Darlene Hooley

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Darlene Kay Olson Hooley (born April 4, 1939) is an American politician and former Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oregon who represented the state's Template:Ushr.

A high school teacher by profession, she served as a city councilwoman, state legislator, and county commissioner in Oregon before being elected to the House in 1996. In her post-congressional career, she remains engaged in civic life in Oregon and works as a strategic planning consultant.

Early life

Darlene Kay Olson was born in Williston, North Dakota to Clarence Alvin and Alyce Rogers Olson, who were wheat farmers.<ref name=wic>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She moved with her parents to Salem, Oregon at the age of 8. She attended Salem Academy, and then Pasadena Nazarene College (now Point Loma Nazarene University) in southern California, where she also worked as a lifeguard.<ref name=mayer>Template:Cite news</ref> She returned to Oregon and earned her degree in education from Oregon State University in 1961, where she was on the basketball, field hockey, and rowing teams. Following her graduation, she taught reading, music, and high school physical education for eight years at schools in Woodburn, Gervais, and Portland.<ref name=wic/><ref name=mayer/> She also did post-graduate work at Oregon State and Portland State University.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link</ref>

Early political career

Hooley became interested in politics after her son was injured on a playground in West Linn.<ref name=mayer/> She was appointed to a parks advisory committee, and in 1976, became the first woman elected to serve on the West Linn City Council.<ref name=wic/> In 1980, Hooley was elected to the Oregon State Legislature and served as a State Representative until 1987. In the legislature she served in the lower chamber (Oregon House of Representatives) as a Democrat representing Clackamas County (District 27), succeeding Republican Ted Achilles.<ref name=OSA60>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} </ref><ref name=OSA61>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} </ref> She chaired the environmental and energy committees, helping to pass energy conservation and recycling legislation and worked on rewriting land use planning laws. In her third term, she chaired the education subcommittee of the ways and means committee.<ref name=wic/> As subcommittee chair, she is credited with leading reforms to Oregon's public kindergarten, pay equity laws, and welfare system.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link</ref> Hooley left the legislature in 1987 to accept a position on the Clackamas County Board of Commissioners.<ref name=mayer/>

U.S. House

Elections

In 1996, Hooley ran for the U.S. House of Representatives against one-term incumbent Republican Jim Bunn, who had been voted in as part of the Republican Revolution of 1994. Hooley won 51% of the vote in a field that included Bunn and two minor party candidates. Ironically, while Bunn's loss was attributed in part to his divorce and remarriage during his only term, Hooley also divorced during her first term in 1997.<ref name=ap>Template:Cite news</ref>

In the 2006 election, Hooley won a sixth term, defeating Republican Mike Erickson (who spent over $1 million of his own money), Green Paul Aranas, and Constitution candidate Douglas Patterson. She filed to run for a seventh term in 2008,<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Dead link</ref> but in February 2008 announced she would not seek an additional term, creating an unexpected open seat in the 2008 election.

Tenure

In her first term in the U.S. House, Hooley was elected House Democratic freshman class president.<ref name=wic/> Local political observers reported that she solidified support in her closely divided district, by staking out moderate positions, avoiding controversy and scandal.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In later terms, she was appointed to leadership positions in the House Democratic Caucus.<ref name=wic/>

Following the September 11, 2001 attacks Hooley, a member of the House Financial Services Committee, advocated adapting banking laws and acting to disrupt the financial foundations of terrorist networks.<ref name=2001oped>Template:Cite news</ref> She has also focused on issues surrounding identity theft prevention<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and increasing medical and financial privacy.<ref name=wic/> In 2003, she was a key sponsor of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act (HR 2622), which gave Americans the ability to receive free annual credit reports.<ref name=hool>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

She also focused on methamphetamines<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and ecoterrorism<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> legislation, and supported the Oregon Death with Dignity Act.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 2002, Hooley voted against the authorization of the use of military force in Iraq.<ref name=hr114>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> As a member of the Veterans' Affairs committee, she focused on issues of veterans' health care and deployment of National Guard troops to the Iraq War.Template:Citation needed

Hooley was a staunch advocate of a federal prohibition of online poker. In 2006, she cosponsored H.R. 4411, the Goodlatte-Leach Internet Gambling Prohibition Act.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She was also successful in directing federal funding to her district, including millions of dollars for transportation, timber, and agricultural interests.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link</ref>

Committees

She served on the Science and Technology, Energy and Commerce, and Budget committees. She was a House Senior Whip for the Democratic Party and a member of the New Democrat Coalition.

Electoral history

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1996		Template:Party shading/Democratic |Template:Nowrap	Template:Party shading/Democratic align="right" |139,521	Template:Party shading/Democratic |51%		Template:Party shading/Republican |Jim Bunn	Template:Party shading/Republican align="right" |125,409	Template:Party shading/Republican |46%		Template:Party shading/Libertarian |Lawrence Knight Duquesne	Template:Party shading/Libertarian |Libertarian	Template:Party shading/Libertarian align="right" |5,191	Template:Party shading/Libertarian align="right" |2%		Template:Party shading/Socialist |Trey Smith	Template:Party shading/Socialist |Socialist	Template:Party shading/Socialist align="right" |2,124	Template:Party shading/Socialist align="right" |1%	*
1998		Template:Party shading/Democratic |Darlene Hooley	Template:Party shading/Democratic align="right" |124,916	Template:Party shading/Democratic |55%		Template:Party shading/Republican |Template:Nowrap	Template:Party shading/Republican align="right" |92,215	Template:Party shading/Republican |41%		Template:Party shading/Green |Michael Donnelly	Template:Party shading/Green |Pacific Green	Template:Party shading/Green align="right" |3,637	Template:Party shading/Green align="right" |2%		Template:Party shading/Libertarian |Blaine Thallheimer	Template:Party shading/Libertarian |Libertarian	Template:Party shading/Libertarian align="right" |2,979	Template:Party shading/Libertarian align="right" |1%	*
2000		Template:Party shading/Democratic |Darlene Hooley	Template:Party shading/Democratic align="right" |156,315	Template:Party shading/Democratic |57%		Template:Party shading/Republican |Template:Nowrap	Template:Party shading/Republican align="right" |118,631	Template:Party shading/Republican |43%	*
2002		Template:Party shading/Democratic |Darlene Hooley	Template:Party shading/Democratic align="right" |137,713	Template:Party shading/Democratic |55%		Template:Party shading/Republican |Brian J. Boquist	Template:Party shading/Republican align="right" |113,441	Template:Party shading/Republican |45%	*
2004		Template:Party shading/Democratic |Darlene Hooley	Template:Party shading/Democratic align="right" |184,833	Template:Party shading/Democratic |53%		Template:Party shading/Republican |Jim Zupancic	Template:Party shading/Republican align="right" |154,993	Template:Party shading/Republican |44%		Template:Party shading/Libertarian |Jerry Defoe	Template:Party shading/Libertarian |Libertarian	Template:Party shading/Libertarian align="right" |6,463	Template:Party shading/Libertarian align="right" |2%		Template:Party shading/ConstitutionUSA |Joseph H. Bitz	Template:Party shading/ConstitutionUSA |Constitution	Template:Party shading/ConstitutionUSA align="right" |2,971	Template:Party shading/ConstitutionUSA align="right" |1%	*
2006		Template:Party shading/Democratic |Darlene Hooley	Template:Party shading/Democratic align="right" |146,973	Template:Party shading/Democratic |54%		Template:Party shading/Republican |Mike Erickson	Template:Party shading/Republican align="right" |116,424	Template:Party shading/Republican |43%		Template:Party shading/Green |Paul Aranas	Template:Party shading/Green |Pacific Green	Template:Party shading/Green align="right" |4,194	Template:Party shading/Green align="right" |2%		Template:Party shading/ConstitutionUSA |Douglas Patterson	Template:Party shading/ConstitutionUSA |Constitution	Template:Party shading/ConstitutionUSA align="right" |4,160	Template:Party shading/ConstitutionUSA align="right" |2%	*
Template:Refbegin* In 1996, minor candidates received 391 votes. In 1998, Natural Law candidate Jim Burns received 2,284 votes (1%); Socialist candidate Ed Dover received 1,378 votes; and minor candidates received 248 votes. In 2000, write-ins received 402 votes. In 2002, minor candidates received 383 votes. In 2004, minor candidates received 374 votes. In 2006, write-ins received 483 votes.Template:Refend

Post-congressional career

After leaving Congress, Hooley joined former Multnomah County Commissioner Lisa Naito in founding Hooley & Naito, a strategic planning and legislative advocacy firm.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Hooley remainsTemplate:When active in supporting veterans and established the Darlene Hooley Scholarship for Oregon Veterans, under the auspices of the Oregon Community Foundation.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2012, the City of Portland dedicated the Darlene Hooley Pedestrian Bridge, a bridge that connects the Lair Hill neighborhood to the South Waterfront district.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Hooley is a member of the ReFormers Caucus of Issue One.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

See also

• Women in the United States House of Representatives

External links

• Darlene Hooley for Congress official campaign site
• Hooley & Naito, LLC
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• Darlene Hooley Oral History Interview