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Dale Fishback
Dale Fishback (Republican Party) ran for election to the Oregon House of Representatives to represent District 29. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Fishback completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Dale Fishback was born in Portland, Oregon. Fishback served on the Tualatin Valley Water District (TVWD) from 1985 to 2017. He earned a B.A. in management from George Fox University. He also took classes in general studies at Portland State and Portland Community College, in horticulture at Oregon State University, and EMT training at Linn-Benton Community College. Fishback is affiliated with the nonprofit KuruBa.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Oregon House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Oregon House of Representatives District 29
Incumbent Susan McLain defeated Dale Fishback in the general election for Oregon House of Representatives District 29 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Susan McLain (D / Working Families Party) | 57.8 | 17,200 |
 | Dale Fishback (R)  | 42.0 | 12,507 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 63 | ||
| Total votes: 29,770 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Oregon House of Representatives District 29
Incumbent Susan McLain advanced from the Democratic primary for Oregon House of Representatives District 29 on May 19, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Susan McLain | 98.8 | 5,833 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 1.2 | 69 | ||
| Total votes: 5,902 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Oregon House of Representatives District 29
Dale Fishback defeated David Dowler in the Republican primary for Oregon House of Representatives District 29 on May 19, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Dale Fishback | 77.9 | 3,220 |
| David Dowler | 21.0 | 868 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 1.1 | 44 | ||
| Total votes: 4,132 | |||
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Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Dale Fishback completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Fishback's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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A fifth generation Oregonian and Washington County native. Retired after 32 years as an employee in public service I believe public service done right is customer service. Over 20 years of that public service was in senior management which routinely placed me in contact with our agency's elected board.
I determined to seek office out of concern that our State's current leadership has become so myopic and controlling that it is disconnected from life in the real world, and as a result of their leadership approach quality of life in the community is declining.
We are Washington County, and not Portland, so I don't think we need to go out of our way to be 'weird'. I think we can do just fine striving to be human.
It's time for a new beginning.
More info at www.fishpac29.org
- The status quo is operating from a very narrow perspective and is disconnected from vast segments of our communities.
- Washington County is not Portland and desires for its own voice to be heard.
- People should be treated as responsible adults capable of making adult decisions for themselves.
Homelessness is expanding, yet up until the COVID shutdown we had the strongest economy in generations with amazingly low unemployment. Somewhere there's an paradox in that condition. Current approaches seem to only be fostering this multifaceted condition rather than resolving it. It's time for different eyes to explore the problem.
Gene Seibel, former General Manager at Wolf Creek Hwy. Water District (which became TVWD). A quote I remember from him was "...the water is free, all we have to sell is service."
Although I have never held elected office, because of my professional career I have been around elected officials and government officials for several years. It's not a completely new environment.
I also recall the Columbus Day Storm of 1962. When word of the storms approach arrived my mother sent me to call our cows into the barn while she was watching my younger siblings. The cows declined to come in, and when I returned to the house the wind was just short of being strong enough to carry me. My father was an electrical engineer for a Pacific Power and was dispatch to Coos Bay the next morning to try to get power back to that city's mill (primary employer). I recall drawing water from a hand dug well to water cattle and being without electricity for two weeks. Trees were down everywhere. Neighbors cut and removed tress to open the roads. I was two days short of turning seven.
My first regular job during high school and part of my college years was a nursery laborer for a fruit and shade tree grower. This probably was about six years of part-time work, lasting until I headed off to Oregon State where I studied horticulture. The time in the nursery gave me an appreciation for plants, and I did a little nursery production on the side myself for a few years.
While at OSU I joined the Corvallis Fire Department as a "resident volunteer". Eventually I was hired full-time by the City and stayed until I determine to move closer to home, a total of about four years. This was a rich experience working with a group of dynamic community focused people which taught me a lot about people and working in the emergency environment. Knowledge gained here was helpful in subsequent employment experiences.
I took a position with a different agency which allowed me to return to Washington County, but it proved to be an unfortunate choice as I found that agency's values to be so self-serving I couldn't in good conscience work there and left after a month. In this experience I determined ethics and good conscience was more important than a career path I enjoyed.
Because Oregon was in a severe recession those days (early 1980's) I took work where I could find it; mostly part-time including carrying garbage, working retail, doing farm labor, what ever came along.
Previous knowledge assists with the learning curve and can bring effectiveness sooner. However, it can also lead to more being more focused on party politics and staying secure in office than watching out for the people they were elected to serve, especially in the long run.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 5, 2020
