She’s failing to read the room and being not only disingenuous, but grossly juvenile in her handling of this. The majority of citizens want to stop living with dangerous, hazardous camping as a permanent fixture in our lives. It is killing businesses and whole neighborhoods - it is also enabling the drawn out deaths of people living on the streets, who won’t choose something different until accepting assistance is the only option. As we know all too well in NW, the city has opened shelters and spent millions of dollars now on resources so people have somewhere to go that is not a tent. What they are failing to do is connect people to these resources or give them the push needed to use them. It’s a lie at this point to indicate that sweeps kill or are cruel. What is actually cruel (for all of us) is to allow what is happening to continue.
The fact that this vote was even as close as it was should be a real eye opener for voters.
Angelita Morillo is well-spoken and absolutely toxic, as is the entire DSA cabal. Unless Portlandia's voters put the brakes on their social engineering experiment, the Doom Loop will be unstoppable.
Well next year district 4 can at least get rid of Mitch Green. As long as the majority of council stay relatively sane, they only have so much decision making power. He’s not popular in a large part of his district at this point.
I might not agree with everything Mayor Wilson is doing, I applaud him for actually doing SOMETHING. Hope he keeps it up. We need to continue to be solution oriented. Its easy to complain and cause a stink, much harder to actually get shit done. Go Mayor go!
Great recap of a meeting that never should have occurred. A couple observations:
1. Morillo keeps talking about "we" and "our amendment." A clear sign that the she, Mitch Green, and the other Peacocks cooked it up behind closed doors at one of their many secret meetings, and then tried to foist it upon the rest of the council and the public Friday evening- in advance of a 3 day weekend when they hoped there would be be little opportunity for the opposition to organize.
But organize they did- with the help of the Northwest Examiner, Northwest Neighborhood Association, Partnership for Progress, Future Portland, and others including Mayor Wilson to deliver a massive response: Vote NO!
2. I very much appreciated that Councilors Clark, Zimmerman, and Ryan- all opponents- voted with their feet and and left after public comment and before the vote- and didn’t have to listen to Morillo’s petulant rant when she knew she had lost.
3. Too bad that Councilor Green continued to ignore the vast majority of his constituents and supported bad public policy to the end.
I’m disappointed council person Mitch Green supported the measure. Of all the members of the “Peacocks”, I thought he was the most serious. I guess I was wrong and now question if he is capable of representing the Downtown and Northwest Portland. While sweeps are harsh, allowing people to live in squalor and overdose on the street is truly inhumane. Allowing a few people to destroy Portland is irresponsible. Fair to disagree with Wilson’s plan, but at least he has a plan and is following through with it. At this point, I would vote to reelect Wilson, I would not vote to reelect Green.
Green is beholden to the DSA, not the taxpayers who are footing the bill for his (oversized) salary. He cares only about what the DSA Collective leadership has decided is acceptable, and will continue to vote in lockstep with Candace, Sameer, Tiffany, Jamie and Angelita to the detriment of our city. Reminds me of the Republicans in the Senate refusing to deviate from the party line, no matter how much it hurts their constituents or the nation. One Party rule is bad everywhere, and we are precariously close to that in our supposedly "nonpartisan" Portland City Council.
The vote was the least of it. The socialist caucus is now holding the whip-hand in council thanks, in no small part, to the engineering of the city charter which puts councilors into office with 25-percent of the vote. This was tailored to increase "minority" councilors--but what Ms. Meier (along with Candace and company) didn't realize is that it would empower minority parties, not races (who are not as monolithic as the NGOs and City Club assume). For a reality check on that assumption, check Loretta Smith's vote (and wonder why she never appears at "town halls" with the other councilors from her district).
Given the arithmetic of the voting scheme--and the disarray of anyone to the right of Che Guevara--the chances for doing away with the Fab Five are slim to none. They run the show. They' 'll be back for more. The moderates who ditched-out of the meeting are vulnerable. And they know it.
She’s failing to read the room and being not only disingenuous, but grossly juvenile in her handling of this. The majority of citizens want to stop living with dangerous, hazardous camping as a permanent fixture in our lives. It is killing businesses and whole neighborhoods - it is also enabling the drawn out deaths of people living on the streets, who won’t choose something different until accepting assistance is the only option. As we know all too well in NW, the city has opened shelters and spent millions of dollars now on resources so people have somewhere to go that is not a tent. What they are failing to do is connect people to these resources or give them the push needed to use them. It’s a lie at this point to indicate that sweeps kill or are cruel. What is actually cruel (for all of us) is to allow what is happening to continue.
The fact that this vote was even as close as it was should be a real eye opener for voters.
Angelita Morillo is well-spoken and absolutely toxic, as is the entire DSA cabal. Unless Portlandia's voters put the brakes on their social engineering experiment, the Doom Loop will be unstoppable.
And just how do you propose to do it? Many of the five have three more years to cement their power.
Well next year district 4 can at least get rid of Mitch Green. As long as the majority of council stay relatively sane, they only have so much decision making power. He’s not popular in a large part of his district at this point.
I might not agree with everything Mayor Wilson is doing, I applaud him for actually doing SOMETHING. Hope he keeps it up. We need to continue to be solution oriented. Its easy to complain and cause a stink, much harder to actually get shit done. Go Mayor go!
Great recap of a meeting that never should have occurred. A couple observations:
1. Morillo keeps talking about "we" and "our amendment." A clear sign that the she, Mitch Green, and the other Peacocks cooked it up behind closed doors at one of their many secret meetings, and then tried to foist it upon the rest of the council and the public Friday evening- in advance of a 3 day weekend when they hoped there would be be little opportunity for the opposition to organize.
But organize they did- with the help of the Northwest Examiner, Northwest Neighborhood Association, Partnership for Progress, Future Portland, and others including Mayor Wilson to deliver a massive response: Vote NO!
2. I very much appreciated that Councilors Clark, Zimmerman, and Ryan- all opponents- voted with their feet and and left after public comment and before the vote- and didn’t have to listen to Morillo’s petulant rant when she knew she had lost.
3. Too bad that Councilor Green continued to ignore the vast majority of his constituents and supported bad public policy to the end.
I’m disappointed council person Mitch Green supported the measure. Of all the members of the “Peacocks”, I thought he was the most serious. I guess I was wrong and now question if he is capable of representing the Downtown and Northwest Portland. While sweeps are harsh, allowing people to live in squalor and overdose on the street is truly inhumane. Allowing a few people to destroy Portland is irresponsible. Fair to disagree with Wilson’s plan, but at least he has a plan and is following through with it. At this point, I would vote to reelect Wilson, I would not vote to reelect Green.
Green is beholden to the DSA, not the taxpayers who are footing the bill for his (oversized) salary. He cares only about what the DSA Collective leadership has decided is acceptable, and will continue to vote in lockstep with Candace, Sameer, Tiffany, Jamie and Angelita to the detriment of our city. Reminds me of the Republicans in the Senate refusing to deviate from the party line, no matter how much it hurts their constituents or the nation. One Party rule is bad everywhere, and we are precariously close to that in our supposedly "nonpartisan" Portland City Council.
Mitch Green needs to be dumped and please consider voting for Eli Arnold!
The vote was the least of it. The socialist caucus is now holding the whip-hand in council thanks, in no small part, to the engineering of the city charter which puts councilors into office with 25-percent of the vote. This was tailored to increase "minority" councilors--but what Ms. Meier (along with Candace and company) didn't realize is that it would empower minority parties, not races (who are not as monolithic as the NGOs and City Club assume). For a reality check on that assumption, check Loretta Smith's vote (and wonder why she never appears at "town halls" with the other councilors from her district).
Given the arithmetic of the voting scheme--and the disarray of anyone to the right of Che Guevara--the chances for doing away with the Fab Five are slim to none. They run the show. They' 'll be back for more. The moderates who ditched-out of the meeting are vulnerable. And they know it.