A key Oregon legislative panel voted Wednesday to spare the jobs of 19 corrections officers and other prison officials that had been on the chopping block.
Speaker John Boehner administered the oath of office in the House chamber Tuesday, one week after Bonamici won a special election to replace former Rep. David Wu. She becomes the only woman in Oregon's five-member congressional delegation.
Democrat Suzanne Bonamici has won a special congressional election to replace David Wu, an Oregon Democrat who resigned last year after a woman accused him of making an unwanted sexual advance.
The letter was from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in Washington, D.C., and it was sent to residents in the 1st Congressional District where Rob Cornilles and Suzanne Bonamici are battling for the vacated seat.
Waving signs on street corners and stopping into coffee shops, the candidates hoping to replace former Rep. David Wu made a final push Monday to get their supporters to turn in their ballots.
Determined not to lose another friendly district because of a sex scandal, Democrats and their allies have pumped more than $1 million into an Oregon special election race that has turned into a vicious exchange of attacks over the airwaves.
There is no doubt the scales of Oregon politics are tipped against Republican Rob Cornilles in his bid for the open 1st Congressional District seat, but that is the point he wants to make.
Democratic congressional candidate Suzanne Bonamici says she always runs a positive campaign, but she’s not afraid of standing up for herself when she’s attacked by an opponent.
KATU.com sent questionnaires to both Libertarian Party candidate James Foster and Progressive Party candidate Steven Reynolds to get their views on some of the major topics in the Jan. 31 special election to replace David Wu.
Unions and groups that support abortion rights have joined national Democratic officials in investing in Oregon's special election to replace former Rep. David Wu, and national Republicans have for the first time invested money in the GOP candidate.