Phil Keisling

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Phil Keisling (born June 23, 1955 in Oregon ) is an American businessman and politician ( Democratic Party ).

Career

Nothing is known about Phil Keisling's youth. Before seeking public office, Keisling pursued a career as a journalist. In this context, he worked for six years as a reporter and correspondent in Portland, Oregon and Washington . He also worked as an editor for Washington Monthly for two years .

He was in the Oregon House of Representatives . He was elected Secretary of State of Oregon in the 1990 election and was re-elected in 1994 and 1998. Keisling held the post from 1991 until his resignation in November 1999. During his tenure, he actively campaigned for the state's postal voting system .

Keisling is now senior vice president of marketing at high-tech Oregon company CorSource Technology Group, Inc. (formerly Hepieric, Inc. ). He has continued to be involved in political and civil affairs since his resignation as Secretary of State. In this regard, he served on various local, state, and national committees, commissions, and organizations within and outside government.

In 1998 he accepted an appointment to the Performance Audit Implementation Steering Committee of the Portland Public Schools, which undertook major reform of the financially troubled county in response to an independent performance audit .

When a proposal came before the Oregon State Legislature in 2003 to transfer responsibility for auditing of state agencies and programs from the Secretary of State's Audit Division to the Legislature, Keisling spoke with four other former Bipartite Secretaries of States, Mark Hatfield , H. Clay Myers , Norma Paulus and Barbara Roberts decided against it.

Keisling is a major advocate of Open Primaries in Oregon. In this context, he later worked and promoted a white paper from 2004, which was sponsored by the impartial Oregon Progress Forum . The Public Commission on the Oregon Legislature included Open Primaries among its far-reaching proposals for legislative reform . Keisling and Paulus, a Republican , led a petition to get the issue on the 2006 ballot. Of the 91,401 signatures submitted, only 67% were valid, so the measure was not voted on. Your attempt in 2008 was successful. Measure 65 was placed on the ballot.

In 2010 Keisling joined a new statewide trade association, Smart Grid Oregon , as its chairman. The organization was created to enable, promote and build the smart grid industry and infrastructure in the US state of Oregon.

As a longtime supporter of Open Government, Keisling served on the Board of Open Oregon, a statewide advocacy and oversight body in enforcing the Oregon Public Meeting Law (Sunshine Law) and other government-secret matters. He is also a co-founder and board member of the Oregon Public Affairs Network (OPAN), which is largely based on the C-SPAN television model.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Oregon Blue Book , Secretary of State, 1997, p. 15
  2. ↑ Inside: Phil Keisling, Washington Monthly, November 9, 2006
  3. ↑ Keisling passes reins as Bradbury sworn in , The Register-Guard, November 9, 1999
  4. ↑ Mapes, Jeff: Mail ballots hit in state, iffy beyond, forum says, The Oregonian, November 9, 2003
  5. ↑ News Release, CorSource Inc., June 17, 2005
  6. ^ Performance Audit Implementation Steering Committee , Portland Public Schools, 1999
  7. ^ Wong, Peter: Former state secretaries urge audits preservation, The Statesman Journal, July 31, 2003, p. 1A
  8. ↑ Mapes, Richard: Primary system getting a 2nd look, The Oregonian, May 10, 2004, p. A1
  9. ^ Wong, Peter: Panel urges shakeup of legislative elections, The Statesman Journal, May 23, 2006, p. 1A
  10. ^ Walsh, Edward: Open vote in primary fails to gain ballot spot, The Oregonian, August 3, 2006, p. B1
  11. ^ Phil Keisling and Norma Paulus, Reviving Oregon elections: Let's make primaries truly open, inclusive and fair, The Oregonian, April 13, 2008
  12. ↑ Smart Grid Oregon ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.smartgridoregon.org archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 2010
  13. ^ Board Members ( Memento October 29, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), Open Oregon, 2006
  14. ^ Oregonians support the network, but many don't have access to it, The Statesman Journal, July 10, 2003, p. 1A
personal data
SURNAME Keisling, Phil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American businessman and politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Oregon