I would like to recommend Tania Wildbill, a nonaffiliated candidate in Pendleton, as our next District 29 state senator. I personally have known her for many years and know her to be very passionate about whatever she engages in. She knows how to work with all kinds of people to get things done.

As a nonaffiliated candidate, Tania needed to get about 290 signatures to get on the Oregon ballot. Her Come Together Campaign received signatures from all parties and nonaffiliated voters.

Tania accepts no campaign contributions. Instead, she asks all of us to support financially community agencies and cultural groups to help communities thrive. As your state senator, Tania will vote for the needs of the people, not for PACs and special interest groups.

In her 23 years of a public service career, Tania has raised $9.5 million in federal, state

and private grants for creating and developing projects for people in Oregon and Hawaii.

Tania Wildbill has a master[s of science degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. She has worked for CNN and NBC television on Democratic and Republican national conventions.

Tania co wrote, produced and directed the award-winning documentary, “American Cowboys” that tells the story of the 1911 Pendleton Round-Up

Her platform includes: solutions and help for the homeless; increased resources for mental health, alcohol and drug addiction; care of our natural resources and cleaning the Columbia River of nitrates and other pollutants; increased funding for suicide prevention for seniors, ranching and farming families; advocate to get poisons out of our food, toothpaste and skincare, and increased funding for healing resources for victims of rape, sexual assault, domestic violence, and sex and human trafficking.

Tania Wildbill would be the perfect senator for District 29 working for all of Eastern Oregon.

Loree McKenna

Pendleton

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