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 outrageand appropriately so.
(Excerpt) Read more at wweek.com ...
Anger usually doesn’t work too well with people you’re trying to get along with.
And what does race have to do with it?
Or Samuel L. Jackson as a tranny.
What group needs an angry person? My experience is that they never contribute anything positive.
I thought they didn’t like being called that. I thought it was a guy at first glance.. yikes.
I’m reminded of Deadpool’s friends comments about Deadpool’s looks.
Have fun with this one, Portland.
What a mess.
She has that “i hate white people” aura about her. Which means if I see her, I’ll keep nagging her until she calls the cops. Gotta trigger the snowflakes for entertainment..
Non profit leader ...nope, no way. OPM is always fun unless it runs out...
Tired of capitalism-hating losers.
[She looks like a bag lady who needs a bath really bad.]
She looks like an ANGRY bag lady who needs a bath really bad.
Plus, she has all the fashion sense of Michelle. And, is the size of Barack. What an amazing combination.
Is that a picture of a WOMAN? Could’a fooled me!
THIS is A Navy Vet!???!!!
God help us!!!!
Her mirror’s none too happy either.
Redd Foxx’s gorilla cookies face.
Interesting. In what capacity did you work with her? Just curious.
She has “granular awareness”. LOL
Non profit finance.
Really? Is there any other kind of black woman nowadays?
What’s she angry about?
The endless supply of free gubmint gibs and all the other free gubmint mandated privileges based only on the color of her skin?
Aware of granules, I guess.
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