Meet John Kroger
John Kroger is an award-winning former federal prosecutor and Lewis & Clark Law Professor. John is running for Oregon Attorney General to bring new ideas and new energy to the office. Read on to learn more!
Before he became a law professor, John spent his entire career in public service. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps, worked as a public policy expert for members of Congress and at the U.S. Department of Treasury and served as a federal prosecutor, where we won major cases against the Mafia, drug kingpins, and corrupt government officials. John served on the U.S. Department of Justice Enron Task Force, where he helped investigate and prosecute the corrupt Enron executives who defrauded millions of investors. He is currently a Professor at Lewis & Clark Law School, where he teaches criminal law and legal philosophy. To learn more about John's career, click here and to read an in-depth article, try here.
As Attorney General, John will pursue five main priorities: tackling Oregon's meth crisis, holding every polluter responsible, ensuring every parent gets the child support they deserve, protecting consumers from scam-artists and crooked companies, and defending our civil rights. You can learn more about John's priorities here and read an in-depth interview with John here, here, and here.
John has been endorsed by leaders and organizations across Oregon, including Gov. John Kitzhaber, The Sierra Club, the Oregon State Police Officers' Association, the Services Employees International Union (SEIU), 25 Oregon District Attorneys, and the Oregon Education Association. To see the full list, click here.
Newspapers across the state are covering John's campaign. The Eugene Weekly profiled John last November. Stories have also appeared in The Corvallis Gazette-Times, The Forest Grove News Times, and The Oregonian.
John is running a grassroots campaign focused on talking to individual voters about his priorities and vision for the Attorney General's office. You can help! Sign up to learn more by clicking here. To contribute to his campaign, click here.
Feel free to contact John Kroger for Attorney General at (503) 224-3316 or via email at info@johnkroger.com.
"I like John's deep courtroom experience and his thoughtful ideas for protecting our children and the environment. He's a fighter, and that makes him the right person for the job."
— Gov. John Kitzhaber
Salem Statesman Journal Endorses John!
Voters have 2 good choices for top attorney. Both are qualified for spot, but Kroger is our pick
[Kroger] would be aggressive at fighting crime and consumer fraud.
He wants to use anti-racketeering laws to go after meth dealers while promoting treatment to get people off drugs. He says the state has been too soft on polluters, and that his prosecution background would help hold repeat offenders accountable. He would improve efficiency in collecting child support — a major responsibility of the office — saying that is a key to reducing poverty...
The Statesman Journal Editorial Board believes that Kroger is the better choice. But Oregonians will do the hiring.
Grants Pass Daily Courier Endorses John!
Kroger's shown ability to crack down on crime (Registration required)
Oregon needs an aggressive attorney general capable of going to court to protect law-abiding citizens from drug dealers, scam artists and other criminals.
That's why the Daily Courier editorial board endorses John Kroger, an experienced trial lawyer, over fellow Democrat Greg Macpherson, a corporate lawyer and legislator, in the May 20 primary. Normally, the newspaper doesn't recommend in a party race, but the two Democrats are the only ones to file for attorney general, so one of them, in all likelihood, will replace departing Hardy Myers...
Meth is still flowing to Oregon addicts, though. Drug cartels with huge labs, mainly in Mexico, have taken over for the "mom-and-pop" operations. Mexican drug cartels have also set up marijuana plantations with tens of thousands of plants in the region recently, particularly in Northern California and Southern Oregon.
To combat these cartels, Oregon needs a tough, trial-tested attorney general, and Kroger fits the bill. Kroger teaches law at Lewis and Clark College in Portland now, but has served as a federal prosecutor, winning cases against the mafia and drug dealers and helping send to jail former Enron executives.
Despite his extensive experience at locking up criminals, Kroger wisely realizes just warehousing people won't solve the problems. He strongly advocates drug treatment for criminals, because much of crime is tied to drugs and because it's much more cost-effective than prisons.
Oregonians need to turn this experienced prosecutor loose on those who would do them harm by voting for him on the mail-in ballots that go out next week.
Medford Mail-Tribune Endorses John!
John Kroger: a better alternative to tradition
Kroger is as fine a candidate as the attorney general's race has seen in a long while. He should get Oregonians' vote in the race between two Democrats in the May primary...
