Kell Fox is an Oregon tech veteran, father of three queer children, and son of an immigrant.

Kell Fox is an Oregon tech veteran, father of three queer children, son of an immigrant, running to represent Oregon House District 40 in Salem.

After thirty years in the tech sector, managing million-dollar budgets and leading complex teams, I planned to wind down toward retirement. Instead, I watched something break across America — and right here in Oregon.

Billionaires bought social media platforms to amplify hate. A multi-billionaire gave a Sieg Heil salute on national television in support of a multi-billionaire President. Project 2025 and White Christian nationalism goose-stepped  into the mainstream. Oregon Republicans parroted lies about “war-torn Portland” during the ICE protests, undermining our own communities for partisan gain.

For me, that was the line.

I realized nobody was coming to fix this for us — unless regular people step up. So I did.

I am running for the Oregon House in HD 40 because the system is rigged, and working- and middle-class families are paying the price: higher rent, higher groceries, stagnant wages, and a political system that treats corporate money like a VIP pass.

I am committed to:

  • Making Oregon affordable for working families

  • Breaking the tax loopholes that let generational wealth escape fair taxation

  • Getting millionaire and corporate money out of politics

  • Building firewalls against rising authoritarianism

  • Respecting Oregon’s sanctuary status, protecting law-abiding, taxpaying immigrants from unconstitutional arrest and deportation

  • Protecting LGBTQ+ youth and defending civil rights

  • Restoring integrity and truth in Oregon’s political institutions

I am not a career politician. I am a rookie who believes the numbers tell a story that the narrative doesn’t. I have the fortitude to listen and learn while refusing to hand Oregon to extremism and greed.

My approach

I am aware that this is a fight I will not live to see finished. The inequality is decades in the making. The solution won’t end with me, or any one legislator. It will take many legislative sessions and careful analysis to enact these changes. But the work starts now.

  1. Analysis - Start with the numbers to discover meaningful areas of hidden wealth without hurting working families.

  2. Opportunity - work with non-governmental organizations who have boots on the ground to identify key areas of need, so that revenue can be applied most effectively to education, housing, mental health, and the looming environmental crisis.

  3. Refinement - working collaboratively with like-minded legislators and activists to craft meaningful change. 

  4. Repeat. Listen and learn. Never give up.

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