Marion+Polk First has made another endorsement this primary season for 2022: Paige Clarkson for Marion County District Attorney!

Marion+Polk First PAC has made our first endorsements of 2022!

City Council races are critically important to the future of our communities. But the winners are decided in the May primaries, not November.

Each of these candidates is committed to reforming our struggling school board and refocusing it on helping our kids--starting by getting students back into schools five days a week!

We’re so excited to have such a phenomenal slate of endorsed candidates for the Salem-Keizer School Board. Please be sure to share your support for these candidates with your friends and family and help us spread the word!

The facts are plain and simple: School Resource Officers keep our students safe. They protect our schools and serve as an invaluable opportunity to create positive, lasting connections between law enforcement and our children -- something we need far more of these days. Wouldn’t you agree?

School board elections will happen on May 18th. Voters will be mailed their ballots next month, and candidates have less than two weeks to file for office. Now, at the last minute, politicians and special interest groups are working to change the rules for the Salem-Keizer School Board election.

Last month, Senate Bill 238 was quietly and anonymously introduced by the Senate Interim Committee on Education to ban School Resource Officers statewide.

If passed, law enforcement will be effectively banned from our schools in any capacity, making students more vulnerable to school shootings and other violence.

During the first Salem-Keizer School Board meeting of 2021, the Board heard from a large and diverse group of local students who reported their research on the controversial subject of School Resource Officers in the district.

The task force was created by District Superintendent Christy Perry after the District received a significant number of concerned comments last year during the months of heated nationwide racial tension that followed the police killing of George Floyd.

Take a listen to Marion+Polk First PAC Board Member Reid Sund on KYKN yesterday talking about our PAC, Rep. Paul Evan's dangerous proposal to take over the Salem-Keizer School Board and more!