Candidate · November 3, 2026
Brett Smith
On the ballot for Governor · Oregon
- issues with public statements
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§1On the ballot
Why this matters: This is exactly how the candidate appears on your ballot, from the state's official candidate list.
| Office | Governor · Oregon1, |
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| Party on the ballot | Pacific Green1, |
| Status | Challenger |
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§2Who they are
Why this matters: Background and experience help you judge how someone might do the job. These come from public records and the candidate's own materials.
Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.
Brett Smith was born in 1982, grew up in Hinkley, California, and later moved to Kansas, and his campaign website says he worked in construction before becoming a pipefitter and welder.4 His campaign website says he invented a medical system for his son, had his first U.S. patent by 2015 and later received FDA approval, and his voters' pamphlet statement lists his occupation as inventor, small business owner, welder and fabricator.4,
Why they say they're running
His campaign website says corruption is the most important issue facing Oregon and that he is running because people cannot stand by while, it says, the worst take everything from the rest, and his voters' pamphlet statement asks voters to cast a protest vote.4,
Websites and accounts
- Campaign websitebrett-smith.us4,
5 - Facebookfacebook.com/profile.php?id=615616860276484
- X (Twitter)x.com/Brett_Smith_D54
§3What they've said on the issues
Why this matters: These are positions the candidate has stated publicly — on their campaign website or in public statements — summarized in plain words with a link to where they said it. Issues they haven't spoken about publicly are left out.
Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.
Each issue has its own range of views. A position is marked on that range only when the candidate's own statement clearly matches one option; there is no overall left–right score.
Energy and Climate
His campaign website and voters' pamphlet statement call for a permanent moratorium on data centers.4,
- Encourage new data centers with tax breaks and faster approvals
- Require data centers to pay the full cost of the power plants and lines they need
- Pause or limit new data centers
Health Care
His campaign website proposes expanding the Oregon Health Plan into a public option open to every resident, free for those below the median income and with capped premiums for others, while keeping private insurance as a choice.4,
- One government plan for everyone (Medicare for All)
- Add a government plan that anyone can choose to buy
- Keep the current mix of private and public coverage, including the ACA
- Fewer federal insurance rules and more private plan choices, with aid paid to individuals
Elections and Government Reform
His campaign website proposes a state constitutional amendment that would bar corporations and other entities, other than registered political committees, from spending in Oregon elections.4
- Limit spending by outside groups, including by amending the Constitution to overturn Citizens United
- Keep spending unlimited but require groups to name their major donors
- Keep current rules
- Raise or remove limits on donations to candidates and parties
Foreign Policy and Defense
His campaign website supports Defend the Guard legislation to bar sending Oregon's National Guard into combat without a formal declaration of war by Congress, and his voters' pamphlet statement calls for a constitutional amendment so no Oregonian is drafted into a war Congress has not sanctioned.4,
§4Money
Why this matters: Campaigns report where their money comes from and how much they have left.
Candidates for governor file campaign-finance reports with the state, not the FEC, so this guide doesn't include their fundraising. Search the state's reports: ORESTAR candidate and campaign filing search — Oregon Secretary of State, Elections Division.6