“The way you accomplish things is you focus on stuff where people are in agreement. What you do is seek common ground with people who are on the other side of the aisle and go get it done. What I found in Salem is about 80% was just the hard work of governing.”

— Cliff Bentz

Source: Bentz discusses wildfires, housing and uniting the country with Chieftain https://www.wallowa.com/news/local/bentz-discusses-wildfires-housing-and-uniting-the-country-with-chieftain/article_16f55588-1889-11eb-9dc1-dfde60328f0c.html (27 October 2020)

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