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Polity Staffing

Paid $50K by Portland’s business-backed and conservative campaigns and PACs since January 2025, and also paid by Democratic, labor or progressive committees this cycle.

What: Payroll service, mostly campaign staff wages; linked to C&E Systems
Where: Portland
Also files as: Polity Staffing LLC (Oregon #246173090)

Business & conservative side, 2025–26$50K

Progressive side, 2025–26—

Every Oregon committee, 2025–26$1.97M

Every Oregon committee, all years$1.97M51 committees since 2025

Registry links

Polity Group LLC, Polity Staffing’s registered agent, per the Oregon business registry. Polity Group does business as C&E Systems, the campaign treasurer and compliance firm data.oregon.gov
Jef Green, Polity Group LLC’s registered agent, per the Oregon business registry. The registry does not show who owns or manages Polity Staffing. data.oregon.gov

What to know

A payroll service: payments to it are mostly campaign staff wages. Polity Staffing LLC was registered in Oregon on Sept 2, 2025 (#246173090). Oregon business registry data
Its registered agent is Polity Group LLC, which does business as C&E Systems, the campaign treasurer and compliance firm. All three list the same office address. Oregon business registry data
In these races, C&E’s Jef Green is treasurer of record for 10 of the 15 candidate committees: all six business-backed candidates, Sharon Meieran, Mitch Green, Shannon Singleton and Jayne Cronlund. He is also treasurer for Unity PAC, Go Portland Go, Portland Alliance PAC, Oregon Prosperity Action Fund, Coalition for Portland’s Future, Fixing Multnomah County, Community Safety Coalition and Keep Portland Safe PAC, plus Gov. Tina Kotek and the House Democrats’ Future PAC. ORESTAR committee records, Oct 19, 2026
He is not treasurer for Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Esther León, Jamey Evenstar, Jeremy Beausoleil Smith or the billboard committees. ORESTAR committee records, Oct 19, 2026
C&E Systems itself was paid at least $1.45M in itemized fees by more than 430 Oregon committees in 2025–26 ($506K in 2025, $946K in 2026 through Oct 19). Its biggest clients are Gov. Tina Kotek ($118K) and Tobias Read ($54K). In these races: Eli Arnold $14K, Olivia Clark $11K, Steve Novick $10K, Eric Zimmerman $9K, Julia Brim-Edwards $8K. That excludes card-processing charges and payments under $100. ORESTAR payee search, Oct 19, 2026

Who paid it, Jan 2025 – Oct 2026

Portland city and county races

Julia Brim-EdwardsBusiness-backed side$17K
Sharon MeieranCounty Chair; grouped with the business-backed side$33K

Every other Oregon committee

Future PAC, House BuildersDemocratic, labor, progressive$645K
9 more Democratic, labor and progressive committeesDemocratic, labor, progressive$213K
SDLFDemocratic, labor, progressive$195K
Smaller committeesOther$117K
6 more local, judicial and measure committeesOther$113K
Elect Virginia StapletonDemocratic, labor, progressive$94K
Myrna for OregonDemocratic, labor, progressive$65K
Friends of Deb PattersonDemocratic, labor, progressive$58K
Friends of Daniel NguyenDemocratic, labor, progressive$57K
Lesly Munoz for OregonDemocratic, labor, progressive$53K
Friends of Em LevyDemocratic, labor, progressive$41K
Friends of Paul EvansDemocratic, labor, progressive$41K
Mark Gamba for OregonDemocratic, labor, progressive$40K
Friends of Tobias ReadDemocratic, labor, progressive$39K
Friends of Elizabeth SteinerDemocratic, labor, progressive$39K
Comunidad Con MariaDemocratic, labor, progressive$38K
Friends of Sara DuncanDemocratic, labor, progressive$38K
Fixing Multnomah CountyGrouped with the business-backed side$31K

Every Oregon committee, all years

$1.97M from 51 committees since 2025 (includes payments after our historical search was last updated). The biggest:

Future PAC, House Builders2025–2026$645K
SDLF2026$195K
Elect Virginia Stapleton2026$94K
Myrna for Oregon2026$65K
Friends of Deb Patterson2026$58K
Friends of Daniel Nguyen2026$57K
Lesly Munoz for Oregon2026$53K
Friends of Em Levy2026$41K
Friends of Paul Evans2026$41K
Comunidad Con Maria2025–2026$38K

Sources

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.
Oregon business registry data
Oregon business registry data