Candidate #4 (C4)

Candidate #4 (C4) from the RussIsForUS.com Candidates-2024 page is Mike Erickson.

As stated on the Candidates-2024 page, RussIsForUS.com received threatening communications from Mike Erickson via his attorney because he did not like the way some of the below items were presented. The “offending” items are corrected, and reference links have been added.

Sometime around first week of August 2023 one of Mike’s representatives told Oregon Capital Chronicle that he would be announcing his candidacy “within the next month.” Mike actually filed his candidacy with the Federal Elections Commission (fec.gov) on February 2, 2024. This made the candidacy official, but he did not file with the State of Oregon to place his name on the ballot in the May 2024 Primary Election until February 29, 2024.

Mike Erickson has run for public office six times (Oregon House three times and US Congress three times) since 1988 and has not won once. Each time that Mike Erickson has run for office a Democrat has taken the seat. At least one of those elections was lost due to reports of “unsavory” activity which he denies.
https://www.blueoregon.com/2008/06/erickson-aborti/

https://web.archive.org/web/20100529191838/http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=121064920156470100

https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2022/09/27/tough-on-crime-oregon-congressional-candidate-mike-erickson-had-2016-dui-drug-charges/

Mike’s run for Congressional District 6 in 2024 is the first time he has run twice for the same seat. He likes to claim that he is “not a politician” but he has running for office since 1988.

Mike does not live inside of Congressional District 6.

In 2022 Mike filed on the filing deadline (March 8, 2022) for the Primary election. He immediately had more money in his coffers than any other Republican candidate on the ballot. By the Primary, May 17, 2022, he had nearly 3 times the funding of his entire field of opponents. This donation pattern seems out of place. Mike Erickson won the 2022 Primary by winning over uninformed voters. Stuffing their mailboxes with a dozen mailers (including a hit piece on the other candidates) and buying large blocks of advertising.