We trust our elected officials to use public resources for the public good — not to line their own pockets. That trust is the foundation of everything else government does. When it breaks down, it takes years to rebuild.
Rep. Greg Smith, Oregon's longest-serving state representative, has now been fined twice by the Oregon Government Ethics Commission in 2026 alone. The latest penalty — $12,000 in civil fines — came after the commission found he used his role as director of a publicly funded eastern Oregon development authority to raise his own salary and approve his own time off. These aren't gray areas or technicalities. They're exactly the kind of self-dealing that makes people lose faith in government. And this second penalty resolves only part of what's under review, meaning there may be more to come.
Eastern Oregon families deserve a representative who is focused on their communities, not one who is spending 2026 managing back-to-back ethics violations involving public money. I'm asking you to call on Rep. Greg Smith to resign from the Oregon House of Representatives so that voters in his district can be represented by someone whose full attention is on them.
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