The major story in Portland politics rn is that the mayor when I first arrived in town, Sam Adams has basically co-opted the...
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)
what even IS comfortable portland establishment at this point? My parents own a house literal blocks from Hawthorne and I’m not sure even I know anymore. What does this city DO at this point?
(Was it an own-goal or did they just accomplish nothing)
Basically, it owns land in Portland, which given that everyone and everything has to be somewhere and it’s one of the best places to be is huge. The fact that the Willamette and the Columbia link it to rich valley farms and timberlands to the south and dryland farms and ore to the east is of the same historical interest as the fact the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio rivers connected the Pittsburgh steel industry to coal, iron, and markets.
And yes, it’s an own-goal. Eudaly, Schmidt and even Hardesty used to be tolerated by the establishment before they became liabilities. Now no one remotely associated with Iannarone is going to be allowed within a mile of power.