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In 2008, Bailey earned a plurality victory over three other candidates for the Democratic nomination for House District 42 for the seat vacated by Diane Rosenbaum, who was running for election to the Oregon Senate, and then defeated Pacific Green Party candidate Chris Extine by a wide margin to win election to the seat.
Incumbent governor John Hubert Hall, who took over after Snell's death until the election, lost the Republican nomination 51.13-48.87%, to state senator Douglas McKay, and the Democrats nominated state senator Lew Wallace, who had previously lost to Earl Snell in the 1942 gubernatorial election in a landslide.
Prior to this position, Deckert, a Democratic politician from the US state of Oregon, served in the Oregon Senate, representing District 14, which includes parts of Beaverton and the Portland neighborhoods of Garden Home and Raleigh Hills.
She resigned from the Oregon Senate in 2009 in order to take a job at the Oregon Department of Human Services.
Team Oregon supported 2009 Oregon Senate Bill 546, introduced by Senator Vicki Walker, which requires mandatory rider education before endorsement.