Name Tobias Read | ||
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Residence Beaverton, Oregon, United States Education Willamette University, University of Washington, Foster School of Business | ||
Soaring in the mountains tobias read gliding
Tobias Read (June 27, 1975) is an American Democratic politician who is the current Oregon State Treasurer. He was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives, representing District 27 from 2007–2017, which comprises parts of Beaverton, southwest Portland, and unincorporated Multnomah and Washington Counties. He served as Speaker Pro Tempore, and was formerly the Democratic Majority Whip.
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- Soaring in the mountains tobias read gliding
- Representative tobias read s house floor speech on sb 248 opening full day kindergarten
- Early life
- District
- State Treasurer
- Elliott State Forest sale
- References
In 2016, Read ran for Oregon State Treasurer, to succeed State Treasurer Ted Wheeler, who was barred from running in 2016 by term limits. Read won the general election on November 8, 2016 and became the State Treasurer in January 2017.
Representative tobias read s house floor speech on sb 248 opening full day kindergarten
Early life
Read was born in 1975 in Missoula, Montana. After attending high school in Idaho, he moved to Oregon where he attended Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. where he graduated in 1997 with a bachelor's degree in politics and economics. That year he started working for Nike, Inc. in footwear development, where he remained until 2012, save for working at the U.S. Department of the Treasury as an aide to then Secretary Lawrence Summers from 1999 to 2001. His immediate supervisor at Treasury was Sheryl Sandberg. In 2003, he earned an MBA from the University of Washington in Seattle. He and his wife, Heidi Eggert, have two children, Annika, and Ellis.
District
The heavily Democratic House District 27 runs from the Raleigh Hills neighborhood in the northeast, to the Murrayhill neighborhood in the southwest. It covers parts of the cities of Beaverton and Portland. The large majority of its residents are in Washington County and a much smaller number are in Multnomah County.
State Treasurer
In 2016, Read ran for Oregon State Treasurer, to succeed current State Treasurer Ted Wheeler, who was barred by term limits from running again in 2016. He was unopposed in the primary and won the general election by a plurality on November 2016 and became the State Treasurer in January 2017.
Elliott State Forest sale
Breaking their prior silence on the issue, Read joined on February 15 with the incoming Secretary of State, fellow state Land Board member Republican Dennis Richardson, the two constituting a majority, to vote against Governor Kate Brown's proposal to float a bond issue to keep the 82,500-acre Elliott State Forest in public hands. Instead they advanced a proposal to sell it to the Lone Rock Timber corporation, whose $221 million bid included partnering with the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians. Outgoing Land Board member Wheeler had voted in December 2016 to keep the forest public. Read had received $3,000 in campaign contributions from Lone Rock, $3,750 from the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde, of which the Umpqua tribe is a member, $2,500 from Roseburg Forest Products, and a total of $15,750 from the logging and forest products industries. Richardson received $11,000 from Lone Rock, then $10,000 from the Cow Creek Band after he won office. Read's vote particularly irked environmental groups, because he pledged to preserve the Elliott Forest as he campaigned and had introduced legislation in 2015, similar as was done in Washington state, to protect it from exploitation and privatization. Asked about his role reversal, Read said he was, "...in a different role now."