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State Senate 4
 Senator
Floyd Prozanski, D-Eugene
Interim email: sen.floydprozanski@state.or.us
Website: http://www.leg.state.or.us/prozanski
District: Southern, eastern Lane County
and northern Douglas County; communities include Blue River, Cottage
Grove, Drain, Elkton, Eugene, Glide, Lowell, Oakland, Oakridge,
Sutherlin, Veneta, Vida, Westfir, and Yoncalla. The small part of
the district including the University of Oregon is critical .
Background: You might have figured Democratic
union guy Tony Corcoran to be the ideal match for this district,
with its slice of southern Eugene (including some of the UO area)
countered to an extent by a large rural territory – the kind
of timber country where Democrats (at least those not tightly connected
to labor) have had an increasingly hard time. Corcoran in fact did
very well here and probably would have been re-elected indefinitely
had he not accepted an appointment to the Kulongoski administration.
Eugene attorney Prozanski might be expected to do well outside Eugene.
In fact, his Douglas County numbers are not impressive
– he loses there (as Corcoran often did). But his Lane numbers
are so strong – reflecting his landslides in his old Lane House
district – that he seems all but untouchable. And most of the
votes are in Lane.
Bottom line: No candidates filed, but
Prozanski seems likely to run. If he does, he is strongly likely
to win. Democrats in any event have a strong edge here.
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Randy Stapilus
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