Lately I’ve been receiving unsolicited text messages presumably from Max Sherman’s campaign, with clumsy attempts to find fault with Rep. Cyrus Javadi. These texts try desperately to tie him to and blame him for this or that state-wide problem. By all accounts, Sherman is a valued member of the community who continues in his retirement to do work for the benefit of his fellow citizens. It’s telling, though, that Sherman must resort to negative tactics in this campaign. Sherman has offered little in the way of policy that can actually solve problems. Rather, his campaign has repeated the same vague, “Cut taxes, reduce spending…” platitudes, but not backed by concrete plans and no suggestions for bills to do so.
Javadi, on the other hand, brings an intelligent and informed plan to his work in Salem. Reading the pieces he’s written for the local press, and in his Substack – https://substack.com/@cyrusjavadi – one comes away with a sense that Javadi’s ideas are centered in the law and our constitutions, on careful listening to his constituent’s concerns and needs, on the ability to see what the big picture of Oregon governance is, and the willingness to work in the chamber with his fellow legislators.
This last is the most difficult. I’m a retired builder. I cringe to think of building a house that had tens of thousands of owners, hundreds of designers, each with their own notion of the finished product, and a building crew that were not just allowed, but encouraged to argue about this or that detail all the time! Yet the challenge of working in the legislature must sometimes look like that.
Javadi has the skillset to meet the challenge of doing the work in Salem that best meets the needs of those of us in the 32nd District. He listens, he analyzes and thinks through a problem and can present solutions in a respectful way that allows people to hear and understand. Let’s keep this known entity in place, working for us. I will vote for Cyrus Javadi.
Chris Spence
Tillamook, OR
