Phil Keisling
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Phil Keisling is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Public Service at Portland State University s Mark O. Hatfield School of Government. A former director of the Center, he served from 1991 to 1999 as Oregon s secretary of state following a two-year term in the Oregon House of Representatives.
Keisling also is a former journalist who worked for Portland’s
Willamette Week and
Washington Monthly magazine.
From 2000 to 2009, he was an executive vice president of CorSource Technology Group, a Beaverton, Ore.-based software services company. He is among the founders of several nonprofit organizaions, including the Oregon Progress Forum, the Oregon Public Affairs Network and Smart Grid Oregon.
A recap of legislative redistricting efforts in Oregon April 15 2021
More often than not, secretary of state has stepped in when lawmakers have failed in past 50 years.
When the 2011 Legislature completed a legislative redistricting plan and no one challenged it in the Oregon Supreme Court it was the first time in a century that lawmakers completed that task successfully.
Modern redistricting goes back half a century, after U.S. Supreme Court decisions of the 1960s required states to draw congressional and legislative districts that are equal in population. For state legislative districts, the legal standard is substantial equality, which is less strict than what courts require for congressional districts. (Under the current plan, Senate and House districts vary no more than 3 percentage points from the average.)
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