John Lim, a legislator from the Gresham area who has announced he is running for governor, wants to attract business and jobs to Oregon and find a place for Oregon in international trade.

“We need to change the state government, and I am going to bring the change,” said Lim, a 73-year-old Republican, on a visit to The New Era office on Oct. 28.

An unemployment rate at 12 percent is unacceptable, he said. Per capita income is 2 percent lower than the national average, he said, and that is also unacceptable.