Thatcher to run for Secretary of State
by ERIC A. HOWALD | Keizertimes
State senator and Keizer resident Kim Thatcher will run to be Oregon’s next secretary of state. She announced the campaign at a rally for timber workers Thursday, Feb. 6.
Thatcher was first elected to represent Oregon House District 25 in 2004. She served five terms in the House and then successfully ran to replace the retiring Republican in State Senate Seat 13 in 2014. She said the secretary of state office was the most logical next step.
“It was simply because that has been where most of my legislative service has been spent, doing things that are related to work of the secretary of state,” Thatcher said.