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November 04. 2014 8:05PM Buckley cruises to easy win in House race Incumbent state Rep. Peter Buckley, D-Ashland, easily held onto his District 5 seat, leading Republican and political newcomer Nick Card 15,479 to 8,523 in returns released at about 10 p.m. Tuesday. Buckley, 57, was first elected to the Oregon House in 2004. He served as chairman of the House Education Committee from 2007 to 2009 before taking over as co-chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, which controls the purse strings of the Legislature. Buckley says education is his top priority and he hopes to continue the rebuilding of K-12 education budgets that began in the 2013 session of the Legislature. Card, 25,  a  South Medford High School valedictorian who later earned an engineering degree from Harvey Mudd College, previously worked as a  patent engineer for a law firm in Mountain View, Calif. He has no political experience but ran a write-in campaign in May to earn the Republican nomination in the race for Buckley's seat.   http://www.mailtribune.com/article/20141104/NEWS/141109849 © 2015 Copyright © 1995-2011 Crain Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. Terms of Use Privacy Statement -->