The Portland establishment’s coming for Jo Ann Hardesty, the black ex-state legislator and the only non-tame city councilor left, the strategy appears to run two candidates in the primary – real establishmentarian Vadim Mozyrsky (who would also be representation for the big Slavic community in the outer eastside since the end of the Cold War) and vote-splitting Latina Rene Gonzales, who seems to be the one tasked with going negative – and trying to crowd her out of the runoff to begin with