FINAL DEBATE: Christine Drazan reaffirms she’s the only choice for change

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Tonight, in Oregon’s final gubernatorial debate, Christine Drazan once again set the record straight on Tina Kotek’s failures to address the state’s biggest issues: homelessness, drug addiction, lack of police and prosecutors, pandemic school closures, and lowered education standards. Evidenced by latest public polling, Oreogonians know Drazan is the only choice that can guarantee a new direction for their state and tonight’s debate victory reaffirmed that.

WATCH: Drazan slams Kotek’s defund the police record

Drazan: “You know, Tina Kotek is the original defund the police candidate. She did not support police even when rioters were attacking a police station. It’s stunning to me that she would talk now like she supports law enforcement. I will support law enforcement. As governor, I will fully fund state police. As governor, I will support law enforcement because we need it in our communities. Our communities are less safe today because we have fewer police on our streets. Our police officers ensure community safety, they ensure that we actually have laws that are enforced. We deserve that, we need that, and as governor I will ensure that is our future.”

WATCH: Drazan shuts down Kotek’s lies on her education record

Drazan: “Yes, of course, because what she didn’t do was answer the question. What she did do is say that a tax is the answer. She has had ten years to fully fund schools with growth in our budget we’ve never seen before. She declined to fully fund schools, placed it on the backs of businesses, imperiled jobs, and still didn’t answer the question for why she wasn’t committed to holding Kate Brown accountable and instead held hands with Kate Brown, locked arms with Kate Brown, to ensure that our kids were locked out of the classrooms longer than almost anywhere else in the nation.”

WATCH: Drazan reminds voters Kotek and Johnson are more of the same

Drazan: “This, to me, is the issue. I am in this race because Oregon is on the wrong track because single-party control, because one version of a Democrat, compared to another version of a Democrat, is not balance. And that’s what I’m seeing here with both Betsy and Tina. They’re having an argument about what Democrats should be about. I want to bring Oregon back to balance again and the way you’re going to do that, in fact, is to elect a Republican. It is not a hard right, it’s called balance.”