"Bomb-Throwing Anarchists"? "Hippie Ecoterror Training"? "Wild-Eyed Optimists"? My Gaaawwwd!!! Who are these people?
They are the Occupy Movement and they have had it wiht financing the follies of the One-Percenters
Next Up: Crystal Cox takes on the biggest Corporados and it looks like the ball is in Obsidian's end zone this down.
http://www.crystalcox.com/, www.obsidianvcox.com/, docs.google.com/document/d/1ypaMpdTggKMccsCtFenD6P9oCojsFfnhNYjOwHXY_8s/edit
Oh, And then there's the Portland Mayoral Election...
Amid the mainstream's dutifully reporting on the howling pack of GOP presidential contenders, it's hard to hear voices from contests closer to home. But in the Portland mayoral race three very predictable faces have risen to the top of the campaign money mountain: - Eileen Brady, Charlie Hales and state Rep. Jefferson Smith. Thus far the three have sounded very much like the same ideal Portland candidate. So the public forum at Catlin Gable School the other night was a watershed moment. There really are differences between the three - out of a field of 18 - contenders.
The three appear to differ on how they woul have survived the Occupy Portland action with face intact; the fate of the Lents District's Marshall High School and community policing.
On the Occupy movement: Smith would have avoided the deadline; Brady would have enforced the deadline and Charlie Hales would have route the encampment sooner.
On Education, Brady ssaid that closing Marshall had been a mistake and the school should be reopened. All Hales had to say on the subject was that he would have stepped in to help find a solution before the district closed Marshall. And Smith
argued for more summer enrichment programs.
Next up: The aalways popular topic, Public Safety. Hales said he would recommit to community policing such as under former Police Chief Charles Moose.
Brady said she would create a mental health unit in the Portland Police Bureau modeled after its anti-gang and domestic violence units. Smith, regarding youth violence, said elected officials needed to see "the whole picture" about what drives people to gangs, for example.- KBOO