Carmen Rubio is a candidate for Portland Mayor.
Rubio is a current Portland City Commissioner, who oversees the Housing Bureau, the Planning and Sustainability Bureau, the Bureau of Development Services, and Prosper Portland. Taking office in 2021, she made history as the first Latina to serve on Portland City Council.
Rubio’s resume includes serving as the Executive Director of Latino Network and as a staffer to Multnomah County Commissioner Serena Cruz, Portland Mayor Tom Potter, and Portland City Commissioner Nick Fish. She is a 2009 graduate of Emerge, a Portland-based candidate training school for Democratic women.
Rubio’s policy priorities include enhancing community safety through programs like Portland Street Response, addressing homelessness and housing by facilitating shelters and increasing affordable housing production, and leading permitting reforms to streamline city processes. She also advocates for establishing a Clean Energy Hub in Portland and updating the city’s Renewable Fuels Standard to transition away from traditional fossil fuels.
For more information about Carmen Rubio and a full list of endorsements, please visit her campaign website.
Media links:
- KATU: Know Your Candidates
- Portland Mercury Endorsement (“Rank Carmen Rubio First”)
- League of Women Voters Candidate Interview: Carmen Rubio
- League of Women Voters Candidate Forum City of Portland Mayor
- KOIN ‘Eye on NW Politics’: City Commissioner Carmen Rubio addresses her parking violations, endorsement losses in mayoral campaign
- KGW ‘Straight Talk’: Portland mayoral candidates Rene Gonzalez and Carmen Rubio make final pushes as election nears
- The Oregonian: Portland mayoral hopeful Carmen Rubio, dogged by driving record, damages parked Tesla, then walks away
- KOIN ‘Eye on NW Politics’: Carmen Rubio loses mayoral endorsements following driving record reports
- The Oregonian: Carmen Rubio, a leading candidate for Portland mayor, racked up 150 parking, traffic violations, 6 driver’s license suspensions
- Willamette Week: Carmen Rubio Has an Impressive Résumé. But She Hasn’t Voiced a Vision for the City.
- KOIN ‘Eye on NW Politics’: And now there are three: Portland City Commissioner Carmen Rubio on her candidacy for mayor
- KATU ‘Your Voice Your Vote’: Portland mayoral candidates Gonzalez, Rubio
- KGW ‘Straight Talk’: Carmen Rubio discusses homelessness, crime, climate crisis in bid for Portland mayor
- Willamette Week: Rubio and Gonzalez Spar Over Clean Energy Fund
- Portland Mercury: Portland 2024 Mayoral Candidates
- KPTV: Commissioner Carmen Rubio announces campaign for Portland mayor
- Willamette Week: Carmen Rubio Is Running for Portland Mayor
- Commissioner Rubio ready to head new bureaus: housing, development, business
- Carmen Rubio Becomes 1st Latina To Win Portland Council Seat