Republican candidates face tough questions at City Club

PORTLAND- The four leading candidates for the GOP gubernatorial nomination, Chris Dudley, Allen Alley, John Lim, and Bill Sizemore, faced tough questions Friday from leaders at the City Club of Portland.

When each of the candidates was deemed by the Club's judges to not have adequately answered the question asked, they were each given additional time to try and answer the question again.

John Lim was asked how we would, as Governor, represent the interests of Oregon's socially liberal and moderate youth.

Sizemore was made to face his current court proceedings with a question asking him how he was a better candidate for Governor considering the current accusations against him.

Alley was told to tell the crowd how he would be better suited to boost the state's when the company which he founded, Pixelworks, has had to send jobs out of state and overseas and has lost much of its market value since 2000.

Finally, Dudley was asked whether he thought teachers, firefighters, and police officers are paid more than they deserve and what the proper level of compensation should be for these public employees.

The candidates faced additional questions on topics such as education, climate change, land use, and how they each compared themselves to Tom McCall, former Republican Governor of Oregon. To conclude the event, each of the candidates were allowed to ask one other candidate a question of their choice which brought up issues like abortion, leadership, and Democratic candidate John Kitzhaber's previous time as Governor.

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• John Lim
• Chris Dudley
• Allen Alley
• Bill Sizemore