Posted on 10/01/2022 2:43:29 PM PDT by algore
A woman who says she moved to Portland, Oregon for its progressive values has accused the mayor of scoffing at her after she confronted him over the city's homelessness crisis.
At a virtual city council meeting on Wednesday, Gillian Rose slammed Portland's handling of its homeless population, saying the squalid encampments that are pervasive around the city make life miserable for residents.
'You have to stop enabling this,' said a visibly emotional Rose. 'I'm angry and I'm sad and I'm fed up, and I'm so sick of having politicians pander to a woke agenda that's been nothing short of an epic failure.'
Mayor Ted Wheeler, a Democrat, chuckled audibly as he responded, saying, 'thank you, you've made your point emphatically clear. Thank you for being here and sharing your perspective, we do appreciate it.'
After the meeting, Rose said that Wheeler had scoffed at her concerns, telling KOIN-TV: 'when he laughed, it kind of just proved my point.'
She added 'it was really insulting actually and painfulf to hear.'
In her remarks at Wednesday's council meeting, Rose spoke passionately about the stark impact that Portland's prolific homeless population has on quality of life
She said that she had moved to the city from the East Coast four years ago because she embraced its left-leaning values.
'I moved here in hopes of becoming part of a progressive city where it seemed like its leaders cared about social issues -- what's transpired here is not progressivism,' she said.
'A lot of people who live on the streets fill them with trash and their own feces while openly using drugs -- it's not progressive, it's insane and unacceptable,' added Rose.
'Portland has become the laughing stock of the country, it really has,' she told the city's leaders.
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Unless you are Antifa, why would anybody move to Portland?
Do you all see why I love the sanctuary cities? It enables natural balkanization. It is to be cheered. Newsomes tranny haven law?? I love it. They’ll be there forever, they need long term care.
Hopefully the Portland gal is locked in with a house or job, etc.and stays there.
Winning.
Let her rot in the shitty woke hell she wanted.
WHY do people who jump off of a cliff complain when the ground is approaching too fast? A cliff+ground+9.8m/s/s=BIG splat. Moving INTO a woke area is s/s/s where s is stupid. Which proves beyond any doubt that liberals just don’t understand social math. Just my 2.
“what’s transpired here is not progressivism,’ she said.”
She’s spreading misinformation.....
Homelessness is part of the “woke” ideology, at least until internment camps can be build without considerable blowback from the “unwoke” factions who still have influence in this nation.
These people are homeless precisely because they ARE broke, making the second part of the equation of “go woke, go broke”. Wokeism is the denial that the rational system of capitalism and individual merit should be rewarded, and in fact, should be shunned and scorned at every opportunity.
Mrs. Rose wanted a leftist city, and she got one.
No matter how bad it gets, she will NEVER vote for a Conservative or a Republican.
Not even the Bee. Ya just can’t make it up.
She now should start understanding what progressivism really is.
She is a little person who the elites don’t give a damn about.
“ A woman who says she moved to Portland, Oregon for its progressive values”
You’ve arrived in libtard utopia. Embrace the suck and don’t step in the crap
I love it when they turn on themselves!
Yes. Yes, it is.
Embrace the suck.
Can’t believe he’s still mayor. On second thought, yeah, I can.
All Wokesters imagine that if their policies are implemented, then they will live in a Utopia. When that turns out not to be the case, they either wake up or double down. Unfortunately, they are so indoctrinated now that they double down because they CAN’T accept being wrong.
Send em all to Big Muddy Ranch
She could have saved herself a lot of trouble had she read Solzhenitsyn years ago.
Well maybe not, but it is certainly the results of progressivism.
The article doesn’t say where she came from but she can see the same results of un-diluted progressivism in Seattle and San Francisco or many other Leftist enclaves.
Don’t turn away from the results of your philosophy young lady. Don’t be deceived. This is your ideology at work.
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