OPB: Kate Brown Launches Campaign For Sec. Of State Office

By Colin Fogarty (OPB)

September is turning out to be the month for campaign kick offs for next year’s election.

Thursday, state Senator Kate Brown toured the state, launching her bid for her party’s nomination for Secretary of State.

The Portland Democrat kicked off her campaign in Eugene, the home town of her Democratic rival, fellow state Senator Vicki Walker. Brown told her audience that she’s running for Secretary of State in part because 15 years ago she won her first political race by just seven votes.

Kate Brown: "And I still have voters come up to me and say Senator Brown, Senator Brown, I was your seventh vote. And they truly were. So I know first hand that every vote matters and that every vote must be counted."

Brown’s tour included stops in Bend, Medford, and Portland. Earlier this month, several other candidates for attorney general and the U.S. Senate conducted similar campaign kick off tours.