Statesman Journal mini-questionnaire for Nov.

2, 2010, General Election

Thank you for responding to this questionnaire, which is for use by Statesman Journal
Editorial Board members in evaluating candidates for potential endorsements. Your
answers also will be shared with reporters, may be published in the print newspaper and
will be posted on StatesmanJournal.com.

Name: Betty Komp

House/Senate District Number: House District 22

Party affiliation: Democrat

Age: 61

City/town of residence: Woodburn, Oregon

Number of years you have lived in the district: 14 years

Are you a full-time resident of the district? Yes

Family (name of spouse/partner, number and ages of children if at home, number of

grown children):

I have four adult daughters.

Current employer/job: State of Oregon/State Representative

Employment, military and volunteer history: Teacher, school cook, principal,

teaching assistant, farm hand.

Civic/religious/other local involvement: Youth minister, served on Woodburn

Together board, Kiwanis member
and president

Please list all public offices to which you’ve been elected, and when:

School Board Member 1986-1990

State Representative 2005-2010
Please list any unsuccessful candidacies for public office, and when:

State Representative 2002

Other political and government experience:

none

How the public can reach your campaign (remember that this information will be public):

Mail address: Elect Betty Komp, PO Box 676, Woodburn, Oregon 97071

E-mail address: bettykomp@gmail.com

Web site URL: none

Phone: 503-884-2337

How much will your general election campaign cost? (Please be specific about your
campaign budget, not “as much as we can raise.”)

$100,000-$120,000

Who are your top campaign contributors/lenders? (Please list at least the current top five
and their total dollar amounts.)

Oregon Education Association $10,000.

Service Employees International Union $7,500.
Doctors of Healthy Communities $2,500.
Oregon Restaurant Assoc $1,000.
Oregon Trial Lawyers $1,000.

Who are your key political advisers? (Please identify at least your top three.)

Rep. Dave Hunt

Teresa Miller
Jeff Blum

Key endorsements you’ve received:

US Senator Ron Wyden

 Oregon Nurses Association
Oregon State Police Assoc

For each of the following questions, please limit your answer to about 75 words.

1. Have you ever been convicted of a crime, been disciplined by a professional licensing
board/organization or had an ethics violation filed against you? If so, please give the
details.
NO

2. Have you ever filed for bankruptcy, been delinquent on your taxes or other major
accounts, or been sued personally or professionally? If so, please give the details.
NO

3. Describe this legislative district:

House District 22 includes the following communities in Marion County:

Woodburn, Gervais, and part of Northeast Salem. The district also includes several
precincts in unincorporated areas. The district’s northern boundary is just north of the
Woodburn City limits. To the South, the boundary stretches to Market and D streets in
Northeast Salem.

4. What specific steps will you take to make government more open and accessible to the
public?
I have supported state agency data systems that will provide the public
with financial, organizational goals and outcomes, and services provided. Web sites are
to be developed that are customer friendly and easily accessed. Online voter registration
is a perfect example of using technology to save costs for the people of our State and
increase access.

In recent sessions, we have also sought to increase transparency in election

campaigns and increased ethics requirements.

5. Why should people vote for you? What separates you from your opponent(s)?

What separates me from my opponent is my strong background in

education issues from supporting Early Head Start so that children enter school ready to
learn to voting to invest in colleges and community colleges to give people workplace
skills they need. I grew up poor, yet learned education opens many doors to numerous
opportunities.

6. What specific steps would you advocate to improve Oregon’s economy and create
jobs?
 Our legislature and leaders need to work together with businesses to
ensure Oregon can move out of the recession. It will take teamwork to bring the best
solutions forward. I support cutting red tape for small businesses, providing much-
needed capital to local small businesses, and tax breaks for companies that hire
unemployed Oregonians.

7. What changes, if any, would you advocate in the tax provisions created by Measures
66/67?
None at this time.

8. What specific revenue changes, if any, would you advocate to balance the 2011-13
budget?
We need to reach out to every State agency and review budgets to seek
efficiencies. Working with the Governor is key to seeking solutions and developing a
long term plan. Budgeting from year to year is not going to move us forward.

9. What specific spending reductions, if any, would you advocate to balance the 2011-13
budget?

Decisions to make spending reductions will be developed by all three

branches of our state government.

10. Which of Gov. Ted Kulongoski’s “resetting government” proposals do you support?

I support the Governor’s Reset committee’s recommendations about changing the

governance model for education.

11. What changes, if any, would you advocate in the structure, scope or role of state
government?

I believe that commissions need to do internal audits to evaluate their

effectiveness and roles. It is also important to know if state agencies duplicate one and
another and make decisions on where the services are provided. We cannot afford to
have duplication. An example is the legal counsel in the Bureau of Labor and Industries
and some of the same services are provided by the Attorney General’s office.

12. What changes, if any, do you favor making in state employee compensation? Why?

Any changes need to occur within the bargaining unit and the Executive branch.

13. Do you support the education-reform proposals of the Chalkboard Project?

I support many of Chalkboards initiatives in particular; I believe schools need

strong professional development of educators and have mentors for all new teachers and
administrators.

14. What “social issues,” if any, should the 2011 Legislature address?

I believe we need to address the needs of our all veterans. They deserve better
than we are providing.

15. How should the Legislature and state government respond to illegal immigration?

We need to continue communicating with our Congressmen and work together to

reach common sense solutions.

16. What are the three most important issues you would address if elected? How? (Up to
75 words for each issue.)

A. Creating jobs and supporting families.

B. Ensure our schools are preparing students with the job skills needed for the future.

C. Continue to provide strong public safety by keeping criminals behind bars and
having 24/7 State troopers on the road.

17. What do you see as other important issues?

We need to audit state agencies to make sure our taxpayer dollars are spent
wisely.

18. Any skeletons in your closet or other potentially embarrassing information that you
want to disclose before it comes up in the campaign?

No

As a legislative candidate, your positions on statewide ballot measures on relevant to

voters. Please indicate whether you support or oppose each of the measures.

Measure 70: Veterans’ loans Yes No

Measure 71: Annual legislative sessions Yes No

Measure 72: State bonding authority Yes No

Measure 73: Sentencing Yes No

Measure 74: Medical marijuana Yes No

Measure 75: Multnomah County casino Yes No

Measure 76: Lottery funding for parks, habitat Yes No