39% of votes with 1/20th of the budget. Thank you!

Thomas Hiura: Proven, Accountable Leadership for ALL of West Lane.

Every West Lane resident deserves a real voice. Thomas listens and leads with accountable transparency, every day.

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Experienced, Homegrown Leadership in this Community.

Breaking News: Our local Florence, RiverBend and Cottage Grove ER doctors are keeping their jobs!

Lane County jobs, not corporate outsourcing!

On May 6th, PeaceHealth announced they will NOT replace Lane County doctors with East Coast-based ApolloMD staffing. Local doctors should be providing and increasing their care with West Lane residents. For Thomas Hiura, showing up and speaking out for this critical continuation of service was a no-brainer.

Key Priorities

Accountability & Transparency

Bringing a County Office to the Coast

- Ensuring that Commissioners hold themselves to the same standards of conduct and worker dignity that private citizens do.

- Being accountable with every single tax dollar, and refusing to increase Commissioner salaries while working people scrape for a living.

- Working for your interests, not the wealthiest donors who fund glossy campaigns but do not have a stake in our West Lane community.

Bringing a County Office to the Coast

- Building/strengthening service offerings and consistent engagement throughout coastal and rural Lane.

- Measuring success by how few residents we leave out, not how many services we can reduce or privatize.

- Being a truly responsive ally to our rural and coastal neighbors, reducing drive time needed to access services you pay for.

Improved Healthcare Access

Bringing a County Office to the Coast

Affordable & Accessible Housing

- Ensuring availablility of physical, mental, eldercare, dental, reproductive and maternity care, in an uncertain time.

- Reducing burdensome costs and increasing affordability.

- Continuing Thomas' successful advocacy against unaccountable out-of-state interests, keeping Lane County healthcare jobs local.

Affordable & Accessible Housing

Public Safety & Emergency Response

Affordable & Accessible Housing

- Accelerating the availablity of affordable housing, and the means to build it.

- Working to keep West Lane families from being pushed out of their homes.

- Focusing on key infrastructure to move rural communities out of building moratoriums and towards adequate workforce housing.

Public Safety & Emergency Response

- Improving rural response times for sheriff patrols, emergency calls and fires.

- Utilizing Thomas' background as an Oregon-certified security professional, with hands-on experience making Lane County safer.

- Emphasizing accountability, professionalism and strong community ties.

Climate Readiness & Preparedness

Public Safety & Emergency Response

- Increasing readiness so that West Lane families can have greater security against disasters, and are not alone.

- Opposing the damage that unaccountable AI data centers will do to our utility costs and farming communities.

- Stewarding an environment we are proud to conserve for generations of Oregonians.

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Endorsements

Local elected leaders:

Kaarin Knudson, Eugene Mayor

Lucy Vinis, Eugene Mayor (2017-2025)

Kitty Piercy, Eugene Mayor (2005-2017)

Nora Kent, Lane ESD Board Member

Sherry Duerst-Higgins, Lane ESD Board Member

Rose Wilde, Lane ESD Board Member

Leslie Harris, Lane ESD Board Chair

Vanessa Truett, Lane ESD Board Vice Chair

Jo Beaudreau, Florence City Councilor

Sally Wantz, Florence City Councilor

Maureen Miltenberger, Siuslaw School Board Member

Mary Vuksich-Shafer, Lane County Assessor

Pete Sorenson, Lane County Commissioner (1997-2021) & Oregon Senator

Jenny Jonak, 4J School Board Member

Tom Di Liberto, 4J School Board Member

Judy Newman, 4J School Board Member

Maya Rabasa, 4J School Board Member

Ericka Thessen, 4J School Board Member
Tim Morris, EWEB Board Member

Drae Charles, Bethel School Board Member

Brian Hynd, Bethel School Board Member

Lyndsie Leech, Eugene City Councilor

Jennifer Yeh, Eugene City Councilor

Emily Semple, Eugene City Councilor (2017-2025)
Kori Rodley, Springfield City Councilor

Dawn Lesley, Community leader & Engineer

Organizational endorsements

The following organizations all reached out to Thomas, inviting honest discussion, and ultimately endorsing his proven leadership:

Democratic Party of Lane County

Eugene Tenant Alliance

Eugene Weekly

Florence Area Democratic Club

Community members:

Diana Abernathey

Athena Aguiar

Michael Allen

Patricia Allen

Beverly Barr

Kunu Bearcham

Ken Beeson

Jon Belcher

Melissa Bird

Rebecca Bradvica

Jojo Breslin

Pat Briggs

Cathy Buhler

Pat Burke

Ron Burley

Vince Casey

Kallista Cassity

Kamyl Cole

Zack Cooper

Ibrahim Coulibaly

Brandon Davis

Leslie Davis

Maxwell Davis

Vicki Dunaway

Peter Eberhardt

John Escher
Joella Ewing

Ky Fireside

Kay Fitzger

Dana B. Fleming

Sherry Franzen

Stephen Fuller-Rowell

Randall Gicker

Patti Hansen

Mark Harden

Chelseah Harper

Elliott Harwell

Jasmine Hatmaker

Donna Hirschman

Wende Hitchcock

Dan Isaacson

Jun Ishibashi

Olivia Jensen

Austyn Jiminez

Isaac Judd

Marja Jones

Suzanne Kafouey-Henderson

Andrew Kalloch

Ed Kashin

Becky Kelley

Barbara Kindrich

Markus Kirkpatrick

Sydney Kissinger

Mike Koivula

Edward Kramer
Matt Laubach

Devon Lawson

Andrew Ledbetter

Aeron Lerch

Colleen Lewis
Mindy Linder

Jackie Low

Howard Malcolm

Joy Marshall

Ivy Medow
Ryan Moore

Melissa “Mimi” Nolledo

Linda Nordstrom

Libby Olvera

Lea Patten

Angela Pomerleau

Tai Pruce-Zimmerman

Karin Radtke

John Raymonda

Gerry Rempel

Jerry Rosiek

Mildred Rowley

Debbie Salazar

Bradley Saunders

Hailey Schug

Brian Simard

Marissa Simard

John Skarda
Tova Stabin

Brian Steveson

Charlie Swanson

Claire Syrett

Blake Thompson

Stephanie Turnbull

Sam Tyler

Mary Lou Vignola

Debbie Williamson-Smith

Paul Wilson

Ryan Woolverton

Carl Yeh

Aimee Yogi

Janice Zagorin

Glen Zimmerman

and more to come!

A 32 Year-Old Lifelong Lane County Leader and 79%-elected Lane ESD School Board Member: Accountability • Transparency • Serving Every Region of West Lane.

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"Thomas works for people, not himself. He is honest, hardworking & caring." -Howard Malcolm, teacher

Thomas Hiura for West Lane, PAC ID: 24859 — P.O. Box 242, Florence, OR 97439 — thomashiura@yahoo.com — 541-513-3904