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A Grassroots Bid To Make Oregon Safer And Fairer with Brittany Jones (BJ) for Governor | Episode 423 · Voices for Voices®

• 0:02
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Hey everyone, it's Justin here with Voices for Voices.
• 0:05
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you so much for joining us on this episode of the show.
• 0:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh without you, we want to have a show.
• 0:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Thanks for the demand bringing us uh across the world and over a thousand countries, over uh over a hundred uh hundred uh uh countries and a thousand cities.
• 0:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I knew I had something mixed up, but it all goes together.
• 0:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Just goes to show that we're we're reaching a lot of people.
• 0:36
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And one of our prior guests that you probably uh will recognize, whether you are watching or listening, uh Brittany Jones, uh, she is back with us for this episode.
• 0:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh we're getting a little bit closer to election time.
• 0:57
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, if you don't remember, or even if you do, she is uh running uh for the governorship of the state of Oregon here in the United States.
• 1:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And uh again, we we welcome uh candidates from uh both sides of the aisle, libertarian uh and any uh anything in between.
• 1:26
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh and uh Bertie's taking advantage of it, and we are happy to bring her to you again.
• 1:33
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh so thank you so much for uh coming back um on the show.
• 1:40
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: Thank you for having me.
• 1:41
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: I'm excited to be back.
• 1:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Absolutely.
• 1:45
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So let's let's jump into uh some of the uh the questions that we had uh uh put together.
• 1:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um just looking for at the beginning, you know, in in your opinion, uh how has um how have how have things in in uh Oregon been doing under the current administration?
• 2:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Since we talked, uh I I understand that you wouldn't be running for the office that you are if things were going uh in your opinion, the the the way uh in ways that uh you uh you you see in your eyes.
• 2:27
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So maybe we can get started there.
• 2:31
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: Yeah, um well, to put it bluntly, I don't uh think they're living up to the expectations of what's needed.
• 2:40
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: They're not doing everything they can do to protect the people of the state.
• 2:44
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: And you know, Portland's on national news with ICE and the protests, and two people were shot by ice in Portland, and um it's just it's escalating here after Minnesota's escalation, and the governor is that we currently have is too busy, you know, texting Donald Trump and increasing our our fees and our taxes, and only getting in front of the camera about ICE when it diverts attention away from the fees and the taxes.
• 3:14
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: And so, yeah, the leadership is not protecting our communities the way they should be, taking a stand and protecting them.
• 3:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah, that's it that it's a big shame.
• 3:31
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It it seems like uh people are you know on one way, one side or or the other when it when it comes to that, and and sometimes forget to take a step back and realize they're a human being, and there's human beings that are having uh different consequences due to certain actions or inactions of the the current administration.
• 3:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, one of those we had we had spoken about uh on our prior show was that uh i-5 corridor, um, how that is uh when we talk about uh human trafficking and other other uh net nefarious acts, is i5 still kind of the uh you know the the highway that's the same way that you you remember it just a few short months ago, or um is uh the the current administration taking any steps?
• 4:38
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: So to my knowledge, they haven't taken any steps, and unfortunately all the attention is on ice now.
• 4:45
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: Um so it's like everybody's reporting on ice that you know ice is going down I-5 or 126 or um 99, and the human trafficking outside of like the MMIW awareness has kind of been pushed under the rug.
• 5:03
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: But I did meet with the prison abolitionists and we did have a conversation about how if I am elected governor that I want to pardon certain crimes or certain um prisoners, like the victims of sex trafficking that were convicted of sex crimes when they were actually victims.
• 5:24
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: And when I say that I like pardoning sex crime, it's not you know going pardoning a pedophile and letting them out.
• 5:33
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: It's specifically the victims that should never have been incarcerated in the first place that were forced into that work, and they just need a place, they needed help, not punishment.
• 5:44
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: And so I'm going to take that approach in that regard while we are trying to figure out what to do with the human trafficking issue, at least at the state level.
• 5:56
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah, and I I guess I I know a little bit firsthand.
• 6:01
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I I don't quite remember the exact timing of when when we uh last spoke, but uh we're as an organization and uh a uh a mutual acquaintance, uh we are on what you just spoke about of uh having somebody who was uh sex trafficked, labor trafficked, and the traffickers are coming after us for trying to help the individual who was trafficked.
• 6:36
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And that is unfortunately not only in in Oregon but across the United States, it's very disheartening when their uh traffickers are the ones literally going after the people they trafficked for the same things that they they did.
• 7:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So just like you said, it's it's literally to just like flip the switch and say, oh, uh, we didn't do this, you're the one that did it to me.
• 7:09
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so for our viewers and our listeners, this is a very, very real across the United States.
• 7:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: This isn't uh, and I know we're speaking specifically about Oregon tonight, uh, but across the United States, uh there's uh a lot of organizations, there's a lot of power that uh is is on the side of the actual uh uh uh what you mentioned, uh the you know the pedophiles, the individuals that are committing these these crimes, and it's like you said, to be able to uh have any type of a law that would let this happen, no matter where in the United States.
• 7:52
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So uh definitely uh hear what you're saying there, because it is a big problem, and until right people get into office like yourself, and you're able to execute uh your your platform, uh it doesn't seem like there's uh an end in sight.
• 8:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh I guess I'm just curious, when did you like first learn about this type of activity that was was going on?
• 8:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Is this uh you know years or or months, or can you just maybe share for the the viewers and listeners who might not be quite so sure about or haven't heard about this yet?
• 8:39
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: Well, I first learned about the sex trafficking and the human trafficking on the i5 corridor years ago.
• 8:46
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: Um, I was an actor and just on a small, small um production out here called The Chop Box, and it never got produced.
• 8:56
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: They actually lost the footage for it because their hard drive crashed, and um in the in it was a horror movie that they were making, and there was a monster in the movie, but it all the references were to bring attention to human trafficking.
• 9:12
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: So that's when I first became aware of it.
• 9:15
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: And then when I started doing more research, and as a single parent and CPS had been called on me too at one point, and I learned that they also they're like illegal trafficking for children.
• 9:28
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: They take them out of perfectly good homes, they put them into other homes, and the more children they have in their system, the more money they get from the state.
• 9:35
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: And it's a for-profit system where they take children from their homes, and that contributes to the human trafficking as these children age up and out of the system nowhere to go.
• 9:45
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: Because literally, when they turn 18, they're like, Okay, bye.
• 9:48
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: And they they put them out.
• 9:50
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: So all of this is all interconnected, and it's one of those things.
• 9:56
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: I've been a part of a Facebook group called Fix Fight Fix slash fight CPS because the entire organization needs to be completely redone so that it doesn't create new victims.
• 10:13
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Very true.
• 10:14
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you for sharing that so succinctly.
• 10:18
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh since the last time we we talked, have there been any modifications to your your platform uh that have come up or uh or and uh or is it very similar?
• 10:34
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: Well, with the escalation um by ice in our communities, my platform has shifted because while we could talk about the housing issues and the education issues and the connectivity with connecting small towns to bigger cities and helping the economy, nobody feels safe going to work.
• 10:54
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: Nobody feels like children don't feel safe going to school, they don't feel safe having community gatherings.
• 10:59
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: And so a huge part of my platform as soon as I get into office would be to launch a full criminal investigation into ICE conduct, uh at least individually against the agents within the state of Oregon.
• 11:12
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: Because the supremacy clause does not protect somebody if they overstep the bounds of their authority, and if they if the state and federal laws don't conflict with each other.
• 11:23
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: And theft of personal property, um, overstepping your authority, like detaining civil citizens, which ICE does not have the authority to do, and torturing while they're in their custody, that's illegal on the federal and state level.
• 11:37
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: So criminal charges could absolutely be pressed against individual agents.
• 11:41
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: And while that's going on, we'll be launching a lawsuit to recover some of the losses that these people have been through because indigenous activists are out there screaming for for help and they're being completely ignored.
• 11:55
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: And so they need like the community out here needs a leader that's not going to hide in their office or pretend to care when they're want to pass tax hikes.
• 12:06
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: Meanwhile, they're texting Donald Trump.
• 12:11
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah.
• 12:11
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah.
• 12:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's oh it it it just uh boggles the mind.
• 12:18
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And and this is a good lead into the next question.
• 12:22
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh the indigenous people, as we know, uh, and as I found out even more from our conversation, uh prior, they're they're incredibly re resilient.
• 12:33
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh do they feel they feel good knowing you know who who you are, what you stand for in your uh your run for the governorship, uh for uh being the candidate to uh support.
• 12:53
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: So just like last time, I can't speak on like a I can't speak for everybody.
• 12:59
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: I can't speak for all Indigenous communities.
• 13:01
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: All I can say is that since the last time we spoke, my relative in the Padawamic tribe, he was the historian for over 23 years.
• 13:09
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: He gave me his personal endorsement for governor.
• 13:12
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: He supports what I'm doing out here, and I was very honored to receive that.
• 13:15
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: I actually cried a little bit because it's like, yay, my family claims me.
• 13:20
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: And then um out here, I can say that the people that I work directly with, they they support what I'm doing.
• 13:29
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: And whether they personally, like publicly or privately want to support that, that's up to them.
• 13:36
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: And I'm I'm okay with either.
• 13:39
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: I don't have a requirement for my friends and family to be publicly vocal about their support for me.
• 13:45
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: I'm just grateful for the guidance and the the mentorship that I'm able to get from the people that I work with and for.
• 13:57
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Excellent, excellent.
• 13:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah, uh definitely uh we we can't force individuals how they want to how they want to share that.
• 14:05
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so, yeah, some prop public, private, and and and other means.
• 14:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh let's uh maybe head back to uh just for a moment to the uh human trafficking pro prosecution.
• 14:20
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I know last time we spoke, I believe, that one of the one of the things uh not only about the the pardoning of the individuals who were you know wrongly convicted uh for being the people being taken.
• 14:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh as far as taking that next step in the prosecution of the individuals who had and maybe currently still are uh trafficking, uh as far as the penalties go, I guess is what I'm getting at.
• 15:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Where there's some states that uh that I think California is one of one of those ones where I don't even know if it's like a misdemeanor or uh it's it just it it boggles my mind that there's even uh that we even have to talk about this this topic.
• 15:22
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But I think that as we were talking previously, the were we talking about making that a death penalty eligible if you know certain criteria were were met?
• 15:38
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: Well, see the thing is is there's so many people against the death penalty.
• 15:44
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: My my personal opinion is if they're a child predator and they're hurting children, I'm all for it.
• 15:50
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: As long as there's concrete evidence that it happened, it's not a false accusation for revenge.
• 15:55
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: That power though to change the legislation that way lies with your state representatives, your your house, your senate.
• 16:03
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: The the governor cannot even introduce legislation to the floor to be voted on.
• 16:09
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: So that like I could go to a representative or you know a senator and be like, hey, I wrote this bill or I would like this to be pushed.
• 16:20
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: Can you introduce it to the floor so you guys could work on it?
• 16:23
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: And they could say yes, but then they could leave it on their desk and it could never see the light of day again.
• 16:28
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: So it's not under the governor's office to create new laws.
• 16:33
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: However, under the governor's office, there is the enforcement of the laws, and I'm a strong believer in no longer giving predators a slap on the wrist and allowing them to go right back out onto the streets to offend again.
• 16:49
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: And so I would definitely support harsher penalty penalties and enforce those for those that are convicted.
• 16:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And I I don't know this.
• 17:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Are are judges in Oregon, are they elected or are they appointed, or does it depend?
• 17:10
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: I believe they're elected.
• 17:11
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: I've never ran for office, but I think they're elected because they're down in Drain, Oregon, there was a judge, but then nobody apparently ran for that position again, and now they just haven't had a judge for years in there, and then so the little courthouse they had down there closed down.
• 17:28
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: So I guess I I think they're elected throughout the state, but I could be wrong.
• 17:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Oh yeah, yeah, I was just I was just curious because I it it seems like every uh jurisdiction is a little bit different, so I was just curious on on that.
• 17:46
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um kind of talked about this, but maybe we can just lay out and uh what are your you know kind of day one?
• 17:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And I think we talked maybe about like you know, maybe like your first 90 day days or maybe your first six months of uh you know how when they think of Brittany Jones for governor of Oregon, what do you want people, voters, uh citizens, what do you want them to think about when they're going to the ballot box?
• 18:25
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: In the beginning of my campaign, I wanted to start with one of my platforms being to make Oregon safe.
• 18:32
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: And my team was like, well, then people are gonna think that Oregon's not safe.
• 18:36
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: That that do you want the outside perception to be that our state's not safe?
• 18:41
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: And I think it's beyond time to say the quiet part out loud is Oregon is not safe.
• 18:46
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: Nowhere is safe with a dictator in office.
• 18:49
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: And we have to have leadership in place that's willing to recognize that and take steps to make it safe.
• 18:56
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: So day one is when I'm gonna start the criminal investigation into ICE.
• 19:00
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: Day one is when I'm going to start the lawsuit for the violation of human rights.
• 19:05
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: Day one is when I'm gonna start doing a full budget review of all of our departments because anytime you take a stand against ICE, you you risk losing federal funding.
• 19:16
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: So we need to make sure that our state has the stability needed to be able to take a stand and to be safe.
• 19:24
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: And that's like my day one priorities is to get those started and to really focus on that so that we can work on our housing plan.
• 19:32
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: We can work, excuse me, so we can work on our housing plan, work on our education plan and our infrastructure plan for transportation, fixing the highways and the rail system, connecting the small towns to the big cities.
• 19:46
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: But we need to make sure that we have a safety net in place to be able to do that.
• 19:50
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: So when people are going to the ballot, and if they're not sure who they're going to vote for, I want to let everybody know that I will.
• 19:59
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: fight tooth and nail to make Oregonians safe.
• 20:03
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: And so if you're feeling not safe and you're like, who will fight for us?
• 20:08
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: Who will stand with us?
• 20:10
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: Vote Brittany Jones.
• 20:12
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: Because I will do that.
• 20:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Awesome.
• 20:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah.
• 20:17
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And it's so refreshing how transparent you are with the exactly with what you're what you're sharing.
• 20:26
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And you you mean what you say and yeah you're you're not being shy about and I and I think some individuals running for office or or in office uh they they they have ways of like skirting around like the truth or skirting around the answer that they want to give because it's it just comes back to a the a talking point that you have real concrete specific things that you want to do and implement day one and you want a departure of the past on uh quite a few of those and that should be a breath of fresh air to Oregonians to say wow we we we didn't know if we would have an opportunity to have a candidate that would come through and actually want to to to do that uh because it it's kind of like that that that saying you know if you do the same thing over and over it's crazy or what but it it gets you not very far it gets you into the same place you're at like same place you're standing or sitting or walking that you you don't have much room to to to wiggle uh and and so for you to uh have that uh experience also uh for Oregonians uh that uh you also ran for the presidency uh in an earlier um in an earlier term so you're not a uh uh this isn't your first rodeo I guess is the the way to put it so you you have your mindset and and know what information you need to share how you need to to share it you know taking those those uh opportunities so I I assume that you're gonna spend more time behind the desk than in front of the camera uh if you're able to I I know you want to get out and and and see a lot of things but uh talking about uh how your your current governor is you know texting you know President Trump and and doing that uh you want to get down to the business of okay like like you said with the the budget like what's every single line what does it mean and where's that money going and and where has it been going and and just going through that it it it makes me kind of kind of it's almost like feeling I run a marathon like thinking about it because there's so many different lines to the budget and and to really get to the bottom in my mind I I I could see you not you but uh a person in office say well what's this mean like oh no don't worry about that you know that's just you know that goes in I don't know this particular area and I can see you going no no no no like what does this mean and like and you know something that I can understand so I can decide if you need that money it could be it could be directed elsewhere uh or uh having a balanced budget isn't always a bad thing uh to to have especially uh the the way the uh you know overspending uh goes but it's uh it's it's really refreshing again I said it I think on the our last last show as well um now we're in january of twenty six when is the uh the election for uh for the the governorship is that in November or is it a special election and a different because I'm running as part of a party we have the primaries in May so I am challenging the incumbent so May 19th is when people can pat can cast their vote for me to help me beat out Tina Kotec and then if I beat Tina Kotek then I'd be on the ballot for the general election against a Republican and other party candidates that are not Democrats.
• 24:59
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: So the primary just pretty much chooses which Democrat they're going to put forward.
• 25:03
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: And so I need help beating Tina because she's she's an establishment politician.
• 25:08
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: She has a lot of big money behind her.
• 25:10
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: Unions are already saying that they're going to endorse her without even interviewing other candidates and without letting their members vote on who to endorse.
• 25:18
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: And so we are seeing establishment politics at play where a grassroot candidate is going against the big guy.
• 25:26
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: So if you like an underdog story and you want to help the underdog win I need your vote in May and you have to be registered as a Democrat by April to be able to vote.
• 25:36
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: I I forget what date specifically in April but at least by the beginning of April if you are registered as a Democrat you can fill in the bubble next to my name on the ballot on the 19th.
• 25:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Okay yeah so this this is definitely crucial uh timing to let let people know that there uh there's a primary and then even ahead of that that there is a registration process that has to be uh completed in order for that in individual to be able to actually put in their vote in in May to then be able to run the general uh election so wow it's uh I'm I'm sure you're used to but it's a it's a lot of different things you gotta besides your platform have to have to go against an as you as you mentioned with an establishment candidate as well where like the money just seems to come from all over the place it's like oh my gosh like how how how does this happen uh wow and let me see so let's just when would you go into office?
• 26:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm just thinking from like a budget like standpoint of okay so people they register they vote primary they uh they vote for B Jones they vote for you in the uh in the general election do you go in office in November or is it like a January thing like the presidency just curious I think we would swear into office in January because I think that's sorry my daughter's getting chipped to I think we would go into office in January just like the presidency.
• 27:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I will have to double check that though because I was reading about it a little bit ago and I was like oh that makes sense because you know let them finish out their term okay okay uh what else did I miss uh to to be able to to share I I believe you have a website right that would you want to let people know what that is and what information they can find so I have a link tree because our our website we're using Wix so it's a free website but it's a really long URL so but I have a link tree.
• 28:14
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: So I do have a website I have a Facebook I have a TikTok I have an Instagram and we have a signal chat for volunteers we have axe blue for donations we're working on merchandise and yard signs and we have some really cool logos that we're going to be putting out but um the link tree has the link to our website it has a link to volunteer or sign up for our newsletter it has a donation link and then our website you actually have the ability to find the TikTok which is actually just BJ for Oregon okay and then the Facebook is Jones for governor 2026 for Oregon governor it's a longer one so is the Instagram but you can also just Google Britney Jones for governor of Oregon and Ballotpedia will pop up Wikipedia will pop up and it's so my information is out there.
• 29:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Okay the uh so somebody decides I want to donate towards your campaign is that from a are they able to write that off on their taxes the only reason I'm asking is because there's there's a lot of charities a lot of nonprofits out there I didn't I didn't know when you get into the political sphere if somebody decides to to to donate if uh if that's something that or if it's just not not that it matters either way I'm just curious that there might be somebody out there listening or or watching thinking like oh wow like I wonder if I could write this off of my taxes.
• 29:50
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: I'm not I know it's not the biggest question and the biggest deal but never know I have heard there is like a tax credit or something like that if you donate to political campaigns but I'm not 100% sure.
• 30:05
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So that's something you have to ask um your you know your tax person hey if I donate to this campaign is that a tax write-off do I get a deduction for it or a credit for it um I think that's always something you should check if you're not sure if if you were to say to the viewers and listeners what's the besides the voting aspect because that's that's that's huge that's what moves the process along and moves you along in in in the uh in in the cycle uh what what would be like the the number one thing if if somebody's already registered to vote uh if if they've already kind of made up their mind or they're following what what uh you know your your media uh presence what would be like the number like one and two things you would you would want somebody to look at and on in your link tree in my what what was that last part sorry oh in your link tree like if they were on your link tree with yeah what would you want them to like guide them to do like if they're already registered to vote and they already they're just kind of like all right what can I do between now and in May for the campaign?
• 31:29
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: I would say the volunteer link and the donation link because we need both of those.
• 31:33
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: I need people to help canvassing like we got the voter registration list from Lane County and it's 122000 people and only 22000 of them have phone numbers on there.
• 31:44
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: So we literally have to go house to house to house and talk to people so I need volunteers canvassing volunteers people who doorDash that are willing to put my cards with the orders they drop off because that helps me reach people and there's a lot of ways that can that you can help a grassroots campaign spread.
• 32:03
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: We still need a campaign manager.
• 32:05
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: I'm still doing the majority of the work with my PR manager so we need a campaign manager and my website needs a huge overhaul.
• 32:13
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: So volunteers we definitely need and we need donations because unions look at donations and how much money you've raised as a deciding factor if they endorse you or not because they want you to raise money and I'm like well don't they realize that if they endorse you they help you raise money so they should they should look at your policies and not on how much money you've raised so yeah kind of a catch 22 there.
• 32:39
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: So donations and volunteers that's what we need.
• 32:42
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: Okay and a camp uh campaign manager if uh somebody uh wants to uh help out in a larger way day to day and and help uh direct uh so i would that be like social media as well or I guess how to how would what would be like maybe like a duty or two that you would want a campaign manager to to do so campaign managers oversee the entire campaign they help set up the interviews they work closely with the PR they they make sure that you know you don't miss opportun opportunities so like if Tina Kotec is given 30 seconds on the news then your campaign manager would be like hey I I claim time for my candidate too she gets 30 seconds as well or or you have to talk about her for 30 seconds.
• 33:33
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: So the campaign manager really organizes the campaign so that the candidate can be the candidate and focus on going out there and meeting people and just getting the message out there.
• 33:45
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: What's your reception when you do uh do the the knocking on doors or you're meeting people and you're listening to what they're they're sharing what um what how how how's that go uh is as far as I the reason why I'm asking I did a uh we we we did a show the other day and about my market research class and we had this project where it was uh I think it was for the United Way and the project was like like you said you every student got a list and you had to this was in the the early 2000s and you would have to call and ask them question inter interview or um yeah I guess like interview questions and trying to get more information the for the organization and so I just remember that and so when you talked about you know canvassing with you know dashers and going door to door what's been kind of the feed feedback of uh like oh I didn't know you were running I didn't know that there was somebody that had a platform with these issues on there just curious.
• 34:57
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: So we haven't started canvassing door to door yet we're still organizing because the voter information from the state was very disorganized.
• 35:06
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: So we have to organize it by neighborhood and and try to figure out the best map and the route to go and we don't have the personnel like the the number of people to be able to go out there and knock on doors.
• 35:16
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: I have started texting a texting campaign for the ones who had phone numbers and so far I've seen an uptick in the in the visits to the website we haven't had any new donations yet but whenever I go out to protests or or speaking events like I was at the town hall yesterday with Jeff Merkley and Val Hoyle and just being there you're able to talk to people and so I'm able to meet people hand out my cards a lot of them almost every single person I've talked to at these protests at the rallies at the meet and greets for other candidates almost every single one says that Tina needs to go and they're glad that somebody is running against her and so it's always been a positive response in those situations.
• 36:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's great and and you kind of word of mouth is always helpful so to know that they had a conversation with you and the you know the hopes is you know from that grassroots level that you know that they're they're talking to their family members or their their friend groups and let letting letting them know maybe putting out a social media message like positive ones because we we could you could use those more now uh what else uh that I missed that missed that you'd like to to share we got about a minute or so left if if you like I am also a member of courage candidates now so courage candidates or um they actually support the impeachment process so primarily they have congressional candidates but I approach them I was like I support impeachment I just heard about you guys you guys sound amazing so we had an interview and they brought me on board so I am one of their candidates and once I get my statement and headshot and all that to them then I'll be you know I'll get their endorsement publicly and it's we've had they have we have a meeting every Monday and it's great connecting to other candidates nationwide who have the same from multiple different parties that just support the accountability aspect that's lacking in our government today.
• 37:45
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And it's like because it's not just impeachment for Donald Trump it's impeachment for for any elected official regardless of party that's abusing their power and not working for the people anymore absolutely and that's there's so much learning that I've gotten from our conversation that no it's going to be helpful for our viewers and and listeners as well on different processes and that uh that sometimes there can be misconceptions one way or the other or all over the place.
• 38:19
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So to have uh just that information and have a candidate like yourself just just being so down to earth and and sharing it that uh you're not just you know repeating the talking points it's like again the the grassroots like we want to get things done once we get in into office but we we need we need some help and so donations uh volunteers campaign manager uh linktree so is it how is it link tree and then is then there's a the slash and then is it just Britney for BJ for governor or how how would they be able to find you on Linktree?
• 39:08
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: So if you actually the Linktree is on my TikTok so you've used like a um bj for organ um on TikTok and it's in the bio and I think it's on my Facebook too but I can also I can send it to you as well um if you know but it's I try to include it in a lot of the stuff in my text messaging campaign I include it at the end of my text messages so that everybody has access to it and I'll be adding more links to it.
• 39:33
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: Like I'm gonna put my Instagram link on there the Facebook link make sure everything is just all in one spot so people can just go follow me especially with TikTok changing hands what this month at some point.
• 39:45
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: Yeah so things are gonna change and so I just want to make sure that all my socials are on there so that we can make sure that we don't lose followers in the in the transition.
• 39:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Absolutely well Bernie Thank you so much for joining us again on the show.
• 40:03
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And we'd we'd be happy to have you back if you if you'd like as we get closer to May.
• 40:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So don't be a stranger.
• 40:11
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We'd be more than happy to have you on as we get get closer.
• 40:19
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Can just share how the how the process is going, the updates, and and uh we uh just appreciate you just being uh really not only a voice for yourself, but you're being a voice for uh Oregonians and and in general, just human beings, really just looking at people as as humans and how how you can best help.
• 40:46
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And uh I you know at the core we're human beings, so then we can go all different ways after that, but that at the core we're a human, and I uh really respect you for uh coming on, sharing uh as much information, and I look forward to having you on again if that if that plays into uh your your your schedule down the road.
• 41:20
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh don't be don't be a stranger.
• 41:22
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We we can we can find time to to get uh get get you scheduled and any updates or if there's a specific uh topic that you want to share or specific event, we could we can do that as as well.
• 41:37
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So thank you, Brittany.
• 41:39
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: And thank you for having me on again, and I would love to be on again.
• 41:42
  Brittany Jones for Oregon Governor: It's it's always a pleasure.
• 41:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Oh thank you.
• 41:46
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And we thank you, our viewers, our listeners, wherever you may be, here in the United States, across the world, especially in the United States and the state of Oregon, Brittany Jones, BJ for Governor 2026.
• 41:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, if you're an Oregonian and you aren't registered to vote, uh make sure that you uh do your due diligence uh and and get that done uh by April, uh just maybe get it done in March, and then you don't have to worry about April.
• 42:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, and then definitely uh make sure that you uh you you fill in the bubble for Democrat and then go in the primary uh voting in in May, May, said May 19th.
• 42:33
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: What was that?
• 42:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Okay, so May 19th, and then once that process the votes are tallied and BJ comes out hopefully on top, then that will take us to the uh the general election in in November.
• 42:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So uh thank you so much for watching.
• 42:56
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you for listening.
• 42:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If you could do us a big favor and share this episode and like, follow, subscribe, check out uh Brittany BJ for governor on TikTok.
• 43:13
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, we'll be uh inserting her link tree uh in in our description, but uh head on over to TikTok uh while you're you're watching or listening, and uh because I know we all like to have numerous windows open, so head on over to TikTok, get that link tree.
• 43:33
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If you want to volunteer, go ahead and if you want to donate, uh there's always help.
• 43:40
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And if campaign manager has been something you've always wanted to do in the state of Oregon and you love what you're hearing from BJ, uh she would she and her team would would love to hear from you.
• 43:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so until next time, uh this is Justin Allen Hayes with Voices for Voices, and we pray that you will be a voice for you or somebody else in need.
• 44:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We'll see you next time, everybody.
• 44:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you.