Peter Wright
Peter Wright (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Oregon's 5th Congressional District. He lost in the Democratic primary on May 15, 2018.
Wright completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2018. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Wright earned his B.A. in German from the University of California at Berkeley in 1967. His professional experience includes working as an adjunct professor. Wright served in the United States Navy Reserve from 1969 to 1970 and achieved the rank of lieutenant junior grade.[1]
Elections
2018
General election
General election for U.S. House Oregon District 5
Incumbent Kurt Schrader defeated Mark Callahan, Dan Souza, and Marvin Sandnes in the general election for U.S. House Oregon District 5 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Kurt Schrader (D) | 55.0 | 197,187 |
 | Mark Callahan (R) | 41.8 | 149,887 | |
| Dan Souza (L) | 1.7 | 6,054 | ||
| Marvin Sandnes (Pacific Green Party) | 1.3 | 4,802 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 539 | ||
| Total votes: 358,469 (100.00% precincts reporting) | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Oregon District 5
Incumbent Kurt Schrader defeated Peter Wright in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Oregon District 5 on May 15, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kurt Schrader | 86.8 | 59,196 |
 | Peter Wright | 13.2 | 9,002 | |
| Total votes: 68,198 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Oregon District 5
Mark Callahan defeated Joey Nations and Robert Reynolds in the Republican primary for U.S. House Oregon District 5 on May 15, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mark Callahan | 62.4 | 33,933 |
 | Joey Nations | 20.8 | 11,300 | |
 | Robert Reynolds | 16.8 | 9,120 | |
| Total votes: 54,353 | |||
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Campaign themes
2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
- See also: Ballotpedia's candidate surveys
peter wright participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on April 29, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and peter wright's responses follow below.[2]
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
| “ | Gun control | ” |
What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
| “ | Guns, health, environmentCite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many[4]
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Ballotpedia also asked the candidate a series of optional questions. peter wright answered the following:
Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow and why?
| “ | Gandhi. He recognized that real power lay with the non-volent masses. Able to be both in and out of the political system, he maintained perspective, could act independently.[4] | ” |
| “ | "The Chalice annd the Blade" Riane Eisler.[4] | ” |
| “ | Economic and political independence so one is able to vote one's conscience[4] | ” |
| “ | Age. I've been a teacher and practicer of environmental economics for 30 years. Since I would not seek re-election, I am not beholden to economic pressures.[4] | ” |
| “ | First, legislate to assist the world toward a peaceful, environmentally sustainable future. Second, encourage constituents to participate in the political and economic transition from a thing-oriented, resource-measured economy to a life-oriented, time-measured economy.[4] | ” |
| “ | A broad acceptance that the world, now filled with people, must turn away from the male-dominated social structures that keep us focused on expansion, conquest and suppression, and embrace social structures consisten with the needs of a 'community' which in this case is the global village.[4] | ” |
| “ | The election of Eisenhower. I was 9.[4] | ” |
| “ | Caddying at the local golf course. One summer.[4] | ” |
| “ | A bottle of rum and coke blew up in my date's new purse during a Smothers Brother's concert.[4] | ” |
| “ | Thanksgiving - family, food and celebration without all the religious overtones or obligations to give presents.[4] | ” |
| “ | Rembrandt. Liked it for social texture, history.[4] | ” |
| “ | A cloisonee sculpture of a Chinese scholar on horseback[4] | ” |
| “ | Yankee-doodle.[4] | ” |
| “ | Social anxiety.[4] | ” |
| “ | Short terms make frequent contact with constituents essential.[4] | ” |
| “ | Yes, in order to know the rules of procedure, and no because fresh perspective is important to change.[4] | ” |
| “ | Corporate power, wealth inequality and environmental degradation.[4] | ” |
| “ | Ethics, Natural Resources and Transportation[4] | ” |
| “ | No. It should be three years, and the Senate 7 years.[4] | ” |
| “ | New voices are essential for change, but new reps don't understand the rules and often jeopardize action.[4] | ” |
| “ | An independent commission of judges.[4] | ” |
| “ | no[4] | ” |
| “ | Perhaps not model myself after, but one I greatly admire is Adam Schiff[4] | ” |
| “ | A couple had flown to D.C. where their daughter teaches. After participating in the March for our Lives, they were in a coffee shop still wearing their pins and holding their banners. A man in line lifted up his shirt revealing a hostered pistol and said, "If anyone ever tries to regulate my gun, I'll kill them."[4] | ” |
Biographical submission
Wright submitted the following campaign themes through Ballotpedia’s biographical information submission form:
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I am pro-Life, by which I mean, I am for all Life. Humans are part of Life, just a part of it, just a part of the whole living system. Those who favor one aspect of Life against all the other aspects of Life cannot call themselfves pro-Life. They are against Life.
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| —Peter Wright[5] | ||
See also
- United States House of Representatives
- Oregon's 5th Congressional District election, 2018
- Oregon's 5th Congressional District
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted on Ballotpedia's biographical information submission form on March 26, 2018
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ Ballotpedia's candidate survey, "peter wright's responses," April 29, 2018
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- ↑ Information submitted on Ballotpedia's biographical information submission form on March 22, 2018
