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Andrea Salinas: “I think it said he was the police officer who wrote up the…”

Featuring: Andrea Salinas, Democratic | U.S. House, Oregon, District 6

November 2022 elections_ Congressional District 6

Published September 30, 2022 | Video Starts at 20:48

So it's all there. I think the way Mister Erickson characterizes his behavior is very different than what you'll read in the police report. I think it said he was the police officer who wrote up the report basically said he left a bar. He did not leave a wedding, he left a bar. He was swerving. There were many other factors involved. We did not put all of that in the ad. (20:48–20:58)

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Asserts that the police report states Mike Erickson left a bar, not a wedding.

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“I have been serving in the legislature since 2017.”
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“A lack of federal paid family and medical leave means that new parents have to make hard choices when it comes to providing for their…”
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“A $7.25 minimum wage means people can work a full time job and really not be able to keep a roof over their head.”
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“Every day that the federal government fails to combat our climate crisis really places marginalized communities and businesses at risk.”
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“Since joining the Oregon House in 2017, I have been a champion for working families.”
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“Along with laws curbing carbon pollution and phasing out dirty coal, and setting us on a path to a clean energy future.”
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“Ensuring the strongest reproductive rights law in the country.”
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“Economists have shown that canceling student debt, as President Biden suggesting, frees up hundreds of thousands of young people to buy…”
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“I think Congress needs to step in and make the legislative and statutory changes.”
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“We haven't really addressed [the high cost of education].”
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“I do think lifting the crushing burden of debt off an entire generation of future innovators, entrepreneurs, small businesses, will free…”
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“The ad was based on a police report that was written up six years ago.”
November 2022 elections_ Congressional District 6 | Uploaded September 30, 2022 | 20:26-20:33
“We stated the charges that were in the police report, in the ad.”
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“I think the way Mister Erickson characterizes his behavior is very different than what you'll read in the police report.”
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“We did not put all of that in the ad.”
November 2022 elections_ Congressional District 6 | Uploaded September 30, 2022 | 21:02-21:05
“We just put the facts on the air to clarify some hypocrisy.”
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“I think voters are done with hypocrisy, with politicians saying one thing and doing the other.”
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“We had years of that under the Trump administration.”
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“Some of the extremists in Washington, DC right now still behave the same way.”
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“I think it's something like 89, 90% of the bills that we have passed in the Oregon legislature are bipartisan.”
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“The right wing republicans have a stranglehold on their party right now.”
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“Families get out of COVID because we have not fully recovered from COVID.”
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“We have unlimited giving [in campaign finance].”
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“The Democratic Party of Oregon did not like the bill that I introduced and tried to push in the last session.”
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“I've been accused of not supporting the, you know, law enforcement with adequate funding, and that is not true.”
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“My dad was a police officer for over 30 years.”
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“He was undercover for many of those years.”
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“I voted to increase police funding by $34 million.”
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“We are seeing it in our hospital systems.”
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“I would like to see demilitarization of our law enforcement as well.”
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“I sponsored legislation to reduce recidivism and break the cycle of crime, especially for young offenders.”
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“The bill that we passed tried to give law enforcement enough discretion to know when something is unsafe.”
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“In 2020, for the first time ever, guns were the number one cause of death for children.”
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“Here in Oregon, I helped to pass legislation that will protect children.”
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“We have some safe storage laws that I think will help to save lives and certainly children's lives across the state.”
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“I would like to see other common sense safety legislation that we have passed or that, you know, like universal background checks and red…”
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“I helped to pass a bill to provide overtime pay for our farm workers.”
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“We don't have enough labor. And that is, you know, it's, it's a hardship. It's a hardship not just, you know, in our farms and agriculture…”
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“Our economy relies on immigration work.”
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“I would like to see that addressed in Congress because I think we do need to do it nationwide.”
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“We included five years of transition outlays for them to help pay for their workers.”
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“This is something that Senator Wyden has been working on for over ten years.”
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“It will help reduce the cost of prescription drugs for our seniors to be able to negotiate Medicare drug prices.”
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“It will help to actually, for people who are on life saving insulin, it will help them to be able to afford that insulin.”
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