House · District 40 candidate · Oregon Legislature · November 3, 2026
Adam Baker
Retired police officer and real-estate professional.
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As published in their campaign site.
In their words
Said: "As a 26-year police officer, detective, and hostage negotiator, I'm running for State Representative because our communities deserve leadership that understands the real challenges families face every day, not more of the same Salem status quo."
Voters’ pamphlet
Candidate statement · Filed for the November 2026 state voters’ pamphlet; extracted September 21, 2026
Oregon Secretary of State · filed candidate statement · PDF page 226 ↗The filed statement opens with this sentence in quotation marks, printed without an attribution line; header fields skipped.
The verbatim opening of their voters’ pamphlet statement, the same rule for every candidate. We chose nothing.
What they say they would do
Our summary of their platform, in our wordsPairs tax restraint and reduced housing barriers with enforcement, treatment and evidence-based program review.
- Require efficiency and results before new taxes; oppose I-205 tolls.
- Reduce fees and permitting delays and expand starter-home supply.
- Support police, recovery programs and mental-health prevention and inpatient care.
Our reading
Our interpretation, not their wordsCost restraint (no new taxes without proven results, no tolls) alongside more treatment, inpatient mental-health capacity and police resources; the added services and the savings are separate commitments whose budgets need reconciling.
Where they stand
Housing and homelessness
Cut fees and delays- What
- Said: Cut the fees, permitting delays and red tape he says government adds to a home’s price, and support development that increases supply of all housing types, especially starter homes.
- How
- Said: Cut excessive fees, permitting delays and red tape that he says can add six figures to a new home, and back responsible development across housing types.
- Measured by
- Not in their sources
Crime, drugs and who responds
Enforcement plus treatment- What
- Said: Back police and first responders with resources and training, hold chronic offenders accountable and reduce encampments, while expanding recovery programs and evidence-based mental-health care including inpatient capacity.
- How
- Said: Fund evidence-based mental-health care including prevention and inpatient capacity, expand recovery programs that work, and measure outcomes, ending programs that fail.
- Measured by
- Not in their sources
Taxes, the kicker and the budget
Audit before taxing- What
- Said: No new taxes without proven efficiency and results, keep tolls off I-205, and protect ratepayers from utility bills that shift big users’ costs onto households.
- How
- Said: Audit before asking: every agency shows measurable results before requesting more money; push ratepayer protection so big users’ costs are not shifted onto families and seniors.
- Measured by
- Not in their sources
Roads, transit and climate
Not foundNot found in the sources we reviewed. That is a research gap, not a position.
The choices this office faces
Every candidate in this race is asked the same 8 questions. Adam Baker is on record on 4, with 4 still open. A question without an answer is a research gap, not a position.
No answer we could findLet the state keep part of a future kicker refund for wildfire or other one-time needs?
Nothing on this exact choice in the sources we reviewed.
Make data centers pay their own way: separate power rates, an end to tax breaks, or a pause on new ones?
Nothing on this exact choice in the sources we reviewed.
Spend more state money on wildfire prevention and firefighting?
Nothing on this exact choice in the sources we reviewed.
Keep adding state limits on federal immigration enforcement, on top of Oregon's sanctuary law?
Nothing on this exact choice in the sources we reviewed.
Vote for a 2027 transportation package that raises the gas tax and vehicle fees again?
Said: Would respect the May 2026 vote rejecting the gas-tax, payroll-tax and vehicle-fee increases: no new taxes without proof of efficiency and results, and no tolls on I-205.
Close the 2027–29 budget gap with new revenue, or with cuts alone?
Said: No new taxes until agencies prove efficiency and results; every agency should show measurable results before asking taxpayers for another dime.
Keep paying for state-funded shelter beds and the homelessness emergency after June 2027?
Said: Wants compassion with accountability: reduce encampments, expand recovery programs and fund inpatient mental-health capacity; he does not say whether to keep state shelter funding.
On the topic; the exact choice is unsaid.
Keep the 2024 approach of recriminalized possession plus county deflection programs, and fund them in 2027–29?
Said: Wants firm enforcement plus proven intervention: treat the opioid crisis as an emergency, expand recovery programs that work and pair treatment with responsibility; he does not name deflection.
On the topic; the exact choice is unsaid.
A question the evidence leaves open
Which fees and regulations would you change, and how would treatment and policing commitments be funded?
Sources (4)
- Baker · policy commitmentsCandidate statement · Undated campaign page; reviewed September 18, 2026
- 2026 qualified filing · RepublicanElection authority · Checked September 18, 2026
- Baker · Meet AdamCandidate statement · Website reviewed September 21, 2026Campaign position. Claimed results and numerical premises have not automatically been independently verified.
- Oregon Secretary of State · filed candidate statement · PDF page 226Candidate statement · Filed for the November 2026 state voters’ pamphlet; PDF printed September 9, 2026; reviewed September 21, 2026Written by the candidate or campaign for the state voters’ pamphlet, which is not published until September 29, 2026.