"Vote for me and I'll get a clue"
Here's a howler from KGW. Carmen Rubio, Portland mayoral candidate and Park Blocks lumberjack, prattles on about how the city has no real plan for dealing with homelessness and the drug epidemic, but doggone it, any day now, she's gonna see to it that they get one.
She's been on the City Council since Dec. 28, 2020.
We’re leaders, we’re elected to serve the public, and the public counts on us to work it out and to figure it out. That’s our job. So we need to stay at the table, and keep staying at the table, until we work through these intractable problems, but together....
I say that I hear you and I see you and I understand the frustration — I hear it every single day. I hear it in businesses that I go talk to in the community and neighborhoods. My own neighborhood, in my own family even, there's frustrations expressed about it. And I will say that you are right, we have not had a system that is functional, that is meeting the moment, and that’s where our work is. It's unprecedented. Yes, we could not have expected it post-COVID — yes, but is it still our responsibility to stay at the table? Yes it is.
I love when the politicians talk about their "work." And the almighty "at the table." Priceless!
Please, Portland, pull the plug on this one. And don't let her slide on over to be the city manager, the way her mentor, Serena Cruz, has somehow done at the county. Back to the nonprofit industrial complex Rubio needs to go, and the sooner, the better.
Any time they're forced to actually articulate excuses (which isn't often), you can start the timer until the word "COVID" comes out. "Gongggg!" We need a new version of Godwin's Law for this.
ReplyDeleteWhere's Chuck Barris when you need him?
DeleteCarmen Rubio won her race with 67.5% of the vote. Candace Avalos came in second with only 9.0%.
ReplyDeleteBut that was before anyone knew how much of a waste of oxygen Rubio is. Avalos, on the other hand, broadcast that fact to the world during her campaign.
DeleteThe standing rule seems to be that anyone checking the right boxes gets a four-year trial, guaranteed.
DeleteEveryone in the know was aware what Carmen Rubio offered and what Latino Network actually does. She's cut from the dynastic kleptocratic cloth as many of the other scammers working in politics - as let's not forget that her mom is in the same business. Candace Avalos is in the same business too. These people don't offer ideas or action, they offer inaction and funding.
DeleteReminds me of someone who once said, “It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day. Every day it is time for us to agree that there are things and tools that are available to us to slow this thing down.”
ReplyDeleteKamala Harris?
DeleteAt some point, people need to get up from the table after they are done feeding from the endless pork buffet, and actually accomplish something.
ReplyDeleteEndless talking fixes nothing. At some point, you can't just collect hundreds of millions in taxes and perform endless studies. The only way to fix homelessness, is to bring down the cost of housing. And the best way to do that? BUILD MORE HOUSING.
It's like these clowns have never heard of supply-and-demand.
You must be new around here… In the City of Portland & Multnomah County, 95% of any expenditure has to go to support DEI efforts and the homeless industrial complex. That leaves 5% to do the actual project. By the time the project is “shovel ready,” there’s no dough left to do the project…and the pols are coming to the taxpayer for more.
DeleteThere are tons of examples of this: the Portland gas tax, the Metro homeless tax, preschool for none, PCEF…and on and on and on…
running against your own dismal record is the status quo around here.
ReplyDeleteThere has been no action on BUMS inc. because they are afraid to implement that only thing that works, direct intervention with teeth. And you know why? They are scared to death of cry babies. These days it's all about feelings. Look at all the "Anti-Hate" bills going around, pretending you can enforce peoples feelings. We're FFF'd.
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