Republicans are strained on the resumption of 5 Boroughs
Even before Mike Erickson started elbowing Kevin Mannix, in the form of television spots, they offer differences in terms of their bids for the Republican nomination for the open method of 5 Congress headquarters district.
Both have a duration of the Civil Service before May 20 primary school.
Mannix, a Salem lawyer, began the race with more notoriety. He was in the house of Oregon in 10 years - eight as Democratic and Republican as two - and ran twice for the Attorney General and twice for the governor.
Although he lost all its national races, it is too close, Federal Attorney General in 2000 and governor in 2002.
It is also a past president of the state Republican Party, in January 1997 after his first stay in the legislation.
“I have since that time, a political party of the past 20 years as legislators or in part the end of the presidency,” he said. “But since I have an operation at this time . I’ve tested that I call the Triple-A-League, as I have on the public and things done - and I ask now for the majors. ”
Once in the majority and minority, and was in both parties, Mannix, said he learned that the adoption of laws. Nothing says Congress for amateurs.
“You have the choice of priorities and you must understand the process of how to be effective,” he said. “I understand complete the operation.”
Erickson, a businessman from Lake Oswego, won 43 percent in 2006 as a Republican candidate against the Democratic Republic of Darlene Hooley. He spent $ 1.6 million of his own money into the race and has already been implemented, even if Hooley February 7 announced they would retire after 12 years, a record in the seat.
Before his 30, he had twice the performance of the Oregon House, lost during the years 1988 to Tom Brian, who is now elected Chief Executive of Washington County, and in 1992, Kate Brown, now a Senator and Democratic candidate for secretary citizens. He won 41 per cent in each race.
About this period, he founded a company that negotiates lower rates of shippers, a company whose success later allowed him to finance his two campaigns congress.
“My business is to help other companies save money and greater efficiency, as they move, parts of its Supply Chain logistics,” said Erickson.
“We are talking about creative solutions within government as well. I think government is absent. I have no legislative experience, but I think that’s a plus. We need a new mentality to another Washington. ”
Running is also R.J. Wilson Salem, a dance instructor, classes in protest against the other candidates.
“People tell me that at least if they vote for me, they know what they are,” said Wilson, with no education in the electorate Pamphlet.
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