Andrea Salinas Wins Oregon House Primary and Is on Her Way to Making History

The stress begins within the run-up to the November midterm elections, and Latino candidates are already making historical past.

Oregon state Rep. Andrea Salinas won final week’s Democratic main for Congress, beating a better-funded opponent backed by the majority of the occasion.

Salinas confronted eight different candidates to turn out to be the primary Democrat to seem on the final election poll for the brand new district.

If she wins the election in November, Salinas would be the first Latina elected to Congress from Oregon.

The daughter of Mexican immigrants who arrived within the nation in 1950, Andrea Salinas grew up in a humble dwelling. She attended UC Berkeley and has devoted her skilled life to serving others.

Salinas was a legislative aide to Senator Harry Reid, Congressman Pete Stark, and Congresswoman Darlene Hooley. She served as legislative director for the Oregon Environmental Council, had her personal legislative consulting apply, and was vice chairman in Oregon for Methods 360, a political consulting agency.

In September 2017, Salinas was appointed to fill the emptiness in Oregon Home District 38 created when Ann Lininger was appointed to the Clackamas County Circuit Court docket. Salinas accomplished Lininger’s time period and was re-elected in 2018 and 2020. Within the 2021 legislative session, she served within the Home Democratic Caucus management as majority whip.

“I’m working for Congress as a result of my daughter – and each Oregonian – deserves leaders who will work onerous day in and day trip to make their lives higher,” Salinas explains on her marketing campaign web site. “And I believe Washington might study a factor or two from what we’ve completed in Oregon in regards to the energy of discovering frequent floor, working onerous, and truly delivering on the problems that matter most to households: reasonably priced well being care, a good financial system, and an setting that’s protected and cherished for generations to come back.”

As NBC Information defined, Andrea Salinas’ victory would increase Latino Democrats who’ve publicly clashed with the Home Majority PAC of the Democratic management over their assist within the race of political newcomer Carrick Flynn.

“I’m able to win this seat in November and work onerous to increase entry to abortion care, sort out the local weather disaster, and decrease the price of prescribed drugs,” Salinas stated in an announcement Tuesday night time.