Elizabeth Katharine "Betsy" Johnson (born January 12, 1951) is an American aviator, entrepreneur, and politician who served in the
Oregon House of Representatives
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from the
1st
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and
31st House districts from 2001 to 2005, and in the
Oregon Senate
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from the
16th district from 2005 to 2021, as a member of the
Democratic Party. Prior to her tenure in the state legislature she served on the
Port of St. Helens board and worked in the
Oregon Department of Transportation
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.
Johnson was born in
Bend, Oregon
Bend is a city in central Oregon and the county seat of Deschutes County, Oregon, Deschutes County, Oregon, United States. It is located to the east of the Cascade Range, on the Deschutes River.
The site became known by pioneers as a ford (cros ...
, as the daughter of
Sam Johnson
Samuel Robert Johnson (October 11, 1930 – May 27, 2020) was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for in Congress from 1991 to 2019. He was a member of the Republican Party. In October and November 2015, he was the act ...
, who served in the state house. She was raised in
Redmond, Oregon
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, and educated at
Oregon Episcopal School
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,
Carleton College
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, and
Lewis and Clark College
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. She operated a helicopter business and participated in international helicopter competitions. She was active in local politics in
Columbia County, Oregon
Columbia County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the population was 52,589. The county seat is St. Helens.
History
The Chinook and Clatskanie Native American peoples inhabited this region fo ...
, where she served on the boards of multiple groups and she was elected to the
Port of St. Helens board in a 1993 special election. She was the manager of aeronautics in the Oregon Department of Transportation from 1993 to 1998.
She was elected to the state house in the 2000 election and reelected in the 2002 and 2004 elections. Johnson was appointed to replace
Joan Dukes in the state senate in 2005, and was reelected in the 2006, 2010, 2014, and 2018 elections. She was a moderate and
conservative member of the Democratic caucus and held a controlling swing vote. She resigned from the state senate in 2021, to run in the
2022 gubernatorial election as an
independent
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candidate, losing to
Tina Kotek
Christine Kotek ( ; born September 30, 1966) is an American politician serving as the 39th governor of Oregon since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, Kotek served eight terms as the state representative from the 44th district in the Ore ...
.
Early life and education
Elizabeth Katharine Johnson was born on January 12, 1951, in
Bend, Oregon
Bend is a city in central Oregon and the county seat of Deschutes County, Oregon, Deschutes County, Oregon, United States. It is located to the east of the Cascade Range, on the Deschutes River.
The site became known by pioneers as a ford (cros ...
, to Elizabeth Hill Johnson and
Sam Johnson
Samuel Robert Johnson (October 11, 1930 – May 27, 2020) was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for in Congress from 1991 to 2019. He was a member of the Republican Party. In October and November 2015, he was the act ...
, who served in the
Oregon House of Representatives
The Oregon House of Representatives is the lower house of the Oregon Legislative Assembly, the upper house being the Oregon State Senate. There are 60 members of the House, representing 60 districts across the state, each with a population of ...
for fourteen years. She was raised in
Redmond, Oregon
Redmond is a city in Deschutes County, Oregon, United States. The population was 33,274 at the 2020 census, and according to 2023 census estimates, the city is estimated to have a population of 37,009.
The city is on the eastern side of Oregon ...
, and graduated from
Oregon Episcopal School
Oregon Episcopal School (OES) is an American independent, coeducational, College-preparatory school, college preparatory, day and Boarding school, boarding school in the Raleigh Hills area of Portland, Oregon. It was preceded by St. Helen's Hall, ...
in 1969.
She campaigned for her father during her youth. She graduated from
Carleton College
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with a
bachelor's degree
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in history in 1974, and from
Lewis and Clark College
Lewis & Clark College is a private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon. It was founded in 1867 and is situated on the historic M. Lloyd Frank Estate in South Portland's Collins View neighborhood. It is composed of three distinct but adja ...
with a
Juris Doctor
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in 1977.
Johnson married John Helm. She represented the United States at a helicopter competition in
Vitebsk
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,
Soviet Union
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, in 1978. Johnson created Trans-Western Helicopters in 1978, and it merged into Hillsboro Helicopters in 1993. She served as president of the Columbia County Economic Development Council, and was on the boards of the Columbia County Health District,
St. Helens Chamber of Commerce
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, and
United Way
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of Columbia County.
She was appointed to the board of the Oregon Tourism Alliance in 1989. She replaced
Betty Roberts as the chair of the
Tom McCall
Thomas Lawson McCall (March 22, 1913 January 8, 1983) was an American, politician and journalist in the state of Oregon, serving as the state's thirtieth governor from 1967 to 1975. A progressive Republican, he was known as a staunch environme ...
lectureship committee at
Oregon State University
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in 1992. She was the director of the
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Portland Branch for six years.
Career
Local politics
Tony Federici, a member of the
Port of St. Helens board from the fourth position resigned in January 1993, in order to take office in the state house from the
1st district. Johnson defeated four other candidates in the 1993 special election and won without opposition in the 1997 election.
She replaced Eric Dahlgren as chair of the board in 1999. She was appointed as the Manager of Aeronautics in the
Oregon Department of Transportation
The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) is a department of the state government of the U.S. state of Oregon responsible for systems of transportation. It was first established in 1969. It had been preceded by the Oregon State Highway De ...
in 1993, and served until her resignation on September 7, 1998.
Oregon House of Representatives
Jackie Taylor, a member of the state house from the 1st district, was term-limited during the 2000 election.
Johnson faced no opposition in the
Democratic primary and won the
Republican primary as a
write-in candidate
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and defeated
Constitution
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When these pri ...
nominee Bob Ekstrom, the chair of the party, and
Libertarian
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nominee Don McDaniel.
She won the Democratic and Republican nominations and was elected from the
31st district in the 2002 election against Constitution nominee Ekstrom and
independent
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candidate Mervin Arnold.
She won the Democratic and Republican nominations and defeated Constitution nominee Ron Ross in the 2004 election.
In the state house Johnson used the same desk that her father had used during his tenure. During her tenure in the state house she served on the Ways and Means committee. Johnson was appointed to a shared seat on the
Oregon Emergency Board
Oregon's Emergency Board (also known as the State Emergency Board and Legislative Emergency Board) is a statutory legislative committee composed of members of both houses of the Oregon Legislative Assembly. It has broad powers to allocate gener ...
with Representative
Dan Doyle in 2001. Following the
September 11 attacks
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the House Special Task Force on State Emergency Preparedness was formed with Johnson being one of its members. She worked as
Ron Wyden
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's campaign chair during the
2004 United States Senate election.
Oregon Senate
Joan Dukes, a member of the
Oregon Senate
The Oregon State Senate is the upper house of the statewide legislature for the US state of Oregon. Along with the lower chamber Oregon House of Representatives it makes up the Oregon Legislative Assembly. There are 30 members of the state Sena ...
, was appointed to the
Northwest Power and Conservation Council by Governor
Ted Kulongoski
Theodore Ralph Kulongoski ( ; born November 5, 1940) is an American politician, judge, and lawyer who served as the List of Governors of Oregon, 36th governor of Oregon from 2003 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democrati ...
in 2004. Johnson announced on November 24, 2004, that she was interested in replacing Dukes in the state senate. Johnson, Bill Blank, and Emil Nyberg were nominated by the Columbia County Democratic Committee as possible options to replace Dukes. County commissioners from Columbia, Clatsop, Multnomah, Tillamook, and Washington counties voted unanimously on January 19, 2005, to appoint Johnson and she was sworn in on January 20.
Brad Witt
Bradley Witt (born 1952) is an American Democratic politician who served in the Oregon House of Representatives for District 31 from 2005 to 2023, representing most of Columbia and parts of Clatsop and Multnomah counties.
Witt was a candida ...
was selected to replace her in the state house.
She defeated Republican nominee Don Fell and Constitution nominee Robert J. Simmering in the 2006 election.
She defeated Republican nominee Bob Horning in the 2010 election.
Howard Dean
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, the former chair of the
Democratic National Committee
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, called for Johnson to be replaced after she voted with the Republicans against voter registration legislation in 2013. She defeated independent candidate Andrew Kaza, Constitution nominee Ekstrom, and Libertarian nominee Perry Roll in the 2014 election.
She won the Democratic, Republican, and
Independent
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nominations, with write-in votes in the Republican and Independent primaries, and defeated Constitution nominee Ray Biggs in the 2018 election.
During her tenure in the state senate she served on the Rules committee and co-chaired the Ways and Means committee.
An ethics investigation was launched against her on June 22, 2007, as she did not report profits of $119,000 from selling property connected to legislation she sponsored and she later paid a $600 fine. She was later investigated by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
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. Due to the Democrats' narrow control of the state senate she had a controlling swing vote and blocked legislation.
She endorsed
Dennis Richardson, the Republican nominee for
Oregon Secretary of State
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, in the 2016 election. She and Witt were removed from the executive committee of the
Democratic Party of Oregon
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due to their support of Richardson.
Lee Beyer, Johnson, and
Arnie Roblan
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called for United States Senators Wyden and
Jeff Merkley
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to support President
Donald Trump
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's appointment of
Ryan Bounds
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Bounds had been a nominee for a position as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals ...
to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
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* Distric ...
.
Johnson hit a driver with her car in 2013, resulting in Betsy Johnson spending six months in a wheelchair and not fully recovering until 2019. She was sued by the driver in 2015, but Johnson's lawyers argued the lawsuit was frivolous, and a violation of the Oregon Constitution due to her being in transit to her complete her duties as an elected official. The lawsuit was subsequently dismissed.
Gubernatorial campaign
Johnson was considered as a possible gubernatorial or
secretary of state candidate in the 2000s. She announced on October 14, 2021, in an email that she was going to run as an independent in the
2022 gubernatorial election stating "
ving to choose between another left-wing liberal promising more of the same or a right-wing Trump apologist – is no choice at all". The Democratic caucus subsequently removed her from all of her committee assignments. She announced on December 14, that she was going to resign from the state senate to focus on her gubernatorial campaign and it took effect on December 16. Emmet Duffy is her campaign manager.
TEDxPortland
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was criticized for, and subsequently apologized for, inviting Betsy Johnson to a May 2022 conference in violation of the
Internal Revenue Service
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's regulations for 501(c)3 nonprofits, which require that if any political candidates are invited to speak at an event, all other candidates are given an equal opportunity. She received endorsements that included former Governor Kulongoski and former United States Senator
Gordon H. Smith. As of early June, her campaign has raised $5,611,714.37, with $1 million coming from
Phil Knight
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, and spent $3,292,831.82. Knight increased his stake in the race in late August, contributing another $750,000 to Johnson's campaign.
In July,
OPB
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reported that "shirts bearing the
Confederate flag
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...dott
dthe crowd" at a June rally in
St. Helens, a flag which Johnson later condemned as "a symbol of treason against the United States". She stated to OPB in September that as governor she would lift the
moratorium on capital punishment and enforce the death penalty.
Johnson's campaign spent $897,000 to collect 48,214 signatures, with 23,744 being required to appear on the ballot, and 37,679 were validated by the secretary of state.
In the general election, Johnson conceded to Tina Kotek after garnering less than 10% of the total vote.
Political positions
Johnson was considered as a moderate and conservative member of the state legislature. She received a lifetime rating of 34.34% from the
American Conservative Union
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. The
American Civil Liberties Union
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T ...
gave her a score of 43% in 2005, 50% in 2007, 0% in 2008, 60% in 2009, 20% in 2013, 83% in 2015, and 50% in 2017.
Jobs and economics
Johnson supported the construction of a $230 million ethanol plant in
Clatskanie, Oregon
Clatskanie () is a city in Columbia County, Oregon, Columbia County, Oregon, United States. It was named for the Kwalhioqua–Clatskanie language, Tlatskanai Native American tribe, and the Clatskanie River which flows through the town and empties ...
. She voted in committee in favor of legislation to
ban smoking in restaurants, but stated that she did so only to send it to a vote in the state house. In 2002, Johnson voted in favor of the unsuccessful effort to overturn legislation to borrow $50 million for education against revenue made from a cigarette tax.
Johnson voted against
parental leave
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legislation in 2007. In 2009, she voted against legislation supported by the
AFL–CIO
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that prohibited workers from being required to attend company meetings about politics. She voted against increasing the
minimum wage
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gradually from 2016 to 2022, to between $12.50 and $14.75 per hour. Johnson received a D rating from the
Service Employees International Union
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in 2018. She received a score of 50% from the
National Federation of Independent Business
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in 2020.
Crime and gun control
Johnson opposed four pieces of gun control legislation in 2013, stating "I would do something meaningful rather than symbolic" and wanted more mental health access instead. She voted against background checks for private gun sales and
red flag legislation. She is a member of the
National Rifle Association
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and received an "A" rating and endorsement from the
NRA Political Victory Fund
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during the 2014 and 2018 elections.
She voted against legislation in 2019 to redefine
aggravated murder
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and limit its scope, the only crime in Oregon which is eligible for the death penalty.
She also is in favor of lifting the state moratorium on the death penalty.
Homelessness and housing
Johnson opposes a
housing first
Housing First is a policy that offers unconditional, permanent housing as quickly as possible to homeless people, and other supportive services afterward. It was first discussed in the 1990s, and in the following decades became government policy ...
approach to homelessness, and would enforce laws against illegal camping in Oregon. She blames recent drug legalization, such as through
2020 Oregon Ballot Measure 110, for driving the crisis and would attempt to repeal it, while also focusing on deregulating housing development.
Healthcare and individual rights
Johnson supports
abortion rights
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. She stated that "
Planned Parenthood
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. (PPFA), or simply Planned Parenthood, is an American nonprofit organization now is a wholly owned subsidiary of the
Democrat Party" after failing to gain its endorsement during the 2022 gubernatorial election. She opposes allowing
transgender athletes to participate in girls' sporting events.
Voter rights and election integrity
Johnson has not shown support for adopting political campaign contribution limits in Oregon, and said she would oppose limits she felt "result in an uneven playing field for anyone participating in elections". She voted against legislation to make
voter registration
In electoral systems, voter registration (or enrollment) is the requirement that a person otherwise Suffrage, eligible to Voting, vote must register (or enroll) on an electoral roll, which is usually a prerequisite for being entitled or permitted ...
automatic for people with driver's licenses.
Environment and climate change
She received a lifetime score of 64% from the
League of Conservation Voters
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, and has a record of voting against legislation to combat climate change, such as
Oregon House Bill 2020
House Bill 2020 was a proposed bill in the U.S. state of Oregon that would introduce a statewide cap and trade system to reduce carbon emissions to address Climate change in Oregon, climate change. It was introduced in the Oregon Legislative Assem ...
.
Electoral history
Oregon House of Representatives
Oregon Senate
Oregon Governor
References
External links
Senator Betsy Johnson Home Page former official senatorial website
Betsy Johnson for Governor gubernatorial campaign website
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