An advocacy group called “People for Portland” has gotten under the skin of Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, who wishes Portlanders would take pride in their downtown again.
“People should be proud of the work that the city of Portland is doing under withering circumstances to ensure the recovery of this city,” Mayor Ted Wheeler told Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) Monday morning.
On Monday, Oregon Governor Tina Kotek unveiled a list of recommendations to revitalize Portland that includes new tax relief policies, trash cleanup programs, and a ban on public drug consumption.People for Portland have erected huge billboards downtown that aren’t particularly charitable to Portland’s political leadership. The billboards condemn the city’s crime and homelessness problems and target the city’s radical, George Soros-backed district attorney, Mike Schmidt. The billboards proclaim that the city is experiencing “record crime” with “murderers on the streets,” among other fearful accusations.Wheeler, who is not […]
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