Bruce Cuff
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Bruce Cuff (Republican Party) ran for election to the Oregon House of Representatives to represent District 17. He lost in the Republican primary on May 19, 2020.
Cuff had previously run for governor in the 2016 special election and the 2014 election.[1][2]
Biography
Cuff is a real estate broker in the Salem, Oregon area.[3]
Prior to working as a real-estate broker, Cuff worked as a sales manager for Superior Tire Service, Inc. and as a lobbyist with the Oregon Association of Evangelicals.
Military service
Cuff also served in the United States Army in a variety of positions from 1981-1986 and as a reservist from 1988-1989.[1]
Education
- B.A. in political science, Willamette University (1989)[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Oregon House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
Democratic primary election
Republican primary election
Pacific Green Party convention
2018
- See also: Oregon gubernatorial election, 2018
General election
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
Democratic primary election
Republican primary election
Independent Party of Oregon primary election
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
Independent Party of Oregon primary election
Patrick Starnes defeated Skye Allen and Dan Pistoresi in the Independent Party of Oregon primary for governor of Oregon.[4][5]
| Oregon Independent Party of Oregon Gubernatorial Primary, 2018 |
| Candidate |
Vote % |
Votes |
 Patrick Starnes |
25.36% |
6,030 |
| Skye Allen |
10.11% |
2,405 |
| Dan Pistoresi |
7.76% |
1,846 |
| Write-in votes |
56.76% |
13,497 |
| Total Votes |
23,778 |
| Source: Oregon Secretary of State, "May 15, 2018, Primary Election Abstract of Votes," accessed July 26, 2018 |
2016
- See also: Oregon gubernatorial special election, 2016
Cuff ran unsuccessfully for governor of Oregon in the 2016 special election to complete the term of Governor John Kitzhaber (D), who resigned in February 2015 and was replaced by Kate Brown (D).[1][6]
Results
Bud Pierce defeated Allen Alley, Bruce Cuff, Bob Niemeyer and Bob Forthan defeated in the Republican primary for governor.
2014
- See also: Oregon gubernatorial election, 2014
Cuff ran for election to the office of governor of Oregon but failed to win the Republican nomination in the primary on May 20.[2]
Results
| Governor of Oregon, Republican Primary, 2014 |
| Candidate |
Vote % |
Votes |
| Dennis Richardson |
65.9% |
163,695 |
| Gordon Challstrom |
9.9% |
24,693 |
| Bruce Cuff |
9.6% |
23,912 |
| Mae Rafferty |
6.8% |
16,920 |
| Tim Carr |
6% |
14,847 |
| Darren Karr |
1% |
2,474 |
| Write-ins |
0.8% |
2,011 |
| Total Votes |
248,552 |
| Election results via Oregon Secretary of State. |
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Bruce Cuff did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Bruce Cuff participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on April 14, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and Bruce Cuff's responses follow below.[7]
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
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1) Solving $25 Billion ($50 billion) PERS deficit with 4 step plan. 1. All new hires for state only have a 401k type retirement. 2. All elected officials OUT of PERS. 3. Lower/Eliminate business taxes to stimulate private sector business 4. Give parents 70% voucher for private school, encouraging teachers to come out of public system, re-open our community schools with private schools, bring vocational training back to all junior high and high schools, remove caps on charter and on-line schools.
2) Education - Vocation training, vouchers for private schools to enhance competition, remove caps on charter schools and online schools.
3) Get Natural Resource based business (Logging, mining, ranching, farming, fishing) up and running with less regulation, red-tape and lower/eliminate business taxes on these.[8][9]
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What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
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Solving the Rural/Urban divide in Oregon. Rural Oregon feels controlled by urban sectors of our state because they have successful stripped their livelihood from them when logging was shut down AND the Federal "overreach" from the BLM and US Forest Service is not being fought from the State Government level. Many times Counties and individual Oregonians try to "right and wrong" and find themselves in court or losing their livelihood to the continued harassment from these agencies. The Governor needs to stand up and bring a stop to these unconstitutional actions.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many[9]
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Ballotpedia also asked the candidate a series of optional questions. Bruce Cuff answered the following:
In most states, governors have the power to make line-item vetoes. If that is true in your state, what would be your philosophy for how and when to use this power?
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Oregon has the line item veto. I would use it to de-fund programs I believe to be unconstitutional. Of the US Constitution or the Oregon Constitution does not give this specific power to the State Government, it gets vetoed.[9]
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What do you perceive to be your state's greatest challenges over the next decade?
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Solving the PERS deficit. This has been neglected so long. Promises have been made way beyond Oregonians ability to pay with our current 1 job in 6 being in Government. We have 4 million people, 1.8 million employed with 300,000 of those jobs being government. This is unsustainable. 30,000 Federal Jobs, 270,000 State and Local government jobs with about 250,000 in the PERS system. We have 125,000 retirees currently retired and about 70,000 of the 250,000 eligible for retirement. This is a disaster waiting to happen (and it is happening daily.) We need to expand the public sector jobs by reducing/eliminating business taxes and regulation, get our natural resource based businesses up and running and get to 1 in 10.jobs being in the government as quickly as we can. If we are not successful in doing this then PERS will go bankrupt and each individual account will have to be "re-negotiated" with those who have been overpaid (retirement income being over 5 figures per month, retirement wages being over 100% of final wage etc.).[9]
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2016
Cuff's Facebook page offered the following statement:
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"We the People" need to get local control of our public lands. Counties need to be managing these lands so revenue can go to funding schools and local gov.[9]
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The page also described him as a "conservative Republican."[10] His campaign website stated his support for local governance and state management of federal lands.[11]
2014
According to a story in The Oregonian during Cuff's 2014 campaign, his platform included the following issues:
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Among them: He would upend the public schools system by giving parents vouchers worth 60 percent of what the state pays per child for education. Parents could then choose where to send their children to school, and allow even low-income families to select private schools.
He would call for a gradual lowering of individual and business income taxes, so that after 10 years taxes on both would be about 4 percent. He says he wouldn't have to worry about how to replace the money or cut services.
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Personal
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Cuff's hometown is Brooks, Ore.[10]
See also
External links
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Oregon Secretary of State, "Candidate Filing Search Results," accessed February 1, 2016
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Statesman-Journal, "A complete list of primary election races for the city, county and state," March 12, 2014
- ↑ Harry Esteve, The Oregonian, "Salem-area real estate broker, Bruce Cuff, enters Republican primary for governor," January 6, 2014
- ↑ Oregon Secretary of State, "Candidate Filing Search Results," accessed March 7, 2018
- ↑ Oregon Secretary of State, "May 15, 2018, Primary Election Abstract of Votes," accessed July 26, 2018
- ↑ The Oregonian, "Live updates: Kate Brown becomes Oregon governor," February 18, 2015
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ Ballotpedia's candidate survey, "Bruce Cuff's responses," April 14, 2018
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Facebook, "Bruce Cuff for Governor of Oregon: About," accessed February 1, 2016
- ↑ Bruce Cuff for Governor of Oregon, accessed April 19, 2016
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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