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Believing Oregon's best days lie ahead, Chris Dudley stands ready to lead our state in a new direction. As a devoted husband and father, businessman and philanthropist, Chris has spent his life striving to improve the lives of others.
No stranger to adversity, Chris was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at the age of 16. Chris, however, refused to let obstacles stand in his way. Despite his family's financial struggles, Chris worked his way through college; receiving a degree in Economics and Political Science from Yale University. Defying the odds, he went on to play 16 years in the NBA, including six seasons for the Trail Blazers.
While in the NBA, he founded the Chris Dudley Foundation to help children with diabetes. Following his retirement, Chris received his Certified Financial Planner credential and became a partner in a financial company in Oregon.
Now, Chris is running for governor to create jobs, improve our schools and universities, and protect the Oregon way of life.
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JOBS FIRST
CHRIS DUDLEY'S 4-POINT PLAN TO GET OREGON BACK ON TRACK
1 Promote Private Sector Job Creation
OBJECTIVES: Spur business hiring and investment, rising personal incomes, shared rural-urban economic growth, adequate revenues for essential public services
2 Control State Spending and Reform Government
OBJECTIVES: Slow growth in state spending, strengthen savings for rainy day, rebuild public trust in government
3 Education for Our Economic Future
OBJECTIVES: Prepare students for college, work, and the world, stable funding with incentives for improvement and reform, quality schools essential for a positive business climate, reform PERS to curb long-term budget impacts, transform higher education
4 Rebuild Public Trust in Government
OBJECTIVES: Reverse perception of out-of-touch public officials, demonstrate ability to change and reform government, bridge the partisan divides, strengthen accountability and transparency of state government
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"For too long Oregon's political leaders have made job creation and economic growth an after-thought rather than the central focus of protecting and improving our quality of life."
Dear Fellow Oregonians:
Oregon is blessed with people who are smart and care about their communities, incredible natural beauty, and abundant natural resources. But for too long Oregon's political leaders have made job creation and economic growth an after-thought rather than the central focus of protecting and improving our quality of life. And without jobs and a growing economy, our families are worse off and so are our schools, health care and other essential government services.
This is our greatest challenge—to protect the quality of life we all cherish while expanding the economic opportunities we need to enjoy it. Helping us meet this challenge is why I want to be your next Governor.
This November, more than names, I believe Oregon's future is on the ballot. At stake is whether we can embrace the big changes needed to fix our economy and reform our government. Changes in how we tax, how we spend, how we educate and how we position ourselves in a global marketplace of ideas, products and culture-in short, big changes in how we govern ourselves.
Change won't come from the inside. The inside crowd has proven they are good at protecting the status quo and business-as-usual. They also want us to believe the myth that only politicians with years of experience in government are qualified to govern. These are the same people who've left us with the mess we're in today. So, if you like how things are going, stick with the same people who've been in-charge for decades, but if you want change—join me.
As I travel our state, I hear people's frustrations and anxieties and some question whether it's worth the fight. I believe it is. Now is not the time to quit on Oregon. Now is the time to stand-up and be heard...to stand and fight for our future. I'm not running to be the best politician or expert on state government...or to join the crowd in Salem...I'm running to put jobs front and center in Oregon's economic future and quality of life. Please join me today.
Sincerely,
Chris Dudley
Chris Dudley
JOBS FIRST
4 POINT PLAN
1 Promote Private Sector Job Creation
2 Control State Spending and Reform Government
3 Educate for Our Economic Future
4 Rebuild Public Trust in Government
CLOSING THE JOBS DEFICIT
Oregon's job losses and stagnant economy are well documented. Our workers, businesses, and families face it—and feel it—every day. We have too few jobs and too few job creators. Our lack of jobs, declining incomes and nagging unemployment not only hurts individuals and families, it hurts our ability to fund schools, health care and other essential government services. When an Oregonian loses a job, Oregon loses a taxpayer.
The Salem politicians think the solution is higher taxes—that we have a tax deficit. Oregon doesn't have a tax deficit, we have a jobs deficit. .. and a leadership deficit. Reversing the jobs deficit, getting people working again, businesses hiring again, entrepreneurs investing again and restoring confidence in Oregon's economy must be priority one, two and three.
To close the jobs deficit, Chris Dudley has a specific plan to:
1) promote private sector job creation,
2) control state spending and reform government,
3) better educate for our economic future and
4) restore hope and rebuild public trust in government
JOBS FIRST is a road-map to help businesses create jobs in Oregon and to bring change to state government. Its purpose is to set goals and provide a sense of Chris Dudley's thinking and priorities as Governor. It is not designed to answer every question or contain every policy needed to clean up the mess in Salem.
More than anything, JOBS FIRST is based on the belief—Chris Dudley's belief—that it is people—not government—that create jobs. And it is people pursuing their dreams, in a state that values their work that is the key to creating a brighter economic future and quality of life for all Oregonians.
JOBS FIRST
2014 GOALS
- Oregon job growth and per capita incomes above the national average
- Oregon unemployment below the national average
- Jobs and incomes growing across all regions of the state
- Taxpayer-sustainable state budget growth
- Job growth sufficient to support essential government services
- Improve job-friendly image of Oregon locally, nationally, globally
OREGON'S ECONOMIC BALANCE SHEET
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LIABILITIES |
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OREGON JOB LOSSES
Source: Oregon Labor Market Information System
[chart 1.08 to 12.09]
OREGON SPENDING GROWTH
Source: Legislative Fiscal Office
[chart 1999-2001 to 2009-2011]
1 PROMOTE PRIVATE SECTOR JOB CREATION
OBJECTIVES: Spur business hiring and investment, rising personal incomes, shared rural-urban economic growth, adequate revenues for essential public services
Provide Tax Relief for Businesses
As Governor, Chris Dudley will make Oregon's tax system more attractive for existing businesses, new businesses, entrepreneurs and people with investment income; will reduce the highest-in-the-nation state capital gains tax rate; will increase tax deductions for businesses making new capital investments (bonus depreciation); and will work to reduce Oregon's highest-in-the-nation taxes that unfairly tax too many small, unprofitable and start-up businesses.
Transform Higher Education into Oregon's Job and Idea Factories
As Governor, Chris Dudley will unshackle Oregon's colleges and universities from outdated regulations that cost too much money and limit innovation and accountability of individual institutions; will reverse the decades-long retreat from higher education investment, believing that jobs and businesses from innovation and research will follow.
Renew Commitment to Jobs from Sustainable Natural Resource Management
As Governor, Chris Dudley will re-focus state policies to support, not stand in the way of, sustainable natural resource industries in agriculture and ranching, timber and forest products, fishing and seafood; will support increased woody bio-mass utilization; more active management of Common School Fund state forests; will defend carbon-free, affordable hydropower; and will advocate federal land management policies that balance conservation and jobs.
Refresh State Government with New People, New Attitudes
As Governor, Chris Dudley will change Oregon's job creation policies by changing the people who help shape them; will breathe new life into state government with a new generation of people with diverse and balanced backgrounds, without regard to partisan politics, from every corner of Oregon who understand business and share a commitment to job growth and Oregon's future.
Provide Incentives, Not Excessive Subsidies, for Emerging Industries
As Governor, Chris Dudley will only support temporary, targeted incentives-such as tax breaks, enterprise zones and job training—for existing and emerging business sectors to ensure Oregon is economically competitive with other states and nations seeking growth industries; incentives will be performance-based—not a blank check—and will be awarded transparently and on the basis of job creation and economic returns for the state and local communities.
Ensure Freight Mobility; Stop Endless Talk, Begin Work on Interstate Bridge
As Governor, Chris Dudley will end the debate and provide immediate leadership to modernize Oregon's outdated but critical North American freightway—the 1-5 Columbia River Bridge; will ensure that state transportation policies and priorities recognize the importance of moving both people and freight.
Modernize State Land Use Policies
As Governor, Chris Dudley supports current efforts to improve state land use laws to provide rural areas greater flexibility for growth and to ensure urban areas can provide businesses who want to locate or expand with adequate industrial land in a timely manner; will ensure that a balance of conservation and property rights voices are represented in state land use policymaking and decisions.
Sell Oregon to the Nation and World
As Governor, Chris Dudley will combine his unique professional background with Oregon's many natural assets to promote Oregon across the nation and around the world as a desirable investment and tourist destination; will actively recruit people to visit-and stay-in Oregon and will lead missions with business and public sector leaders to generate interest in Oregon products and as a place to invest and build a business.
2 CONTROL STATE SPENDING AND REFORM GOVERNMENT
OBJECTIVES: Slow growth in state spending, control demand for new taxes, strengthen savings for rainy day, rebuild public trust in government
Stop Automatic Budget Increases; Implement Zero-Based Budgeting
As Governor, Chris Dudley will build two-year state budgets from forecast revenues, not from past "current service levels" on automatic cruise-control from the state bureaucracy or that require tax increases or suspending tax refunds.
Strengthen Executive Leadership and Budget Accountability
As Governor, Chris Dudley will appoint a State Budget Director inside his office-not a state agency; will establish a Budget Review Team of experts in public and private finance to review budget assumptions and conduct regular audits; and will aggressively use his veto-pen to control legislative spending that is non-essential, wasteful, or fails to adequately save for a rainy day.
Establish Oregon Future Fund; Saving First to Reduce Budget Volatility
As Governor, Chris Dudley will make saving for a rainy day the first—not last—priority of the state budget by setting aside 3% of forecast revenue into a fund only accessible for schools and essential programs in times of severe economic downturn.
Reduce and Reform Long-Term Government Employee Costs
As Governor, Chris Dudley will tackle the state's structural budget shortfalls, putting his union negotiating experience to work by proposing that state employees pay for a portion of their health insurance costs; will establish an independent commission to reduce growing pension liability costs (PERS) that compete and crowd-out funding for local schools, municipal and state budgets.
End Outdated Government-Managed Liquor Sales
As Governor, Chris Dudley will propose that Oregon join most other states and end the Depression-era policy of government controlled liquor sales. Chris believes government-only liquor sales are an outdated monopoly and no longer a core function of government. He will replace and privatize the current $135 million system and budget with a fee on liquor sales dedicated to education while ensuring continued enforcement of important state liquor-control functions.
3 EDUCATE FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE
OBJECTIVES: Prepare students for college, work, and the world, stable funding with incentives for improvement and reform, quality schools essential for a positive business climate, reform PERS to curb long-term budget impacts, transform higher education
Prioritize and Stabilize K-12 Funding
As Governor, Chris Dudley will reduce K-12 budget volatility by setting aside 3% of forecast revenue into a rainy day fund available for schools during economic downturns; will demand that the K-12 education budget be the first budget approved by the legislature every two years, not the last; and will dedicate savings and new revenues from privatizing liquor sales to funding for local schools.
Improve Teacher Preparation, Excellence
As Governor, Chris Dudley will make improving teacher quality his top education reform through more professional training, incentives for outstanding performance and providing teachers the tools and support they need to be effective in the classroom; will support participation in federal "Race to the Top" incentives to improve teacher and student performance.
Timber for Textbooks
As Governor, Chris Dudley will implement policies to increase sustainable timber harvest in our Common School Fund forests, such as the Elliott State Forest in Southern Oregon, to provide additional dollars for K-12 education and greater investment returns on state timber holdings.
Healthy Kids Make Better Students
As Governor, Chris Dudley will promote policies to combat childhood obesity and increase physical activity in K-12 schools by fast-tracking physical education requirements recently passed by the legislature, requiring healthier breakfast and lunch options in schools and by engaging Oregon's college and professional athletes to raise awareness among parents and kids of the importance of physical activity both in school and at home.
Transform Oregon Higher Education
As Governor, Chris Dudley will work to position Oregon colleges, universities and community colleges to be the job and idea factories of tomorrow by unshackling them from the outdated regulations that unnecessarily increase costs and limit innovation and accountability of individual institutions; will reverse the decades-long retreat from investments in higher education.
Reform PERS to Cut Short and Long-Term Costs
As Governor, Chris Dudley will address the greatest financial challenge to our education system: growing pension costs that compete and crowd-out dollars for class size reduction, teacher training, infrastructure and extra-curricular activities; will pursue reforms that respect past obligations but that build a sustainable future pension system.
4 REBUILD PUBLIC TRUST IN GOVERNMENT
OBJECTIVES: Reverse perception of out-of-touch public officials, demonstrate ability to change and reform government, bridge the partisan divides, strengthen accountability and transparency of state government
Listen More: Governor Town Halls Every Year
As Governor, Chris Dudley will work to reconnect state government with the people who own it by holding open town hall meetings in all 36 Oregon counties every year; he'll ask key state agency and government leaders to join him to hear directly from the people in their own backyards about how state policies are impacting their daily lives. Chris Dudley acknowledges and applauds U.S. Senator Ron Wyden for this idea and practice.
Strengthen Executive Leadership and Budget Accountability
As Governor, Chris Dudley will make the state budget more accountable to taxpayers by appointing a State Budget Director inside his office; and establishing a Budget Review Team to regularly audit agency budgets ensuring transparency and efficiency of service delivery.
Protect Public Access to Initiative; Maintain Citizen Legislature
As Governor, Chris Dudley will protect citizen access to the ballot through Oregon's pioneering initiative and referendum system and will oppose changing the state Constitution to require annual legislative sessions. As Governor, he will not hesitate to use his authority to call the legislature into special session when it is required to address critical issues.
Oppose Legislative Efforts to Keep or Spend Tax Refunds
As Governor, Chris Dudley will oppose efforts to use or spend kicker tax refunds, believing unanticipated revenue should be returned to taxpayers as intended when voters approved the refund law in the state Constitution in 2000 by a 2 to 1 margin. Relentless efforts to keep or spend the refunds-in good times and bad-only fuel voter cynicism toward the legislature and state government.
Refresh State Government with New People, New Attitudes
As Governor, Chris Dudley will change Oregon's job creation policies by changing the people who help shape them; will breathe new life into state government with a new generation of people with diverse and balanced backgrounds, without regard to partisan politics, from every corner of Oregon who understand business and share a commitment to job growth and Oregon's future.
Close Legislator and Lobbyist Revolving Door
As Governor, Chris Dudley will close the revolving door between the legislature, state government and lobbying; will propose a reasonable "time-out" between the time legislators can serve in office and lobby the legislature and will require legislators to openly compete for state jobs after leaving office.
ABOUT CHRIS DUDLEY
Chris Dudley chose Oregon for his home after falling in love with its people, natural beauty and a fifth generation Oregonian-his wife, Chris Love. Today, they make their home in Lake Oswego where they are raising their three children, Charles, Emma, and Sam.
Chris was born in 1965—his father a professor and a minister and his mother a school teacher. After graduating from Yale University with a degree in economics and political science, Chris began a 16 year career in the National Basketball Association. During his playing career—which included 6 seasons with the Portland Trailblazers—Chris was respected for his dedication and leadership abilities both on and off the court.
While in the NBA, Chris was active in the players' association—where he was elected Treasurer of the union and helped negotiate multi-million dollar agreements between NBA players and owners.
Diagnosed with Type I diabetes when he was 16 years old, Chris devoted himself to serving as a role model to kids with diabetes. He established The Dudley Foundation, which provides funding for educational programs, advocacy, and diabetes research, as well as supporting programs that help disadvantaged youth. Chris also sponsored an elementary school class for the I Have A Dream Foundation and for 14 years, Chris has operated the only basketball camp in the country for kids with diabetes. For his efforts, Chris was recognized with the J. Walter Kennedy Award as the outstanding citizen in the NBA, and with the Most Caring Athlete Award from USA Today.
After retiring from basketball in 2003, Chris joined a financial planning company, M Financial, as a Senior Vice-President and is now a Partner at Filigree Advisors. Chris and his family attend Lake Grove Presbyterian Church and he is active in a wide range of community activities from coaching youth sports to serving on the board of Self Enhancement Inc. in Portland, one of the nation's most successful youth development organizations. Chris is also an active member on the board of the Boys and Girls Club and the OHSU Diabetes Center.
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JOIN CHRIS! STAND UP FOR OREGON TODAY.
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"Chris Dudley has never held political office or been active in politics, but that could be an asset in next year's Oregon governor's race ... The ads almost write themselves: 'Oregon's current governor has the longest resume of any politician in state history and look where it got us.' Such a message would be especially potent against either of the Democrats likely to be nominated for governor next year ... he could be a formidable opponent for any Democrat, despite his lack of experience and maybe because of it."
Editorial, Eugene Register Guard, 12/19/09
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