OCCUPATION:

Volunteer attorney, Consumer Justice Alliance, Oregon Consumer League. Received Oregon State Bar Award for the Highest Level of Pro-Bono Service for "TOTAL HOURS OF PRO-BONO SERVICES" and "LEGAL SERVICES TO THE POOR" (3/4/04).

OCCUPATIONAL BACKGROUND:

Commander JAGC U.S. Navy (Ret.)(1944-70); volunteer WWll, Korea, Vietnam; public defender, prosecutor, attorney for disabled servicemen. Lewis & Clark Law School (1970-80) taught Consumer Law, Legal Ethics. Malheur County Counsel, Deputy D.A. (1989-91). Tree Farmer (1987-2007)(donated to Lincoln County, for all Oregonians, his reforested 185-acre farm on the Siletz River as a no-hunting, no-logging, nature park).

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

• USC, B.A., J.D.; Harvard Law School (constitutional law); Boston University, M.A. (government);
• U of O, M.L.S. Studied: Accounting, Money & Banking. Phi Beta Kappa, Rhodes Scholar nominee.

PRIOR GOVERNMENT EXPERIENCE:

U.S. Navy Judge; Oregon State Senate (1975-87).

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES:

Citizens for Tax Justice; Jobs With Justice; Citizens Utility Board; Physicians for National Health Plan; VFW (life); Amnesty International; Metanoia Peace Community.

IMPROVE OREGON’S ECONOMY  

• Establish an Oregon State Bank. Use profits to invest in business start-ups, auto, home, educational, and personal loans for Oregonians.
• Buy Oregon, demandstate and local governments contract products and services with Oregon businesses.
• Export Oregon products, not jobs.
• Special taxes on corporations which outsource Oregon jobs.
• Make Oregon’s income tax fair.
• NO SALES TAX
• Demand legislature implement "State Power Development" required by Oregon’s Constitutionto establish Green Public Power saving Oregonians millions each year
• Lower health care costsby adopting Single Payer system.
• Improved educationequals more jobs, less crime, fewer prisons.
• Campaign finance reform.
• $10minimum wage. 

ENDORSEMENTS:

Oregon Consumer League; Eastside Democratic Club; United Consumers of Oregon; A.L. "Skipper" Osborne, President Truth And Justice For All, former President Portland NAACP.

"I see in the near future a crisis approaching…the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong it’s reign…until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."

~~Abraham Lincoln, 11/21/1864

Walter F. (Walt) Brown
16 Monticello Drive
Lake Oswego, OR 97035-1416
503.636.4150
walt@waltbrown.org
waltbrown.net
progparty.org