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Sen. Dallas Heard, R-Myrtle Creek, was elected chair of the Oregon Republican Party on Saturday. Heard defeated three-term party chair Bill Currier.
State Sen. Dallas Heard , R-Myrtle Creek, is one of three current or former Republican state senators from Southern Oregon who swept into party leadership after a vote Saturday. Former Senate Minority Leader Herman Baertschiger Jr., now a Josephine County commissioner, won a contested race for vice chair. And state Sen. Dennis Linthicum, R-Klamath Falls, will serve as party treasurer.
A conservative state senator from Myrtle Creek is the new chair of the Oregon Republican Party, following an event Saturday in which Republicans overhauled their top party leadership.