Very interesting coverage of our city councillors.
I had no idea the Portland Clean Energy Fund had grown to such excess. Of course it has. We keep doing this. Pass yet another restricted tax that people feel good about supporting but don’t put the administration and oversight in place to actually produce the outcomes we voted for. It is so utterly dysfunctional. Tax payers are willing to pay taxes for the environment, to solve the homeless crisis, to fund the Arts for our children, to pay for our Parks, our libraries, and our pre schools. And yet we find there is no money for basic services, which logically should have so much money available with all of these other things no longer needing our general fund.
It’s City Council’s job to solve this. We need leadership, and above all pragmatism. Figure out a way to clean up the revenue streams and get them into one bucket, and use it to provide the city services that the people need.
The hilarious irony is at the Laurelhurst Neighborhood meeting, Morillo herself said almost the same thing. This was before she shut down the idea of pulling from the PCEF.
She claims that pulling money from these funds is "subverting the will of the voter." So we should just suffer for years under austerity while we try to entirely change Portland's culture around taxes and trust in local government?
I share the frustration at Portlanders who will approve taxes only for hyper specific asks. I won't trust you unless you tell me exactly what this is buying, but if you generate too much money don't you dare fill potholes with it. Also why aren't you filling potholes?!
Voters/tax payers vote with their hearts on referenda. Most of us don’t have the time or energy to evaluate the merits of the issues, understand if the policy will work or not. And proponents and opponents alike run political campaigns, not educational ones. Which makes sense, since that’s not their job, right?
I think the referenda process is more damaging than helpful. If you think representative democracy is inefficient, well, pales by comparison to direct democracy.
Re: " I don’t see her making it through the 2026 election at this pace..." Hate to say it, but all she has to do in the radical-engineered voting scheme is get 25 percent of the vote. She'll get it just on name-recognition, courtesy of an opaque computer algorithm.
Among the many lies by the Charter Commission was that the new council elections would be "non-partisan." Four socialists puts the lie to that...but this is a typical progressive con: Vote for the dream, wake up to the nightmare.
When you embed minority government, with absolutely NO limits, this is the kind of insanity that you'll get--a candidate who thinks nothing of making racist comments to the voters. To their white faces. She's got her 25-percent; tough luck honkies!
Socialism has produced more murders in its history than Genghis Khan. And now they run our broke little town.
Do you know who's the real motherfucker? Angela Morillo for boring us to death with "Portland so white." Yeah, it is. Get over it.
Come to think of it, unless Morillow uses rice powder to whiten her face or applies a whitening filter, it looks like her forbears did what most old-line Spanish and Latin American elites did and still do, which to marry white.
Being an American-Venezuelan and having seen the white South Americans on billboard ads looming over the brown faces on the sidewalks of Bolivia and Peru, I know whereof I speak about whiteness among Latin Americans.
The PCEF fund is much like the 10¢ gas tax that has done nothing for our roads other than build bicycle lanes and ADA curbs put in and torn out and reinstalled. 😓
Very interesting coverage of our city councillors.
I had no idea the Portland Clean Energy Fund had grown to such excess. Of course it has. We keep doing this. Pass yet another restricted tax that people feel good about supporting but don’t put the administration and oversight in place to actually produce the outcomes we voted for. It is so utterly dysfunctional. Tax payers are willing to pay taxes for the environment, to solve the homeless crisis, to fund the Arts for our children, to pay for our Parks, our libraries, and our pre schools. And yet we find there is no money for basic services, which logically should have so much money available with all of these other things no longer needing our general fund.
It’s City Council’s job to solve this. We need leadership, and above all pragmatism. Figure out a way to clean up the revenue streams and get them into one bucket, and use it to provide the city services that the people need.
The hilarious irony is at the Laurelhurst Neighborhood meeting, Morillo herself said almost the same thing. This was before she shut down the idea of pulling from the PCEF.
She claims that pulling money from these funds is "subverting the will of the voter." So we should just suffer for years under austerity while we try to entirely change Portland's culture around taxes and trust in local government?
I share the frustration at Portlanders who will approve taxes only for hyper specific asks. I won't trust you unless you tell me exactly what this is buying, but if you generate too much money don't you dare fill potholes with it. Also why aren't you filling potholes?!
Voters/tax payers vote with their hearts on referenda. Most of us don’t have the time or energy to evaluate the merits of the issues, understand if the policy will work or not. And proponents and opponents alike run political campaigns, not educational ones. Which makes sense, since that’s not their job, right?
I think the referenda process is more damaging than helpful. If you think representative democracy is inefficient, well, pales by comparison to direct democracy.
Re: " I don’t see her making it through the 2026 election at this pace..." Hate to say it, but all she has to do in the radical-engineered voting scheme is get 25 percent of the vote. She'll get it just on name-recognition, courtesy of an opaque computer algorithm.
Among the many lies by the Charter Commission was that the new council elections would be "non-partisan." Four socialists puts the lie to that...but this is a typical progressive con: Vote for the dream, wake up to the nightmare.
When you embed minority government, with absolutely NO limits, this is the kind of insanity that you'll get--a candidate who thinks nothing of making racist comments to the voters. To their white faces. She's got her 25-percent; tough luck honkies!
Socialism has produced more murders in its history than Genghis Khan. And now they run our broke little town.
Do you know who's the real motherfucker? Angela Morillo for boring us to death with "Portland so white." Yeah, it is. Get over it.
Come to think of it, unless Morillow uses rice powder to whiten her face or applies a whitening filter, it looks like her forbears did what most old-line Spanish and Latin American elites did and still do, which to marry white.
Being an American-Venezuelan and having seen the white South Americans on billboard ads looming over the brown faces on the sidewalks of Bolivia and Peru, I know whereof I speak about whiteness among Latin Americans.
The PCEF fund is much like the 10¢ gas tax that has done nothing for our roads other than build bicycle lanes and ADA curbs put in and torn out and reinstalled. 😓
I keep getting confused. I thought “BIPOC” was an acronym for Bipolar Communists. Is that wrong?