Senate · District 19 candidate · Oregon Legislature · November 3, 2026
Rob Wagner
Incumbent senator and Senate president.
Reach the campaign
As published in their campaign site.
In their words
Said: Having grown up in Oregon and raised my four kids here, our state’s future is personal for me.
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 80 ↗First sentence of the filed statement; the heading “Our State, Our Future” is 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 wordsSupports education and housing investment, reproductive and gender-affirming healthcare, environmental protection and gun-safety laws.
- Build more housing through public, private and nonprofit partnerships.
- Protect healthcare access, immigrant rights and public-school funding.
- Require data centers to cover energy costs and support firearm safe-storage rules.
Our reading
Our interpretation, not their wordsHe presents continued state investment and protections (schools, housing, healthcare, gun safety) as the answer to federal pressure and costs; his claims of enacted results still need separate record checks.
Where they stand
Housing and homelessness
Build through partnerships- What
- Said: Build more housing to close the shortage: supported legislation that eases construction and wants public, private and nonprofit partnerships that deliver results.
- How
- Not in their sources
- Measured by
- Not in their sources
Crime, drugs and who responds
Gun safety, due process- What
- Said: Gun safety as public safety: keep firearms out of schools, strong safe-storage standards, and a task force on community safety and firearm suicide; defend due process and immigrant neighbors’ rights.
- How
- Said: Chief author and sponsor of the legislation creating the Task Force on Community Safety and Firearm Suicide Prevention.
- Measured by
- Not in their sources
Taxes, the kicker and the budget
Data centers pay share- What
- Said: Make data centers pay their fair share of energy costs; opposes across-the-board tariffs that raise prices.
- How
- Not in their sources
- Measured by
- Not in their sources
Roads, transit and climate
Ongoing conservation money- What
- Said: Defend the environment and natural resources in a changing climate, with permanent ongoing funding for conservation.
- How
- Said: Passed new permanent, ongoing funding for conservation and a requirement that data centers pay their fair share of energy costs.
- Measured by
- Not in their sources
The choices this office faces
Every candidate in this race is asked the same 8 questions. Rob Wagner 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.
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 on June 3, 2025, putting data centers in their own electricity rate class; his site says he made data centers pay their fair share of energy costs.
Keep paying for state-funded shelter beds and the homelessness emergency after June 2027?
Said: Voted yes on HB 3644 on June 26, 2025, creating 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 Senate on March 1, 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; his statement says Oregon must build resilience amid wildfires and heat waves.
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; his site says he strongly supported new laws protecting the constitutional rights of immigrant and refugee neighbors.
A question the evidence leaves open
Which investments would you preserve first under tighter revenue, and what housing outcomes would you commit to?
Sources (4)
- Wagner · prioritiesCandidate statement · Undated campaign page; reviewed September 18, 2026
- 2026 qualified filing · DemocratElection authority · Checked September 18, 2026
- Wagner · 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 80Candidate 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.