Thank you for visiting my campaign website. I am running for U.S. Senate for the state of Oregon.

It is my hope that you will agree it is time to vote for a candidate that represents the people, not the corporations that fund most campaigns for Congress. I am committed to representing all Oregonians with equal regard and respect if elected to serve you in the Senate.

Finally, if you are an Oregonian who wants to let the Democratic and Republican Parties know that you will refuse to support their corporate candidates, please take a moment now to register for the Oregon Progressive Party. And please remember to send this link to all your friends and ask them to do the same.

In hope of a brighter future,

Rick Staggenborg, MD

Here are some of the issues I will make my highest priorities as a U.S. Senator:

Having served as a psychiatrist in the US Army Medical Corps and the Veterans Administration, I am very familiar with the experiences of veterans who have endured combat in the service of our nation. I have heard stories that these   [read more]

The reasons for the collapse of the American economy with the housing market crash are complex, but are basically due to the failure of the federal government to fulfill its regulatory responsibilities.  Instead, a giddy   [read more]

Growing jobs in a Green economy will require a new model of economic development. Recent experience has shown that we cannot depend on large corporations to generate jobs in a globalized economy.  Tax subsidies to these often   [read more]

I am strongly in favor of public financing of elections. This is the only way to give the average citizen who is not a career politician the chance to compete in an election that is supposed to be on merit and qualifications, not   [read more]

Corporate personhood is the concept that a corporation has Constitutional rights under the Fourteenth amendment, just like a human “person.” In an apparently deliberate misreading of this amendment and without regard to   [read more]

Our government has failed in its duty to inform the citizens of the United States of the vital need for reform of our health care delivery system. Health care costs now top 18 per cent of the all the wealth generated in America   [read more]

Most Americans now agree that both the war in Iraq and the war in Afghanistan were mistakes. None of the shifting rationales for war with Iraq proved to be based on facts or defensible evidence. To the contrary, some of the   [read more]