ONA’s Political Action Committee (PAC) Board has endorsed these pro-nursing, pro-healthcare candidates based on multiple factors including voting record, alignment with ONA’s values and priorities, and viability. You can learn more about how candidates become endorsed by ONA here.

This list is subject to change and addition as the election year progresses.

If you are unsure who your current legislator is, or what district you live in, click here to find out! 

Statewide Endorsements

Tobias Read – Secretary of State, WON

Treasurer Tobias Read has held statewide office since 2017, and seeks to carry out the still-higher office of Secretary of State by outlasting competitive 2024 elections of both the primary and general. Treasurer Read, of Beaverton, has had numerous achievements in state government – as both Treasurer and State Representative for the ten years before that – and was previously endorsed by ONA in 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2016. He helped create the leading, state-sponsored retirement program Oregon Saves. Further, as legislator, he was pivotal to directing needed funding to infrastructure and education. 

Elizabeth Steiner – State Treasurer, WON

Elizabeth Steiner is a State Senator with a long list of accomplishments particularly in crafting the State’s budget, through a tenure as co-chair of the Joint Ways and Means Committee that began in 2019. Sen. Steiner first joined the legislature in 2011 and has run with ONA’s endorsement, including in winning Friend of Nursing honors in 2016, 2018, and 2022. Sen. Steiner is from NW Portland. She works as a physician who on a part-time basis still teaches family medicine at OHSU. Improved health outcomes for Oregonians and a robust public health system and have always been central to her goals as a legislator.

Dan Rayfield – Attorney General, WON

Dan Rayfield is a State Representative and the Speaker of the Oregon House from 2022 to 2024. In a legislative career launched in 2015, he has been endorsed by ONA every time he has run for State House, and has won Friend of Nursing honors in 2016, 2018, and 2022. As a leader among his colleagues in the House — including taking turns as majority whip, co-chair of the Joint Ways and Means Committee, and Speaker — Rep. Rayfield has ushered through many pieces of legislation significant to ONA’s agenda, including the landmark 2023 hospital staffing law. Rep. Rayfield is from Corvallis and is a trial attorney, specializing in cases in personal injury, malpractice, and civil rights.

State Legislature Endorsements:

• HD 5 (Jackson) – Pam Marsh, WON
• HD 7 (Springfield) – John Lively, WON
• HD 8 (South Eugene) – Lisa Fragala, WON
• HD 10 (Lincoln and Western Benton and Linn Counties) – David Gomberg, WON
• HD 13 (North Eugene) – Nancy Nathanson, WON
• HD 14 (West Eugene) – Speaker Julie Fahey, WON
• HD 16 (Corvallis) – Sarah Finger McDonald, WON
• HD 19 (South Salem) – Tom Andersen, WON
• HD 20 (West Salem, Monmouth) - Paul Evans, WON
• HD 21 (Keizer, North Salem)  – Virginia Stapleton, LOST
• HD 22 (North Salem, Woodburn, Gervais) – Lesly Muñoz, STILL COUNTING
• HD 25 (Tigard) – Majority Leader Ben Bowman, WON
• HD 26 (Wilsonville) – Courtney Neron, WON
• HD 27 (Beaverton) – Ken Helm, WON
• HD 28 (SW Portland) – Dacia Grayber, WON
  
• HD 29 (Hillsboro, Forest Grove) – Susan McLain, WON
  
• HD 30 (Hillsboro) – Nathan Sosa, WON
• HD 33 (NW Portland) - Shannon Jones Isadore, WON
• HD 34 (Cedar Mill, Oak Hills, Bethany) – Lisa Reynolds, WON
  
• HD 35 (Aloha) – Farrah Chaichi, WON
  
• HD 36 (Scholls) – Hai Pham, WON
  
• HD 37 (Tualatin, West Linn) – Jules Walters, WON
  
• HD 38 (Lake Oswego) – Daniel Nguyen, WON
• HD 39 (Happy Valley, Clackamas) – April Dobson, WON
• HD 40 (Oregon City, Gladstone) – Annessa Hartman, WON
• HD 41 (Milwaukie) – Mark Gamba, WON
  
• HD 42 (SE Portland) – Rob Nosse, WON
  
• HD 43 (NE Portland – Tawna Sanchez, WON
  
• HD 44 (N Portland) – Travis Nelson, WON
  
• HD 45 (NE Portland) – Thuy Tran, WON
• HD 46 (SE Portland) – Willy Chotzen, WON
• HD 47 (E Portland) – Andrea Valderrama, WON
  
• HD 48 (E Portland) – Hoa Nguyen, WON
  
• HD 49 (Troutdale) – Zach Hudson, WON
  
• HD 50 (Gresham) – Ricki Ruiz, WON
• HD 53 (Redmond, Sisters) – Emerson Levy, WON
• HD 54 (Bend) – Jason Kropf, WON
• HD 57 (Morrow, Gilliam, Sherman, Wheeler Counties) – Greg Smith, WON

• SD 14 (Beaverton, SW Portland) - Kate Lieber, WON 
• SD 18 (Aloha) – Wlnsvey Campos, WON
• SD 21 (SE Portland, Milwaukie) – Kathleen Taylor, WON
• SD 22 (N, NE Portland) – Lew Frederick, WON
• SD 23 (NE, SE Portland) – Khanh Pham, WON
• SD 25 (Gresham, Troutdale) – Chris Gorsek, WON
• SD 27 (Bend, Redmond) – Anthony Broadman, WON

Local Endorsements:

• Multnomah County Commissioner, District 1 – Meghan Moyer, WON
• Multnomah County Commissioner, District 2 – Shannon Singleton, WON
• Deschutes County Commissioner, Position 2 – Phil Chang, WON
• Troutdale Mayor – Geoffrey Wunn, LOST
• Circuit Court Judge District 20, Position 6 – KC LeDell, LOST

Ballot Measures:

• Yes on Measure 116 to create People’s Independent Commission to remove Oregon lawmakers' power to set their own pay, LOST
• No on Measure 118 Corporate Tax Revenue Rebate, WON the 'NO' Vote
• City of Hillsboro Community Advisory Vote: Yes on Water Fluoridation, LOST
  
   

Congressional Endorsements, Made in Collaboration with AFT:

• District 1 – Suzanne Bonamici, WON
• District 3 – Maxine Dexter, WON
  
• District 4 – Val Hoyle, WON
• District 5 – Janelle Bynum, WON
• District 6 – Andrea Salinas, WON

National Endorsements:

• U.S. Presidential endorsement of our national union, AFT: Kamala Harris for President, Tim Walz for Vice President - LOST