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Tammy Carpenter (Oregon)
2023 - Present
2027
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Tammy Carpenter is a member of the Beaverton School District school board in Oregon, representing Zone 7. She assumed office on July 1, 2023. Her current term ends on June 30, 2027.
Carpenter ran for election to the Beaverton School District school board to represent Zone 7 in Oregon. She won in the general election on May 16, 2023.
Biography
Tammy Carpenter was born in Michigan. Carpenter earned a bachelor's degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1993 and an M.D. from the University of Chicago in 2003. Her career experience includes working as an anesthesiologist and serving on the board of directors of a private anesthesia practice. Carpenter has been affiliated with the Oregon Society of Anesthesiologists, Oregon Medical Society, and American Society of Anesthesiologists.[1]
Elections
2023
See also: Beaverton School District, Oregon, elections (2023)
General election
General election for Beaverton School District school board Zone 7
Tammy Carpenter won election in the general election for Beaverton School District school board Zone 7 on May 16, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Tammy Carpenter (Nonpartisan) | 97.4 | 28,598 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 2.6 | 752 | ||
| Total votes: 29,350 | |||
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2022
See also: Oregon House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Oregon House of Representatives District 27
Incumbent Ken Helm defeated Sandra Nelson in the general election for Oregon House of Representatives District 27 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Ken Helm (D) | 71.2 | 22,375 |
 | Sandra Nelson (R) | 28.7 | 9,007 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 37 | ||
| Total votes: 31,419 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Oregon House of Representatives District 27
Incumbent Ken Helm defeated Tammy Carpenter in the Democratic primary for Oregon House of Representatives District 27 on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ken Helm | 60.1 | 5,781 |
| Tammy Carpenter | 39.6 | 3,811 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.3 | 33 | ||
| Total votes: 9,625 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Oregon House of Representatives District 27
Sandra Nelson advanced from the Republican primary for Oregon House of Representatives District 27 on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Sandra Nelson | 97.3 | 2,384 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 2.7 | 65 | ||
| Total votes: 2,449 | |||
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Campaign themes
2023
Ballotpedia survey responses
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2022
Tammy Carpenter completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Carpenter's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Like many of you, I have come to realize that our world is very broken. Our city and state have been neglected and it is hard to recognize what we once loved about them. With wildfires rampaging and so many neighbors sleeping rough on the streets, I don’t feel like I can sit on the sidelines any longer. We need fresh faces and fresh ideas in Salem. The same old people and ideas are not going bring us the change we need. As Greta Thunberg said "We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed. Everything needs to change – and it has to start today."
I will bring common sense and compassion to my work on your behalf. And I will be counting on you to be right there with me.- We need to be better about caring for Oregonians with mental health disorders. Oregon has the highest number per capita of adults with a mental health diagnosis and yet we have only about a quarter of the number of providers required to meet the need. And untreated mental illness is a big contributor to our homelessness crisis. If we are going to solve this crisis, then we need to tackle mental health as well as substance abuse, unemployment and low wages, housing affordability. We’ll need job coaching and childcare. And we must do more to address anti-LGBTQ youth homelessness. Much of what we are experiencing right now is a crisis of social services, the end product of years of disinvestment compounded by a deadly pandemic and a recession.
- I believe deeply that we can afford to do all the things that are important to us. We just need everyone to pay their fair share. Corporations who benefit from state spending often pay very little in taxes while using our educated workforce, our roads and bridges, our police and fire services. And our wealthiest neighbors are also going to have to contribute more. The top 1% of Oregonians, the ones with helicopters and hospital wings named after them, must do their part. We cannot do well as a society when so many of us are doing poorly.
- For the climate crisis, more must be done, quickly. The latest IPCC report says that we need global greenhouse gas emissions to peak before 2025 at the latest. It is still almost inevitable that we will temporarily exceed the 1.5°C threshold but we could return to below it by the end of the century. I do not believe a legislator can be considered serious about addressing the climate crisis when accepting donations from these fossil fuel companies. My opponent in this primary has accepted thousands of dollars from oil and gas companies. And while he has notable endorsements, I am left wondering – What legislation did not come before the House because of the influence of this money? What legislation was watered down to appease these donors?
As we begin to face a post-Roe world, Oregon needs to be prepared to fill the void. We will need to increase access to care in Eastern Oregon because many folks there seek abortion services in Idaho rather than make the long drive west. Additionally folks in Idaho will likely be left with no options.
I am running because healthcare is a human right and Oregonians deserve better.
It is a widespread belief among liberals that if only Democrats can continue to dominate national elections, if only those awful Republicans are beaten into submission, the country will be on the right course.
But this is to fundamentally misunderstand the modern Democratic Party. Frank points out that the Democrats have done little to advance traditional liberal goals: expanding opportunity, fighting for social justice, and ensuring that workers get a fair deal. Indeed, they have scarcely dented the free-market consensus at all. This is not for lack of opportunity: Democrats have occupied the White House for much of the last thirty years, and yet the decline of the middle class has only accelerated. Wall Street gets its bailouts, wages keep falling, and the free-trade deals keep coming.
Frank lays bare the essence of the Democratic Party's philosophy and how it has changed over the years. A form of corporate and cultural elitism has largely eclipsed the party's old working-class commitment. For certain favored groups, this has meant prosperity. But for the nation as a whole, it is a one-way ticket into the abyss of inequality. Written in the lead up to the 2016 Presidential election, Frank recalled the Democrats to their historic goals - the only way to reverse the ever-deepening rift between the rich and the poor in America.
As one example of this free-market ideology, Larry Summers said, early in the Obama administration, “One of the reasons that inequality has probably gone up in our society is that people are being treated closer to the way that they’re supposed to be treated.”
We should be spending money on doctors, nurses, mental health specialists, dentists, and other professionals who provide services to people and improve the lives of Oregonians. We should be spending every healthcare dollar on patients—not wasting money every year on profiteering, huge executive compensation packages, and outrageous administrative costs.
It describes how, after over one hundred years of the war on drugs, we have learned three things: Drugs are not what we think they are. Addiction is not what we think it is. And the drug war has very different motives to the ones we have seen on our TV screens for so long.
The author shows rather than tells the tale through the stories of people across the world whose lives have been transformed by this war. Billie Holiday’s story was particularly gripping.
We need to encourage dense housing across our urban areas. Denser communities will significantly help reduce our carbon footprint. Building denser housing will help minimize sprawl, protecting and preserving the natural environment. Think: Building up, not out. Plus, less sprawl also leads to shorter commutes and decreased carbon emissions. Multi-family housing, like apartment buildings and -plexes, also reduce energy use as more people are living closer together and sharing amenities. And with the shared walls associated with dense housing, it will help reduce the energy costs associated with heating and cooling. Furthermore, dense communities share natural resources and municipal services, including public transit, which helps reduce the city’s overall carbon impact. Zoning and land use tools that can include more housing types will make for more sustainable neighborhoods with mixed incomes.
I am proud to be endorsed by Bernie PDX, a local activist group working to support Bernie's values by getting like-minded candidates into elective office. I espouse every one of these values and will lead on legislation where we can influence change at the state level.
Campaign finance reform & getting Big Money out of politics
Action on climate and protecting the environment
Reducing income inequality
Universal Single-Payer Healthcare for All
Racial justice
A living wage & a union for all workers
LGBTQ, women’s, & disability rights
Fair & humane immigration policy
Criminal justice reform
Affordable housing
Making college tuition & debt free
End corporate welfare & tax loopholes for the 1%
Supporting our veterans
The current slate of anti-trans legislation around the country typically falls into one of the three following categories:
• Bans on gender-affirming healthcare for minors. These laws typically target doctors and healthcare providers and sometimes parents, making it illegal—often with associated criminal charges—to consent to or provide gender-affirming healthcare to trans youth.
• Bills that restrict access to athletic programs based on sex assigned at birth. These bills seek to restrict sports participation based on sex assigned at birth, with the result being that trans girls would be forced to participate on boys’ teams, and trans boys would be forced onto girls’ teams..
• “Bathroom bills” that limit access based on sex assigned at birth. While the most prominent so-called “bathroom bill” was North Carolina’s HB2 in 2016, the bills have not gone away.
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2023 Elections
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- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 15, 2022
