The Oregon Business Association is making a major leadership switch to replace retiring 72-year-old director Lynn Lundquist. OBA Board chairman Brian Gard says the association is replacing Lundquist, a central Oregon Republican and ex-House Speaker, with state Sen. Ryan Deckert — a 36-year-old Beaverton Democrat who’d previously announced he wouldn’t seek re-election.
Since its founding in 1999, OBA has tried to offer a less conservative alternative to Associated Oregon Industries, long the state’s dominant business lobbying group.
With AOI internally divided and struggling to adjust to a Democratically controlled legislature, naming a young urban Democrat could help the 350-member OBA gain influence in the Capitol.
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