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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“A woman who says she moved to Portland, Oregon for its progressive values...”
We are talkin’ NEA levels of ‘eddikator’ stupidity here. That’s like moving into an outhouse because they love the smell.
Gillian can’t seem to connect the dots.
Of course, that’s true of all the commies/socialists/fascists aka democrats.
I remain very surprised that canceled libs Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein very recently evacuated Portland for the San Juan Islands because of increased local ‘Rat Urban Utopian progression.
Savor the suck, chica
Go woke go broke!
A pro-choice Republican simply needs to run for election in these Democratic hellholes.
“’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.”
Yeah, right. And what transpired in the former soviet union wasn’t communism.
“ hope the derelicts crap on her porch and wizz on her flowers.”
I am half inclined to drive up there don an old torn up field jacket and do exactly that. Probably a good thing I don’t drink anymore, 30 years ago I absolutely would have…I still might, Lol
“Whatever you do, Gillian, stay away from Idaho”
California has already “locusted” Idaho. Been to Coeur D’Alene lately?
I remain thunderstruck at how people like her, and there are a lot of people, primarily women, who are incapable of reason or logic.
Their entire lives are driven by emotions.I moved here in hopes of becoming part of a progressive city where it seemed like its leaders cared...
Is there any doubt why women are so malleable at election time? Is there any doubt as to why the soccer moms gravitate towards liberalism? Because it's all about feelings, as in, "They seem like they really care". And BOOM, bamboozled again.
Stuff it, Gillian. You got what you asked for and deserve to live with it in perpetuity.
Typical NIMBY. Someone crapped on her sidewalk instead of someone else’s sidewalk and now she’s mad.
It’s easy to scoff at the ignorant wokesters.
Don’t you know? He wants more homeless so he can get more money from the state, which will not be used to solve the problem.
Lady, there was a time when Portland was a thoroughly pleasant place to live, except for the drizzle in fall and winter. Then a bunch of people like you showed up.
I’m reminded of when Molly Ivins moved to San Fransisco in the 90s, announcing that she was going to a better place than Texas.
Within a year she was back with an essay about how good it was to be where there wasn’t so much wierdness.
And this was in the 90s.
I can hardly imagine the horror of actually living among woke out there on the West Left Coast now.
I live 10 miles north of CdA. It’s not like it was, that’s for sure. But its still a LOT better than any alternative to the west of us all the way to the coast.
She was happy when they were other people’s yards.
She should save her scoffing for the upcoming “struggle sessions.” Then she can scoff all she wants.
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