Treasurer - Michael Radway

Mike Radway began canvassing as a four-year old when he dressed-up as a politician for Halloween and distributed flyers for the Democratic candidate for governor as he Trick-or-Treated. He inherited his political roots from his mother, a former Town Clerk, and his late father, a professor of government, state legislator, and former Chairman of the Democratic Party of New Hampshire. He was raised to believe that you couldn't take a candidate for President seriously unless he had visited your house at least once. He is thrilled that both his native state and his adopted state have transformed from red to blue.

Mike has been an active member of the DPO's Finance Committee, chairing its Grassroots Team and serving as communications director for both the DPO and Carry Oregon House Party Teams. He attended his first Democratic national convention in 1964 at the age of 10, served as an alternate platform committee member in 1972 at the age of 18, was a delegate to the 2000 Democratic national convention, and served on the Podium Security Team at the 2004 convention. He also serves as President of the Oregon Progress Forum, the 501(c)(3) affiliate of the Oregon Bus Project, a county precinct person, and has volunteered in numerous Oregon campaigns. If he had a nickel for every envelope he has stuffed, and every door he has knocked-on, he could finance his own presidential campaign.

In 1999 Mike was appointed by the Clinton administration to the first of two three-year terms as a Public Interest Director and Chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle, a $50 billion wholesale bank which provides funding for housing and community development in eight states in the Pacific Northwest (including Oregon). He also served as Chair of the national trade association for the Federal Home Loan Bank System. In addition to financing billions of dollars of housing and community development activities in the Pacific Northwest, Mike's bank gave away 10% of its earnings each year in grants to build or rehab low-income housing.

The highlight of Mike's political career was the internship he had in Washington after his freshman year in college when he sat next to John Lennon and Yoko Ono while John Dean testified before the Senate Watergate Committee, and later that summer watched Alexander Butterfield reveal the existence of of the White House taping system that ultimately led to Nixon's resignation.

Prior to moving to Oregon Mike spent 21 years working as legislative director for Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives and as a professional staff member for the House Banking Committee, where he served as a principal investigator for House Democrats during numerous GOP witch hunts launched against President Clinton, and where he also organized a successful effort to pass legislation overturning a 5-4 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court which made it difficult for consumers to join credit unions. Mike currently serves as the Senior Director of Government Relations for the Knowledge Learning Corporation, the Portland-based company which is the nation's leading provider of high quality early childhood education.

Mike is married to Stephanie Vardavas a sports marketing and product safety attorney at Nike. Stephanie is a recovering (many would say fully recovered) Republican. Her passion for baseball rivals his passion for politics and their combined memorabilia collections barely fit in their Laurelhurst home.