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Clean Sweep Campaigns

Paid $48K by Portland’s business-backed and conservative campaigns and PACs since January 2025.

Business & conservative side, 2025–26$48K

Progressive side, 2025–26—

Every Oregon committee, 2025–26$48K

Every Oregon committee, all years$168K1 committee since 2024

Who’s behind it

Michael Terris, Founder and partner. Founded Terris Communications in San Francisco in 1988, which became CleanSweep Campaigns. cleansweepcampaigns.com
Erica Walters, Partner. Joined 1998, partner since 2003; focuses on candidates, ballot measures and independent expenditures. cleansweepcampaigns.com
Alex Wara-Macapinlac, Partner. Former deputy district director in the California State Legislature. cleansweepcampaigns.com
David Tick, Partner / business manager. Runs finances, HR and political reporting; previously at the American Arbitration Association. cleansweepcampaigns.com
Dan Dimendberg, Partner / production manager. Joined 2007, partner since 2012; manages print and mail vendors. cleansweepcampaigns.com

Founded in 1988; says it ran "the nation's first domestic partnership campaign" in 1989. cleansweepcampaigns.com
Oregon clients listed include the Democratic Party of Oregon, Oregon Education Association, Oregon LCV, Our Oregon and Kate Brown. cleansweepcampaigns.com
National clients listed include the AFL-CIO, EMILY's List, the DCCC, SEIU and Sierra Club. cleansweepcampaigns.com

No other Oregon committee paid this firm since January 2025.

$168K from 1 committee since 2024. The biggest:

Portland race payments: the campaigns’ own ORESTAR filings. Other clients and all-years history: a Ballast vendor search of every Oregon committee in ORESTAR. Both pulled Oct 19, 2026.
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