be harmonious—diversity and functionality—to be used as weapons against
each other.
Here’s how that happened.":
Posted on 07/07/2022 3:48:13 PM PDT by Libloather
**SNIP**
1. City officials have long claimed that Portland’s form of government makes it impossible for them to do their jobs well.
2. When the Portland Charter Commission was formed, members settled on their own set of goals.
3. The commission emerged with three proposed reforms. No city in America has tried to achieve all three at the same time.
4. Perhaps the most popular aspect of the proposed reforms is that Portland would be run by a city administrator.
5. The reform measure calls for ranked-choice voting, an unfamiliar and controversial method, to elect city commissioners.
7. Portland voters will need to agree to all of this - or none of it.
8. Portland’s old guard is preparing to fight the proposed measure.
9. It’s going to be a heated campaign.
10. The process raises new questions about the mayor.
Seven attempts to change Portland’s form of government have failed in the past century.
(Excerpt) Read more at wweek.com ...
They voted for it, embrace the suck!
Probably not the form, but the substance of the Left that’s running things over there.
Management by committee is a very bad idea.
Put in a mayor, with full powers and full responsibility for results.
In school systems, abolish school boards, put in a superintendent, and likewise make him responsible for results.
See tagline for explanation.
so they are going to have an Insurrection in Portland ?
it will be interesting how this plays out
I am sure it will end with a Summer of Love
Management by committee is a very bad idea.
Just like in the White House now
Management by consensus is an even worse form of management. The members of the team are supposed to come to consensus, which turns it into a dictatorship of the most obstinate.
Women managers loved it, they got to talk and nobody had responsibility.
A new form of government called communism , LOL
Here’s how that happened.":
They already had one in 2020. Antifa took over part of the city and claimed to be autonomous, not subject to the laws of Portland, not subject to the laws of Oregon, and not subject to the laws of the United States. And the DOJ did ... nothing.
1. Strip the mayor of a council vote, except as a tiebreaker. All administrative duties and bureau oversight would be handed to a newly created position of city administrator, who would be hired by the mayor and confirmed by a majority of council members.
[City Manager form of municipal government is the most common in the nation, and theoretically puts a professional in charge of daily operations, as well as removing direct political control over minutia.]
2. The number of council members would increase from five to 12, with three members elected from each of four districts. (Currently, all five commissioners are elected citywide.)
[this too can be a good idea, since having ALL commissioners elected at large guarantees total control by whatever power interest is predominate]
3. And those commissioners would be elected using a relatively novel system called “ranked-choice voting.”
[i’m not as familiar with the pros and cons of this one]
Death spiral.
[i’m not as familiar with the pros and cons of this one]
NYC has had it for awhile. You can see the results.
“They voted for it, embrace the suck!”
Yep,
It will only get worse BTW.
The last good Mayor of Portland was defeated by the progressives in 1985.
He was a pro business Democrat and ended up running an Oregon group called “Democrats for Reagan.”
His name was Frank Ivancie & he died a few years ago.
Portland is in for a tough decade, as we head towards the 2030’s.
I have a friend who took a month this summer and drove along the east coast, starting in California and headed north. Along the way, as she chit chatted with folks she met in restaurants and at tourist attractions, she was told, by numerous people, to stay away from Portland because of how horrible it is there.
I'm trying to picture how that would work.
“I have a friend who took a month this summer and drove along the east coast, starting in California and headed north. Along the way, as she chit chatted with folks she met in restaurants and at tourist attractions, she was told, by numerous people, to stay away from Portland because of how horrible it is there.”
Your friend was chit chatting with a knowledgeable crowd.
I’m 30 miles south of Portland in a County that was created in 1843.
We haven’t voted for a democrat in a Presidential Election since 1964 before that 1940.
We hate them & they hate us. I won’t spend a penny in that city.
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LOL. Sorry. Meant west coast.
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