Thanks for that important correction.

Anyway, my women of color colleagues are fighting everyday for this community in myriad ways, and I couldn’t be prouder of them. I learn from them each day and we are lucky to have them leading in office.

I eat up there all of the time because that’s when we get to eat. Where’s my harassment video? It’s not leftist praxis to single out and harass women of color for eating, or for trying to use what levers of power we have to throw sand in the gears of fascism.

Bingo.

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It’s not the disagreement with the policy I take issue with. I have actually moderate colleagues who disagree with the policy, but don’t call me a Nazi in their comms. Labeling progressives or other leftists as Nazis is a right-wing trope.

Since he did not post a correction and an apology there’s no way to know.

At a time when Portlanders are suffering from an affordability crisis, when thousands face threat of eviction, we have an obligation to act to protect the half of our population who rent. Bad faith slandering from right wing colleagues won’t deter me from fighting for tenants.

Also: I’m baffled by the idea that legislation rooted in the American anti-trust tradition is “out of the national socialist playbook.” The Nazis were pro-cartelization! What the ordinance does is follow in the Brandeisian tradition, which seeks to establish free market conditions with antitrust.

Green 13 was an amendment from adopted budget that set aside $2.2m for the public safety service area, to be brought back to council for a vote on allocation sometime this year. What you’re seeing is that proposal by the service area to council. I didn’t want PPB to just get a rollover of that $$

No, I redirected roughly $2m away from going straight to police in the budget session last spring into a set aside for all of public safety, including CHAT, PSR, and other areas for capacity building and now council needs to vote on how to spend that.

To those who say that I’m out of touch with the views of my district I say this: I ran for this seat to represent those who don’t get a voice. Who don’t have traditional access to power. You probably won’t hear their voices at a neighborhood association, but they still exist and I am their councilor

I’m proud of our staff, who are each of them brilliant and are fighters. I’m proud of the countless advocates who insist that their electeds do evidence-based policy work and center those experiencing life without shelter. Thanks for holding us to account.