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Mr. Dudley, the state's Department of Geology and Mineral Industries estimates that 300,000 Oregon school children attend classes in public buildings at high or very high risk of collapse in a strong Cascadia earthquake. Your children, attending schools in Lake Oswego, are very likely among them.

As Governor, what would you do to prepare Oregon for the powerful Cascadia quake scientists say is inevitable here? What steps would you advocate to protect Oregonians, and how would you pay for them?

Today, millions of California residents are taking part in the Great California ShakeOut, a statewide preparedness exercise. We are behind California in this area. Will you be the Governor who takes real steps, and invests real funds, to prepare our state?

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Three years ago, Oregon’s Department of Geology and Mineral Industries surveyed 2,182 K-12 public school buildings and identified 1,018 buildings at high or very high risk of collapse when the next Cascadia Quake strikes the state. An estimated 300,000 Oregon children attend the schools at risk.

Oregon State University scientists now calculate the likelihood of a Cascadia Quake within the next fifty years at 37 percent, three times higher than previous estimates of major earthquake risk.  A Cascadia Quake could strike at any time. When a quake of comparable power struck Chile earlier this year, 4,013 public schools sustained damage.

My question for John Kitzhaber and Chris Dudley is this: If elected, what steps will you take during your term to protect 300,000 Oregon children by strengthening Oregon’s public schools to withstand our Katrina, the next Cascadia Quake? How should the state pay for this essential investment in school resilience?

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