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Columbia Sportswear may close Portland office over death threats
Fox News ^ | 11/27/2017 | Travis Fedschun

Posted on 11/27/2017 9:30:02 AM PST by DFG

Columbia Sportswear may be the next business to flee downtown Portland after a series of frightening encounters with the city's homeless population, including car break-ins, human waste dumped by the office's front door and threats to its employees.

In an op-ed piece published earlier this month by The Oregonian, Columbia Sportswear President and CEO Tim Boyle said he is concerned he made a mistake when he opened a headquarters for the company’s Sorel footwear brand downtown, calling the situation "outrageous and unacceptable."

"In fact, I am so concerned about the safety of our employees at the Sorel headquarters that we are taking the next 90 days to re-evaluate our location decision," Boyle wrote.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: columbia; homeless; obamalegacy; portland
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Full title : Columbia Sportswear may close Portland office over death threats, public defecation by homeless people
1 posted on 11/27/2017 9:30:03 AM PST by DFG
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To: DFG

Portland, the socialist’s nirvana.


2 posted on 11/27/2017 9:32:45 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: DFG

Why are they waiting 90 days to make a decision?

They should make plans to get the hell out of that craphole Portland IMMEDIATELY!


3 posted on 11/27/2017 9:34:05 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (SCHLONGED: How Donald Trump Beat My Lying, Marxist Ass and Went On to Win the November Election. HRC)
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To: DFG

Ever notice that it’s the leftist big cities that have all the homeless? They price working and middle-class folks out of the housing market with things such as strict building codes and rent control. So it ends up being the elite wealthy and a huge underclass. Just what the elites want.


4 posted on 11/27/2017 9:38:34 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (10% pure, flat income tax for everyone. No deductions, credits, or loopholes.)
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To: DFG

We humans labored for thousands of years to figure out how to keep our bodily wastes away from the front doors of shoe stores.


5 posted on 11/27/2017 9:40:38 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: DFG
Hey Tim Boyle, don't bring your blue state politics into red state safety.

If you like your politics, live and work in the culture you support.

6 posted on 11/27/2017 9:41:34 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: Obadiah

Portland overrun with homeless? But what about their liberal compassion towards those less fortunate? They really are worried about their safety there, worried people will step in something and track it into the office? But what about the signal it sends that they may run away from the homeless problem? How does that align with their values of bieng inclusive and wanting to help the downtrodden?


7 posted on 11/27/2017 9:42:38 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: DFG

Homeless people are the lefts way to destroy this country for their socialist utopia. Worse than Venezuela.


8 posted on 11/27/2017 9:43:30 AM PST by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever! It is offical, we are at war!)
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To: DFG

I posted previously about a young couple, who are really like their parents, old time democrats not the current SJW’s.

About 3 years ago, they moved to Portland because they felt it was safer as it was more liberal.

Less than a year later, they moved back because of Portland’s in your face liberals and homeless, who would move in back yards of people without being invited.

Another relative moved to Portland about 20 years ago and loved it for the first 5-6 years. He was in the food business, worked late and rode his bike to and from his apartment and where he worked.

It got so bad safety wise, he got a permit to carry and felt that kept him safe at least twice.

He returned here, 11 year ago. He went back to Portland for a week, a few years ago to visit friends. He came back after a couple of days due to the homeless, the new in your face liberals, and the human waste in the streets of downtown Portland.


9 posted on 11/27/2017 9:44:52 AM PST by Grampa Dave (The fastest way to drain the swamp is to simply expose it! Sunlight does aid in evaporation!)
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To: DFG

The Californication of Oregon


10 posted on 11/27/2017 9:48:35 AM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians aren’t born, they’re excreted.” - Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: DFG

Crap not given (by me, apparently they have plenty from others)


11 posted on 11/27/2017 9:49:02 AM PST by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: DFG

But, Portland is a paradise!


12 posted on 11/27/2017 9:49:09 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (CNN IS ISIS.)
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To: DFG

I visited the city when I was a teenager about 40 years ago and it was clean and beautiful. This is what happens when the cult gets a hold of a city.


13 posted on 11/27/2017 9:49:22 AM PST by Snowybear
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To: DFG

Wait...I thought the Left was all in favor of this??


14 posted on 11/27/2017 9:49:59 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Exactly. Recently I saw something about how the homeless are the overlooked people that we should have compassion for. While I agree as humans they warrant compassion and assistance, but so much of the homeless issue is a combination of mental illness and liberal policies, which is another form of mental illness.

The point is that these typically mentally unstable people aren’t the byproduct of some uncompassionate society as we are often forcibly guilted into thinking, rather homelessness is a complex combination of mentally unfit and liberals who have historically done more to facilitate homelessness than anything. It is NOT compassionate to throw money and create ordinances to subsidize the homeless lifestyle, and that often is exactly what the left does in the virtue signaling name of compassion.


15 posted on 11/27/2017 9:50:47 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

“Why are they waiting 90 days to make a decision?”

They need time to locate a new facility.


16 posted on 11/27/2017 9:52:45 AM PST by Rebelbase (The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.-- H.L. Mencken)
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To: DFG

Portland’s homeless people are not the same as the homeless in NYC. They have a real chip on their shoulder, a lot of hatred. They do this thing where they bump into you sidways to show their antagonism and can’t be called on it because they can claim it was an accident. Here they are just down-and-out, rather humble, stay out of your way except to ask for money. In Portland, they are not allowed to beg, not allowed to sit or lie on the sidewalk, not allowed to use the public restroom in the bus/train station. The do-gooders have organized them and provided a program where they can sell their printed stories and poetry on the streets—can’t stop that, it’s the 1st Amendment. They are a different kind of homeless person, mostly white, usually a kind of slightly aging previously addicted hippie, but some are fairly young.

It’s a real problem there. I left my table at a Starbucks and caught a woman getting ready to steal my sandwich. A chef-owner told me not to come back on foot that evening—take a cab—because it’s dangerous. People on this forum call NYC a hellhole but that would be unthinkable here, that you can’t walk to your restaurant after dark.


17 posted on 11/27/2017 9:55:34 AM PST by firebrand
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

waiting 90 days from the city/state for financial benefits to stay. Perhaps the city can give them tax money so that they can hire homeless as security :/


18 posted on 11/27/2017 9:56:55 AM PST by Fhios (Down with your fascism, up with our fascism.)
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To: Obadiah

25 years ago downtown Portland was a city planners dream.


19 posted on 11/27/2017 9:58:18 AM PST by Don Corleone (.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: DFG

Given the vast increase in psychiatric meds in society an increased wave of a violent homeless population is easy to predict.


20 posted on 11/27/2017 9:59:51 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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