Posted on 09/03/2020 2:05:24 PM PDT by grundle
Portland’s next mayor could be an open supporter of Antifa, the violent, far-left movement whose members have unleashed violence in cities across America.
Left-wing activist Sarah Iannarone will face incumbent Democratic Mayor Ted Wheeler in a runoff election on Nov. 3 after neither candidate received a majority of votes in the first round of voting.
Wheeler beat Iannarone in the first round of voting, but has faced criticism from both sides of the political spectrum over his handling of the city’s nightly unrest, which has included nearly 30 riots since late May. A supporter of President Donald Trump was shot and killed Saturday night during a pro-Trump demonstration in Portland.
Trump has criticized Wheeler for not embracing federal assistance to quell the city’s riots, while left-wing activists have accused Wheeler of being too tough on demonstrators. Local progressive activists have called for Wheeler’s resignation, but the mayor has said he has no plans to step down.
Iannarone, whose platform includes a “Housing for All” plank and a pledge to slash the city’s police funding, identified herself as a member of the Antifa movement in a January 2019 tweet.
“To those who say Antifa are violent thugs: I am not a violent thug and I am Antifa,” she wrote.
“I am Antifa because the Red Hats are coming after brown & black people, after Jews, after queer & trans people, and more. They are coming after our democracy,” she added.
Iannarone’s campaign manager, Gregory McKelvey, led protesters in shutting down a Portland highway following Trump’s 2016 victory, the Willamette Week reported.
Iannarone has consistently expressed support for the nightly unrest currently taking place in Portland. (RELATED: In Their Own Words: The Radical Political Goals Of ‘Anti-Fascists’)
“My daughter was in the streets last night driven by anti-racist conviction. She is not an agitator nor an opportunist and she should not fear for her safety at the hands of Portland police,” Iannarone wrote in a May 31 tweet.
“Protests will continue in our city and across the country until our leaders address the problems racism, police brutality, and white supremacy undergirding our society,” she added in a statement accompanying the tweet.
“We need to understand these protests are part of a healthy democracy. Peaceful protests, in my opinion, might not necessarily be moving the conversation forward,” she told KGW8 in an Aug. 7 interview. Her campaign later issued a follow-up statement saying she does “not condone” criminal activity.
Neither campaign returned the Daily Caller News Foundation’s requests for comment for this story.
When you thought it couldn’t get worse...
The Red Hats? I had to think for a second. MAGA!
Worthless commie scum.
I HOPE. I PRAY they will elect this slug. Portland DESERVES scum like this. Burn baby burn! Burn the town to the ground!
you mean there was no pub running?...
What’s your address and phone number, Sarah?
let my dtr sell her Portlandia house first and then I don’t care what happens.....
I somehow greatly doubt that this will be successful. Idiots who reveal their strategies get destroyed in war.
We got the hell out of Seattle area back in 2006 and moved back home to Alabama after my wife retired from her job.
still waiting for the FBI to admit pantifa is a real thing...waiting....waiting....yawn...waiting....checking watch....waiting...
This is exactly why it’s critical to connect the Dem push for universal mass mail-in ballots to Operation Red Mirage now, to try to kill it in the crib.
Otherwise, Operation Red Mirage will become the eventual Biden victory called Operation Eventual Blue Tsunami (from bogus mail-in ballots.)
Lars Larson is reporting that the suspect in the murder of a member of Patriot Prayer will be doing a televised interview.
If it happens, “Nuke it from orbit...it’s the only way to be sure.”
Choose dumb or dumber. Not much of a choice.
This is nothing new. In the midterms many repubs were ahead in their races when the polls closed. Then mysteriously the races got tighter and tighter until the RATS won.
Elections have consequences. If you have a city where the majority is made up of abject morons, this is what you get. Let them stew.
“They are coming after our democracy”
What’s with the “our” crap?
Was her family here in the Revolution? How did she get to Oregon - did the Mexican government invite her in? The British? The Russian?
At one point or another in history, they all claimed it.
Nope. She got there because of Evil White Protestants who made Oregon first a territory and then a state, both points bought in blood.
Doubtless she had nothing to do with it. But now she claims it!
Let her defend such a claim with force of arms. She and her buddies are already using arms against Americans. And yet she claims the Constitution is hers? To put her in power?
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