I found you on Dr Malone's Substack (i think), even though I don't live in Portland, your Substack is informative and well written, so I subscribed. Good luck with it.
Pam, thanks for the educating look into this subject. I learned a lot! You have created new suspicions in my mind about how this all works, and why things don’t get any better.
The activist community has helped elect several single social issue candidates who have not only been failures at correcting the several crises we are embroiled in, they are personally responsible for most of the unrest, the criminal activity in and around our homeless camps, the vandalism, arson, destroyed storefronts and Government Buildings , and the unbelievable fall in Portland’s standing as the very best place in the Country for young professionals and families to live!
Thanks to their ineptitude at their jobs, and their decisions that hinder our professional public servants from doing theirs, we are now at the very bottom of every list of Places to Visit, Places for Conventions and Business Meetings, and Cities where your College Student will be safe while getting an education.
My heart is broken 😞. I am angry 😡, I will work very hard 😓to get all incumbents out of Office!!!
Schnitzer is right about the arrogance of public officials. They think government is the source of all wealth and has all the answers.
I know someone who was good friends with Gert Boyle. More than once she heard Gert tell someone who sought her advice, “Thank you for asking for my opinion and not my checkbook.”
People were always asking Gert for money, not realizing that her mind helped create her wealth. Her ideas were valuable.
Portland progressives are less interested in finding solutions than in finding ways to get a cut of somebody else’s wealth. They would rather have a never-ending “community conversation” with folks aligned with various nonprofits than talk to guys like Schnitzer.
Speaking of which, there will be a community forum on police officers’ Body-Worn Cameras sponsored by the Portland Committee on Community-Engaged Policing at 6 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 23 online via Zoom.
I’m guessing a hot topic will be whether police should be allowed to view footage before writing incident reports. Hardesty’s crowd is opposed. They like playing Gotcha! with the cops.
I extract below some antics of contemporary leadership. Our betters fighting the good fight against white privilege and the evils of democratic reform:
"That message was that neighborhood associations were the problem—defenders of the status quo—and they needed to get out of the way or help empower diverse voices calling for broad social and racial justice reform. The rhetoric behind this movement
labeled those who disagreed with this picture as in denial of the truth. That meant debate and dialogue were passé. Democracy itself could not be trusted to find a better way."
A side note: I have ambivalence concerning him but he has done good work over the years:
"Allan Classen is not welcome to attend meetings of NWNW and will be barred from doing so effective immediately, and further, NWNW will cease doing business with the NW Examiner.” The board amended the resolution to open the door to negotiations.
You have any observations or knowledge of/about Classen's circumstance? It is all pretty grubby in Portland the city, like Chicago, that works.
I found you on Dr Malone's Substack (i think), even though I don't live in Portland, your Substack is informative and well written, so I subscribed. Good luck with it.
Thanks for your interest.
Pam, thanks for the educating look into this subject. I learned a lot! You have created new suspicions in my mind about how this all works, and why things don’t get any better.
The activist community has helped elect several single social issue candidates who have not only been failures at correcting the several crises we are embroiled in, they are personally responsible for most of the unrest, the criminal activity in and around our homeless camps, the vandalism, arson, destroyed storefronts and Government Buildings , and the unbelievable fall in Portland’s standing as the very best place in the Country for young professionals and families to live!
Thanks to their ineptitude at their jobs, and their decisions that hinder our professional public servants from doing theirs, we are now at the very bottom of every list of Places to Visit, Places for Conventions and Business Meetings, and Cities where your College Student will be safe while getting an education.
My heart is broken 😞. I am angry 😡, I will work very hard 😓to get all incumbents out of Office!!!
https://www.koin.com/nwpolitics/jordan-schnitzer-on-reviving-portlands-downtown-businesses/
Pick up at approx.
2 minutes 35 seconds
6 minutes 20 seconds
Thanks for the link.
Schnitzer is right about the arrogance of public officials. They think government is the source of all wealth and has all the answers.
I know someone who was good friends with Gert Boyle. More than once she heard Gert tell someone who sought her advice, “Thank you for asking for my opinion and not my checkbook.”
People were always asking Gert for money, not realizing that her mind helped create her wealth. Her ideas were valuable.
Portland progressives are less interested in finding solutions than in finding ways to get a cut of somebody else’s wealth. They would rather have a never-ending “community conversation” with folks aligned with various nonprofits than talk to guys like Schnitzer.
Speaking of which, there will be a community forum on police officers’ Body-Worn Cameras sponsored by the Portland Committee on Community-Engaged Policing at 6 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 23 online via Zoom.
I’m guessing a hot topic will be whether police should be allowed to view footage before writing incident reports. Hardesty’s crowd is opposed. They like playing Gotcha! with the cops.
I had thought the general public blocked from the Classen paper but I was wrong. I should have simply linked to the NW Examiner in the first place.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uSWGZyaaYy2tdM9mb_lt2YmECmvIPa2F/view
I extract below some antics of contemporary leadership. Our betters fighting the good fight against white privilege and the evils of democratic reform:
"That message was that neighborhood associations were the problem—defenders of the status quo—and they needed to get out of the way or help empower diverse voices calling for broad social and racial justice reform. The rhetoric behind this movement
labeled those who disagreed with this picture as in denial of the truth. That meant debate and dialogue were passé. Democracy itself could not be trusted to find a better way."
A side note: I have ambivalence concerning him but he has done good work over the years:
"Allan Classen is not welcome to attend meetings of NWNW and will be barred from doing so effective immediately, and further, NWNW will cease doing business with the NW Examiner.” The board amended the resolution to open the door to negotiations.
You have any observations or knowledge of/about Classen's circumstance? It is all pretty grubby in Portland the city, like Chicago, that works.