People for Portland’s First Lobbying Report to City Hall Shows Half a Million Dollars Spent in Three Months

So far it’s only been slightly less of a half-remembered cardboard cutout caricature of politicking than Mayor Wheeler himself, but the establishmentarian machine is up and running, legitimating a big plug of police hiring (the PPD never backfilled late-2000s cuts, and population only went up since)

They could stand to turn it over to Jefferson Smith, he could probably lend it more grace, but if the power brokers had that wisdom they coulda had him as mayor in 2012. I suppose “local politics unites in total opposition to side you dislike, scrambles into action while yawningly needy for new blood” could be worse