/s3.amazonaws.com/arc-wordpress-client-uploads/wweek/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/24175330/4426_Lede_Endorsement-Issue_Jo-Ann-Hardesty_Sam-Gehrke_3.jpg)
Posted on 05/03/2018 8:36:48 AM PDT by nwrep
Portland, OREGON: No matter who gets sworn in next January, the dynamics of City Hall will change.
This City Hall race features six contenders: former state Rep. Jo Ann Hardesty (D-Portland), two-term Multnomah County Commissioner Loretta Smith, architect Stuart Emmons, mayoral aide and David Douglas School Board member Andrea Valderrama, and Felicia Williams, the business manager at her partner's biotech firm, as well as perennial candidate Lew Humble.
We've concluded that Hardesty, a Navy veteran, county aide and nonprofit leader, is the best person for the job.
Hardesty is not without flaws. She doesn't always work well with others, can be arrogant to a fault and is sometimes guilty of acting first and thinking later. (In 2016, she got in an argument with a fellow critic of the Portland Police Bureau and threatened her: "The only way I'll be in jail is if I whip your ass. That might happen.")
While Hardesty can lose her temper, she is easily the most knowledgeable candidate running, one who demonstrated granular awareness of police reform, economic justice and housing policy. We hope she will maintain her independence but find ways to work with the rest of the council.
In America's whitest big city, where leaders pay lip service to equity and then drift back to bikes and bioswales, Hardesty works from a position of sustained outrage—and appropriately so.
(Excerpt) Read more at wweek.com ...
No organization needs angry anyone.
Anger is not a virtue
Just what the world needs: perpetually offended, perpetually outraged, arrogant people in positions of power.
Looks like Sojourner Truth or Harriet Tubman.
She looks like a bag lady who needs a bath really bad.
So sad what Portland has become....we live 45 min away, and used to live there in the late 80’s/early 90s...when it was a NICE place to live. Now we avoid it.
Fit right in, in Portland
Anyone that thinks being an “angry black woman” that frequently doesn’t play well with others are positive attributes for a job is not suited for responsible employment.
I hope she gets elected just so she will make the Portland govt. employees lives a living Hell!
That you can say with certainty......it’s not something you brag about unless you’re at the low end of the pole.
Much crack.
I think I’ve found the Democrat’s nominee for President in 2020 ...
The person who always first mentions race is always the racist.
So, her qualifications are that she can trash a McDonalds or Burger King if they screw up her order or start a fight at Chuck E. Cheese.
Really?
I actually have met and worked with her before. She is a pleasant woman! I think she is using this as her schtick to get elected. The front runner in this race is also another African-American woman. But in Portland, whoever is perceived as most liberal usually wins, unless you are a woman beater.
” Hardesty works from a position of sustained outrage—and appropriately so.”
Yes I’m sure.
When we sell CA to Mexico for a dollar let’s throw in Portland to ‘sweeten the pot”.
you have a right to be angry...
angry at your slave masters... the Dem plantation owners.
otherwise, getting angry at those who escaped the plantation is counterproductive, and it shows you are nothing more than an uncle tom, cheering on your slave masters.
Michelle Obama on Steroids LOL
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.