Woodburn Independent: LeCompte throws hat into District 22 race

Jason Horton
Woodburn Independent
Nov. 17, 2009

BROOKS — After feeling like the Oregon Legislature has been missing the needs of the citizens of Oregon, Kathy LeCompte has decided to do something about it.

The small business owner from Brooks has thrown her hat in the ring to challenge Betty Komp (D) in the November, 2010 House District 22 race.

LeCompte, a Republican, along with her husband, David, has owned Brooks Tree Farm for 30 years. They specialize in growing trees from seed for Christmas trees, ornamental trees, timber and wetland mitigation projects.

The small business owner is ready for the challenge of fighting against bigger government and the overtaxing in Salem.

“I, like many citizens, am concerned about the spending in Salem that doesn’t seem to meet our needs. We’re being forced to go to the citizens to pony up more dollars. It seems like there’s never enough,” she said.

“I believe we need to do some reprioritizing and not put our police, our schools and libraries out there and telling the people that those are the last things to be funded.

“The public is being told to pay more if you want those funded while everything else gets funded. With different prioritization of the spending, those could have been funded without raising the budget by 10 percent, which is what (the legislature) did last session.”

Running the tree farm for three decades, LeCompte said they could not have survived doing business like that.

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