Oregon secretary of state candidates cite similar goals but different strategies to restore trust in office

The frontrunners to become Oregon’s next secretary of state, Treasurer Tobias Read and state Sen. James Manning, are running on broadly similar platforms, saying their top priority is to restore voters’ trust in an office whose last elected leader resigned amid scandal. The two Democrats each point to professional experience they say proves they’re right for the job: Read cites his what he says has been steady, reliable leadership of a complex state agency, the treasury, while Manning points to his decades of service in the U.S. Army, where his...