KURT SCHRADER REPRESENTS OREGON IN CONGRESS. BUT DOES HE LIVE THERE?
Schrader owns a farm in his home district, but there’s little indication that he spends much time there. WHEN REP. KURT SCHRADER voted against the initial passage of the American Rescue Plan last year, he faced intense backlash from fellow Democrats in his Central Oregon district. The vote was Schrader’s third controversial action in as many months, following his opposition to the overwhelmingly popular $2,000 stimulus checks and a statement that compared the second impeachment of former President Donald Trump to a “lynching” earlier that year. For local Democrats, it was the last straw. Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Ore., arrives at the Rayburn Building in Washington, D.C In a blistering letter signed by the party chairs from the five counties that make up Schrader’s current district, local leaders lambasted their representative for not “consulting with communities in this district” before his vote. They labeled Schrader’s actions a “betrayal of [his] duty to best serve [his] constituen...