Occupation: Owner & President KT Contracting
Company, Inc.; Owner, Highway Specialties LLC
Occupational Background: Business Owner; Entrepreneur,
Sales; Accounting; Computer Lab Technician; Software Developer; Construction
Projects Manager; Equipment Operator
Educational Background: Oregon City High School;
Portland State University; Instrument-Rated Certified pilot
Prior Governmental Experience: None
Community Activities: President, Oregon Contractors
Association; Volunteer Test Proctor, Oregon Concrete & Aggregate Producers
Assoc.; Church volunteer positions: Pianist; Family & Adoption Services;
Primary Teacher; Sunday School Teacher; Nursery Teacher, Assistant Librarian;
Cabin Mom for Girls Camp
Personal: Keizer Resident; Married 19 years; Mother
of four children; involved with Haven House for Battered Women; Member, National
Federation of Independent Business
“Kim Thatcher is the only Republican
candidate who opposed the
$1 billion tax increase (Measure 30) on seniors and families.
Kim will fight for taxpayers.”
-- Russ Walker, Citizens for a Sound Economy
MOTHER OF FOUR
BUSINESSWOMAN
PUBLIC SCHOOL PARENT
Oregon taxpayer:
Neil Cohen, Yamhill County Republican Chairman
State Senator Gary George, (Newberg)
State Representative Jeff Kropf
Mark Cooke, (Newberg)
Dick Bauer, (Keizer)
Debra Koller, (Keizer)
Lynette Olsen, (Keizer)
Chris and Celeste Mickelsen, (Keizer)
Tracy Larimer, (Keizer)
Oregon Family Farm Association PAC
Oregon Citizens for a Sound Economy PAC
Citizens for PERS Reform PAC
Neighborhood Preservation Committee
Taxpayer Defense Fund
Taxpayer Association of Oregon
Your Kids, Your Schools
Doc Titus, (Keizer)
Steve Ross, President, Ross Brothers Construction
Cassie Ross, Ross Crane and Rigging
Tom Larimer, TNT Dynamics Incorporated; President
Lowell Smith, Ph.D, School Psychologist
Rob Kremer, President, Oregon Education Coalition
Heidi Smith, Past President of a National Republican Women’s Organization
“Kim Thatcher runs two successful small businesses,
employing
more than 65 people. She knows how to find and eliminate
wasteful government spending.”
--Neil Nelson, Hi-Tech Executive and Keizer Resident