Senate · District 13 candidate · Oregon Legislature · November 3, 2026
Courtney Neron Misslin
Incumbent senator; educator and former state representative.
Reach the campaign
In their words
Said: As your State Senator, I'm pushing back against federal overreach and policies that benefit only the ultra-wealthy.
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 64 ↗First sentence of the filed statement; the name, party, occupation and background header fields above it are 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 wordsConnects affordability to childcare, public education, housing stability and healthcare access.
- Expand school meals, special-education support and affordable childcare.
- Preserve subsidized housing, prevent evictions and fund infrastructure for new homes.
- Protect Medicaid and reproductive care; invest in behavioral-health services.
Our reading
Our interpretation, not their wordsShe pairs building more homes with protecting the affordable homes that exist, and funds prevention-first safety and healthcare through state investment; the site lists past appropriations and bills rather than a costed next-term plan.
Where they stand
Housing and homelessness
Build and protect homes- What
- Said: Build more homes and protect existing affordable ones: eviction prevention, housing-first strategies, stronger tenant protections and rent-increase transparency (her HB 3042), and state money for sewer and water lines so towns can build.
- How
- Said: Passed HB 3042 for tenant protections and rent-increase transparency; backs housing-first strategies and state investment in sewer and water infrastructure so communities can build.
- Measured by
- Not in their sources
Crime, drugs and who responds
Prevention-first safety- What
- Said: Prevention-focused safety: expanded mental-health resources, full funding for the 9-8-8 crisis line, domestic-violence legislation, gun-safety measures such as safe storage, and police accountability, alongside money for Tigard’s police facility.
- How
- Said: Voted to fully fund the 9-8-8 crisis line, introduced domestic-violence legislation, and secured $3 million toward Tigard’s police and public-works facility.
- Measured by
- Not in their sources
Taxes, the kicker and the budget
No I-5 bridge tolls- What
- Said: Lower household bills rather than raise them: she opposed tolling the I-5 bridge in Wilsonville, backs universal school meals as a family-budget saving, and wants lower prescription-drug costs.
- How
- Not in their sources
- Measured by
- Said: Puts the school-meal saving at an average of $1,400 a year per family.
Roads, transit and climate
Toxics rules, clean energy- What
- Said: Stronger toxics standards, clean-energy job training, sustainable transportation, responsible land use and climate resilience, with district money for the Sherwood pedestrian bridge and transit-oriented workforce housing.
- How
- Said: $4 million for the Sherwood pedestrian bridge over Highway 99W and $1.9 million for transit-oriented workforce housing near the Wilsonville Transit Center; updated the Toxic Free Kids Act.
- Measured by
- Not in their sources
The choices this office faces
Every candidate in this race is asked the same 8 questions. Courtney Neron Misslin is on record on 7, with 1 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.
Vote for a 2027 transportation package that raises the gas tax and vehicle fees again?
Said: Voted yes on HB 3991 in the Senate on September 29, 2025, the gas-tax and fee package voters later repealed; the enrolled bill also repealed the mandatory toll program.
Close the 2027–29 budget gap with new revenue, or with cuts alone?
Said: Voted yes on SB 1507 on February 16, 2026, which disconnects Oregon from federal H.R. 1 business tax breaks, raising about $314 million for 2027–29, and enlarges the Earned Income Tax Credit.
Make data centers pay their own way: separate power rates, an end to tax breaks, or a pause on new ones?
Said: Voted yes on HB 3546, the POWER Act, in the Senate on June 3, 2025; it lets regulators put data centers in their own electricity rate class.
Keep paying for state-funded shelter beds and the homelessness emergency after June 2027?
Said: Carried HB 3644 on the Senate floor and voted yes on June 26, 2025; the law creates the statewide shelter program funded with $204.9 million through June 2027.
Keep the 2024 approach of recriminalized possession plus county deflection programs, and fund them in 2027–29?
Said: Voted yes on HB 4002 in the House on February 29, 2024, which recriminalized possession and created county deflection programs.
Spend more state money on wildfire prevention and firefighting?
Said: Voted yes on HB 3940 on June 26, 2025, which taxes oral nicotine, raises the timber harvest tax and moves Rainy Day Fund interest to wildfire funds.
Keep adding state limits on federal immigration enforcement, on top of Oregon's sanctuary law?
Said: Voted yes on HB 4138 on March 5, 2026, requiring officers to identify themselves and limiting masks; her site says she has worked to strengthen Oregon’s sanctuary protections.
A question the evidence leaves open
Which programs would receive priority if available revenue cannot fund all of these commitments?
Sources (5)
- Neron Misslin · prioritiesCandidate statement · Undated campaign page; reviewed September 18, 2026
- 2026 qualified filing · DemocratElection authority · Checked September 18, 2026
- 2026 qualified filing · Working FamiliesElection authority · Checked September 18, 2026
- Neron Misslin · Meet CourtneyCandidate 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 64Candidate 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.