Rob Fullmer
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Rob Fullmer (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Oregon House of Representatives to represent District 36. He lost in the Democratic primary on May 19, 2020.
Fullmer completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Fullmer earned a degree in astronautic engineering from MIT in 1989. His professional experience includes working as an information technology specialist at Rice University, director of information technology and customer services at College of William & Mary, and information technology specialist at Portland State University. Fullmer is affiliated with the Northwest District Association, Portland City Club, Service Employees International Union, Local 503, and Portland Bureau of Emergency Management.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Oregon House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Oregon House of Representatives District 36
Lisa Reynolds defeated James Ball in the general election for Oregon House of Representatives District 36 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Lisa Reynolds (D / Working Families Party)  | 83.1 | 34,577 |
 | James Ball (R) | 16.8 | 6,986 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 66 | ||
| Total votes: 41,629 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Oregon House of Representatives District 36
Lisa Reynolds defeated Laurie Wimmer, Rob Fullmer, and Adam Meyer in the Democratic primary for Oregon House of Representatives District 36 on May 19, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Lisa Reynolds | 43.3 | 7,476 |
 | Laurie Wimmer | 35.8 | 6,177 | |
 | Rob Fullmer | 13.2 | 2,288 | |
 | Adam Meyer | 7.5 | 1,301 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 35 | ||
| Total votes: 17,277 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Oregon House of Representatives District 36
James Ball advanced from the Republican primary for Oregon House of Representatives District 36 on May 19, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | James Ball | 97.5 | 1,431 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 2.5 | 37 | ||
| Total votes: 1,468 | |||
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Endorsements
A full list of Fullmer's endorsements can be found on his campaign website, here.
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Rob Fullmer completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Fullmer's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Rob has worked his entire career in education and has been a strong voice pushing for educational opportunities and career training that are accessible for all. He has been professional staff at Portland State for the past 15 years as the first IT Specialist for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, where he helped craft the 2016-2020 strategic plan and was on the Financial Futures committee. He has also been an active member and leader in SEIU 503, where as the current bargaining chair for university employees in public higher education, he helped to secure the best contract front line workers have seen in over a decade. Rob served three years on the Higher Education Coordinating Commission and chaired the work group charged with helping college affordability for students. He also has a long history of civic engagement-in his neighborhood, with the City of Portland and at the legislature. He chaired the NWDA Safety and Livability Committee and has been a co-leader of the district's Third Saturday Cleanup for the last seven years. He served for the past six years on the Portland City Club's advocacy board where he's been a leading voice on community preparedness and seismic resiliency. He has extensive experience engaging with the state legislature, served on a state task force on higher education staffing, and spent six years as one of the City of Portland's five community budget advisers. He received his degree from MIT in astronautic engineering.
- Climate change is an existential threat to life on our planet that policy-makers must address immediately
- Systemic economic inequality undermines education and healthcare and helps cause houselessness
- I will never accept corporate money - instead, I will be a champion for a more just and equitable society
Rob's four main policy focus areas are protecting our environment, strengthening public schools (pre-K through higher education), building an economy that works for working people by improving labor protections and improving compensation for low wage workers, and taking action on housing affordability and the houseless crisis, with a specific focus on improving resources for mental health and addition services for that population.
His greatest policy expertise relative to other legislators and opponents is in the areas of higher education, particularly the seven Oregon public universities, and in seismic resilience and what needs to be done to get Oregon ready for the coming Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ) earthquake.
Two Treatises of Government, John Locke
Integrity, empathy, intelligence, responsiveness, teamwork, and the ability to both listen intently and communicate clearly.
Being a good listener, empathy, intelligence, conscientiousness, honesty, pragmatism, and integrity. Being a team player, and willing to compromise while holding firm on core values. I have in the past, and always will, fight for the disadvantaged - the poor, people of color, and those whom our system overlooks or exploits.
To work every day to improve the lives of everyone in their community.
My first real job other than paper route I had in Henderson, Nevada when I was a freshman in high school was as a grocery bagger (which they called a "boxboy") at the Publix in Palm Beach, Florida. Wealthy shoppers had their groceries bagged, taken out to their cars, and unloaded. These customers were prohibited by policy to tip the minimum wage staff who did this work, nearly all of whom lived in poorer areas like I did. Fortunately, many chose to do so anyway. My mom had been struggling to support me on her own since she lost her job, so despite being a student I worked as many hours as possible so I could pay the rent for us. I was 15 years old and a sophomore in high school. I worked there until we moved across the country in the middle of my junior year, so about 16 months.
Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke - I read it for the first time when I was quite young, and it made me believe that each of us in our lives has a chance to do as much good as we can in the time we have, to not take tomorrow for granted and to fight for the things we care about every day. The story is about transcending our humanity, but it's a sad book, because while it's easy to see what will be lost when we're all gone, we're not really capable with our limited understanding to feel any connection to what we become.
In Oregon, all revenue bills need to originate in the House, which has twice as many members as the Senate (60 versus 30). This is the most important difference between the two bodies.
Yes, at least insofar as a good understanding of the legislative process and knowing how things work allows them to be effective sooner than someone without them. However, having people who come from outside of politics is also important as they provide a perspective that is missing when the process is driven primarily by insiders.
Like everywhere, the immediate challenge is going to be to recover from the pandemic and reduce the systemic inequality that is leading to vastly different outcomes for the wealthy, middle, and lower classes through it. Our social, economic, and healthcare systems aren't designed to handle the kind of stresses this pandemic has caused, and will need to be updated to remain viable in this new reality. This means universal healthcare, childcare, equitable education infrastructure, and potentially basic income to avoid mass loss of housing and life in addition to jobs. But while the pandemic aftermath is a medium term issue, climate change is an issue that will affect the ability of life on earth to continue to survive. We need to use the shared suffering the world is enduring from the pandemic to build the relationships and will we must have to collectively move away from greenhouse gas producing activities to sustainable energies and industries that make the problem worse, and we need to do so with all haste. Our survival depends on it.
One of collaboration, they should be partners in serving the needs of the state's residents.
It's essential. As a state legislator, having strong and fruitful relationships with legislators from all parties is critical to being able to pass bills. Being able to organize both inside and outside the building is what makes it possible for legislation to successfully get through the process. The normal process involves many steps (subject committees, fiscal committees, the full body, then all of that again in the other chamber). Getting any bill through all those paces requires allies and advocates, and a legislator without effective advocates is one who is much less likely to be able to get results for their constituents.
Higher Education and Workforce (this committee was last active in the 2018 short session and would need to be brought back)
Business and Labor
Ways and Means
Environment and Natural Resources
Michael Dembrow
Yes, I heard from a woman whose grandson is autistic and whose daughter had to suspend her dream of a college degree to take care of him full time. Eventually he got too big for her to be able to do that safely from home and chose to reach out the the state for a recommendation of a care facility where he would feel safe and welcomed. Two months after this woman and her daughter spent significant resources on furniture and moving fees to place him into the facility, which again, was recommended to them by the state of Oregon, the facility closed, and all residents were forced to move out. Her daughter was heartbroken, and doesn't feel like she could put her son through that trauma again. We have an obligation to the people we serve, bad decisions by representatives of our government can have serious, and as we've seen at the national level lately, life-threatening consequences. I have always striven to provide very high level customer service to those I assist at Portland State and will keep that same level of commitment as a state legislator.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 8, 2020
