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Springwater Partners
Paid $202K 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
Political consulting: campaigns and ballot measures
Where
Lake Oswego, Oregon
Business & conservative side, 2025–26$202K
Progressive side, 2025–26—
Every Oregon committee, 2025–26$514K
Every Oregon committee, all years$3.94M64 committees since 2012
Who’s behind it
Paige Richardson, owner. Sits on the board of Emerge Oregon or.emergeamerica.org
What to know
Willamette Week reported that Richardson helped design a poll for business leaders, including Columbia Sportswear CEO Tim Boyle, on repealing Preschool for All. She told the paper, “I often don’t agree with them on policy issues.” Willamette Week, Apr 4, 2025
In August 2026 Community Safety Coalition, the committee behind the failed initiative to move Clean Energy Fund money to police, paid it $10K. ORESTAR
It ran Jo Ann Hardesty’s 2022 campaign ($418K) and Chloe Eudaly’s 2020 campaign ($168K). ORESTAR
She ran the 2024 independent expenditure for Carmen Rubio for mayor. The day before the election, it moved $40,000 to the PAC behind “Don't Rank Rene”. Willamette Week
Who paid it, Jan 2025 – Oct 2026
Portland city and county races
Olivia ClarkBusiness-backed side$103K
Kellie TorresBusiness-backed side$99K
Every other Oregon committee
Rep. Daniel NguyenDemocratic, labor, progressive$146K
Hank SandersOther$58K
We Care for OregonOther$43K
Peter for JudgeOther$21K
Rep. Lisa ReynoldsDemocratic, labor, progressive$19K
Savage for JudgeOther$13K
Community Safety CoalitionOther$10K
Virginia La Forte (school board)Other$3K
Every Oregon committee, all years
$3.94M from 64 committees since 2012. The biggest:
Jo Ann for Portland City Council2022$418K
Friends of Daniel Nguyen2018–2026$324K
Building Our Future Together2023$270K
Friends of Olivia2024–2026$217K
Chloe for Portland2020$168K
Yes for Our Schools2018$166K
Friends of Lori Stegmann2016–2020$165K
Eddy’s Community Power PAC2020–2022$143K
Friends Of Mt. Hood Community College2016$126K
Vote Yes on Measure 92: We have the right to know what’s in our food2014–2015$123K
Earlier: Jo Ann Hardesty 2022 ($418K), Chloe Eudaly 2020 ($168K), Carmen Rubio 2020 ($109K), Olivia Clark 2024 ($114K), Democratic Party of Oregon 2024 ($73K), the 2020 police-oversight measure ($66K).
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.