Oregon made national and international headlines yesterday for all the wrong reasons: a downtown Portland mass stabbing and a mass shooting at a Bend elementary school. The loss of life and trauma inflicted on the school community are heartbreaking. My prayers are with every victim, family, student, educator, and first responder affected. I’m profoundly grateful to the courageous individual who intervened to stop the gunman and potentially save additional lives. If the hero who stopped the gunman at Silver Rail Elementary in Bend HAD NOT IGNORED the school district’s gun policies, more people would be injured or deceased. Meanwhile, Portland continues to grapple with violent crime and a deteriorating sense of public safety. Oregonians deserve more than statements of concern after each tragedy. They deserve effective prevention, meaningful accountability, and policies grounded in real-world outcomes. Governor Tina Kotek and state leaders should be judged on results not rhetoric. Are our communities safer? Are schools adequately protected? Are violent offenders being held accountable? Are families seeing an improvement in their quality of life? Compassion for victims and accountability for leadership are not mutually exclusive. Oregon cannot afford to treat each tragedy as an isolated headline, offer condolences, and then return to business as usual. Residents deserve a serious examination of what is failing, what must change, and who is accountable for delivering results. The quality of life has so deteriorated under the “leadership” of Tina Kotek and forty years of single party rule. How can any sane person vote to give Tina Kotek another four years to destroy our state? @GovTinaKotek @MayorKWilson @ChristineDrazan @PortlandPolice @BendCityPolice