Senate · District 17 candidate · Oregon Legislature · November 3, 2026
John A N Chee
Qualified general-election candidate
Republican nominee raised in Portland’s Bethany neighborhood; answered the 2026 Ballotpedia candidate survey.
Reach the campaign
No campaign site, filed pamphlet statement or campaign email was found; his Ballotpedia survey lists no website, and the ORESTAR filing page refuses automated requests.
In their words
Said: Born and raised in the Bethany neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, John lives in the same house he grew up in.
Campaign site
Candidate statement · 2026 survey; extracted September 21, 2026
Chee · Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey ↗No filed pamphlet statement or campaign site was found; this is the first sentence of his own biography answer in the survey.
No pamphlet statement was published; this is the verbatim opening of their written questionnaire answer.
What they say they would do
Our summary of their platform, in our wordsHis survey answers pair sharp property- and inheritance-tax cuts with prosecuting vagrancy and open drug use, fewer rules on home builders and support for young men entering the trades.
- Dramatically reduce property taxes and eliminate taxes on family inheritances.
- Prosecute vagrancy and open drug use.
- Cut regulations on home builders and small businesses.
Our reading
Our interpretation, not their wordsHis survey pairs sharp property- and inheritance-tax cuts with prosecuting vagrancy and open drug use and support for young men entering the trades; it does not say what state services would shrink to pay for the tax cuts.
Where they stand
Housing and homelessness
Deregulate home building- What
- Said: Cut regulations that punish home builders and remove barriers for local builders and first-time buyers.
- How
- Not in their sources
- Measured by
- Not in their sources
Crime, drugs and who responds
Prosecute open drug use- What
- Said: Prosecute vagrancy and open drug use.
- How
- Not in their sources
- Measured by
- Not in their sources
Taxes, the kicker and the budget
Cut property taxes- What
- Said: Dramatically reduce property taxes, eliminate taxes on family inheritances, and cut regulations on small businesses.
- How
- Not in their sources
- 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. John A N Chee is on record on 3, with 5 still open. A question without an answer is a research gap, not a position.
No answer we could findVote for a 2027 transportation package that raises the gas tax and vehicle fees again?
Nothing on this exact choice in the sources we reviewed.
Let 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.
Close the 2027–29 budget gap with new revenue, or with cuts alone?
Said: Says Oregon families are devastated by endless broad-based tax increases; he would dramatically reduce property taxes and eliminate taxes on family inheritances.
Keep paying for state-funded shelter beds and the homelessness emergency after June 2027?
Said: Would prosecute vagrancy and open drug use; he does not say whether the state should keep funding shelter beds.
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: Would prosecute open drug use; he does not say whether counties should keep deflecting people to treatment before charges.
On the topic; the exact choice is unsaid.
A question the evidence leaves open
Which state services would shrink to pay for the property- and inheritance-tax cuts, and by how much?
Sources (3)
- Oregon Secretary of State · qualified 2026 general-election filingsElection authority · Checked September 18, 2026
- 2026 qualified filing · RepublicanElection authority · Checked September 18, 2026
- Chee · Ballotpedia Candidate Connection surveyCandidate statement · 2026 survey; 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.