Dan Thackaberry is endorsed by UFCW

Dan can put another group on his list of major supporters. The United Food and Commercial Workers has endorsed Dan Thackaberry in his race to be the representative to Oregon House District 17. This is an incredibly important group in our daily lives because their workers belong to the industries and facilities that provide us with our daily meals and goods. An in-depth description below, from the UFCW website, describes them in detail

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Your Neighborhood Union

We work in front of customers and behind the scenes. Look for us stocking produce in a supermarket aisle, slicing a cut of beef before it is delivered to a grocery store, taking a child’s temperature in a hospital, making the blue jeans your children wear to school or selling those jeans in a local department store. We are North America’s Neighborhood Union—1.3 million members standing together to improve the lives and livelihoods of workers, families, and communities.

Dan's blimp catches the eye of Oregon House Majority Leader Rep. Dave Hunt

Dan recently purchased a giant ballon for his campaign. It's debut was at Cheadle Lake for the 4th of July festivities, and it proved to be amazingly sucessful. Measuring 13 feet long and flying forty feet in the sky, Dan's blimp attracted the attention of countless pleasure seekers at the events during the day. One individual that noticed Dan's giant ballon was Representative Dave Hunt.

Representative Dave Hunt is not only the elected representative to District 40 (an area consisting of north Clackamas County's communities of Gladstone, Oak Grove, Jennings Lodge, Johnson City and Clackamas), he's also the House Majority Leader. Representative Hunt and Dan talked for a length of time about Dan's campaign, District 17, and the issues that it faces. While Dan's campaign hasn't been a high profile one in the state, the race is extremely important to the members of the Oregon House and they're behind Dan in his efforts.

The United Transportation Union endorses Dan Thackaberry

Dan has just been endorsed by the United Transportation Union.

The United Transportation Union’s Political Action Committee (UTU PAC) is "An Investment in the Future."

UTU members, active and retired, need and deserve good government and sympathetic legislators. That’s because, compared with others, their jobs, pensions and futures are more directly affected by the actions of state and national lawmakers.

We in the UTU must work for and help those people who we feel are capable, knowledgeable and who recognize the problems that affect railroad, bus and transit workers.*

*Description taken from the UTU PAC website

Dan has been endorsed by the Oregon League of Conservation Voters, the Oregon School Employees Assocation, Oregon Education Association, the Linn County Farm Bureau, and the SEIU 503

Dan Thacaberry and his parade volunteers

This 4th of July was a fantastic holiday. The food, fireworks, and festivities really made this a great celebration of America's birthday. In fashion with this celebration of our great democracy, Dan Thackaberry walked in two parades, one in Stayton and one in Mill City, and took every opportunity too meet the people of his district.

The turnout at both of these events was fantastic. Families from communities all over the district got a chance to see Dan in action. Dan's volunteers were along side him in both events passing out literature explaining Dan's positions on important issues. Dan paraded so much in this one day that the electric car that accompanied him burned out! It just goes to show that Dan outworked his own "float" on our great nation's holiday. What does that say about Dan's work ethic?

Dan would like to thank everyone that came to these two events and to everyone that helped make this holiday one to remember

Dan Thackaberry showing off and important addition to our roads

Dan did a lot of work preparing for the 2008 Scio Lamb And Wool Parade.

He spent countless hours walking down practically every street in Scio, talking to everyone he could find about the parade, issues within the community, and how he's working harder than anyone for our neighborhoods and putting partisan politics behind us.

All this work payed off as many individuals came to watch Dan walk through the streets of Scio with an all electric car, one of the things Dan wants to see more of!

He'd like to thank all of you who came out and supported him, and encourage everyone to help him during this election season.

District 17 is made up of east Linn County and east Marion County. The major cities are Lebanon, Sweet Home, Stayton, Sublimity, Scio, Lyons and Mill City. It goes from the valley floor to the crest of the Cascade Mountains.

Agriculture and forestry are the main industries. District 17 also boasts Linn-Benton Community College campuses in Lebanon and Sweet Home.