Just to restate my criteria for elections I am re-posting some things to think about!!!!!!
Crickets from candidates when a ticking Time Bomb is growing in PPS and Portland
There is a ticking time bomb surely to explode within the next ten years. When all these black young people recognized that they have no future and have been relegated to 3rd class citizenship, all Hell will break loose. All the current political candidates have failed to address this issue in their platforms. The black politicians and candidates ought to be ashamed because there is nothing but Crickets coming from their campaigns. It truly is shameful. Black people won’t need to worry about Climate Change because the forecast is that they won’t be around. Or at lease in prison they will control the temperature.
https://sos.oregon.gov/audits/Documents/2019-01.pdf
Blessed be those Black Moms Who Survived
My Mom, who I think my oldest daughter favors, was born in 1924 in Orlinda Tennessee, graduated high school in 1940 when the family lived on a tobacco farm (plantation lite). She helped raise white people’s kids, did their laundry and housing keeping, and was being called a nigger every day. I marvel at the fact that she was able to graduate high school in the south under that kind of trauma. My Mom is gone now, but I don’t believe she was an atypical black woman. Blessed be those black Moms who were able to survive America to this day.
Stop Screwing With the City Auditor’s Office
Citizens need to get involved because the Portland City Council is interfering with the independence of the Auditors Office through the budget process. Check out what the Auditor is urging us to do. I have already made a statement on the record and you should too.
The Auditor, Mary Caballero will send all the links to back up documentation:Hull Caballero, Mary <Mary.HullCaballero@portlandoregon.gov>
I am writing to ask you to object to City Council interfering with the independence of the Auditor’s Office. My statement is below, and background documents are attached. City Council should not expect the Auditor’s Office to divert resources away from it core accountability and transparency work to subsidize Council’s Hearings Office. If you would like to provide comment at the virtual public hearing on May 12, you must sign up by tomorrow’s deadline. You also can provide written comment with this online form or by contacting Council offices directly. While the 2017 Charter amendment improved the independence of my office a great deal, I continue to work on and need a budget-setting framework to keep this kind of interference from happening. Please forward this message, too!
Virtual Public Hearing on the Mayor’s FY 2020-21 Proposed Budget
Tuesday, May 12, 6:30pm – 8:30pm.
Public Comment Sign-Up Form: https://www.portlandoregon.gov/cbo/article/759213 must complete form by 4pm Friday, May 8th.
Livestream: www.portlandoregon.gov/video
The NAMC-Oregon Mayoral Debate”Rocks & Rolls
Watching the NAMC-Oregon debate this evening, it comes increasingly clear that our current Mayor thinks he is in the groove and is making all the right moves. But he is so wrong. He reels off a series of committees he’s stood up and I have participated with a few of them. For the most part, they are all spinning their wheels and going nowhere. I think he has good intentions, but he doesn’t have a clue.
I was leaning toward Ozzie but I can tell he is on the wrong track with his affiliation with OAME and the talk about this new Black Chamber of Commerce fostered by E.D. Mondaine and the local branch of the NAACP. These are both bogus organizations meeting no one’s needs but their founders. This makes me think he”s like Ted and easily snookered.
I liked Teressa’s emphasis on Reparations but I am not confident she could implement anything she is proposing.
I really liked Sarah’s emphasis on planning and bench marking. I think she genuinely captured the way to move the needle and is competent enough to get the job done. I was impressed.
Apartheid Pure and Simple
Apartheid Pure and Simple
I got a random call tonight from Sam Adams’ campaign representing themselves as union activists. I could tell they got my name from some Democratic solicitation list. Little did they know that I am one of those who has been trying to expose the construction union’s grip on the local political process as government imposed economic apartheid.
It makes good sense to me why they would be supporting Sam Adams. Under the Vera Katz/Sam Adams administrations, they were successful in denying full participation of black workers and tradespersons across the construction crafts for the last several decades. And it’s continuing under previous and current administrations. Don’t take my word for it, look up the data. Sam was the master architect behind so many policies and practices at the City that preached diversity and inclusion but to the union’s delight, went nowhere. They have over several years maintained an almost all-white male union workforce. If that’s not economic apartheid, I don’t know what is.
If they can get Sam on the City Council, the construction unions are assured of at least one vote maintaining the white male status quo while giving diversity and inclusion lip service as a disguising cover. It’s no accident that Sam has chosen the weakest candidate to challenge for a council seat. You can believe he is consulting with these racist unions.
Disclaimer:
Please don’t lump the construction unions in with the broad range of good union activity.
Politics Makes for Strange Bedfellows
Politics makes for “strange bedfellows”
I thought I had a handle on calculating political motives but JoAnn has me completely baffled. I supported her when she essentially talked Dan Saltzman out of running for another term. Nice guy but he had been there too long. Now she has her face all over high priced TV ads falsely touting the praises of another out of touch old dude named Earl Blumenauer. What’s sad is watching her justifying her support by explaining Earl’s trickle-down advocacy for housing at the national level. He’s been about as abstract from the black community as you can get. And again, he’s an old dude that’s been there too long. I think he supported her one day on twitter because of an incident at City Hall before she got elected. But other than that, I don’t see the connection. Maybe she is angling to run for his seat in two more years if he gets re-elected. The heat must be on since they’re spending big money on high priced ads.
But what is even more disappointing is her flip flop for Ted Wheeler. When she was running, she graded Ted’s performance as a C minus. Now that she is in office, she gives him a drooling endorsement. It’s pretty sad to watch but who knows what goes on behind closed doors? I’ve learned that politics makes for ”strange bedfellows.”
What does the Spot Light Show?
A SPOT LIGHT CHALLENGE for the local 2020 election
See how many of the local candidates currently seeking office or running for re-election have previously held public office for more than 8 years.
What was their actions and performance during those periods when black people faced obvious oppressive conditions?
What was their measurable efforts on the record to mitigate the devastating impacts?
What are they doing now?
Hold their records up against our misery and see as a black citizen if you still want to vote for them.
Don’t be Bamboozled
Black folks let me be clear. If you for vote Earl Blumenauer or Sam Adams you are voting for a politician who have reigned over your demise and the co-polictians who endorse them are co-enablers. I am calling out JoAnn Hardesty who knows Earl ain’t done Sh*t and knows Sam Adams has played the black community like a fiddle. Mayor Wheeler who JoAnn endorsed, I thought was going to be different, but has very poor discernment about the black community and keeps aligning himself with dis-honest characters who are yes people for his agenda. He plays to our community’s greatest weakness and is always looking for “Yes People” to back his halfhearted attempts to address issues in our community. He is weak like his predecessor Charlie “Weak Ass” Hales. Do yourself and our community a favor and don’t vote for any of these people. Vote for anybody else. Hit me up on my Blog .”BPAreport.com” if you want my recommendations for this election….
Illusion of Progress
Oh, how I miss William Raspberry. We could use his genius intellectual journalism right about now. I hope we will use his yardstick to measure candidates in the coming election. Some of today’s candidates have been in office almost since Raspberry wrote this article. Despite the clear lack of progress for most black people we still have black gatekeepers running around providing interference for incumbent politicians. These politicians are killing us with their superficial “I feel your pain” liberal do-nothing performance in office. Earl Blumenauer comes to mind. We have a choice. We don’t have to continue voting for these milk toast mainly white guys who have been playing us for decades. In this coming election, we can vote for Albert Lee who dares to challenge the status quo. If we do otherwise, I expect we will be voting for at least 2 more years of William Raspberry’s description of an “Illusion of Progress”