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Portland Clean Air
Paid $17K by Portland’s business-backed and conservative campaigns and PACs since January 2025, and also paid by progressive Portland candidates this cycle.
What
Anti-pollution group that also runs paid canvassing
Every Oregon committee, all years$736K38 committees since 2013
Who’s behind it
Greg Bourget, Executive Director and Lead Researcher; registered agent of both nonprofit corporations. Long-time Portland air-quality activist; authored neighborhood air-pollution reports. portlandcleanair.org
Seth Woolley, Board Chair (also database and media contact). Helped write Portland and Multnomah County campaign-finance-limit measures; ran for Portland City Council in 2020 (fifth, with 4%). portlandmercury.com
What to know
It also files as its own Oregon committee (#16154). Its earlier canvassing clients include the Portland Clean Energy Fund measure, Honest Elections and Oregon People’s Rebate. ORESTAR
Its board chair, Seth Woolley, is the elections watchdog who filed the Oct 5 complaint against the Chamber-funded billboard committees. Portland Mercury, Oct 6, 2026
Describes itself as "opposed to Coal Train Dust and Industrial Pollution." portlandcleanair.org
Woolley helped write the Portland and Multnomah County campaign-finance-limit measures (Honest Elections, also a past client). Portland Mercury
Eli Arnold’s payments went to Portland Clean Air Fund and Jeremy Beausoleil Smith’s to Portland Clean Air; both campaigns reported them as canvassing. ORESTAR
Who paid it, Jan 2025 – Oct 2026
Portland city and county races
Eli ArnoldBusiness-backed side$17K
Jeremy Beausoleil SmithProgressive side$28K
Every other Oregon committee
Oregon Election Reform CoalitionOther$13K
Every Oregon committee, all years
$736K from 38 committees since 2013. The biggest:
Oregon People’s Rebate2022–2024$171K
Portland Clean Energy Fund2018$65K
Friends of Seth for Portland2019–2020$60K
Committee to elect Tim DuBois2019–2020$47K
Honest Elections: Fight Political Corruption and Require Disclosure and Transparency2023$40K
Honest Elections Portland2018$34K
Lift Every Voice Oregon2022$33K
Tenants Organizing Against Displacement2022$32K
Jeremy Beausoleil Smith for Portland City Council2026$28K
Portland Clean Air2018–2021$25K
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.