Issue Positions

Issue Position

Below is a short video of David's testimony on a piece of Veteran's Legislation in February, HJR 202. This legislation (that successfully passed and will be referred to the voters of the State this November) will amend the Oregon Constitution to require 1.5 percent of lottery revenues to be expended for benefit of veterans.

As the son of a twenty seven year LCDR, USN, Mustang, Retired, David has a deep respect and appreciation for the men and women of our armed forces. He has been dedicated to serving our Veterans to the best of his ability, through his years of public service. Many of our Veterans wrestle with adequate and timely medical care, assistance with forms for services, unemployment, housing and basic needs. David has been a strong advocate in providing our Veterans with the resources and services they deserve.

There is a question and answer period after David's testimony. Representative Esquivel, as well as the rest of the committee, begin to have a better understanding of how David, and his colleague County Commissioners, struggle to provide these shared services to our residents without the adequate resources to do so.

There are a number of shared services that our Counties provide for the State to our residents. Veteran's Services is one very important shared service that is provided, out of many. The knowledge, experience and hands on implementation of how these shared services are provided to our residents over David's years as a Commissioner, has given him the proficiency to articulate these shared service issues to his fellow legislators. His work in these areas and others, has given him the tools to do the best job working for us as our next State Representative.

Economic Development is a crucial part of the work that David does for our Counties, Communities and their residents. The video below is looks at some of the economic development work that he is working on. It was filmed at the Oregon Coast Economic Summit, where David was invited to sit on an Economic Development Panel during the Conference.

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