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Aug 10·edited Aug 10

Pamela,

Do you happen to know Vikki Payne of Future Portland? She leads a group trying to get local pragmatic candidates elected. Any comments on her opinion of Hayes?

https://futureportland.org/

Here’s what she said about Hayes:

Hi Friends,

As most of you know, I have stumbled into the insufferable world of local Portland politics. I took on a side gig that I definitely do not have time for, because I believe in him so much that he has what East Portland voters want and need in a city council representative.

I'm talking about Terrence Hayes, running in District 1, which is everything east of I-205, our long forgotten friends that were the basis of this new charter reform stuff at the city. Home - Elect Terrence Hayes

Home - Elect Terrence Hayes

Terrence is a really smart, sensible guy, and he is constantly surprising me with the answers he has to questions. Everything he says just seems so reasonable and rational. You should check out his website, and in particular on the Media page he's done two podcasts now that both have just wowed me.

Anyways, if you could pitch in $5-20 as a Portland resident, it would help him get the last 35 donors he needs to be certified by the end of this month to qualify for the city's small donor funds matching program. And if you feel further inclined, please forward this to your friends and ask for their help.

DONATION LINK (PS - It helps if you use your legal name / info on your voter registration card when you donate for the city to determine the match!)

Thank you for considering!

Vikki

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On an unrelated note has everyone seen the good news? There is organized opposition to the out of state funded huge tax measure on the fall ballot.

https://noonmeasure118.com/

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Terrence Hayes is the 2024 version of the Portland race grifter.

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Aug 7·edited Aug 7

You think Hayes is a race grifter? What about Candace Avalos and Angelita Morillo?

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Aug 6·edited Aug 6

He sounds like a decent sort, but it's a shame that it usually takes someone who's "been there" (as a thug) to get the attention of current thugs. Fully wise people never "go there" in the first place, though we can't ask too much of whoever's willing to run and deal with attitudes around here.

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Aug 5Liked by Richard Cheverton, Pamela Fitzsimmons

Hayes was also part of the Portland Freedom Fund, which bailed out Muhamed Adan, who went on to kill Rachael Abraham. Dave Miller interviewed Hayes about this. Hayes response was that the fault lay with the judge for granting bail. True, but the lack of due diligence on PFF's part, or they're not thinking it relevant that Adan had beaten, strangled and threatened to kill Abraham multiple times in the months before his 3rd arrest for assaulting her, including one time he'd ripped off his ankle monitor to do so, or frankly not giving two flying f***s that a black woman and mother of 6 was murdered in front of her children. I have zero idea how anyone can elect this man to anything.

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As my colleague Richard Cheverton pointed out, that interview by OPB’s Dave Miller was a graduate lesson in puff-ball questions.

https://portlanddissent.substack.com/p/opb-leaves-out-the-best-part

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As you may know, I know a lot about the tragedy of Rachael Abraham's murder https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/1648409/a-murder-in-portland/

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I would say Hayes is the front runner for SE Portland. This is a great article which I will share. I hope MANY people read it before they vote. 😄

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Be careful…people may then move Angelita Morillo and Candace Avalos up on their lists.

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OMG...please say no!

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Aug 10·edited Aug 10

Who do you like then? Many candidates in the race are MUCH worse than Hayes. Just saying "NO" doesn't really help in my opinion.

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He's a "front runner" thanks to yet another puff-ball piece in WillyWeek and because no one in Portland dinosaur media bothers with the other candidates. Same old/same old.

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Aug 7·edited Aug 7

Richard, which candidates do you like in District 1?

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He's been to several of our neighborhood meetings and we had no idea other than he had serviced time in prison for murder. Also the fact that his family won a $1.5 million dollar lawsuit and he still has not paid the $10K that was awarded in the small claims suit says a lot about his character. I'm sure he will win being endorsed my the police union and the fire union. As the song goes..."He's a smooth operator". 😎https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TYv2PhG89A

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Who will you be supporting?

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Here's our LNLA Meeting from August 8...I'll let you decided https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQlhLs3W0WA

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I’d love to hear your opinion as well. Any good choices?

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I would choose Terrence. He is very transparent and open about his background. I would also choose Noah Ernst. He seems very intelligent and works for the cab 🚕 company so he has seen the decline of Portland first hand and understand the depth into which we have sunk. My third choice would be Loretta Smith because she knows how to navigate the quagmire of Portland politics. I think those three could work together very well..

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Aug 4·edited Aug 4Liked by Richard Cheverton

This is such an excellent article Pamela, I read it a second time. Still waking up and drinking coffee. You make so many good points. What gets me, as in, WHAT! is HOW can people NOT get rid of their garbage? It’s expensive, I get that, but it’s also really easy to dispose of, too. You gather together a small bag each day, and when you’re out driving around you just discreetly place it in any number of public trash receptacles all over the city. I see people do this regularly. Why let huge amounts of trash collect in your home? It doesn’t make sense. And this Hayes guy trashing another man’s property that he was renting? Isn’t that the same kind of “bullying” he was referencing when people graffiti a business? This man needs to grow up and be accountable for his actions. He sounds like just another political candidate in the race because he wants the MONEY the jobs offers. There’s no altruism here, just self interest.

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Theresa,

Who then do you like in District 1?

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This is not a candidate Portland wants or needs! He’d flip out again, and again, he would walk away, feeling he’s above the law. He doesn’t give a flying jelly bean fart about Portland. He’s looking for a way to pay his rent. All he’s thinking about is all that great money every month. No thank you! Portland can do better.

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Theresa, love the “flying jelly bean fart about Portland.”

Hayes is no longer paying rent. He bought a house after the Quanice Hayes settlement came through. He has put down roots in East Portland. Good for him. (Unlike Jessica Vega Pederson — forever dubbed “Chevy Vega” by Jack Bogdanski — who recently moved from East Portland to the westside’s Council Crest.)

You and Javier are both right. I understand your opposition. Hayes blew off my questions the same way he blew off his landlord’s court date. There is an arrogance to Hayes that will only swell once he is elected.

However, Javier is correct when he says that Hayes is the pragmatic choice if you also support Gonzalez for mayor. Note how many of Hayes’ opponents have pledged “No police money.” They don’t support the cops, yet public safety is one of the basic services that brings people together to form governments.

The most problematic candidate in District 1 is Candace Avalos, formerly of the Citizen Review Committee, another police watchdog group. She ran against Carmen Rubio four years ago and lost. So she landed on the citizen committee appointed to design the new council. You can thank her for Ranked Choice Voting, which will allow “winners” to win with only 25 percent of the vote. With that system, she might have beat Rubio.

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Thank you... LOL... I got that from Basic Instinct, 1992. The chubby cop, complaining about something and he used that expression and I thought, 'That's my new go-to' phrase. I use it way too often. As far as this guy, maybe he will work, I don't know, but I'm tired of the bottom of the barrel trying to be politicians. They always think they know it all, and then typically fall into all the classic pitfalls of big egos, naive lack of experience, in life more than anything else, and then they shoot off their mouths and ruin their futures in politics. I guess I'm just disgusted. LOL... :)

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Aug 4·edited Aug 4

Let’s be pragmatic. If not Hayes then who will you support in District 1 that has an actual chance of being elected? Gonzalez is supporting Hayes as he feels he would support his pragmatic approach. We need a PRAGMATIC majority on city council. That means we need 7/12. Arnold alone won’t be able to get anything done.

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I left Portland before the dumpster fire. Originally from Pennsylvania so I moved back to he close to family but lived loved loved living in Portland. My mom lived coming to visit. It makes me sad it's fallen so far into radicalness. Can you share if things are looking any better or do you think things are stalled?

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Aug 4·edited Aug 4Liked by Pamela Fitzsimmons

Robin,

I just read your article on Portland! People should check it out.

https://open.substack.com/pub/robinvaughn/p/portland?r=12nari&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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Thank you so much!

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If we can get Eli Arnold to win his race, Portland stands a chance. He’s a Portland bike cop. Google him and please offer him your support. Things will get better, but it’s going to be slow…I think…

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Aug 4·edited Aug 4

Also please support Rene Gonzalez for mayor and Vadim Morzysky and Sam Adams for Mutlnomah County commissioners. For city council WE DESPERATELY NEED 7/12 pragmatic candidates to win!

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I support both of them. Always have.

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That's good to hear! I definitely do that. 👍🏻

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Can someone please tell me if Portland is ever going to be the Portland of the early 2000? Seriously, that was a booming amazing fun city. I lived in Portland, went to PSU and had no problem getting along with all kinds of people. The keeping Portland Weird anthem meant letting one be themselves (but never meant lawlessness). People have lost their ability to reason and have no common sense. Is there any light at the end of the tunnel???

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Aug 4·edited Aug 4

No light at the end of the tunnel despite DA Mike Schmidt getting voted out (a very good thing). I’m hoping to move as soon as my kids get out of school. Stuck here until then. The voters here are polarized/far left and moderates (like you) are moving out (due to high taxes and low services) furthering the extremism.

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I hope folks wake up. My question is why do ppl keep voting the extreme views in office? Honestly, it seems so many more folks want moderation and common sense. ..but those views haven't been voted in. Thoughts?

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In your essay, you write: “It’s funny how a slow burn of misinformation and hate can turn open minded people into progressive zombies. Zombies that will bite the head off anyone that has common sense and disagrees with their stance.”

That “slow burn of misinformation and hate” has been enabled by Portland news media. Typical: Anna Griffin, news director at OPB dismissed Quanice Hayes’ felonies as “car prowls.” She insisted on referring to the 2020 protests as mostly “peaceful.”

The cover story of the current Willamette Week is an amusing piece on things to kvetch about in Portland but takes repeated swipes at the police, the worst being “We accept, reluctantly, that the proliferation of private security is a logical endpoint of Portland failing to bribe enough cops to work in a town where nobody kisses their thin blue asses.”

No, the proliferation of private security is a logical endpoint in a city that is obsessed with its “progressive values,” a phrase the local media routinely use as if it were fact that we all have the same values. Even before George Floyd, Portland was making a fetish of citizen oversight of police.

Anti-cop sentiment runs long and deep in this city. Cop watchdogs, particularly longtime media favorite Dan Handelman, object to police performing outreach events such as “Meet the Heat” or “Shop with a Cop” or even distributing food through the Sunshine Division.

I wish I could be more encouraging. It isn't just Portland. The state of Oregon has been dominated by the Democrats for two decades -- increasingly the progressive wing of the Democrats. Oregonians are saddled with some poor legislation and policies. A recent take:

https://portlanddissent.substack.com/p/peter-courtneys-blarney

Thank you for still caring, Robin.

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Thank you for that information! Also, I hope more of the centrist moderate, common sense republican and democrats can really on common ground and take back the city, and the state from the progressive radicals. I have a special place in my heart for the city, let's hope it isn't all just about a city that once was.

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Aug 4Liked by Richard Cheverton

That’s the trouble with Marxists, they take their distain for property ownership out on landlords. He most likely feels justified in trashing the rental as an act of protest. BLM/ANTIFA want “restorative Justice” but that applies to giving violent criminals a clean slate with zero restoration to the victim of their VIOLENCE!

Reject this unrestored “candidate”!

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Aug 4·edited Aug 4Liked by Pamela Fitzsimmons

But who else are we going to get? Other front runners are TRULY frightening. Candidates such as Timur Ender, Steph Routh, Candace Avalos and shoplifting proponent Angelita Morillo look to be leading in District 1. Hayes looks better than these extremists. In Portland you have to lower your standards for candidates. Look at the Wheeler vs Marxist Sarah Inarone race. Wheeler despite his many failings was the better choice.

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Aug 5·edited Aug 5Author

Wheeler helped to engineer the radical new charter and is painting the new council into a corner with the "Transition Commission." If the current city administrator becomes the next one (probable given the built-in conflicts on the council), then Ted will just run in the plays from whatever nonprofit podium he'll command.

My bet: it will take many, many votes to find the all-powerful council prez; Hayes will be. in the thick of it. Whoever gets the nod, bet that it will be one of our favored skin colors.

And the Oregonian had the f***ing gall to run this story today: "Portland’s sweeping overhaul of government, elections nears. No one knows what will unfold."

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Aug 7·edited Aug 7

Agree but what can we do besides complain? Who do you think we should support in the upcoming city council elections?

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