Jeff Merkley for U.S. Senate, Oregon

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Growing the Grassroots

This week, Portland Mayor Tom Potter endorsed Jeff Merkley for US Senate. In addition to his endorsement, Mayor Potter also announced the Growing the Grassroots Challenge.

We're building the largest grassroots campaign in Oregon history. To do this, we're asking you to invite at least five of your friends to join us.

Jeff Merkley was born in the small town of Myrtle Creek, Oregon, the son of a sawmill worker. He's fought hard for working families in Oregon and he's ready to help lead America.

As Oregon's Speaker of the House, Jeff Merkley led one of the most effective, efficient and progressive legislative sessions in Oregon's history - with big achievements for schools, ethics, health care, jobs, alternative energy, and protections for working families.

Discover why Jeff Merkley is ready to lead.

From the Oregonian:

Merkley raced [quarter-midget cars] as a child, and once owned -- and crashed -- a Harley. He roomed with an impoverished family in Ghana as a teen, hitchhiked across Israel as a young man and went on, as he puts it, to help shut down one of Portland's worst crack alleys.

"I've lived," he says, "a pretty unconventional life."

Read the Oregonian profile of Jeff Merkley's life before politics.

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