlazers);Treasurer, NBA Players Union;Civic/religious/other local involvement:

Class Sponsor I Have a Dream Foundation; Board, Self Enhancement Inc.;NBA's J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award; Lake Grove PresbyterianPlease list all public offices to which youve been elected, and when:

Please list any unsuccessful candidacies for public office, and when:

Other political and government experience:

How the public can reach your campaign:

Mail address: 5863 Lakeview Blvd Lake Oswego, OR 97035

E-mail address: [email protected]

Web site URL: www.chrisdudley.com
http://www.chrisdudley.com/http://www.chrisdudley.com/


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Phone: (503) 616-5350

How much will your general election campaign cost? (Please be specificabout your campaign budget, not as much as we can raise.)

As of today, our campaign has raised $5.9 million with over 11,000 contributors.

With each passing day, we continue to receive donations from Oregonians whoare ready for a new direction.Who are your top campaign contributors/lenders? (Please list at least

the current top five and their total dollar amounts.)

All contributions made to the campaign can be found at the Oregon Secretary ofState s website (ORESTAR).

Who are your key political advisers? (Please identify at least your topthree.)

See attached list


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Key endorsements youve received:AG-PACAssociation of Oregon LoggersCentral Oregon Builders AssociationNRANational Federation of Independent BusinessOregon Health Care AssociationOregon Cattleman's Association

RIS DUDLEY FOR GOVERNOR

LAST NAME FIRST NAME RELATIONSHIP OCCUPATION EMPLOYER

onomy and Jobshue Barry Advisor President Oregon Farm Bureau

sin Chris Advisor/Finance Committee President The Dussin Group

k Jim Advisor/Finance Committee CEO Melvin Mark Companies

er Andrew Advisor President/CEO Stimson Lumber Co

ette Paulette Advisor Director Oregonians for Food and

en Pat Advisor President Pacific Power

pard Steve Advisor/Finance Committee Retired Self

e Duncan Advisor President Oregon Business Counci

ucationming Vicki Advisor Former School Superintendent

son Tony Advisor President/CEO SEI

v. Reforms Brad Advisor President/CEO Medford Chamber of Com

pp Tim Advisor EVP Central Oregon Builders

se Frank Advisor State Senator State of Oregon

r Bruce Advisor State Senator State of Oregon

or Janet Advisor Mayor City of Salem

iticalmell Brittany Staff Communications Friends of Chris Dudley

ve Shawn Staff Policy Director Friends of Chris Dudley

man LeRoy Staff Communications Friends of Chris Dudleyter Charles Consultant Communications and Policy Self Employed

berg Josh Staff Campaign Manager Friends of Chris Dudley

num Fred Volunteer Advisor COO Co-Operations

bell Ward Volunteer Advisor Owner Hubbel Communications

s Robert Staff Deputy Campaign Mgr Friends of Chris Dudley

ey Dan Volunteer Advisor President Gallatin Public Affairs

hard David Advisor Policy Research Public Affairs Counsel

mple Greg Consultant Consultant GS Stategy Group

chuk Kerry Volunteer Advisor Principal Conkling Fiskum & McCo


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Oregon Farm BureauOregonians For Food and Shelter

Oregon Home Builders AssociationOregon Restaurant and Lodging AssociationSheriffs of OregonWater for Life Inc

For each of the following questions, feel free to limit your answer to about 75

words, but thats not a requirement.

1. Have you ever been convicted of a crime, been disciplined by aprofessional licensing board/organization or had an ethics violation filed

against you? If so, please give the details.

No2. Have you ever filed for bankruptcy, been delinquent on your taxes orother major accounts, or been sued personally or professionally? If so,

please give the details.

No

3. Youve undoubtedly seen/heard your opponents ads about you, andpossibly outside groups ads. If you believe you are mischaracterized inany of those ads, heres your chance to say what you believe isinaccurate about the portrayal of you or your record:John Kitzhaber and his allies have used false negative ads to distort my positionsand personally attack me. The facts are clear. I do not support lowering theminimum wage and my economic plans will make Oregon more competitive,restore business confidence and grow the economy. While my opponent has tried

to distract voters with where I lived 15 years ago, the truth is that I paid$460,000 in Oregon taxes while I lived in Washington. These political tacticsarent going to create a single job, improve our schools, restore trust ingovernment or lead Oregons comeback. Thats why Im looking forward totaking our state in a new direction.4. Which of your opponents ideas for improving the economy would yousupport?There are very clear divides between my economic philosophy and myopponents. He believes government can solve Oregons economic woes and Ibelieve in unleashing the potential of the private sector. Despite vetoinglegislation to reduce the capital gains tax while he was governor and criticizing

my plan, my opponent has indicated that he is open to adjusting the capitalgains. While he has been unclear on how far he would go, I am pleased to see

that he is willing to accept that we have to encourage Oregon investment. Myeconomic plan would make this reduction to improve Oregons business climate.

5. What have you learned from observing state government in recentyears?Over the years, its become quite apparent that what is happening in Salem isntworking. Decades of indifference toward job creation and economic growth now


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threatens our quality of life. Because we all know that it's private sector jobcreation that is the foundation of our quality of life -- allowing families to thrive

and generating the tax revenues essential for our schools, public safety,highways and health care.

Oregonians are ready for a new direction. And it starts with rebuilding trust in

government. Until people trust their leaders again, real reform will be difficult.Thats why Im ready to clean up Salem and bring new ideas and freshleadership to our state.

6. Whom will you draw upon as your economic advisors in making thedifficult decisions that will be required of leadership?I will breathe new life into state government by hiring and appointing a newgeneration of people from diverse and balanced backgrounds from every cornerof the state, without regard to partisan politics. In addition to implementing my26 point plan to reinvent the way we budget, I will bring the Office of Budget andManagement directly into the Governor's office and appoint a performancemanagement officer to lead a government-wide transformation effort.

With Oregon facing a $3.3 budgetary shortfall, the governor must work in

tandem with talented economic advisors and the legislature to start slowing therate of growth and controlling spending. Additionally, I will establish an Inspector

General for the Department of Health and Human Services to investigate waste,fraud and abuse a position my opponent had the chance to create and failed.

7. What are the three most basic values that you hold as a leader thatwill govern your decisions around the economy?

1. Listening I have traveled to every county and every corner of our state

meeting with and listening to Oregonians from all walks of life. As

governor, I will spend as much time outside of Salem as I do inside.2. Working Together Oregon is facing many challenges. As governor, I will

work with both sides of the aisle to find solutions.

3. New Vision To take Oregon in a new direction and rebuild trust in

government, I have offered plans to promote private sector job creation,control state spending and reform education for our economic future.

8. We are told that the best goals are S.M.A.R.T. goals: S = Specific; M =Measurable; A = Attainable; R = Realistic; T = Timebound. How doesyour plan for the economy meet this level of goal setting?I have put forth plans to create jobs, improve our education system and reform

government that address our short and long-term needs. To immediately get ourbudget under control, I will implement zero-based budgeting, prioritizegovernment spending, and address labor costs. To create jobs for today and

tomorrow, I will reduce the state capital gains tax, stimulate local jobrecruitment by providing cities half the additional state income tax revenuesgenerated from the new businesses they recruit and provide a tax credit foremployers who add workers who are currently on public assistance. And toprepare us for our economic future, I will make education reform a top priority,


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challenging the status quo and demanding that education policy and quality beput ahead of education politics. If we strengthen our education system -- from

Pre-K through college -- we will strengthen job creation and innovation. Byworking together, we can make each of these proposals reality.

9. How would you get state-employee unions to buy into your ideas for

changing/reforming employee compensation?Oregons government employees are dedicated professionals who providevaluable service to the citizens of our state, and the crisis of expanding benefitcosts is not their fault. However, our budget simply cannot sustain the ever-growing costs. I will get all parties to the table and take a total compensationapproach to addressing labor costs. And in the spirit of parity, I will also ask allgovernment employees to pay a percentage of their PERS contribution in orderto decrease the total compensation costs and ask state employees to pay aportion of their health care costs as teachers already do. We will have to makesome tough choices, but its time Oregon started spending efficiently and livingwithin our means.

10. How does your governing/management style contrast with Gov.Kulongoskis?Governors Kulongoski and Kitzhaber have more than 60 years of combinedgovernment experience between them and yet here we are: 43rd in educational

quality, 40th in job creation, 2nd in hunger, and 1st in homelessness. While I didnot served with either of the former governors, by what I have read, its

reasonable to conclude that Governor Kitzhaber had a closed-door managementapproach.

Im not a career politician. I dont carry the political scars and preconceptionsthat years of service brings. And I am committed to working in a bipartisanmanner. As such, I have maintained an open door policy during the campaign,

and I will continue this policy as governor. Democrat, Republican or independent,we are all Oregonians.

11. What specific changes, if any, would you advocate in the structure,

scope or role of state government?We must begin rethinking the role of state government by asking ourselves thefollowing questions: Has a program outlived its usefulness? Does it duplicate thework of another program? Could the mission be achieved at a lower cost throughmodernized technology, public-private partnerships or privatization?

My plan to reinvent government asks these questions, and acts on the answers.I will require a six-year sunset requirement on every new program or old

program expansion. This will force legislators to evaluate current programsinstead of just creating new ones. We will establish public-private partnerships,

prioritize government services and find new ways of delivering critical services atless cost to taxpayers.

12. Do you support the education-reform proposals of the ChalkboardProject?Transforming Oregons education system is one of my top priorities. TheChalkboard Project has been a leader in education reform policy and research


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and I adopted a number of their proposals in my education plan. For example, toreduce teacher turnover, my plan offers tax incentives to teachers who are

willing to teach in low performing areas. Additionally, my plan contains aproposal to no longer treat teachers like employees, but instead creates thetools, incentives and rewards to treat educators like the professionals they are.

13. What social issues, if any, should the 2011 Legislature address?The 2011 Legislature will be a jobs session. We need to focus on puttingOregonians back to work, transforming our education system, and addressingthe $3.3 billion budgetary shortfall. To that end, I have outlined policy proposalsto accomplish these goals. That being said, I am deeply concerned that Portlandis the second largest human trafficking destination in the nation. We must do allwe can to address this matter.

14. What are the three most important issues you would address duringyour first six months in office? How?1. Job Creation I have released a 20-point jobs plan that contains a number

of proposals to spur job creation and restore business owner confidence, capitaland competitiveness including:

Reducing state capital gains

Balancing conservation with the need and demand for forest products fromstate lands to create jobs

Providing a tax credit for employers who add workers who are currently onpublic assistance

Allowing small and emerging businesses the option to defer the majority oftheir income or excise taxes for two years

Reducing taxes for the investment and purchase of a new piece of equipmentto become more efficient and productive

1. Education Reform I have released an 18-point plan to transform our

education system that includes:

Treating teachers like professionals, creating the tools, incentives andrewards to do so

Making access to quality prekindergarten programs such as Head Start andHealthy Start a priority so that all our kids are ready to learn by the time theyenter kindergarten

Reducing the dropout rate through prevention efforts and summer youthemployment programs

Recruiting great teachers from all walks of life Reducing teacher turnover

1. Reforming Government I have offered a 26-point plan to reinvent

government that includes the following proposals:

Zero-based budgeting

Establishing a Rainy Day Fund


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Total Compensation Approach for State Employees

Prioritized Government Services

Transparency and accountability measures

A Six-Year Sunset on New and Expanded Programs15. What do you see as other important issues?

There are a number of important issues and challenges facing Oregon that, byworking together, we can solve. For instance, we can restore trust in

government by putting the interest of the public above partisan politicalinterests. From the outset of this campaign, I have maintained that transparency

and working across party lines will be a hallmark of my administration.Moreover, we can put our sustainable natural resource industries to greater use

in an environmentally responsible way to promote job growth. For example,Oregons six large state forests are an underutilized asset that should be agreater source of jobs for Oregonians and revenues for state schools. These arejust a few of the many problems we can solve by taking Oregon in a newdirection.

16. Any skeletons in your closet or other potentially embarrassinginformation that you want to disclose before it comes up in the

campaign?

NoAs a candidate for governor, your positions on statewide ballotmeasures on relevant to voters. Please indicate whether you support oroppose each of the measures.

Measure 70: Veterans loans Yes No

Measure 71: Annual legislative sessions Yes No

Measure 72: State bonding authority Yes No

Measure 73: Sentencing Yes No

Measure 74: Medical marijuana Yes NoMeasure 75: Multnomah County casino Yes NoMeasure 76: Lottery funding for parks, habitat Yes No

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