{"id":1055933,"date":"2025-09-08T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1055933"},"modified":"2025-09-09T09:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T13:14:13","slug":"icymi-opb-oregon-state-rep-cyrus-javadi-switches-political-teams-registers-as-a-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-opb-oregon-state-rep-cyrus-javadi-switches-political-teams-registers-as-a-democrat\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: OPB: \u201cOregon State Rep. Cyrus Javadi Switches Political Teams, Registers as a Democrat\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Key Point:<\/strong> \u201cJavadi announced Friday that he switched his registration to the majority party this week, ahead of a Sept. 4 deadline to do so in order to run as a Democrat in next year\u2019s election. <strong>\u2018Being an elected leader has never been about party loyalty to me,\u2019 Javadi said in a statement. \u2018It\u2019s been about how I can best fight for our community and our state.\u2019 \u2026 \u2018Time after time this past session, it was Democrats who stepped up to support the priorities of the coast, even though I wore the other team\u2019s jersey,\u2019 he wrote.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/article\/2025\/09\/05\/oregon-state-representative-cyrus-javadi-switches-parties-now-democrat\/\"><strong>Oregon Public Broadcasting<\/strong><\/a><strong>: Oregon state Rep. Cyrus Javadi switches political teams, registers as a Democrat<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Dirk VanderHart<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To some of his colleagues and constituents, Oregon state Rep. Cyrus Javadi has been voting like a Democrat for months.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Now the former Tillamook Republican has made it official.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Javadi announced Friday that he switched his registration to the majority party this week, ahead of a Sept. 4 deadline to do so in order to run as a Democrat in next year\u2019s election.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cBeing an elected leader has never been about party loyalty to me,\u201d Javadi said in a statement. \u201cIt\u2019s been about how I can best fight for our community and our state.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>He was one of the only Republicans to support renewing a largely noncontroversial tax on health care providers that helps the state bring in federal Medicaid funding.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Javadi was the only Republican to cross the aisle on Monday to vote in favor of Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek\u2019s package of tax and fee hikes to fund road maintenance and avoid layoffs. The vote was decisive: Without Javadi\u2019s yes, the bill would have died in the House.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cEvery priority for Oregon\u2019s North Coast, nearly every single one, ran into opposition from my own party,\u201d Javadi wrote in the Substack post. <strong>\u201cProtecting Medicaid benefits for the nearly 60% of children in Tillamook and Clatsop counties? Opposed. Keeping rural hospitals afloat? Opposed. Preserving students\u2019 access to books that reflect who they are? Opposed. Protecting the First Amendment rights of people different from ourselves? Opposed.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Javadi concluded that he has not changed. He believes his party has.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>\u201cTime after time this past session, it was Democrats who stepped up to support the priorities of the coast, even though I wore the other team\u2019s jersey,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIt didn\u2019t matter to them. What mattered was whether the policy worked.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The switcharoo means Democrats will have an even larger majority in the House during next year\u2019s short session: 37 of the chamber\u2019s 60 seats.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201cJavadi announced Friday that he switched his registration to the majority party this week, ahead of a Sept. 4 deadline to do so in order to run as a Democrat in next year\u2019s election. \u2018Being an elected leader has never been about party loyalty to me,\u2019 Javadi said in a statement. \u2018It\u2019s been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ICYMI: OPB: \u201cOregon State Rep. 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