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."
That’s hysterical. Maybe that is the only way to get elected in Portland. My, the pressure you must have to know everything.
Yes, we will.
“Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”
The new boss will be run out of town by the left the minute he enforces the law.
I think voters are getting upset at the Democrats and left wing politics.
Frank Malzone.
A total dip Schmidt. Probably his high school nickname.
I hope the voters in MN are paying attention. Run that scoundrel Keith Hakeem Ellison out on a rail!
He’s another Soros, defund the police, yes man.
disclaimer: I live in FL. but have family in MN.
Indict Soros.
Heavy lies the crown
“Between July 2022 and July 2023, the city (of Portland) lost nearly 4,200 people — about half the loss of the year prior, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released recently. It represents about a 0.7% decrease in total population, down to 630,500 residents.”
(2 days ago on Google)
This new DA will still have his hands full. The law-abiding ARE fleeing.
Adrian Beltre. who along with Brooks Robinson co-holds the title of G.O.A.T when it comes to 3rd basemen
This was a step in the right direction. Why all the negativity and pessimism on this thread?
Even the empty-headed, good-hearted woke liberals occasionally reach their breaking point. But it is always after they have had to experience first hand the end results of their woke policies imposed upon them to their logical end.
Why all the negativity and pessimism on this thread?
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Nothing against you, FRiend. I think that most of the people here know that many of the citizens of Portland, and indeed the entire state of Oregon, have been steeped in liberalism and wokeness for years. A lot of the of them don’t see the change of one office in one city to be that much of a big deal. It’s a nice step in the right direction, but....
Now, If they changed out the governorship, the Senators, and every one of their House representatives to some MAGA-supporting people, then I think you’d start to see more positivity.
Tough on crime eh? We'll see.
Hoping L.A. County voters fire our woke George Gascon who never met a criminal he didn’t love. Absolute disaster.
“Vasquez has been a prosecutor in the Multnomah DA’s office for more than two decades and had been a registered Republican until after former President Donald Trump was inaugurated in 2017.”
So we’re celebrating a guy who turned his back on Trump in 2017?
Why?
Why is Soros not being hauled up on RICO charges? The champion of Soros’ victims is, in Georgia.
Read up on Rose City Antifa. They have burrowed their organization in to Portland politics since the 90s. The smelly violent terrorists burning buildings aren’t the ones in charge.
Confirmation Bias is hard to overcome.
WIKI
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