Adam Prine
Adam Prine (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Oregon's 2nd Congressional District. Prine lost in the Democratic primary on May 17, 2022.
Elections
2022
See also: Oregon's 2nd Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Oregon District 2
Incumbent Cliff Bentz defeated Joseph Yetter in the general election for U.S. House Oregon District 2 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Cliff Bentz (R) | 67.5 | 208,369 |
 | Joseph Yetter (D)  | 32.4 | 99,882 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 425 | ||
| Total votes: 308,676 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Oregon District 2
Joseph Yetter defeated Adam Prine in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Oregon District 2 on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Joseph Yetter | 69.1 | 27,814 |
 | Adam Prine | 29.0 | 11,669 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 2.0 | 788 | ||
| Total votes: 40,271 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Oregon District 2
Incumbent Cliff Bentz defeated Mark Cavener and Katherine Gallant in the Republican primary for U.S. House Oregon District 2 on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Cliff Bentz | 75.0 | 67,051 |
 | Mark Cavener | 19.4 | 17,372 | |
| Katherine Gallant | 5.1 | 4,598 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.4 | 386 | ||
| Total votes: 89,407 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Raiph Huber (R)
- Brett Cahill (R)
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Adam Prine did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign website
Prine’s campaign website stated the following:
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Healthcare It's never been so clear that our healthcare system is broken. In the United States, we pay more for our healthcare than any other country and yet millions of people are uninsured or under-insured and can’t get the care they need. The American citizens' right to healthcare should be a human right standard and inseparable from our other rights. This means achieving the right to health is both central to, and dependent upon, the realization of other human rights, to food, housing, work, education, information, and participation. The vulnerability of our human lives demands that we protect this right as a public good and safety for all. Universal healthcare is crucial to the ability of the most marginalized segments of our country to live lives of dignity. ... The right to healthcare has long been recognized internationally and it is time to do so in America as well. According to a report released just before the pandemic by Physicians for a National Health Plan (PNHP), Hispanic and Black Americans have significantly higher uninsured rates, at 19% and 11%, respectively, than white Americans, 8% of whom are uninsured. Black Americans are also twice as likely as white people to die of diabetes, 22% more likely to die of heart disease, and 71% more likely to die of cervical cancer. Healthcare is a civil justice issue and should be a fundamental right. It's time to reintroduce a Medicare for All proposal
Environment With each day, the window to avoid the irreversible effects of climate change narrows. If we’re collectively going to slow, stop, or reverse the catastrophic effects, we have to reduce carbon and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To become carbon neutral by 2025, we need to reduce and eliminate these emissions, and getting there requires multiple strategies. Oregon needs a carbon tax. Under a carbon tax, the government sets a price that emitters must pay for each ton of greenhouse gas emissions they emit. Businesses and consumers will take steps, such as switching fuels or adopting new technologies, to reduce their emissions to avoid paying the tax. If we are going to start taking climate change seriously, it follows that we must begin advancing far more aggressive climate stabilization solutions than anything that has been undertaken thus far, both within the U.S. and globally. Within the U.S., such measures should include at least putting on the table the idea of nationalizing the U.S. fossil fuel industry. We must immediately ban the production of all new petro-plastic and force these massive corporations to invest in ways to make sustainable bio-plastics.
Education We should end the practice of teaching to the test aka "item-teaching" in our elementary school system. When we teach the memorization of specific vocabulary words or math problems — knowing that they will show up on the test — this practice does not increase a student’s overall knowledge base. This practice deprives students of understanding broader concepts and ideas and hinders the ability to think critically, something our country lacks. No for-profit charter school should get tax dollars without oversight. We should raise teachers' wages. Teachers in America should be paid a starting salary of at least $60,000 a year. We should cancel all student loan debt for the some 45 million Americans who owe about $1.75 trillion. It's time to bring the arts back to schools. More than any other segment of school curriculum, the arts – music, dance, drama or the visual arts, such as photography or painting – were hit the hardest. The cuts came against the backdrop of the decade-long emphasis on math and reading as mandated by the federal No Child Left Behind law. These arts are just as important as math and reading and we should reintroduce them to all the public schools across the country. To truly address the current crisis of higher education, especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic, student debt needs to be wiped out completely. And to ensure that another student debt crisis does not emerge in the future, all public colleges and trade schools need to be made tuition and debt-free. The cost of universal tuition-free public higher education could be defrayed by redeploying money that the government is already spending. Under the College for All Act, the federal government would cover 67% of this cost, while the states would be responsible for the remaining 33% of the cost. We can issue a federal matching grant to public institutions in states with tuition-free public college as an incentive.
Prison Reform Simple possession of any and all drugs should be decriminalized and we should end the criminalization of addiction and treat it for what it is, a healthcare issue. We need reentry after prison solutions, to lower recidivism rates. Education should be available to all prisoners while incarcerated, along with rehabilitation. We need to end the barbaric practice of prison labor and pay all prisoners, at the very lest, the federal minimum wage. Every prisoner who has served their time should be released with a job waiting. We need to end cash bail, to lower incarceration rates. We need to end mass incarceration and begin closing down prisons.
Federal Job Guarantee Everyone should be entitled to a good job, one that pays at least $15 an hour and comes with benefits such as health care, family leave policies and childcare. The Federal Jobs Guarantee program would be administered at a local level, with federal funding, and jobs would be fitted to people, not the other way around. This would eliminate involuntary unemployment by creating living-wage, socially beneficial jobs for the millions of Americans who want and need work― essentially making employment a fundamental right. FJG will reduce poverty, by increasing employment and wages among both program recipients and low-wage workers in the private sector. FJG is the much-needed boost for Americans living in economically distressed areas, many of whom have been left behind by the current recovery. President Roosevelt’s final State of the Union address in 1944, wherein Roosevelt introduced what he called an Economic Bill of Rights. The speech was grounded in Roosevelt’s belief that “the American Revolution was incomplete and that a new set of rights – economic rights and rights analogous to Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen’s more recent conception of human capabilities – was necessary to finish it.”
Ranked Choice Voting' A ranked-choice voting system (RCV) is an electoral system in which voters rank candidates by preference on their ballots. If a candidate wins a majority of first-preference votes, he or she is declared the winner. If no candidate wins a majority of first-preference votes, the candidate with the fewest first-preference votes is eliminated. First-preference votes cast for the failed candidate are eliminated, lifting the second-preference choices indicated on those ballots. A new tally is conducted to determine whether any candidate has won a majority of the adjusted votes. The process is repeated until a candidate wins an outright majority.
Living Wage In Franklin Roosevelt's statement on the National Industrial Recovery Act, he said, "In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living." It's time to make that happen.[1] |
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| —Adam Prine’s campaign website (2022)[2] | ||
See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Adam Prine's campaign website, Home, accessed May 15, 2022
