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Paul Wendlick's avatar

You're inability to follow the law, as evidenced by your enormous parking ticket tally. Combined with your lies about how your actions in office will be different from individual failures are bs. You couldn't buy my vote. You're a disgrace as an elected official, while acting like most corrupt politicians. You're a joke, like Wheeler, Adams, Hardesty..the list goes on. Resign and leave the area

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Ollie Parks's avatar

Brilliant idea, Carmen!

Instead of doing something to add to the existing stock of rental housing, which should lower rents, you'll reduce the number of units that are available on the open, unregulated market, thereby increasing rents for people who do not need governmental assistance. That's equity for you!

By the way, are you living in the State of Oregon? Do you know that Governor Tina Kotek, too, has a plan to increase the number of housing units in this state? Are you aware that Kotek is looking to local governments to do most of the heavy lifting? I ask because you're proceeding as if Kotek's initiative didn't exist. You didn't even mention it. Yet Kotek and Portanders who follow the news assume and expect that the City of Portland is involved in the Governor's housing program and making progress toward those goals. So which is it? Are you stiff-arming the Governor and going off in your own direction, or are you consciously part of the solution that Kotek seems to think she has put together?

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