Governor Kate Brown, D-Oregon, attends the Oregon State Fair with her husband on Monday, Sept. 3, 2018. (Photo by Natalie Pate)
If re-elected, Oregon’s Democratic Gov. Kate Brown wants to increase educational opportunities, protect health care coverage and advocate for environmental conservation, among other things.
But that may not happen if she doesn’t swing enough moderate Republican votes away from her opponent, Rep. Knute Buehler, R-Bend, while hanging onto the moderate voters in her own party.
Natalie Pate is a freelance journalist and author based in Salem, Oregon. She wrote about education for more than seven years at the Statesman Journal and now covers education and other topics throughout the Pacific Northwest. She is originally from Colorado and earned her B.A. in Politics and French from Willamette University.
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