Flies dive right into ointment
It took a few weeks, but Portland's new mayor, Keith Wilson, is finding out who's going to bust his chops on the new dozen-member City Council and Book Club. The ex-Hardesty staffer, Angelita Morillo, is starting to show her radical cards, and the self-proclaimed genius, Steve Novick, of course knows better than anyone, including the mayor. Have you heard? Novick went to Harvard. He's very smart.
When Wilson laid out his plan for the street addicts yesterday, and it didn't include continuing to mollycoddle and pamper them, well, you can imagine the reaction.
The contentious meeting between Wilson and City Council members lasted over three hours....
"A 90-day stay limit is simply not long enough for most people to get back on their feet,” Councilor Angelita Morillo of District 3 said.
"I think it's unrealistic to talk about the 90 days, and I would recommend that you withdraw that from your suit of suggestions,” Councilor Steve Novick of District 3 also said.
Some councilors were also concerned about the lack of resources and affordable housing.
Under the new city charter, the mayor has little power. Wilson can lay out all the "blueprints" he wants, but the Dirty Dozen will round-file them all if he doesn't satisfy at least seven primas donnas like the two aforementioned. His ticket home from the honeymoon is booked.
Where is the City Manager that these clowns are supposed to hire to run the agencies?
ReplyDeleteThe City Manager is an operations guy. His portfolio does not include blueprinting or legislating. The City Manager is an implementation guy only.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what the next book selection will be. Maybe the biographies of Simon Benson or Dorothy McCullough Lee?
ReplyDeleteWe're sooooo screwed.
ReplyDeleteSadly, I live in District 3, where these 2 maroons were elected. The neighborhood has been overrun by woke enablers.
ReplyDeleteSometime, around the late 1990's, early 2000's, the "Keep Portland Weird" ethos really began to take hold. It seems to have become a magnet for the "Portandia" crowd and other folks who had problems finding a path.
DeleteCombined with Portland's softer, live-and-let live extremely tolerant environment, over the past 20 to 30 years, Portland's become a toxic stew of losers who couldn't (in my opinion) make it in a more competitive environment where competence is demanded. In turn, these people vote for those who are more like them, because to change course would create such cognitive dissonance that their heads would explode. Those who have woken up to the fact that it's not going to change in their lifetimes are getting out. Over the next few decades, when Portland runs out of other people's money, it'll turn around, but I believe it will become a shell of what it once was, or could have been for at least until the middle of the century. This city has no "leaders". Those with the needed intelligence, skills, drive and experience couldn't get elected. They've seen it and either decided to live with it and ride it out, or make their exit plans. Let's chat in 20 years to see where we're at. Good luck to all.
I mean, seriously, is there anyone on the Portland City Council or Multnomah County Commission you'd want managing anything? At least Wilson has a modicum of management experience, but he's a neutered version of Charlie Hales 2.0. What a band of poseurs.
DeleteWell, they got 25-percent of the vote, so they have a massive mandate to do whatever the hell they want, the mayor be damned. Guess who approved that charter?
ReplyDeleteI believe some of them won with less than 25% of the vote, even with all the transferred-vote malarkey. The Portland version of "rank choice" voting is rank indeed.
DeleteNow with kaleidoscopic vision!
DeleteCry babies leading the charge into the abyss. They're mostly just fluff, but man can they huff. They're bouncing like Tiger with an Eeyore demeanor.
ReplyDeleteThe sad part is the loud bitching without any action or attempt to correct the radical drift.
DeletePortland's trajectory is entirely and predictably a worsening chaos. It's a crystal clear demonstration of what happens when bottom of the barrel Modern Democrats saturate every elected and management position. AKA Democrats getting everything they dreamed. What's mysterious is how the populous refuses to connect the two BIG DOTS.
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