Congressional District 3

 
Oregon General Election – November 8, 2016
U.S. House of Representatives Candidates – Congressional District 3
 
There are 3 candidates, one Democrat, one Independent Party/Republican, and one Progressive Party candidate.
 
1.  Incumbent Representative Earl Blumenauer, Democrat, of Portland, has been in office continuously since 1996, and now seeks reelection again.  He has earned a career (1996-2016) rating of F from NumbersUSA.  See the full report, which has links with all details, to every immigration-related bill that he’s voted on.  For recent years, 2013-2016, his grade is D-, and for the current Congress, 2015-2016, his grade is F-.  
 
For his whole career, he gets F- on each of these subjects: reducing chain migration, reducing unnecessary worker visas, reducing refugee and asylum fraud, reducing illegal immigration at borders, reducing amnesty enticements.  He gets F on reducing illegal jobs and presence, F on reducing illegal immigration rewards, and C on reducing the visa lottery.
 
In June of this year, he signed a letter to the U.S. House Appropriations Committee urging them to allow an IRS rule that would block advocacy groups like NumbersUSA from compiling voting records and grade cards.  It appears that he wants to hide his immigration voting record from the public.
 
Blumenauer’s campaign website:  http://earlblumenauer.com/.  No mention of immigration was found on his website.  A webform for email to him is on the homepage of his campaign website.
 
2,  The Independent Party candidate, also written in as candidate of the Republican Party, is David W. Walker of Scappoose.  He is a family nurse practitioner who holds a master’s degree in nursing from Washington State University.
 
He replied to the 2016 Oregon Abigail Adams Voter Education Project questionnaire:  22.  Do you support requiring all employers to verify employee eligibility to work in the United States?   “No.”    23.  Do you support securing the borders before any form of amnesty?  “No. What does securing the borders mean? lack of precision in language is a bigger problem than ‘secure borders.’"   24.  Do you support spending public funds to benefit illegal immigrants?  “Decline.”   25.  Do you support automatic citizenship to children born in the U.S. when both parents are not legal residents?   “Yes.  I understand this is part of the US Constitution, a person born in the USA is eligible to be a US citizen”    42.  How would you propose screening war refugees to prevent potential terrorists from entering the country with them?   “I support immigration as well as more thorough screening of all immigrants seeking to become citizens of the USA, regardless of country of origin.”
      
Walker’s campaign website: http://www.humaucracy.org/home.  Email: dwmwalker@hotmail.com.
 
3.  The Progressive Party candidate is David Delk, of Portland.
 
Delk replied to the 2016 Oregon Abigail Adams Voter Education Project questionnaire:  22.  Do you support requiring all employers to verify employee eligibility to work in the United States?  “No.”   23.  Do you support securing the borders before any form of amnesty?  “No.”   24.  Do you support spending public funds to benefit illegal immigrants?  “Yes.”  25.  Do you support automatic citizenship to children born in the U.S. when both parents are not legal residents?  “Yes.”  42.  How would you propose screening war refugees to prevent potential terrorists from entering the country with them?   “They already go through years of screening.”  
 
Delk’s campaign website:  www.daviddelk.org