Endorsements

All of the organizations and people who have endorsed Carmen for Mayor represent successful, deeply committed relationships she’s built to accomplish positive outcomes for Portland and all who live here. They stand with her because they know what she stands for. Her endorsements - from organizations to everyday Portlanders - outnumber those of her opponents by a very wide margin and demonstrate that Carmen is the Mayor Portland needs now.

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These newspapers recommend Portland voters rank Carmen Rubio for Mayor.

In a council season that has leaned conservative, Rubio has often been in the minority by expressing more progressive concerns on council. She has been vocal in her support of the impactful Portland Street Response program, which sends mental health professionals on emergency calls that would otherwise be handled by police – and she’s done so as Gonzalez has weakened the program and suggested its budget be cut. As mayor, Rubio says she will bolster and improve the program.

Among her colleagues on the current Portland City Council, Rubio has easily been the most productive. [...] While many city leaders talked abstractly about solutions to the city’s housing crisis, Rubio took action, developing Portland’s first-ever Housing Production Strategy after a state mandate. The strategy details concrete steps for building more housing in Portland, including some major changes to zoning code requirements, which Rubio also helped deliver earlier this year." The Mercury

Rubio has landed some significant achievements since her election to the City Council in 2020, most notably her restructuring of the poorly-designed and implemented Portland Clean Energy Fund into a defined climate action plan with support from the business community and environmental groups. She also led the difficult work of melding permitting responsibilities held by multiple city bureaus into one unified agency – one of the reasons housing development in Portland has become so needlessly time-consuming and expensive.

Her ability to foster compromise without fireworks distinguishes her from her main opponent and shows she has made the shift from being a special-interest champion to a citywide leader – a progression that trips up many who come from the advocacy world.

Rubio, 50, worked for various local elected officials, including Mayor Tom Potter, before spending 10 years growing the Latino Network into an $18 million nonprofit. [...] At City Hall, she has passed meaningful legislation like reallocating Portland Clean Energy Fund revenues to plug city bureau budget holes, consolidating the city’s permitting functions under one office, and launching new tax increment financing districts, a historically successful economic development tool used by the city. Willamette Week

Elected Officials

Carmen Rubio has a track record of getting results. She's focused on what matters - cleaning up the city, getting people into shelter and affordable housing, and bringing back the city we love. We can count on her to deliver the kind of change Portland urgently needs. -Governor Tina Kotek

We need a Mayor with executive leadership experience and a proven record of accomplishment that has delivered positive change for Portlanders. That’s Carmen. -former Mayor and Police Chief Tom Potter

former Governor Kate Brown
former Governor Ted Kulongoski
former City Commissioner Mike Lindberg
Metro President Lynn Peterson
Metro Councilor Juan Carlos González
Metro Councilor Duncan Hwang
Metro Councilor Christine Lewis
Metro Councilor Mary Nolan
Multnomah County Commissioner Jesse Beason
State Senator Michael Dembrow
State Senator Kayse Jama
State Representative Rob Nosse
State Representative Andrea Valderrama
State Representative Khanh Pham
State Representative Thuy Tran
State Representative Tawna Sanchez
former State Representative Ben Cannon
former Multnomah County Commissioner Susheela Jayapal
former Multnomah County Commissioner Maria Rojo de Steffey
former Multnomah County Commissioner Serena Cruz
Gresham City Councilor Eddy Morales
Washington County Commissioner Nafisa Fai
former PPS School Board Member Martin Gonzalez
Community Leader Rev. Dr. Chuck Currie
Community Leader Rev. Lynne Smouse Lopez

Organizations

She's also earned the endorsement of the following organizations:

United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), Local 555

Individuals

In addition, she’s also earned the support from community members, representing various private and public sector entities:

Rukaiyah Adams
Dwight Adkins
Ruth Adkins
Francisco Aguirre
Michael Alexander
Javier Alomia
Oscar Arana Ochoa
Michael Arrington
Ronald Atwood
Adam Banz
Byron Beck
Pat Becker
Kandis Brewer Nunn
Ed Blackburn
Jerry Brown
Richard Brown
Ron Buel
George Caceres
Miriam Calderon
Michael Cano
John Cardenas
Gale Castillo
Jarrett Cloud
Andrew Colas
Jonath Colon
Juan Costantini
Tracy Curtis
Alicia DeLashmutt
Pete Denman
Bill Dickey
Matthew Douglass
Elisa Dozono
Antoinette Edwards
Madelyn Elder
Karla Elias
Miguel Elias
Lakeitha Elliott
Sadie Figueroa
Sara Fischer
Ernesto Fonseca
Jim Francesconi
Jeana Frazzini
Michael Frost
Steven Fulmer
Michelle Ganow-Jones
Geof Garner
Rachel Gitner
Harold Goldstein
Cynthia Carmina Gomez
Randy Gragg
Patricia & Michael Greenfield
Marta Guembes
Allison Handler
Karin Hansen
Stephan Herrera
Ronnie Herndon
Phillip Hillaire
Mark Holloway
Carly Hood-Ronick
Cece Hughley Noel
Jonathan Jenkins
Nanci Luna Jiménez
Trevor Jones
Tom Kelly
Terese Kelly
Elizabeth Kennedy
Debbie Kitchin
Amy Kohnstamm
Don Krahmer
Antonio Lara
Victoria Lara
Thomas Lauderdale
Elizabeth Leach
Dani Ledezma
Rebecca Lee
Willie Levenson
Holly Levow
Jason Lim
Joaquin Lopez
Reyna Lopez
Paul Lumley
Jose Gonzalez
Dañel Malan-Gonzalez
Juan Martinez
Scott McClain
Peggy McGuire
Linda McKim-Bell
Angel Medina
April Milan
Eddie Moreno
Cris Moss
Marcus Mundy
Tara Murphy
Andy Nelson
Sarah Nelson
R. Scott Newcomb
Tony Nickles
Robert Obrinsky
Jason Parasco
Jamie Partridge
Eddie Passadore
Gregory Passadore
Lee Po Cha
Lolenzo Poe
James Posey
Katie Potter
Patrick Quinton
Jimmy Radosta
Austin Raglione
Wendy Rankin
Jaime Rodriguez
Shelli Romero
Lorenzo Rubio
Maria Rubio
John Russell
Kathleen Saadat
Bob Sallinger
Jorge Sanchez Bautista
Consuelo Saragoza
Jillian Schoene
Ruth Scott
Alex Seabold
Lina Garcia Seabold
Peter Shanky
Bob Speltz
Eli Spevak
Doug Stamm
Bob Stoll
Don Tankersley
Kim Thomas
Gregory Tibbles
Veronica Valenzuela
Stephanie Vardavas
Nate Waas Shull
Lisa Watson
Marinus Wiewel
Homer Williams
M. Jill Williams
Robin Wisner
Karen Witman
Carl Wolfson
Jeana Woolley
Winta Yohannes
Agnes Zach