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Episode Date: May 12, 2026

State Rep. Werner Reschke, HD55, a talk on past votes, his support for GOP candidate Christine Drazan, open for business with Lisa McClees Kelly, Network in Action, and the crew from RISE DIRECT PRIMARY CARE.

This hour of the Bill Meyer Show podcast is proudly sponsored by Klauser Drilling. They've been leading the way in Southern Oregon well drilling for more than 50 years. Find out more about them at Klausor drilling.com. Now more with Bill Meyer. And the good political conversation continuing this pebble in your shoe Tuesday with State Representative Warner Rescue. It's House District 55 and my gosh, it's one of those helicopter, one of those helicopter where they call helicopter districts, because it's like bend to the border, isn't that right? That's correct. It's from Bend to the border and actually around the east side of Bend.

It's 148 miles tall, 70 miles wide. All right. And also, you have a sliver or at least a section of Jackson County, right? Actually, I don't right now. That's Representative McIntyre has the part of Jackson County. But Senator Alenthicum then has both Representative McIntyre and myself at my district. So 55 and 56. So she has the McIntyre and Olympicum have that sliver of. Jackson County. Okay, all right, because I thought back when Mike McLean had 55, there was a sliver.

But that was before redistricting, and now we're in redistricting. We did redistricting in 21, and they carved it up a little different. And so that's why we're not hearing that talk about redistricting in 2026, like we're hearing about in so many other states, right? So, so Democrat states, like you saw in Virginia, tried to redistrict their congressional maps to give them, I think from a pretty even split in that state to 10 to 1 got turned down. You've seen Republican states. I think I just read that Alabama Supreme Court has given them a path forward to redistrict Alabama. So it's more it doesn't draw in racial lines or consider race as part of the makeup of congressional districts.

Yeah, and the court approved that. Right. In Oregon, we were so poorly. drawn up, I would say, that's from my perspective. Democrats say they did an excellent job. Of course they do. But for this Republican said the congressional maps are drawn up so poorly that they can't do any worse. That's why you don't see any effort to say, we need to redistrict Oregon so we can get more. No, they've done as bad a job as they could. And so we're living with that now. Yeah, they did their job. Essentially, you have, let's see, out of six congressional districts,

you have five of them are are Democrat controlled. So you have, let's see, about 40% of the electorate is Republican or conservative leaning, and you have 16 and 2 thirds percent of the congressional seats. Right. And then if you look at the, add the two senators who are both Democrats as well, then it gets, the numbers get worse. Yeah, which makes, of course, very challenging when you're trying to get things done. Yes.

In Salem for sure here. And now, so nobody's running against you in your primary, right? primary no nobody stepped up which is fine by me all right and you'll probably have a token democrat i have i have a gentleman who is registered as democrat in the general election so i will have an opponent all right well very very good i think you're going to do just fine here i'm glad you stopped by while you're in town doing some some errands here i guess the you know i kind of want to bend your ear on the gubernatorial race because i'm sure i've been very frustrated for a number of weeks here because we're not doing debate

We're doing voter forum things every time, and I'm not seeing any real fight about this. Now, I know you're a fan of Christine Drazen. I am. I've worked with her. You've worked with her. She's now in the Senate. Right, right. But, and then we have a state rep at Deal who is running.

And he's worked with him too. And I have found, you know, good things about so many of the people that I've talked to, but no one, in my opinion, has really jumped out. Daniel Bethel, I think she's going to be a great candidate in the future. She's very... but there's no money, there's no gas in the tank, really, you know, in that. Right. And Chris Dudley, I don't know, it could be the wild card there.

He's the one that, you know, what do you think about people that are thinking because he is? I mean, I know he said that he was pro-life, let's be honest, he told him the Willamette Week that, and this was like last year, he tells the Willamette Week that he is his pro-choice. It's like, okay, well, where do you go on something I've got? Right. Tell me the truth then or in that last debate. was watching. Yeah, so again, I've endorsed Christine. Christine's a friend of mine. I've worked with her for six of the last eight years in the legislature. And during that time was mostly, she was the leader of the caucus. And so not only did she have my support, she had the caucuses support all House

Republicans, thought she was the best one to lead. And Christine, I've just seen time and time again take on Tina Kotech and win, or at least completely frustrated. the governor when she was the speaker. So if you go back to the redistricting, we were talking about that in 21, it was clear that we were going to lose that battle. So what do you do? Do you just say, well, we'll just fight and then we'll lose and we'll complain. No, Christine had a plan that she didn't share with anyone, but when you look back, you go, aha, she knows what she was doing. So we, at that time, she led us to read bills, which takes a long time. And we were slowing down the Democrat agenda in the long session in 21.

So much so, we were going so slow that Tina came to Christine and said, okay, what's it going to take to stop reading bills so I can get more of my stuff through? And Christine immediately said, I want three to three. I want equal number representation on the redistricting maps committee. So she got that. She got that. Okay. And she made it public.

They sat down and they made it public. So what Christine did is she set Tina up to either let that play out or what Tina eventually did was she formed another committee that was four to two and moved the maps to that committee and passed them. And so what you saw there was it was a Kobayashi-Maru for you Star Trek fans. It was a no-win scenario. And Christine said, how can I find a win in this? And the win it was to show who Tina Kotech was to the rest of Oregon. She's somebody who will make a promise in the moment and then break it when it's convenient for her. All right.

And yet the challenge I have with Tina, I'm sorry, not with Tina. I have all sorts of problems with Tina here. I'm sure you do. Because the thing is I would like to, and this is not being a, this is not a bigoted statement on my part here. But I know some may think it is. But it's just like I've had a kind of up to here with progressive, lesbian, being governors, kind of manhandling, with lack of a better term, you know, the state of Oregon policy. And I think there needs to be something done about this. My challenge with Christine has been,

and I know if it's a physicality, a lack of command presence there, is kind of sort of the mini-mouthed voice. And I know that's thin gruel. But yet right from the beginning, it kind of just like, I don't know if I can, you know, if I can handle this. I mean, what would you say to this. Right. I mean, in politics, impression and entertainment impression is reality. I know. That's what I was getting at. And so Christine, her stature is shorter. Her voice is, is feminine. And so for those men out there who want a strong voice to, you know, fight the conservative fight, you say, well, she's not it. Well, yeah, I've been over the squishy feminist. Right. And she's She's anything but squishy.

I mean, again, I've been in the trenches with her. I've seen her lead and she not only will, is conservative in her values, she will outmaneuver whoever she's trying to maneuver. And she's somebody you don't want to ever play chess with because she's thinking four steps, five steps ahead. And you may say, why are you doing this, Christine? This is the wrong thing to do. We need to do blah, blah, blah.

And then she'll lay out the plan because I'm going, here, here, here, and here. And then it's like, oh, why didn't I think of that? All right. Then I look back to some of the voting. Yep. And that's the challenge. And one of the challenges when you're a state rep or state rep.

You have a record. You do have a record. And there were votes that Christine made that made me just really scratch my head. Like there was the House Bill 2936, the equity bill. And this was the one that, you know, essentially went after the, you know, after the police departments. is essentially an anti-cop bill. And I don't know if you remember that vote. It was a few years ago.

And then there was the tampons in the boys' room vote and all these other things. And I know a lot of Republicans have been, you know, and I can't get past that. Right. Help me understand what's going on here. We'll just take the feminine hygiene bill, right? Yeah. And all House Republicans voted for that bill. All Senate Republicans voted against it.

They voted against it. So it came through the House and then went to the Senate. Senate and here's what happened all the committee and testimony in committee never mentioned boys bathrooms it was all women coming forward saying hey we need feminine hygiene products in the schools to be paid for by the state and so that was and when you read the bill when it says all bathrooms what do you think think of feminine hygiene products all bathrooms means women's bathrooms it's only between when it passed the house and when

to the Senate that somebody discovered know their intent was to go to every bathroom. So all the testimony we heard, all the arguments on the House floor, everything we heard. Nobody read the bill? We read the bill. It's at all. But when you're not living in a woke world, right? When your worldview is there are men and women and that men don't need feminine hygiene products, when you see the word all, you're thinking, okay, every woman's bathroom. Okay. You're not thinking because I voted for that bill. And that amendment was... And that's why I asked you. I voted for that bill because I thought, yes, and I grappled what should the state pay for feminine hygiene products? And I got to the point where I said, yeah, I think in public spaces that that is, that's okay. But no way in the world did I think,

and I know Christine thought that this meant men's bathroom. And so by the time it came out that, oh, yes, that's what they planned to do. And that's how ODE, Oregon Department of Education, was going to, interpret this law and implement this law, that's why all Senate Republicans voted no. Yeah. Okay. And I understand that part. So I get, I understand the context of this a little better, and I appreciate that. Yeah. But then there's the, the bills to get rid of mugshots, the anti-police equity bill, all of this stuff during the, and, and these were things that were pushed. It was, this was during special sessions in 20, I think 20, 2020, We were in COVID lockdown mode, masks, all this stuff.

And then, you know, BLM was a big deal. And so... Oh, and the other thing is that she ended up putting out that tweet. I think it was on that, well, X or whatever, ex post that justice has been done right then. That was a political railroad job. Yeah, it was... I didn't necessarily... I think I voted no on some of those bills.

Some of them I did... One of the person in our caucus who is in charge of looking through and vetting those things said that they were, quote, okay. And I think as leader, she went through with that. But I just voted no just as a protest vote because one of the bills I know I voted no because it started as whereas black lives matter. And so all I had to do is read the first line and said, no, I'm not in. Even if the rest of the bill is good, wholesome, pure as the wind-driven snow, that first. line I did not agree with, even though it's a whereas clause, I said, no, I'm not in on this. Okay. So those were some of the questions I've had about, because there's a voting record.

Right. And it's been a pretty serious voting record. And that's why, so you're thinking that what I'm taking it out of context or critics are taking out of context? I think, I don't think you are. I think critics are. I think, you know, you look at a vote and go, well, how could you, blah, blah, blah. And so, especially on the tampon or the feminine hygiene. product bill to understand how that came forward in the context that it was being viewed at, viewed as by House Republicans, what was, it is an important backstory to understand why people voted yes. There was no way on God's Green Earth that I thought I was voting for feminine hygiene products in boys' bathrooms. I mean, that was. So nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody in the House

Republican caucus thought that. And I'll say that amendment that changed. the bill and added more, basically what it did is it added more money into the bill. And it happened in ways and means education subcommittee, which I was on. Now, we're in COVID lockdown. So we're not in a committee room. We're all in our offices on Zoom and little squares. And so there, it's hard to read people's body language. It's hard to look around and see what's going on. So that makes it more difficult then. But the other thing on the docket that day was the higher education budget. It was like $2.2 billion. And we're doing. dealing with this one little bill, it's $500,000. I can't remember what it was, but it was

minuscule compared to the, so my focus was on banging against the higher education budget, making sure that was good, and they slipped this amendment in. I thought, okay, well, they maybe had to update the numbers because, but nobody said, the nonpartisan staff said nothing about men's bathrooms. Again, all the testimony was not about men's bathrooms. So it was, This was all omitted then. It was just kind of all... But there was the assumption that this was just female bathrooms. Wouldn't you think that?

I mean... I know I wouldn't think that in a same state in a same world, right? And we thought we were in a sane world, but apparently we are not. So, yeah. Okay, all right. So I get some of that. But anyway, I express some of the issues that... Yeah, no, I get it.

And, you know, as a legislator, I've been doing it now for going on 10 years. and are there votes that I'd like to redo, right? When you look back and go, yeah, yeah, there are. There are votes that I thought maybe I should have voted no or maybe I should have voted yes. And you just do the best you can in the moment. And there's a lot that gets thrown at you, but still nobody's perfect. Yeah, could you explain to me how the vote gets? I forget the name of the bill, right?

But it had to do with a funding organ health plan, I think is what it was. Okay. And a lot of people have been, I shouldn't see a lot, but many have written and grumbled about a vote that was taken that ended up paying for, and ended up also paying for health care for illegal aliens in the state of Oregon. Healthy Oregon or healthier Oregon. Yeah. Okay. And if I recall correctly, the way it's been explained to me, and I don't know if I'm right about this, if you're voting for funding for Oregon Health Plan, you don't get to pick and choose that. Do you necessarily?

Right. What comes before a legislator is the Oregon Health Authority budget. And there's a gazillion things in that. It's $41 billion. It's one third of our overall budget is Oregon Health Authority. It's insane amount of money. And it's one budget bill. It's got a whole bunch of stuff in it.

And so you can vote yes or you can vote no. I typically vote no because I think the organization is bloated. And what we're finding out is that health care for. all is really, really, really expensive, right? I think you actually voted yes on that one, did I? I don't know. I don't think I voted for the Oregon Health Authority bill, but maybe I voted for in healthier Oregon I don't think I've ever voted for. Matter of fact, I was when I was in Ways and Means in 23, I was pretty adamant against the fact that we were going to fund health care for illegal immigrants. But what I was making, what I was trying to, and I, the way I was

explaining it to people is that the way I think the budget process works is that you don't get to pick and choose. You can't vote to fund the agency. No. And then say, well, but I want to strip, you and you don't have the power to strip out the funding for health care for illegal aliens. Right. You can introduce an amendment to do that, but the Democrats will never take that up. So basically the budget writers, which are Democrats, put forth the budget, and you vote yes or no. And there might be a lot of good things in there, a lot of good things that help your community and there may be some poison awful gross things. And so my vote isn't going to pass the bill or not pass the bill. Democrats are going to pass it. So then I have to decide, am I going to vote yes?

Well, would it be better just to say no to it though? Yeah, I just depends on the bill. But yeah, I typically try to vote no as much as I can just to say I oppose this process. I oppose this, budget priority. Because budgets are priorities, right? You make so much money a year, and you set aside so much for vacation, you set aside so much for food and so much. And if you get into a budget crunch, you have to decide, okay, well, maybe I don't go on a two-week vacation. I go on a five-day vacation, and it's to Jacksonville. Hey, everything in the Oregon State Legislature, though, it's a permanent vacation. I guess that's the way that works.

So, yeah, okay. It's priorities. I appreciate you at least sharing some of the thought process. behind there because I'll tell you that's one of the reasons why I've had that bad taste in my mouth on the Dresin campaign for a long time. Yeah, yeah. And I don't want to just be, you know, just a total, it's not personal. No, no, and that's great. You know, like I was telling you before, the, the people that I run in that have just hatred for her, and I'm not going to name who they are, but they're out there and usually have a personal issue with her that isn't political. So you say,

are is she a second amendment's right person yes and then you find somebody who's a real staunch second amendment rights person against her it's like well that that doesn't make sense and then when i dig deeper it's like oh oh there's a backstory that's personal and boy we don't get along with everybody and everybody uh so so i get i get personal conflicts but i try to make sure that in politics that i'm putting policy above personality all right Warner, I appreciate you coming in for a few minutes and talking about that. And I hadn't really planned on talking about the gubernatorial race, but the fact that you, like Christine Drazen, I wanted to find out why. Yeah.

Because you worked for her. Right. I worked with her. And I've just seen her leadership skills and her ability to think ahead. And I would say nobody knows state government like she does. She was in the legislature in the 2000s as the chief of staff of the speaker. And so she saw how the system worked. Then she came back as a legislator 20 years later and just picked up where she left off.

And I think she's going to be a fantastic governor for all right. Well, I appreciate you coming in. You were welcome anytime you're in town. Thank you. And even if you're not in time, you're still welcome. All right. Thank you. Warner Reschke.

And, of course, you can find out more about his campaign. Warner for Oregon, W-E-R-N-E-R-N-E-R-O-R-O-Gon.com. All right. Appreciate it greatly. Good seeing you. Thank you. Thank you very much. This is the Bill Meyer Show.

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and maybe membership organizations you'd like to find out more. For example, network and action. Hello, Queen Bee. Good morning. Great to have you. That's, of course, Lisa McLeese, Kelly. And for those who don't know who've been under a rock, we've talked with many people from Network and Action over the last couple of years here,

what's it all about and why is it so important for the Southern Oregon business community, huh? So we are a group of business owners and high-level professionals that get together once a month. This is a membership organization. And we have a different agenda every month. And our goal is to learn to grow personally, professionally, and, of course, grow our business through referrals. Okay. And what do you have open right now? Because you always make this business specific when you have a group that, you know,

you're not going to have two real estate people. You're not going to have two physicians in the same group, right? What do you have available? Correct. So in our grants past group, we're looking for a massage therapy. actually in all of our groups, our Christian group, Medford group, and Grants Pass group, we're looking for massage therapists. And in the Grants Pass group, we're looking for a mortgage broker and an electrician. All right. And what do you think has been the best aspect about us? I'll certainly

ask your guest this morning what, you know, at least what they're thinking. Well, what I hear most, it's the relationships. It's that I push them to go out of their comfort zone and make them grow. So that's the biggest feedback. And then I just wanted to tell you. that this week is actually Visitors Day week. So if you have not been a visitor and you would like to come, go ahead and contact me at Lisa at s0 networking.com, because this week it's all airline themed, which is why I'm dressed like this.

Oh, I was wondering about this. I've never seen you like this. It's like, how united? Or at least, I don't know if it's the vintage. Is that still the United? Look, I haven't flown for a little while. I know. You fly more than I do.

I fly all the time. But we're going to ask deeper questions, but we're going to have fun while we're doing it. Okay, very good. Glad to hear that. Hey, Lisa, why don't you just move aside here just for a moment and bring Dorian Billings over here? And Dorian is here, and we also have her new medical provider, Stacey. Hi, Stacey. How you doing? Good morning.

Great. Good morning to you. And then let me start with you, Dorian. You are the owner of Rise Direct Primary Care. And tell us a little bit about that because you just joined Network Connection or have you been a member for a while. I've been a member of Network Connection for about six months now. All right. And your address is 800 East Main Street in Medford and direct primary care. I've been a huge fin of this. And I've talked with people like Dr. Jane Orient MD of various medical groups here, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. And she has just been crowing about this for years and years and years. And so I'm glad to meet you with this.

Tell us what it is, what it means, why it is so special right now and what you're offering. Yes, so a lot of issues with traditional insurance-based practices have to do with the insurance itself. They restrict the length of time that you're allowed to see a patient, how frequently you need to see a patient, the treatments you can order. Direct primary care just frees us entirely from those restrictions. So we don't accept or bill any insurance. We're paid directly from the patient on a monthly-based subscription. And that way we can do same-or-next-day visits, longer appointment times through your provider, direct access via caller text. Okay. Is this a what would be termed concierge care too?

It's essentially how you would be treated is effectively the same as concierge is the subscription and they bill your insurance. We do not bill your insurance. Okay. And you are accepting patients right now. Yes, we are accepting patients. Now, you are, let's see, an RN and the owner, but you're not the medical provider per se. I'm not. So my husband and I opened it together and he is a medical provider.

He's a family nurse practitioner. His panel is full. Okay. And the newest medical provider is your guest. that you brought in here. And I wanted to say hi to Stacey. Stacey, is it Antaya? Antaea. Okay. Tell me a little bit about you, why you joined and what's going on there? The main reason I joined is because I want more time with my patients and I want them to have better access to their primary care medical provider. And of course, working with Brett and Dorian is such an honor. It really truly is a neighborhood clinic where we care,

for our patients, and I think that's a rare trend these days. Well, I'll tell you, in the insurance model, the one thing I've discovered is that I always jokingly refer to the primary care physician in the insurance model as it's my imaginary friend who I get to see for 10 minutes, you know, once a year. Absolutely. And that's not the way it works when they... No, so we, I mean, the initial visit is an hour. So it gives us plenty of time to really understand,

your health goals, your history, and then visits after that are scheduled for 45 minutes. We often have same day, next day appointments. This sounds like a, this is like unknown in the insurance world. It's, you do know that. Absolutely. Absolutely. I've worked traditional model and I am deeply satisfied. And I feel like I can bring my best to the table for my patients.

And it's a pleasure. And so it's not just a whole lot of hurry up and, uh, and get you in and out of there. That's amazing. Now, what made you want to open this up, if you don't mind me asking Dorian? Yeah, my husband worked several years in a primary care clinic, saw a lot of the pitfalls of insurance-based models. And I worked in the emergency department, and we saw, we sort of caught a lot of the pitfalls of primary care. I couldn't reach my provider. I have strep.

I couldn't reach my provider. I have a UTI, and last time I got septic, and I need antibiotics. Now, they're not answering me. Yeah, forget about it, right? Yes. So we thought, how can we catch these people? How can we serve these people? because primary care, when it's not broken, should be able to meet all of these people's needs.

How can we create that? Okay. And how does the economic model work? Is it subscription-based? Yeah. So it's a flat monthly fee every month, and that gets you unlimited primary and minor urgent care visits, also urgent care type medications, steroids, antibiotics. You need a prescription for an antibiotic or something?

Yes. Yes. So you can actually leave our office with your antibiotics in hand because we're dispensing pharmacy as well, included in your membership. It just gets better. Okay. But it is a flat monthly view. Again, we don't bill your insurance at all, and it's essentially all-inclusive. You know, when you see all the challenges happening where there are hospital systems and with the surgery centers closing, and are you like a relief valve of sorts, almost like a safety valve in the medical world? I don't know if that's a good analogy. Yeah, I like to say we're in your corner. We're here for you. So a lot of times the health care system in general is difficult to navigate. Our providers are familiar.

with the area, how everything works. So even if we cannot meet the need, we can't do the surgery, we have a lot of contacts in the community. We can get you on the right trajectory as fast as possible. All right. And how do people find out more about you and join if they wish to find out more? Yes. Our phone number is 541-827-8603, and we can call or text on that number. And then we're located on 800 East Main Street. And our website is Rise Health, DPC.com. All right. I'll put that on KM&E.com. And one more question I would have for you. Networking and action, network and action, how's that helped? Yeah, it's been tremendous. There's an old adage in business that if your business isn't growing, it's dying. And I think just having

something consistent that keeps you on that growth mindset. And you have people that are ahead of you in your business, behind junior business. You all just get together and help each other. It's invaluable. Dorian, Stacey, thank you so much. It's great getting a chance to meet you. Thank you. I'm really thrilled to see more direct primary care starting to grow here in southern Oregon. I hope this is a trend that keeps going. Yeah, we love what we do. We'd love people to be a part of it. All right. Thank you very much. And once again, this is Rise Direct Primary Care 827-80603. I'll get the information up on my webpage, okay? And Lisa, one more time. This is Visitors Week, you said. Okay. And give me the lowdown, how they get a hold of you if you wanted to find out more.

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