The major story in Portland politics rn is that the mayor when I first arrived in town, Sam Adams has basically co-opted the mayorality as the one who knows how to use it and is a good candidate to succeed stiff literal timber heir Ted Wheeler even (especially?) if the electoralist harder-left unsatisfied with last year do manage to recall him

And this replacement of old money with the more dynamic guy who’s making kind of a comeback after not running for a second term amidst fluff about fucking the boy who had been his high school intern as the defensive representative of the comfortable Portland establishment is just so correct you have to laugh

(and a reminder of what an epic own-goal 2020 was for the local left)