I am running for State Senate because I want my children and yours to have the opportunities that I had growing up here.  I want to make sure that our education system produces the highly educated and skilled workers that companies want to employ.  And I want to ensure that we create a business climate that attracts investment, rewards entrepreneurship and encourages innovation.  I want to protect the traditional Oregon businesses that have made this state so successful, and pave the way for the industries of tomorrow.

Chuck Thomsen knows what it takes to create jobs.  As an orchardist, he signs the front side of many paychecks every month and understands the challenges all small business owners face.  He understands that a thriving private sector is the key to creating jobs and bringing our state out of the dark economic times we live in.

As your State Senator, Chuck will ensure that our state places a priority on funding schools, public safety, and other essentials before anything else.  In this last legislative session, our legislature held education funding hostage in order to convince voters to support higher taxes.  By using our children’s education and the jobs of hard-working teachers as a political ploy, many of our legislators are abusing the trust the voters give them to run our state.