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BY SARAH ROSS

PORTLAND- In his official announcement to run for the United States Senate, Jim Huffman made clear Thursday that the focus of his campaign is job creation.

“What we need is more jobs for Oregonians,” Huffman said to his supporters gathered at Halton Trucking Company in Northeast Portland.

The campaign platform Huffman presented consists of economic freedom, lower government spending, and private-sector job creation.

In his campaign brochure, he stated, “The Washington DC power elites said their TARP bailout and their stimulus spending would save the economy. What they really sought was to save their own jobs with handouts to favored business and political supporters. We need government to work for ‘We the People’ again.”

Huffman emphasized reforming Washington by bringing in fewer career politicians and more “people with real world experience.” In his speech he cited statistics showing that only 18% of Americans approve of the job that Congress is doing, and 80% believe the government is broken.

Huffman is running as a Republican against Oregon’s senior senator, Ron Wyden, who has served as a Democrat in Congress since 1981. Also running against Wyden is Libertarian candidate Marc Delphine, active in the state’s tea party movement and Bend businessman, Sam Carpenter.

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