Senate · District 15 candidate · Oregon Legislature · November 3, 2026
Harold Hutchison
Retired Forest Grove resident; describes himself as conservative.
Reach the campaign
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As published in their campaign site.
In their words
Said: I cannot abide what has happened to Oregon. I am done sitting on my hands as people with a far different view of what our society should look like are elevated by default to positions of authority.
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 70 ↗First two sentences of the filed statement (the first is under 12 words); 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 wordsProposes less regulation, higher academic standards and structural changes to taxation and government.
- Eliminate assessment-based property taxation.
- Pursue term limits and stronger academic standards.
- Reduce regulation and strengthen the rule of law and confidence in elections.
Our reading
Our interpretation, not their wordsHe would end assessment-based property taxes, cut regulation and building codes, and reject climate and electric-vehicle mandates; his questionnaire names no replacement revenue for the services property taxes fund.
Where they stand
Housing and homelessness
Simplify building codes- What
- Said: Cut regulations and simplify building codes to address the housing shortage, even over community objections.
- How
- Not in their sources
- Measured by
- Not in their sources
Crime, drugs and who responds
Repeal sanctuary law- What
- Said: Repeal Oregon’s sanctuary-state law and let police ask about immigration status outside criminal investigations; restore respect for the rule of law.
- How
- Not in their sources
- Measured by
- Not in their sources
Taxes, the kicker and the budget
End property tax- What
- Said: Eliminate assessment-based property tax, keep the kicker with taxpayers, and oppose a sales tax; supports a mortgage-interest deduction.
- How
- Not in their sources
- Measured by
- Not in their sources
Roads, transit and climate
No mandates, more nuclear- What
- Said: Voter approval for highway tolls and no gas-tax increases; opposes the 2040 emissions target, electric-vehicle sales mandates and 100% carbon-free electricity standards, and favors another look at nuclear power.
- How
- Said: Fund transportation without gas-tax or fee increases by shrinking the administration responsible for DEQ and licensing.
- Measured by
- Not in their sources
The choices this office faces
Every candidate in this race is asked the same 8 questions. Harold Hutchison is on record on 5, with 3 still open. A question without an answer is a research gap, not a position.
No answer we could findMake 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.
Keep paying for state-funded shelter beds and the homelessness emergency after June 2027?
Nothing on this exact choice in the sources we reviewed.
Keep the 2024 approach of recriminalized possession plus county deflection programs, and fund them in 2027–29?
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: Told the Abigail Adams questionnaire that roads can be funded without gas-tax or fee increases by shrinking the administration behind DEQ and licensing, and backs voter approval of tolls.
Let the state keep part of a future kicker refund for wildfire or other one-time needs?
Said: Answered the questionnaire’s kicker-repeal question with “The kicker belongs to the taxpayers.”
Close the 2027–29 budget gap with new revenue, or with cuts alone?
Said: Would eliminate assessment-based property tax, opposes a sales tax and calls income tax the fairest way to raise needed revenue; he does not say how to close the 2027–29 gap.
On the topic; the exact choice is unsaid.
Spend more state money on wildfire prevention and firefighting?
Said: Told the questionnaire he does not support the Forestry Department doing prescribed burns every five years; he does not address wildfire funding.
On the topic; the exact choice is unsaid.
Keep adding state limits on federal immigration enforcement, on top of Oregon's sanctuary law?
Said: Told the questionnaire he supports repealing Oregon’s sanctuary law and letting police ask about immigration status outside criminal investigations.
A question the evidence leaves open
What would replace assessment-based property taxes, and which election changes do you propose?
Sources (4)
- Hutchison · legislative goalsCandidate statement · Undated campaign page; reviewed September 18, 2026
- 2026 qualified filing · RepublicanElection authority · Checked September 18, 2026
- Hutchison · Oregon Abigail Adams Project candidate questionnaireCandidate statement · 2026 general-election questionnaire; reviewed September 21, 2026Campaign position. Claimed results and numerical premises have not automatically been independently verified. The candidate's own written answers, hosted by the questionnaire's publisher.
- Oregon Secretary of State · filed candidate statement · PDF page 70Candidate 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.