Oregon: Hd-26

Jessica Adamson (D-Sherwood) just might be a microcosm of the party identity crisis many HD-26 voters are dealing with.

“I joined the party of Tom McCall; people willing to think big,” Adamson said of being a former member of the Republican Party. “That party left me, and eventually I had to leave it. I became frustrated with an increasingly divided party that became a narrow tent. There was no final straw for me in leaving the party, but I found I was able to me more myself as a Democrat than as a Republican.”