[Photo: Congresswoman for Oregon from her congressional website.]

By Rowan Wolf

Last weekend Congresswoman for Oregon District 3, Maxine Dexter, MD, held an open forum in Gresham, OR. More than 1,000 people showed up, and the energy was high. On Wednesday, she was interviewed on TRMS and, that interview follows.

Dr. Dexter is a freshman Representative this year. Before this, she was in the Oregon Senate. She is a critical medical doctor and was my pulmonologist for about 15 years. I am proud to have her as my Representative as she is someone who is not only smart but who gets things done.

Rowan Wolf, PhD

I am a sociologist, writer and activist with life long engagement in social justice, peace, environmental, and animal rights movements. My research and writing include issues of imperialism, oppression, global capitalism, peak resources, global warming, and environmental degradation. I taught sociology for twenty-two years, was a member of the City of Portland’s Peak Oil Task Force, and maintain my site Uncommon Thought Journal. I may be reached by email at [email protected]. On a personal note, I am also a survivor of pulmonary hypertension by the gift of a donor’s lungs in 2011. I do my best to honor that gift by trying to be my best self and give to the world what small gifts I have. Among those is a deep passion for life, and the lives of all those with whom I share the planet.