Oregon: Kevin Mannix

A spokeswoman for the Republican Party of Oregon would not confirm whether Republican Party of Oregon Chair Vance Day will seek the position again when his term expires in January.

“The Chairman has not yet announced his intentions,” ORGOP spokeswoman Brianne Hyder said. Hyder would not confirm or deny whether that meant Day was considering giving up the position. “It just means he has not yet announced his intentions,” she said.

Despite surging Democratic voter registration in Oregon's 5th Congressional District, Michael Erickson's campaign said it remains confident that Erickson's fiscal conservative values, balanced with his outlook on energy and health care, will attract voters from both parties to the Lake Oswego businessman.

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – Fifth Congressional District candidate Kurt Schrader (D-Canby) snagged two more endorsements Wednesday in the OR-5 congressional race against Mike Erickson (R-Lake Oswego).

AG PAC and the Oregon Forest Industries Council said they would be backing Schrader, a state senator, for the general election in November. OFIC is a particularly noticeable endorsement for Schrader; the council actually backed former congressional candidate Kevin Mannix when he ran against Erickson in the Republican primary.

Former CD-5 congressional candidate Kevin Mannix was ecstatic on Friday morning that Republican presidential candidate John McCain (R-Ariz.) chose Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) as his running mate.

“I think it’s a brilliant choice,” Mannix said. “She’s a state executive, she’s a reformer, she’s already got results, she’s old enough to have some experience, but young enough to be dynamic.”