I, Tom Lum Forest, have written every word on this site. I am writing it for you, just one person whose eyes are scanning these pixels and whose mind is processing the words.  While I am visualizing you as a voter in Oregon House District 31 for the May 19, 2026 Democratic Primary election, I expect that some other people will read it too. That’s OK, but not my priority. I’m not interested in political science per se, and don’t use that language or framing for issues, but rather language that focuses on your thoughts and feelings and mine, as well as my knowledge and experience. I also took every picture on the site except for my profile pic (at least until I replace it with a selfie). 

This site is templated from HeyVictor via ActBlue. I bought the domain from GoDaddy. Donations route through ActBlue. They collect a 3.5% service charge on every donation. Although the programming code for this site isn’t exactly what I’d have written, it’s good enough for the purpose at hand.  I didn’t write a single line of it. Yay! Well, OK, I did edit some of the auto-generated CSS and HTML, particularly where they autogenerate a blank paragraph when I only want a line break. If I had designed it, my first change would be to detect the platform you’re viewing from and adjust the content for laptop, tablet, or phone. To my eyes it’s got an awkward one-size-fits-all look.

For my voter information and outreach data  I’m using Votebuilder, and ScaleToWin for my outreach itself. I installed an API from Votebuilder to connect it to ScaleToWin and bought a credential from Campaign Verify to rent a phone number to text from. I’ve also done all this setup and run the texting myself.