be harmonious—diversity and functionality—to be used as weapons against
each other.
Here’s how that happened.":
They voted for it, embrace the suck!
Probably not the form, but the substance of the Left that’s running things over there.
Management by committee is a very bad idea.
Put in a mayor, with full powers and full responsibility for results.
In school systems, abolish school boards, put in a superintendent, and likewise make him responsible for results.
See tagline for explanation.
so they are going to have an Insurrection in Portland ?
it will be interesting how this plays out
I am sure it will end with a Summer of Love
Here’s how that happened.":
1. Strip the mayor of a council vote, except as a tiebreaker. All administrative duties and bureau oversight would be handed to a newly created position of city administrator, who would be hired by the mayor and confirmed by a majority of council members.
[City Manager form of municipal government is the most common in the nation, and theoretically puts a professional in charge of daily operations, as well as removing direct political control over minutia.]
2. The number of council members would increase from five to 12, with three members elected from each of four districts. (Currently, all five commissioners are elected citywide.)
[this too can be a good idea, since having ALL commissioners elected at large guarantees total control by whatever power interest is predominate]
3. And those commissioners would be elected using a relatively novel system called “ranked-choice voting.”
[i’m not as familiar with the pros and cons of this one]
Death spiral.
I have a friend who took a month this summer and drove along the east coast, starting in California and headed north. Along the way, as she chit chatted with folks she met in restaurants and at tourist attractions, she was told, by numerous people, to stay away from Portland because of how horrible it is there.
If you would like more information about what’s happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me. Please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list. A good POTUS with a good GOP led congress would write a law that described the conditions of (a) dysfunctional city and (b) a dysfunctional state and declare such units of government in the U.S. anywhere were ineligible for federal funds of any kind for any reason. Then that god POTUS with a good AG&DOJ would declare Portannd a dysfunctional city and Oregon a dysfunctinal state due to Oregon’s inability to control ANTIFA in Portland. Continued and unrelenting take over of public spaces do not a “protest” make, they are a civil insurrection just daring the civil authorities to get control.
Incorrect. There is a caste of progressive looters who are making out like bandits and love things the way they are, same as in Seattle and San Francisco. They will fight viciously to keep their scam in place.