COME TO OUR TOWN HALL MEETING!!!
Saturday, January 24th 10am to Noon
Join me, our State Senator Jackie Dingfelder, and Representative Ben Cannon (of House District 46, our neighbor to the south) at the Hollywood Senior Center for a Town Hall Meeting.
Details:
Saturday, January 24th
10 am - noon
Hollywood Senior Center
1820 NE 40th Avenue, Portland (click here for a map with directions)
IN THE LEGISLATURE--WEEK I
I've survived my first week as a legislator, and it has been quite a week. I was officially sworn in on Monday, Jan. 12. It was really a very special moment for me--a moment filled with a mixture of pride, awe, humility, and apprehension at the enormous challenges that we face this session. I'm not sure what I looked like from the outside, but inside I felt as if I had one eye that was sparkling with delight and eagerness and the other that was like the proverbial eye of the deer caught in the headlights. That seems to capture it pretty well.
I've been assigned to four committees: Education (where I have the honor of serving as Vice Chair), Workforce Development, Health Care, and Human Services. This is a tough assignment for a new representative, both in number and in the nature of the issues that they cover. But they make sense given my background. They'll give me the opportunity to focus and--I hope--really make a difference in protecting the most vulnerable today and creating paths to transform the lives of Oregonians in the future.
To see what Michael has been up to since being elected, head to the news page! You'll find News, Views, Endorsements, and More!
A Message from Michael Dembrow
If you're like me, you've been frustrated the last few years with where things are going for our families and the decisions politicians make that hurt our future.
We're stuck in a war for oil that has cost tens of thousands of lives and wasted countless billions of dollars.
We're barely responding to the huge challenges that global warming is bringing, and we're doing too little to build a sustainable green economy that creates good, family-wage jobs.
We're now being asked to foot the bill for hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out Wall Street--while ordinary people go without adequate healthcare, housing, and job training.
The priorities we share -- quality public schools and colleges, providing good health care to every Oregonian, protecting seniors, increasing oversight and accountability, creating more family wage jobs and protecting our environment -- never seem to get the attention they deserve.
With new Democratic leadership in Washington, D.C., we have the potential to make enormous progress even in these tough times. But there is so much more to do here in Oregon.
We need to break down the silos of special interest that are keeping us from achieving real, practical solutions to the problems that we face.
I ran for State Representative to make sure that we step boldly forward with progressive solutions that keep Oregon at the forefront and make sure every Oregon child gets a real chance.
I'd be honored to have your support in this struggle for the future of Oregon.
Michael Dembrow
State Representative, House District 45
