Posted on 05/22/2024 8:38:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Portland, Oregon, is considered one of the wokest cities in the nation, yet even residents there have apparently had enough of watching silently as their metropolis descends into chaos and ruin. On Tuesday, they got rid of their disastrous district attorney Mike Schmidt and handed the job to his tough-on-crime challenger Nathan Vasquez.
Never thought I’d see such sanity from Portland folks:
BREAKING: Portland voters fire Soros DA Mike Schmidt by a landslide 15% margin.
He infamously declined to prosecute the BLM and Antifa riots & allowed crime to flourish in Multanomah County.
Soros DA Chesa Boudin (San Fran): Out
Soros DA Kim Gardner (St. Louis): Out
Soros DA… pic.twitter.com/B66eDsn9oV— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 22, 2024
The tweet continues:
He infamously declined to prosecute the BLM and Antifa riots & allowed crime to flourish in Multanomah County.
Soros DA Chesa Boudin (San Fran): Out
Soros DA Kim Gardner (St. Louis): Out
Soros DA Kim Foxx (Chicago): Out [Is still in office but is not running for reelection]
Although votes are still being counted, Schmidt conceded the race to Vasquez just after 7 pm ET Wednesday as the tally showed the challenger was up an insurmountable 54-45 percent.
Portland is a "Schmidt Show." But not if law & order candidate Nathan Vasquez wins. Schmidt is being blamed for all the Antifa madness and no consequence culture of allowing rampant crime to flourish in the city. https://t.co/bJDTXsWTUV pic.twitter.com/nrJPTKiBZz— Jonathan Choe (@choeshow) May 22, 2024
Our nation's cities have been in steep decline in recent years as the anti-police, pro-criminal crowd has held sway while homelessness and a sense of lawlessness have overtaken formerly great burgs like Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, San Francisco, and so many more. A huge part of the problem has been district attorneys like LA’s George Gascón, Manthattan’s Alvin Bragg, Philly’s Larry Krasner, and Alameda County’s Pamela Price (currently facing a recall effort), just to name a few. What do they have in common? They all show little compassion for victims of crime, seem to go out of their way to go soft on criminals—and are backed by financier George Soros.
Agent of chaos:
Unrepentant: George Soros Vows to Continue Backing Woke Prosecutors Despite the Lives They’ve Ruined
Portland has not been immune to the scourge, and the quality of life in the city has severely deteriorated with the help of the now-fired Schmidt. The soon-to-be out-of-work prosecutor ran on "equity"-based policies and quickly made his mark after winning office in 2020:
Schmidt was elected May 2020 just before the death of George Floyd and the riots that pulverized cities across the country.
He vowed not to prosecute rioters unless there was evidence of 'deliberate property damage, theft, or threat of force, and of 550 cases referred by police just 47 went to trial.
Oregon became the first state to decriminalize possession of all hard drugs in 2020 and Schmidt raced to implement the measure several months before it took effect statewide.
Under his watch, fatal opioid overdoses surged, almost 800 homeless encampments and open-air drug markets sprang up in the city center, homicides went up, and retail theft caused more than 2,600 businesses to flee. It wasn’t all his fault—the idiotic city council voted to cut $15 million from the police budget in 2020 amid the defund the police movement.
Great work, Mike.
This is welcome news and a sign that Americans may be seeing the light and refusing to put up with such nonsense anymore. What braindead person thought that “defunding the police” would improve things? Or that tolerating crime would achieve “equity” instead of just causing more misery? Hopefully, more and more of these terrible DAs will be kicked to the curb and we can work on getting our cities back.
To use one of my favorite phrases, "Don’t let the door hit you on the way out."
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
It’s a start, but Portland has a looong way to go.
“Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”
That doesn’t make any sense. Nathan Vasquez is a strong-on-crime former Republican, now independent.
We’ll see.
bttt
There’s a moral to this story. Never make a third baseman your District Attorney.
Antifa mafia controls Portland. This means nothing.
Would have been better off with Greg Luzinski.
Agreed. Wheeler, the mayor, cut a deal with antifa, years ago. If Antifa didn't trash the city, Wheeler would throttle the police department. (The Portland city council are not only council members, they are also the commissioners of the various city departments. The mayor is also the head of the police department.)
Antifa broke the deal after Floyd, and laid siege to police stations and court houses, broke every pane of glass downtown, tore down all the statuary and fountains.
All the good PPD cops retired early, quit, or were fired, and currently, the PD is 300+ short of minimums, to provide even minimal coverage of the neighborhoods. (Response times for 911 calls is about 90 minutes.) Last year, the Portland PD gang unit was down to one guy at a desk.
Vasquez is being set up to fail, but Schmidt is too much of an embarrassment to be retained. He was thrown under the bus by the Party.
There will be no improvement, but Vasquez will blame his failure on Schmidt.
A lot of people have left the democrat regime in Portland. Some voters have switched from democrat to independent. Portland has been turned into a sh#thole by the leftist democrats and has been going downhill since the BLM/Antifa riots, the election of Gov. Kotex and an influx of California foreigners. Businesses have deserted the leftist, crime infested dump and sane people have been leaving the city in droves. The liberals have always chanted,” keep Portland weird.” Now it’s weird and vacant except for the weirdos.
Steve Carlton, much better choice.
George Gascon in LA, you’re next. Your hack buddies blew up the recall for you, but last I saw he was polling around 33% in the polls.
Now if only we could fire Soros this easily.
Independent = liberal
Sorry, you’ll never get your cities back.
what a silly statement.
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