Jeff Golden (Oregon)
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Jeff Golden (Democratic Party) is a member of the Oregon State Senate, representing District 3. He assumed office in 2019. His current term ends on January 11, 2027.
Golden (Democratic Party, Independent Party, Progressive Party, Working Families Party) ran for re-election to the Oregon State Senate to represent District 3. He won in the general election on November 8, 2022. He advanced from the Democratic primary on May 17, 2022.
Committee assignments
2023-2024
Golden was assigned to the following committees:
- Senate Conduct Committee
- Senate Energy and Environment Committee
- Finance and Revenue Committee
- Natural Resources and Wildlife Recovery Committee
- Joint Conduct Committee
- Joint Tax Expenditures Committee
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2021-2022
Golden was assigned to the following committees:
- Housing and Development Committee
- Natural Resources and Wildlife Recovery Committee, Chair
- Joint Ways and Means Committee
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2019-2020
Golden was assigned to the following committees:
- Workforce Committee
- Senate Housing Committee
- Campaign Finance Committee, Chair
- Carbon Reduction Committee
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Sponsored legislation
The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.
Elections
2022
See also: Oregon State Senate elections, 2022
General election
General election for Oregon State Senate District 3
Incumbent Jeff Golden defeated Randy Sparacino in the general election for Oregon State Senate District 3 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jeff Golden (D / Independent Party / Progressive Party / Working Families Party) | 51.9 | 33,468 |
 | Randy Sparacino (R) | 48.0 | 30,980 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 51 | ||
| Total votes: 64,499 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Oregon State Senate District 3
Incumbent Jeff Golden advanced from the Democratic primary for Oregon State Senate District 3 on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jeff Golden | 98.7 | 13,453 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 1.3 | 184 | ||
| Total votes: 13,637 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Oregon State Senate District 3
Randy Sparacino defeated Kevin Christman in the Republican primary for Oregon State Senate District 3 on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Randy Sparacino | 73.7 | 8,876 |
 | Kevin Christman | 25.8 | 3,111 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.4 | 52 | ||
| Total votes: 12,039 | |||
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2018
- See also: Oregon State Senate elections, 2018
In addition to running as a Democratic Party candidate, Golden cross-filed to also run with the Progressive Party and the Working Families Party in 2018.[1]
General election
General election for Oregon State Senate District 3
Jeff Golden defeated Jessica Gomez in the general election for Oregon State Senate District 3 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jeff Golden (D) | 55.2 | 35,834 |
 | Jessica Gomez (R) | 44.7 | 29,065 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 75 | ||
| Total votes: 64,974 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Oregon State Senate District 3
Jeff Golden defeated Athena Goldberg, Julian Bell, and Kevin Stine in the Democratic primary for Oregon State Senate District 3 on May 15, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jeff Golden | 51.5 | 8,385 |
| Athena Goldberg | 36.5 | 5,946 | |
 | Julian Bell | 6.4 | 1,048 | |
 | Kevin Stine | 5.6 | 910 | |
| Total votes: 16,289 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Oregon State Senate District 3
Jessica Gomez defeated Curt Ankerberg in the Republican primary for Oregon State Senate District 3 on May 15, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jessica Gomez | 52.3 | 5,626 |
| Curt Ankerberg | 47.7 | 5,125 | |
| Total votes: 10,751 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
Jeff Golden did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Jeff Golden participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on July 9, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and Jeff Golden's responses follow below.[2]
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
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What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
| “ | My passion is to meet our responsibility to coming generations by moving us towards a viable balance on economic and environmental policies. Plenty of us remember living in a country and state that BALANCED financial rewards for individual enterprise and initiative with fairness and widespread opportunity for everyone willing to work hard. It was a time when CEOs were pretty satisfied making 25 times, not 300-500 times, as much their lowest-paid workers, and paid a much higher tax rate than their workers did. If they didn’t love their tax obligation, they generally accepted it as a fair trade for their success. They didn’t pay armies of lobbyists to cut upper-end rates and gut regulation. And we didn’t have millions of full-time workers living in poverty, choosing at the end of the month between paying the rent or feeding their families The old economy wasn’t perfect, but it worked for a broad majority of Americans. It was balanced. Plenty of us remember living in a country that BALANCED our use of natural resources with a determination that our children and grandchildren would have plenty for their needs. The people in charge paid attention to a unifying principle that’s defined our species for centuries: we will leave the world a better place—at the very least, no worse) for our children. I ask everyone to reflect for a moment and honestly answer one question: how are we doing on that score? An honest answer would admit that we’ve done little to grapple with the record-hot summers and record-fierce wildfires and smoke infestation that climate change brings; with steady decimation of our wild fish runs; with the annual loss of mountains of topsoil; with the continual spread of toxic chemicals on forests, farmlands and waterways. So can we truthfully say we’ve carried on our ancestors’ dedicated to doing right by our children? If we haven’t, let’s change what we’re doing.Cite 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. Jeff Golden answered the following:
Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow and why?
| “ | I admire progressive activists who have doggedly and positively persisted through all kinds of setbacks and disappointments, knowing that creating the world we want is a continuous way of life, not a time-limited achievement. They also know that to be effective, their resistance has to embody some of the love and compassion they want to see as prevalent values. I always think of Pete Seeger as the icon of that way of being. Martin Luther King, Jr, Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, Vaclav Havel and a handful of low-profile elders in my own community also fit the bill.[4] | ” |
| “ | Two books that I wrote, actually: the novel "UNAFRAID: A Novel of the Possible," and the non-fiction handbook "AS IF WE WERE GROWNUPS: A Collection of 'Suicidal' Political Speeches that Aren't"[4] | ” |
| “ | Integrity, a willingness to speak truth to power; world-class ability to listen to others--others who may be less informed, focused or articulate--with patience and compassion, resistance to the impulse to take support or opposition personally (i.e., an ability to get out of the way), vision for the desired future and enough discipline to keep it in the forefront of thinking, undistracted by the noise of the moment; awareness of our responsibilities to coming generations. Per the theme of my book GROWNUPS, I will strive to ask this guiding question before casting any significant vote in the state senate: "Of the choices available to me here, which one is best for my children and their children?"[4] | ” |
| “ | Intelligence (I appreciate F. Scott Fitzgerald's comment that "the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function"), natural and carefully-trained listening capacity, curiosity, ability to frame and communicate information in ways that people understand, industriousness, tenacity in advancing what I believe to be right, consistent willingness to speak truth to power, idealism, certainty that we can do better in our politics, governance and human interactions.[4] | ” |
| “ | To listen profoundly and persistently to others, especially my constituents, with as little defensiveness and preconception as possible, hearing both the words and the music (if I keep coming back to this point, that's because it's foundational to our chances for progress, and deceptively challenging). To do everything possible to ascertain the views of constituents (and not just the loudest ones) on key issues, and reflect them in my votes. To be BOLD, with minimal concern for my own political future--the hour is truly late, especially when it comes to climate and economic injustice, and timid incremental strategies will be too little too late.[4] | ” |
| “ | Jeff cared genuinely and deeply about Oregon and about Oregonians with the least voice and clout. He made decisions with the third and fourth generations in mind. He was brave.[4] | ” |
| “ | The second Eisenhower-Stevenson election. I was six years old.[4] | ” |
| “ | Newspaper delivery boy, ages 9-12[4] | ” |
| “ | I found front porch "goodnights" on many high school dates utter hell. Do I kiss her or not? If I don't, will she think I'm a complete loser? If I try and she doesn't want it, will she think I'm a complete loser? Am I a complete loser?[4] | ” |
| “ | Thanksgiving. Never can get enough reminders about all we can be grateful for, and gratitude's the magic elixir.[4] | ” |
| “ | So many. In my head at the moment is David Duncan's "The Brothers K"[4] | ” |
| “ | Jughead.[4] | ” |
| “ | A metal-shanked framing hammer I bought after my first day as a Union Carpenter apprentice. It has probably driven 20,000 nails and is ready for more,[4] | ” |
| “ | Red Rubber Ball, by The Cyrkle.[4] | ” |
| “ | Believing that I have intrinsic worth separate from my noticeable achievements in life. My Old World grandmother told me when I was four that I would be the first Jewish President and I've been trying to recover ever since.[4] | ” |
| “ | N/A[4] | ” |
| “ | As a generalization, the House tends to me the engine--more energy, more hot partisanship, faster action--and the Senate tends to be something like a brake or steering wheel--more deliberation and, at its best, collaboration.[4] | ” |
| “ | Without question. But not so much that it rigidifies thinking and shrinks the range of imaginable possibilities.[4] | ” |
| “ | Along with the rest of the world, climate change; focused on Oregon, the manifestations of economic injustice: poverty, homelessness, addiction, abuse of women and children.[4] | ” |
| “ | A co-equal partnership where the legislature recognizes the governor's primacy in administering and executing the laws and the governor recognizes the legislature's primacy in allocating resources. Policy innovation should come from both, and should benefit from the responsive input of both.[4] | ” |
| “ | This is of the highest importance. We are fundamentally deadlocked in this country by partisanship and the primacy that both parties' leaders give to maintaining power over solving problems. We will survive only on the strength of breakthrough thinking that stretches legislators' willingness to defy the orthodoxy of their own tribe and venture into unpredictable alliances across the divide.[4] | ” |
| “ | Redistricting should be out of the hands of elected officials; that conflict of interest is too stark. A commission with some specified expertise (geographic, statistical, sociological) would be best, with provisions for appointing members designed to minimize partisanship.[4] | ” |
| “ | Energy and environment, Housing, Ways $ Means[4] | ” |
| “ | N/A[4] | ” |
| “ | Not sure. My understanding is that legislators are expected or required to bring substantial amounts of money to the caucus to become part of leadership. As a candidate pledged to accepting no PAC money, I won't be fitting that profile[4] | ” |
| “ | Oregon has some fine ones: Sen Wayne Morse of yesteryear, Sen. Jeff Merkley today. I also appreciate Sen Elizabeth Warren and Rep Tulsi Gabbard.[4] | ” |
| “ | No.[4] | ” |
| “ | I am hearing almost daily of people in my district working full-time and more (sometimes with 2-3 jobs) who are on the brink of using their hoes, or have lost them already, because of steep rent increases. This isn't acceptable, and has to be an A-list issue for the legislature.[4] | ” |
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2023
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2022
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2021
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In 2021, the Oregon State Legislature was in session from January 21 to June 26.
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2020
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2019
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Footnotes
- ↑ Oregon Secretary of State, "Candidate Filing Search Results: 2018 General Election," accessed October 30, 2018
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ Ballotpedia's candidate survey, "Jeff Golden's responses," July 9, 2018
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| Preceded by Alan DeBoer (R) |
Oregon State Senate District 3 2019-Present |
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