Crawley joins U.S. Senate race

A Portland attorney is the sixth person to announce he’ll run as a Republican for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.

Tim Crawley, 31, grew up in Oregon and has degrees from Williams College in Massachusetts and the University of California-Hastings College of Law. He most recently served as a volunteer law clerk for Magistrate Judge Thomas Coffin in the U.S. District Court of Oregon.

Other Republican candidates seeking to challenge Merkley are state Rep. Jason Conger, R-Bend; Salem information technology consultant Mark Callahan; Jo Rae Perkins, former Linn County GOP chair; and Portland surgeon Monica Wehby.

Bend resident Sam Carpenter, who announced his candidacy the same day as Conger, has bowed out of the GOP primary.

— Bulletin staff report