Christine Drazan

What they say they would do

Her plan connects affordability to lower taxes and regulatory costs, faster construction and stronger expectations for schools and publicly funded services.

• Veto new taxes and fees; reform business and estate taxes and repeal the Climate Protection Program.
• Set a 120-day housing-permit limit and permit private plan review.
• Audit homelessness spending, expand treatment and recovery, and restore graduation standards.

Our reading

• Lower state-imposed costs
• Results accountability

Vetoing taxes and repealing the Climate Protection Program lower costs the state imposes, but also revenue and emissions rules; the plan's projected savings and the outcomes it promises still need evidence.

Where they stand

The choices this office faces

Every candidate in this race is asked the same 10 questions. Christine Drazan is on record on 10. A question without an answer is a research gap, not a position.

• Raise the gas tax and vehicle fees again to fund roads, after voters repealed the 2025 package?

  Said: Voted no on HB 3991 in the House on September 1, 2025, and told KATU in April 2026 she would “balance the budget without new taxes,” putting potholes, maintenance and preservation first.

  Campaign site, site source

• Let the state hold back part of a kicker refund for other uses?

  Said: Would “protect Oregon’s kicker” by vetoing legislative attempts to take it from taxpayers.

  Campaign site, site source

• Pause new data centers statewide until standards are set?

  Said: Told KATU on September 8, 2026 that the governor “should issue a moratorium immediately” and that Oregon should have an immediate statewide moratorium; her plan adds community benefit agreements and a ban on blanket NDAs.

  Questionnaire, questionnaire source

• Should data centers pay a separate, higher electricity rate (the 2025 POWER Act)?

  Said: Voted no on HB 3546’s final House passage on June 5, 2025; her plan does not say whether she would repeal the law.

  State record, record source

• Keep the state homelessness emergency and its state-funded shelter beds going?

  Said: Would declare an emergency on addiction and mental health instead, audit homeless and addiction spending, and shift state money to recovery programs; says success should not be measured by low-barrier shelter beds.

  Campaign site, site source

• Keep the Climate Protection Program's declining cap on fuel emissions?

  Said: Would repeal the Climate Protection Program, which she calls a costly executive order that raised utility and gas prices and threatened jobs.

  Campaign site, site source

• Keep Oregon's sanctuary-law limits on helping federal immigration enforcement?

  Said: Told KATU in April 2026 that Oregon’s sanctuary laws “have gone too far,” citing Corrections declining a U.S. attorney’s request about 30 people, and wants law enforcement able to work with federal law enforcement.

  Campaign site, site source

• Require districts to keep and add classroom hours even when budgets are short?

  Said: Would increase classroom time by moving Oregon from an instructional-hours system to a school-day system with statewide standards for what counts as a school day.

  Campaign site, site source

• Raise new state taxes to cover the 2027–29 budget gap, or hold to cuts?

  Said: Says business taxes are too high and Salem should tighten its belt; would raise the Corporate Activity Tax threshold past the $2 million the governor’s Prosperity Council suggested, reform the estate tax and selectively preempt local taxes.

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• Build the Interstate Bridge replacement as planned, with tolls, or scale it back?

  Said: Says the state “can’t afford the I-5 bridge that they’re proposing,” objecting to the share of deck for biking, walking and transit, and would build a bridge Oregon can afford.

  Campaign site, site source

A question the evidence leaves open

Which services would you reduce if tax changes lower revenue, and how would you evaluate faster permitting and treatment outcomes?