One candidate frames the term around child poverty, healthcare access and gun-violence prevention; the other around lower property and inheritance taxes, prosecuting street disorder and support for young men in the trades. His fuller brief is still open.
Draft; human review pending.
Key
Said
A campaign statement, in our summary or their words.
Voted
A recorded Council roll call.
— Not found
Not in the sources we reviewed. A research gap, not a position.
His 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.
Would cut regulations on home builders and barriers for first-time buyers.
Would prosecute vagrancy and open drug use.
Would cut property taxes sharply and eliminate inheritance taxes.
Frames state policy around reducing child poverty and improving health and opportunity for families.
Supports record shelter and housing funding, rent relief and eviction protections.
Supports safe-storage and ghost-gun laws, more addiction treatment, fentanyl interdiction.
Wants upstream spending against child poverty, including the Child Tax Credit.
—not found in the sources we reviewed
Summaries are our one-line readings of what each candidate says. Issue lines are short forms of the positions in each brief, AI-drafted and awaiting human review; “—” means not found in the sources we reviewed.
Four votes that split this Council
No candidate in this race sits on Council today.
— Not foundNo featured votes are selected for this race yet.
Candidate briefs, A–Z
JAPortrait to come
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.
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
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 words
His 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 words
Lower taxes
Traditional family
His 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.
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 find
Vote 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.
On record
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.
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.
Senate · District 17 candidate · Oregon Legislature · November 3, 2026
Lisa Reynolds
Incumbent senator and Washington County pediatrician.
Photo: Campaign photo · lisafororegon.com
In their words
Said: Oregon State Senator Dr. Lisa Reynolds never stops working for her patients, her constituents, and her community.
Voters’ pamphlet
Candidate statement · Filed for the November 2026 state voters’ pamphlet; extracted September 21, 2026
First sentence of the filed statement; header fields, including a Community Involvement line, 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 words
Frames state policy around reducing child poverty and improving health and opportunity for families.
Reduce child poverty and improve outcomes for families.
Expand healthcare access, especially behavioral-health services.
Prevent gun violence.
Our reading
Our interpretation, not their words
Child poverty
Gun-violence prevention
A pediatrician’s prevention agenda: upstream spending against child poverty, gun-safety laws, and treatment plus supply interruption on fentanyl; the site sets a poverty target but not a next-term budget.
Said: Housing as a basic right: she voted for record shelter and housing funding and supported rent relief and eviction moratoriums to keep families housed.
How
— Not in their sources
Measured by
— Not in their sources
Crime, drugs and who responds
Gun safety, treatment
What
Said: Gun-violence prevention (safe-storage and ghost-gun laws, community-violence grants, expanded extreme-risk orders, a purchase age of 21) plus more addiction treatment and interrupting the fentanyl supply.
How
Said: Expand Extreme Risk Protection Orders, raise the firearm purchase age to 21 with hunting-rifle exceptions, fund youth prevention programs; cites $25 million secured for community-violence groups.
Measured by
— Not in their sources
Taxes, the kicker and the budget
Child tax credit
What
Said: Upstream investment against child poverty (hunger, housing insecurity, childcare), including the refundable Child Tax Credit she helped pass, with a goal of halving child poverty.
How
Said: The 2023 Child Tax Credit (HB 3235): a refundable $1,000 a year per young child for low-income families, plus a maternal-child health package.
Measured by
Said: Has called for a 50% reduction in child poverty over four years.
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. Lisa Reynolds 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 find
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.
On record
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.
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: Voted yes on HB 3644 on June 26, 2025; her site says she voted for record shelter and housing funding and supported rent relief and eviction moratoriums.
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; her site calls for markedly more treatment and interrupting the fentanyl supply.
Spend more state money on wildfire prevention and firefighting?
Said: Voted no on HB 3940 on June 26, 2025, the bill that taxes oral nicotine products, raises the timber harvest tax and moves Rainy Day Fund interest to wildfire prevention 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; her statement cites policies protecting patients in hospitals, children in schools and people in their homes from the Trump administration.
Reynolds · prioritiesCandidate statement · Website reviewed September 21, 2026Campaign position. Claimed results and numerical premises have not automatically been independently verified.
Reynolds · aboutCandidate 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 78Candidate 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.
