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Scott Hooper
Scott Hooper (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Oregon State Senate to represent District 12. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Hooper completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Scott Hooper was born in Huntsville, Alabama. He graduated from Hillwood High School. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Tennessee in 1985 and a law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1988. His career experience includes working as an attorney and a farmer and rancher. He has been affiliated with the American Board of Trial Advocates, the Texas Bar Association, and Texas Bar Foundation.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Oregon State Senate elections, 2024
General election
General election for Oregon State Senate District 12
Bruce Starr defeated Scott Hooper and Andrea Kennedy-Smith in the general election for Oregon State Senate District 12 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Bruce Starr (R) | 55.6 | 41,459 |
 | Scott Hooper (D)  | 33.6 | 25,077 | |
 | Andrea Kennedy-Smith (Independent Party / Oregon Working Families Party) | 10.7 | 7,984 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 50 | ||
| Total votes: 74,570 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Oregon State Senate District 12
Scott Hooper advanced from the Democratic primary for Oregon State Senate District 12 on May 21, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Scott Hooper | 97.9 | 8,366 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 2.1 | 180 | ||
| Total votes: 8,546 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Oregon State Senate District 12
Bruce Starr advanced from the Republican primary for Oregon State Senate District 12 on May 21, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Bruce Starr | 99.1 | 12,334 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.9 | 106 | ||
| Total votes: 12,440 | |||
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Hooper in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Scott Hooper completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Hooper's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Growing up, Scott always wanted to be a lawyer, to help people through difficult times. For 36 years, He represented a diverse range of clients—from individuals and small businesses to large corporations. For the past 26 years, He specialized in championing the rights of people facing life-altering and business-defining challenges. Scott stood up for thousands of people against powerful national and international companies, ensuring their voices were heard and their rights protected.
Scott is running for Senate to reduce the polarization and extremism that festers in government and tackle the problems our citizens face.
For the first time since 1982, the people in Yamhill County and rural Polk County can have a centrist senator representing them.
Scott proposes a positive agenda for solving the problems our small towns and rural communities face. He opposes the Republican opponent, not because he is a Republican, but because his extremist views on personal, medical, and reproductive rights; defunding public education; and politicizing public schools are out of touch with the majority of our neighbors.
Oregon deserves better.- Scott embodies rural values, competence, and character. He’s committed to setting aside politics as usual in order to get back to the basics: solid education for our kids, strong communities and businesses, good jobs, happy families, and humble service.
- Our communities have to work together to solve problems. Problems of homelessness, the shortage of housing, and drug addiction are not limited to big cities. From McMinnville to Falls City, we have the same problems. Solutions that may work in Portland will not work in Newburg or Dallas. We need local solutions that pull resources from cities, counties, the state, federal government, and non-profits. Working together, as neighbors, to solve our problems is the strategy that works best. Too many special interest groups and politicians want to tear apart our communities, to dived us, and to prevent us from advancing common sense solutions that work best for our neighborhoods, communities, and towns.
- Scott would work for his neighbors, showing up for work every day to help solve the problems our communities face. Too many politicians and people working in government forget the voters are their clients. As a senator, Scott would serve the voters in Senate District 12, all the voters, not just those that voted for him. He would serve the interests of the voters, not political parties, big donors, special interests, and certainly not lobbyist.
Public Education. Our public schools are underfunded. Scott opposes school vouchers and other efforts to defund public schools.
Micha and I have traveled around the world with our kids, to expose them to different cultures, natural wonders, and historically significant places. Our kids spent two months traveling the South to explore slavery, learn about the civil rights movement, and understand the history of race relations in our country. To learn about World War II, they explored the Churchill Bunker in London, walked the beaches of Normandy, and visited multiple holocaust museums throughout Europe. We are trying to visit every National Park in the United States, to show them the spectacular natural beauty nature offers.
The inadequate amount of housing affects low- and middle-income working families. The problem is at the root of financial insecurity, people living without adequate shelter, and limits on employment options.
The legislature and governor need to address this issue every session for the next decade, from fine-tuning recent proposals to major new initiatives to advance building affordable housing units for low- and middle-income families. The initiatives need to address the shortage in the major metropolitan areas, small towns, and rural communities.
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Planned Parenthood PAC of Oregon
Oregon League of Conservation Voters
Oregon Consumer League
Polk County Democrats
Too often those that govern or seek to govern forget they have a duty to the people they serve, not their financial backers and the money they support.
When I was a young lawyer, we represented people and companies that had been sued in a variety of lawsuits. Often, we were hired by and paid by the insurance companies that provided insurance to our clients.
I was taught and strongly followed the principal that my client was the individual or company I represented, not the insurance company paying my bill. Many lawyers in similar practices did the opposite. They put the moneyed interest of the insurance company first, sometimes with negative effects on their real client.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on August 22, 2024
