Portland District 1: A first cut
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| (L to R) Hayes, Allen, Clove, Ernst. |
With that in mind, I thought I'd better turn my gaze to District 1 next, as I take my first cut at the candidates. (I already sized up District 2 here, with an amendment here). Whoever takes the three District 1 seats in the book club will likely be there for four years, at least.
There are actually a few candidates talking like grownups in District 1, and if I lived out there, I'd be blackening the circles for them: Terrence Hayes, Doug Clove, Noah Ernst, and Joe Allen.
Alas, there are seven that I clearly wouldn't vote for and wouldn't want to win: Candace Avalos, Jamie Dunphy, Timur Ender, Steph Routh, Thomas Shervey, Loretta Smith, and Cayle Tern. Each has at least one fatal flaw; some have many more than that.
As for the others (the city shows 16 candidates all told for the three slots), I'm leaning against them but could be persuaded one way or the other. Indeed, as my District 2 posts show, I could be persuaded to change my mind on just about any of the 16 if I had more info and heard a compelling argument. Readers, the floor is yours.
UPDATE, Sept. 27: My first cut on District 3 is here.
ReplyDeleteSince you're in the same bucket I am, I'm most interested in seeing your commentary on District 3 candidates. I just scanned through and picked some likely prospects based on what I could read online.
I plan to do District 3 next. I count 30 bobbleheads to sort through there.
DeleteThere are 29 people running for a 2-year term in District 3. Here's my thinking so far:
ReplyDeleteHard no for obvious reasons: Steve Novick, Angelita Morillo, Rex Burkholder, Jesse Cornett.
No for participating in donation swapping: Theo Saner, Kelly Janes, Luke Zak.
Top choices (for now): Sandeep Bali, Melodie Beirwagen, Kezia Wanner.
This whole 25% scheme was designed by and with the primary intent to elect Avalos. She’d never get elected to anything, but the progressive machine has declared her to be out next savior (like Sten, and Jefferson Smith, and Shemia Fagan) so we must lower the bar. And the Oregonian is basically an arm of her campaign (gave her a column to promote herself for a couple years). It’s so corrupt. How much “clean energy tax” money is being laundered for “voter education” on her behalf?
ReplyDeleteFun fact: For a while, Avalos was the ONLY PAID opinion writer at the Oregonian.
DeleteAvalos's "non-profit" (Verde/Verde Builds) is a big recipient of PCEF grants. You forgot Hardesty in the list of "saviors".
DeleteThis column clearly illustrates the moving train wreck of the new city charter: the "jungle" election of a ballot stuffed full of names, names, names...and no real way for the media to even begin to cover the mad rush (primaries got kicked by the geniuses at the Charter Commish). Even a political junkie like Bojack couldn't actually offer any real analysis of who's-who...what do you expect of the mouth-breathers who make up the electorate? This 25-percent and you're in nonsense (which was barely discussed at the Commish meetings) has the sinister look of something flown in from Sorosland...or, worse, the City Club via the Coalition for Communities of Color (with their alumni, Julia Meier, steering as the Commish executive director and shot-caller).
ReplyDeleteIt's a mess--but one that was engineered this way to benefit "minorities." As. for the rest of us...tough luck.