William Barlow
William Barlow (Democratic Party) is running for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Oregon. He declared candidacy for the 2028 election.[source]
Biography
William Barlow earned a B.S. degree in general science from Oregon State University. Barlow's career experience includes starting 18 Oaks Sign Communications Company and conducting research for the emergency department of Oregon Health and Science University. He served on the Enrichment Services Advisory Committee for the City of McMinnville. He was appointed to serve the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services as an Electrical and Elevator Board member. Barlow has volunteered with his local Rotary Club and the McMinnville Area Chamber of Commerce.[1]
Elections
2028
See also: United States Senate election in Oregon, 2028
General election
The general election will occur on November 7, 2028.
General election for U.S. Senate Oregon
William Barlow is running in the general election for U.S. Senate Oregon on November 7, 2028.
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2022
See also: United States Senate election in Oregon, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. Senate Oregon
Incumbent Ron Wyden defeated Jo Rae Perkins, Chris Henry, and Dan Pulju in the general election for U.S. Senate Oregon on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Ron Wyden (D / Independent Party) | 55.8 | 1,076,424 |
 | Jo Rae Perkins (R / Constitution Party) | 40.9 | 788,991 | |
 | Chris Henry (Progressive Party) | 1.9 | 36,883 | |
 | Dan Pulju (Pacific Green Party) | 1.2 | 23,454 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 2,197 | ||
| Total votes: 1,927,949 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Michael Stettler (Constitution Party)
- Bret Westwood (Independent)
- Thomas Verde (Independent)
- John Newton (L)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Oregon
Incumbent Ron Wyden defeated William Barlow and Brent Thompson in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Oregon on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ron Wyden | 88.8 | 439,665 |
| William Barlow | 7.1 | 35,025 | |
| Brent Thompson | 3.5 | 17,197 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.7 | 3,279 | ||
| Total votes: 495,166 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. Senate Oregon
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Oregon on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jo Rae Perkins | 33.0 | 115,701 |
 | Darin Harbick | 30.7 | 107,506 | |
 | Samuel Palmer | 12.2 | 42,703 | |
 | Jason Beebe | 11.3 | 39,456 | |
 | Christopher Christensen | 8.1 | 28,433 | |
| Robert Fleming | 1.9 | 6,821 | ||
 | Ibrahim Taher | 1.9 | 6,659 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.9 | 3,024 | ||
| Total votes: 350,303 | |||
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Campaign themes
2028
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2022
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Campaign website
Barlow’s campaign website stated the following:
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W.E.B. Du Bois made the argument in his book titled The Souls of Black Folk published in 1903 that “While it is a great truth to say that the Negro must strive and strive mightily to help himself, it is equally true to say that unless his striving be not simply seconded, but rather aroused and encouraged by the initiative of the richer and wiser environing group, he cannot hope for great success.” Whether it is only a small minority grouping or the majority of society that believes that social inequalities exist, or that the consequences of certain public policies are being properly correlated, America cannot allow for the disenfranchisement of a single person regardless of whether they are white, brown or black, male or female, gay, straight, transgender or queer. We will defend and arouse opportunity by championing Women’s rights, ensuring the richer encourage equitable pay, and asking the wiser environing group to respectfully work toward the elimination of racial stereotypes and bias.
WE WILL: let fact dictate truth. In the world of science there is an adage that goes something like this: You never prove anything; you just assimilate relative information and report the findings. From the findings, most scientists can begin making correlations and start the process of drawing conclusions. This rigorous scientific process has stood the test of time and yielded valuable insight into the workings of the Universe. Historically, journalists and politicians followed similar guidelines. Journalists acting like field researchers were the boots on the ground; they were nonbiased observers and reporters of what was/had happened. They seldom sought to infer meaning to events, but instead translated as much information as they could witness to “the press” with the purpose of communicating unblemished fact. Sometimes before the information reached mass media, sometimes after, pundits and politicians would start collecting all relevant reports on a subject and begin debate in effort to assign a common truth to an event. This process provided integrity to the democratic system and allowed for individual bias to be washed away from the conversation. America suffers today from a lack of “common truth.” Some people argue it is the result of social media; others believe it is malicious foreign adversaries. The most dubious theory of all suggests our own government is sowing conspiracy with the intent to create divisions that lead to restrictions on civil liberties and, ultimately, a concentration of power among a few established leaders. Regardless of who or what is to blame for this perceived erosion of the truth, the lack of common consensus is among the greatest threats to the security of our United States. In the absence of common truth, America will be unable to command the future because of a lack of understanding of the shortcomings or success of past policy.
WE WILL: make higher education and occupational training programs accessible. Ambitious individuals experience far too many barriers when journeying toward upward mobility in the United States. This is especially true when it comes to seeking the intellectual knowledge or trade skill that a person needs to be more prosperous within an occupation. Universities cap the number of admissions, but not the cost of credit hours, and trades filter workers through competitive commercial operations who are often more concerned with protecting their share of the market than they are with expanding opportunity. America must work toward bringing down the cost of education, making seats available for anyone who wants to learn, and allow everyone the right to independently exercise their skill(s). This can be achieved by reallocating funds, attaching mandates to recipients of those monies and by re-writing policies that define what it means to be a qualified individual. In a paper published by four academic economists titled “The Allocation of Talent and U.S. Economic Growth” the term “frictions” is defined as trends that hurt workers by preventing them from maximizing their talents in the economy. Economic writer Jim Tankersley argues in his book titled The Riches of this Land that by keeping talented people out of lucrative jobs the people perpetuating discrimination are hurting themselves. His writing also compares patterns within individual demographics to trends that reflect the overall vitality of the economy during various time periods. In conclusion of the evidence Mr. Tankersley presents, he appears to be making the claim that a capitalist system operates most efficiently when every worker is doing the job that she or he is best at. Further support for this interpretation can be found when one considers the measures of the economy Mr. Tankersley presents. He produces data on economic trends that show when traditionally discriminated against workers became most prosperous that it was not at the expense of established workers. At large, William agrees with the assertion Mr. Tankersley presented in his book. If a worker has a comparative advantage, they will add much more value to their job and the whole economy will win. The constriction of the middle class is nothing more than a symptom of greed within a network of powerful established institutions that have the misfortune of not understanding the aggregate consequences.
WE WILL: support our families. Developing high quality childcare programs and expanding early childhood development opportunities has become a national necessity. The high cost of food, housing and essential services demands that most US households are supported by multiple income earners. Children cannot be the casualty of financial burden or limit professional opportunity. Mothers and fathers in America must be supported and hold the freedom to contribute as productive members of society.
WE WILL: expand the ADA to protect the rights of LGBTQ+ and other communities that experience regular discrimination. Every American should expect their leadership to fight for the right of everyone to participate fully in society. With regular interactions of diverse populations America will continue to develop its own rich culture, expand its empathy, become less conscious of difference and more aware of the implications of our policy and action. Readers of Andrew Solomon’s book Far from the Tree are challenged to think critically about topics that American culture has traditionally categorized as “disabilities” and/or “life limitations” deafness, blindness, dwarfism, Down’s syndrome, atypical sexual preference.… Most of the writing is based on reflections of interactions or through the direct lens of an individual from any one of the respective subcommunities. Often readers encounter discussions related to “medical advancements” that can or will allow for “better” prenatal testing, therapies that minimize the effects of a condition, or surgeries that alter a person. Each of these interventions are seemingly done in good faith by well-intentioned individuals until confronted by a member from one of the respective communities in the book with the statement followed by the question: If society believes avoiding or correcting an individual either in utero or during one’s own life is a priority; does that mean my own life was less worth living? The idea of a limited life devalues everyone. Categorically all lives are worthy living differences make American culture rich and full of inspiration. Leaders must unite society to understand and fighting for individual rights. We must make every effort to validate each unique life. America will celebrate when reasonable accommodations become common place and policy makers choose to make love the cherished value.
WE WILL: revive medical professions by returning them to humanitarian services. As America has witnessed healthcare become one of the nation’s most profitable industries, we have simultaneously watched the overall health of our communities begin to fail. This decline is caused by a lack of better, more affordable healthcare. In Timothy Snyder’s book titled Our Malady Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary, he writes that wealth driven access to health care “turns human concerns about health into a silent yet profound inequality that undermines democracy… [and that] if health care were available to everyone, we would be not only healthier physically but also healthier mentally. Our lives would be less anxious and lonely because we would not be thinking that our survival depends on our relative economic and social position. We would be profoundly more free.” In contrast, Americans often witness a corporate-structured “profit first” system of healthcare that lacks consumer confidence. It is a system that makes many people believe care is administered in a preferential manner to those who hold influence or wealth; a system that makes healthcare a privilege rather than a right; a system that demoralizes those who receive care and kills those who do not. In part our broken healthcare system is the result of the veil that darkens it. Almost every encounter an individual has in America with the medical community includes HIPAA. Medical institutions are frequently undergoing HIPAA audits, care providers are continuously going through HIPAA compliance training and patient’s services are dependent upon completing HIPAA consent forms. But whose interest is HIPAA really protecting? Arguably, it is enshrined in the title of the act “Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act”. One can only assume that this legislation addressed serious deficiencies that existed when adopted in 1996. However, a lot has changed since the introduction of HIPAA: The Affordable Care Act, skyrocketing medical cost and suicides. Given correlation does not equal causation, it is still easy to make the argument that the lack of transparency or consistency in medical charges has been significantly influenced by provision of the act that make predatory billing practices possible. Further the environment of secrecy within medicine has abetted the stigmatizing of illness and removed individuals from traditional support networks. The administratively heavy bookkeeping demands alone have forced physicians to organize into corporate run medical centers. These centers have broken the traditional bonds of trust forged over years of intimate connections only to replace them with a system of blacking out names, segregation according to category of illness, banding, barcoding and scanning the movement of the “patient” all the way from admission to discharge. How far detached from an ideal system this seems when considered alongside the words of the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) constitution, a document the United States was key in drafting, “The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition”. America’s frontline workers have illustrated time and time again through their heroic actions and acts of kindness that they belong to the medical community because they hold the heart of a humanitarian and subscribe to the principles of WHO’s constitution. America’s healthcare system should be a vibrant example of their ethics and morals. It has been in the past and can be in the future.
WE WILL: control the cost of lifesaving pharmaceuticals. Americans are being drugged to death in astonishing numbers and big pharma – a conglomeration of large, private pharmaceutical companies – is celebrating making a killing. For far too long, the US Government has been sponsoring innovations in medicine. This sponsorship comes in the form of national health agencies, funding of public universities, and research grants. Yet the payouts for these investments are largely going to big pharma. Operation Warp Speed, the Trump Administration’s response to combating the COVID-19 crisis, is a prime example of the routine giveaways some of the world’s most profitable companies enjoy on a regular basis. Operation Warp Speed was incorporated into the strategy to combat the COVID crisis. The goal was to accelerate the development, manufacturing and distribution of vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics (collectively known as countermeasures). The United States government acting through the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority has engaged with private firms such as AstraZeneca, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson. This public health initiative came at a great financial cost to the taxpayers in the United States. Congress has directed nearly $10 billion to Operation Warp Speed through supplemental funds included in the CARES Act. The US government also engaged with a number of other private companies to coordinate the supply, production and distribution of medicines and made payment out of the public’s purse. In chronological order the following is a list of some of the government’s activity: On May 12, 2020, a $138 million contract with ApiJect for prefilled syringes was announced. On June 1, 2020, a task order with Emergent BioSolutions to advance domestic manufacturing capabilities and capacity for a potential vaccine as well as therapeutics worth approximately $628 million was assessed. On June 11, 2020, $204 million in funds was announced to expand the domestic manufacturing capacity of Valor Glass vials by Corning. The same day it was announced that $143 million would go to SiO2 Materials Science to ramp up their capacity to produce the company’s glass-coated plastic container. On August 4, 2020, Grand River Aseptic Manufacturing Inc. was awarded a $160 million contract. On August 14, 2020, the government announced they would be executing an existing contract option with McKesson Corporation to support the distribution of future COVID- 19 vaccines. On September 16, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services along with the Department of Defense released two Administration documents outlining the strategy to deliver doses as quickly and reliably as possible. Given there is a market for private sales of pharmaceuticals, big pharma will continue to speculate and develop private companies to generate a profit for their shareholders. Suggesting that big pharma would collapse without support from the US government is a fallacy. Given that America already ranks inappropriately low in most major mobility and mortality rankings worldwide and is believed to have lost more life due to the COVID pandemic than any other nation, suggests America’s system of commercial medicine is broken. The system that once assumed individual recipients of prescription drugs would engage in a transaction that incidentally involves some small transfer of money in exchange for their own good health has become a system of vast wealth transfer from the taxpayers of America to big pharma blinded by the promise of a pill.
WE WILL: provide healthcare for all Americans. Insurance companies and medical administrators have successfully restricted market access to health care by limiting the number of doctors and nurses graduating each year. By doing this they have allowed the [patient : provider] ratio to reach sickening levels. Insurers and corporate administrators have gamed the system to create inappropriate demand, as they hide behind HIPAA, they are exuberantly increasing prices, blocking vulnerable and ill individuals from the care they deserve, and charging those who are most able what they can for the illusion of what everyone needs – good health. Medical professionals often enter this broken system when they are just reaching adulthood, often a bit cloudy eyed to the ways of the world, but regularly with the belief they will be providing humanitarian services. Unfortunately, they often end up stuck in the middle of corporate bureaucracy, pressured to focus on profit, not quality care. Doctors, nurses and allied health professionals overwhelmingly want to provide good care, and we want more of these compassionate people. So, We Will: fight to open more seats at medical school, expand allied health training programs, and recognize more institutions for medical intern and residency studies. COVID has illustrate with remarkable efficacy that we can find more spaces to place beds, but those beds are useless without smart and caring people able to provide the care we all deserve.
WE WILL: combat climate change. With use of new energy technologies, thoughtful infrastructure development, and considered policy, the United States will strive toward protecting our planet and outdoor treasures.
WE WILL: support a strong military which models American values. It is not enough to just make investments in infrastructure and stand with our forces. America must also place an emphasis on displays that allow character to be modeled. U.S. ground forces represent the United States throughout the world. These men and women are collectively the nation’s largest body of ambassadors. The worlddoes not doubt America’s ability to inflict devastating pain. Shouldn’t the world also hold an equal conviction toward the compassion and good that American ethics represent.
By working with other nations in the promotion of democratic values. These relationships will focus on cooperation, peace, and diplomatic solutions. The expectation will be that by building trust, conflict will be prevented and long-term national security fortified. If these efforts should fail, we will have buttressed our military power through the extension of supportive governments and be better able to undertake crisis-management operations.
WE WILL: evaluate and reform institutions that fail to meet their mandates. Often the failure of an institution is not the result of an inability to successfully carry out the task assigned but, instead, leadership’s inability to define the correct task. Given law enforcement is the target of much debate at the moment, let’s use policing to illustrate the point. Since the terror attacks of 9/11 and the dawning of a prolific number of mass shootings, national leadership began calling for and funding the militarization of police departments to “protect” the public. In consequence, police departments became hyper focused on neutralizing subjects by whatever means necessary, and for many years they were applauded for doing so. As a result, the use of department resources and an officer’s command and execution of brutal or lethal tactics has begun to flourish. As local communities are now being confronted with the effect of the poor policies established largely through national leadership over the last 20 years, it is vital that society identify correctly where the policy failed.
WE WILL: lessen the socioeconomic divide. Declaring that a core value of our society is economic independence will serve as a North Star statement allowing for policymaking with the intent of building a stronger economy that allows everyone to get ahead.
WE WILL: care for asylum seekers and respect immigrants. We will not treat refugees or those who seek to expand their knowledge as enemies but greet them with compassion and humanity.
WE WILL: secure elections from corruption and foreign interference.
WE WILL: defend proprietary intelligence while returning common knowledge to the general public.
WE WILL: enforce antitrust laws. Past generations recognized the clear and apparent dangers imposed on democracy when, for all practical purposes, a company holds monopoly of a commodity. In response, America litigated the issue and adopted strict antitrust laws with the intent of promoting competition in business. In the time since, businesses have been allowed to develop in scope outside the controls traditionally enjoyed by the people of a true democracy. It is necessary that the rules and regulations that protect greater society are enforced. At no time in history has this been of more vital concern than it is today. Presently, corporations are violating antitrust laws. More alarming still, they are no longer simply asserting control over single commodities like oil, or steel. The monopolies of today are seizing control of many of our basic freedoms. Commerce is being funneled through an internet behemoth, a social media platform is beginning to control speech through the editing of content on its platform, a single search engine controls the right to an algorithm that ranks the relevance of 90% of all information an individual has access to, and a bio-engineering firm controls the right of farmers to plant the seeds that supply Americas stock of food.[2] |
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| —William Barlow’s campaign website (2022)[3] | ||
See also
2028 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ William Barlow’s campaign website, "Meet William," accessed March 30, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ William Barlow's campaign website, “We Will,” accessed March 29, 2022
