An interesting candidate

I continue to look around to see if there's anybody worth voting for in May. I live in one of the districts electing a Multnomah County commissioner this time around. It's District 2, the one Sushi Jayapal is leaving to try to go nepo with her sister in Congress. So we get to choose somebody to fill in for the rest of her term on the commission.  In the meantime (and it may go through a runoff in November), we get her literally hand-picked temp, Jesse Beason, who's outrageously moonlighting from a cushy gig as the "executive director" of a nonprofit.

So who's running for the Jayapal seat? I see five names. The one that jumps out is Sam Adams. Automatic no on that one. Then there are a couple of "equity" managers from the county and state bureaucracies. More automatic no's. That narrows it down to Nick Hara, a tech bro who's worked for AOC; and Jessie Burke, who runs and at least partially owns the Society Hotel in Old Town.

I see that Burke was the person who got kicked off Governor Kohoutek's farcical street crisis "task force" for not toeing the party line on some issues. She's involved in the campaign to have Nathan Vasquez replace Mikey Schmidt as county D.A. – a campaign that I very much support, but Burke's involvement raised some hackles somewhere.

That's enough for me to read. Unless some fatal flaw emerges, I'll be voting for Burke, and urging others to do the same.