Posted on 11/27/2017 9:30:02 AM PST by DFG
Columbia Sportswear may be the next business to flee downtown Portland after a series of frightening encounters with the city's homeless population, including car break-ins, human waste dumped by the office's front door and threats to its employees.
In an op-ed piece published earlier this month by The Oregonian, Columbia Sportswear President and CEO Tim Boyle said he is concerned he made a mistake when he opened a headquarters for the companys Sorel footwear brand downtown, calling the situation "outrageous and unacceptable."
"In fact, I am so concerned about the safety of our employees at the Sorel headquarters that we are taking the next 90 days to re-evaluate our location decision," Boyle wrote.
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Portland, the socialist’s nirvana.
Why are they waiting 90 days to make a decision?
They should make plans to get the hell out of that craphole Portland IMMEDIATELY!
Ever notice that it’s the leftist big cities that have all the homeless? They price working and middle-class folks out of the housing market with things such as strict building codes and rent control. So it ends up being the elite wealthy and a huge underclass. Just what the elites want.
We humans labored for thousands of years to figure out how to keep our bodily wastes away from the front doors of shoe stores.
If you like your politics, live and work in the culture you support.
Portland overrun with homeless? But what about their liberal compassion towards those less fortunate? They really are worried about their safety there, worried people will step in something and track it into the office? But what about the signal it sends that they may run away from the homeless problem? How does that align with their values of bieng inclusive and wanting to help the downtrodden?
Homeless people are the lefts way to destroy this country for their socialist utopia. Worse than Venezuela.
I posted previously about a young couple, who are really like their parents, old time democrats not the current SJW’s.
About 3 years ago, they moved to Portland because they felt it was safer as it was more liberal.
Less than a year later, they moved back because of Portland’s in your face liberals and homeless, who would move in back yards of people without being invited.
Another relative moved to Portland about 20 years ago and loved it for the first 5-6 years. He was in the food business, worked late and rode his bike to and from his apartment and where he worked.
It got so bad safety wise, he got a permit to carry and felt that kept him safe at least twice.
He returned here, 11 year ago. He went back to Portland for a week, a few years ago to visit friends. He came back after a couple of days due to the homeless, the new in your face liberals, and the human waste in the streets of downtown Portland.
The Californication of Oregon
Crap not given (by me, apparently they have plenty from others)
But, Portland is a paradise!
I visited the city when I was a teenager about 40 years ago and it was clean and beautiful. This is what happens when the cult gets a hold of a city.
Wait...I thought the Left was all in favor of this??
Exactly. Recently I saw something about how the homeless are the overlooked people that we should have compassion for. While I agree as humans they warrant compassion and assistance, but so much of the homeless issue is a combination of mental illness and liberal policies, which is another form of mental illness.
The point is that these typically mentally unstable people aren’t the byproduct of some uncompassionate society as we are often forcibly guilted into thinking, rather homelessness is a complex combination of mentally unfit and liberals who have historically done more to facilitate homelessness than anything. It is NOT compassionate to throw money and create ordinances to subsidize the homeless lifestyle, and that often is exactly what the left does in the virtue signaling name of compassion.
“Why are they waiting 90 days to make a decision?”
They need time to locate a new facility.
Portland’s homeless people are not the same as the homeless in NYC. They have a real chip on their shoulder, a lot of hatred. They do this thing where they bump into you sidways to show their antagonism and can’t be called on it because they can claim it was an accident. Here they are just down-and-out, rather humble, stay out of your way except to ask for money. In Portland, they are not allowed to beg, not allowed to sit or lie on the sidewalk, not allowed to use the public restroom in the bus/train station. The do-gooders have organized them and provided a program where they can sell their printed stories and poetry on the streets—can’t stop that, it’s the 1st Amendment. They are a different kind of homeless person, mostly white, usually a kind of slightly aging previously addicted hippie, but some are fairly young.
It’s a real problem there. I left my table at a Starbucks and caught a woman getting ready to steal my sandwich. A chef-owner told me not to come back on foot that evening—take a cab—because it’s dangerous. People on this forum call NYC a hellhole but that would be unthinkable here, that you can’t walk to your restaurant after dark.
waiting 90 days from the city/state for financial benefits to stay. Perhaps the city can give them tax money so that they can hire homeless as security :/
25 years ago downtown Portland was a city planners dream.
Given the vast increase in psychiatric meds in society an increased wave of a violent homeless population is easy to predict.
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