Materials used for Circle Voting in Portland May 15, 2022
This is the email I sent to FeyDirt -the Radical Faerie listgroup after out meeting on Saturday, May 15, 2022
As promised, I’m sending you the results from our meeting Saturday afternoon at Triumph. We based our discussion on a sheet I prepared with a summary of media endorsements by office. I focused on the Portland area. There are other races in Portland but they aren't contested enough for the media to make endorsements so we didn't put any energy into them.
There were about 10 Faeries that participated but the numbers fluctuated with 5 to 7 present at any one time. We voted to endorse the candidates for the statewide offices, but then only did a hand count when there was more than one candidate put forward by either the endorsements or one of our circle.
When we voted, I put the results below, e.g. (F-4) means that 4 Faeries voted for this candidate. Not everyone wanted to be counted.
Below is a list of the races we covered. In addition to the number of Faeries (F-x) these endorsements are listed:
WW – Willamette Weekly OL – Oregon Live PT – Portland Tribune
The candidate in the first position, is the one most of us preferred.
DEM PRIMARY
Senate Ron Wyden WW, OL PT ( F-7)
Governor Tina Kotek- WW, OL, PT (F-6) Patrick Starnes (F-1)
Labor Commissioner: Christina Stephenson - WW OL (F-7)
Congress
1st CD Suzanne Bonamici WW
4TH CD Val Hoyle OL
5th CD Jamie McLeod-Skinner WW (F-4) Kurt Schrader (F-0) OL
A Faerie at this circle knows Schrader personally and recommended Skinner)
6th CD Andreas Salinas WW OL
Oregon Legislature
HD 41 (Milwaukie) Mark Gambia WW
HD45 Thuy Tran WW
Metro
President Lynn Peterson WW (F-4) Alisa Pyszka (F-0) OL, PT
A Faerie at this circle knows Peterson and recommended her as a strong bureaucrat )
District 2 Christine Lewis WW
District 4 Juan Carlos Gonzales PT
District 6 (SE, SW) Duncan Hwang-PT WW (F-4) Terri Preeg Riggsby (F-0) OL
Multnomah County
Chair Jessica Vega Pederson (F-4),WW Sharon Meieran OL PT (F-0)
District 2 Susheela Jayapal PT WW
Sheriff Nicole Morrisey O’Donnell OL PT WW
Portland
City Council Pos. 2: Dan Ryan (F-4) WW OL, PT Alanna McCready (F-1)
A Faerie has worked with Ryan and speaks very highly of him)
City Council Pos. 3: Jo Ann Hardesty (F-4) WW Rene Gonzalez OL Vadim Mozyrsky PT
City auditor: Simone Rede (F-4) WW OL Brian Setzler (F-1)
Let me know if you found this useful and any ideas for improving this.
Murray
hypnodadny@aol.com
Here is the email I sent as an invitation to the meeting:
CIRCLE VOTING AT FAERIE COFFEE THIS SATURDAY 1 PM
05/12/22 #1120
The deadline for voting in the Oregon Primary is this Tuesday at 8pm.s
If you haven't voted, this meeting will make it real easy. If you have voted, you can help others with your information and opinions.
Circle Voting is way to draw upon the wisdom in our community in voting.
We’ll meet at 1PM at Triumph Cafe (201 SE 12th ave ) this Saturday May 14th
Bring your ballot. If you have already voted, join the discussion and the group vote..
This is a chance to help others and in a sense, multiply your vote.
For each of the contested Democratic races and ballot measures in the Oregon Primary, our group will:
share our opinions and information
allow those with ballots to mark them in private
Take a hand vote and record the preference of the entire group as a recommendation for others.
After the event, I’ll post the breakdown on each race here for those of you that couldn’t make it to Coffee to use as a reference in marking your own ballot.
My site, www.circlevoting.com was made for the 2020 election but it describes the importance of drawing on our circles in more depth.
Questions? Email me at circlemurray@... or talk to me earlier at Faerie Coffee.
Murray
I passed out a sheet with the summary of these editorial endorsements at the start of the meeting at Faerie Coffee
EDITORIAL ENDORSEMENTS for May 17, 2022
WW – Willamette Weekly OL – Oregon Live PT – Portland Tribune
DEM PRIMARY
Governor Tina Kotek- WW, OL, PT
Labor Commissioner: Christina Stephenson - WW OL
Congress
1st CD Suzanne Bonamici WW
4TH CD Val Hoyle OL
5th CD Kurt Schrader OL Jamie McLeod-Skinner WW
6th CD Andreas Salinas WW OL
Oregon Legislature
HD 41 (Milwaukie) Mark Gambia WW
HD45 Thuy Tran WW
Metro
President Alisa Pyszka OL, PT Lynn Peterson WW
District 2 Christine Lewis WW
District 4 Juan Carlos Gonzales PT
District 6 (SE, SW)Terri Preeg Riggsby OL Duncan Hwang-PT WW
Multnomah County
Chair Sharon Meieran OL PT Jessica Vega Pederson
WW
District 2 Susheela Jayapal PT WW
Sheriff Nicole Morrisey O’Donnell OL PT WW
Portland
City Council Pos. 2: Dan Ryan WW OL, PT
City Council Pos. 3: Jo Ann Hardesty WW Rene Gonzalez OL Vadim Mozyrsky PT
City auditor: Simone Rede WW OL