Capital Press: "Ore. legislator to run for attorney general"

From the Capital Press, August 31, 2007.

Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers announced last week he will not seek re-election in 2008. A day later, Oregon Rep. Greg Macpherson, D-Lake Oswego, announced he will run for the post.

Macpherson, who was raised on a dairy farm near Albany, has a history of public service in his family. His father, Hector Macpherson, helped craft Oregon's land-use laws while serving as a state senator in the 1970s. His grandfather also served in the Legislature.

Macpherson is a chief supporter of Measure 49, which lawmakers crafted in the recently concluded 2007 legislative session as a means to scale back Measure 37.

Measure 37 is the property-rights measure Oregon voters adopted in 2004, which removed some restrictions from the land-use laws crafted by Macpherson's father in 1973.

Macpherson is the first candidate to jump into the race, but, according to the Associated Press, two other Democrats have expressed interest - Sen. Floyd Prozanski, D-Eugene, and Lewis & Clark Law School professor John Kroger.

No Republican candidates have emerged.