Oregon: 40th State Rep. to face recall survives vote in blowout win

Oregon State Representative Paul Holvey (D) easily survived a recall vote, with the first batch of release votes showing him with 90% of the ballots. 10104-1122.

Holvey made the ballot after petitioners handed in a second batch of signatures following the invalidation of huge number of signatures.

The Holvey recall is not a partisan fight, rather it is being launch by one of the most powerful unions in the state, the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555. Holvey is the Chair of the House Committee on Business and Labor.

The recall is over Holvey's failure to support a bill blocking cannabis employers from interfering with employee efforts to unionize. Holvey believed that it was preempted by federal law. Holvey was a former union representative and he notes that the state's largest union and others are backing Holvey in fighting the recall effort.

I discuss the recall and the lack of recalls at the state level here.