You deserve an independent thinker in Salem  who will put people over party, lift up your voice and focus on your real-life concerns. Roy is that voice. He's running to protect Oregon's people and protect Oregon's values.

Roy Kaufmann is a father of four, an immigrant, a first-generation college graduate, and has spent his career advocating for Oregonians. For more than  twenty years he has helped Oregon leaders and public officials communicate clearly with the people they serve. He’s seen the good and the bad in state government, and he understands that the best leaders remain skeptical of powerful interests and always think for themselves. 

Right now, Oregon’s MAGA Republicans are more focused on aligning with the Trump regime than with their constituents. They seek to dismantle the institutions, rights, and protections that generations of Oregonians fought to build. How can the Oregon GOP stand up for you when they’re busy bowing down to Donald Trump? Your hardworking family deserves better.

Oregon House District 18

From Silver Falls State Park to Tabletop Wilderness, from the St. Paul Rodeo to the Mt. Angel Oktoberfest, HD18 is a slice of the best of the Willamette Valley.

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It's a district of new small businesses and local favorites, food processors and manufacturers, hazelnut farms and Christmas tree nurseries, vineyards and wineries, hemp and cannabis farms, and families who love it here. HD18 is a place of close-knit communities and wide open land — home to Aurora, Barlow, Butteville, Donald, Molalla, Mulino, Mt. Angel, Scotts Mills, and Silverton (Roy’s hometown!).

People here work hard, look out for their neighbors, and want their children  to have a future in the community where they were raised. Farmers worry that their kids will be forced to sell. Families watch as  healthcare gets harder to access and housing near impossible to afford. Young adults doubt that they’ll ever own a home of their own, while our town leaders fight the state bureaucracy year after year just to fix the roads. 

And underneath all of it runs a shared frustration with a federal regime that is making everything harder: A disastrous, unnecessary war driving gas and diesel prices through the roof, tariffs squeezing family farms and nurseries, Medicaid cuts threatening rural healthcare, public school teachers and students getting the short end of the stick, while multimillionaires and billionaires get tax breaks.

The frustration is real, and it isn't partisan. Roy hears it everywhere he goes. It's why he's running.