MARCH 17. 2006
Multnomah County Chair Diane Linn (with PABA vice
president Marc Delphine) smiles before facing her
opponent.
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Spotted among the audience were
Commissioners Serena Cruz Walsh and
Maria Rojo de Steffey, wearing stickers
of support for Wheeler.
Since the event, Linn has swept
environmental organizations’ endorse­
ments from Wheeler, an Eagle Scout
and accomplished mountain climber.
She earned thumbs-up from rhe Oregon
Natural Resources Council, Sierra Club
and Oregon League of Conservation
Voters. She also racked up support from
the Multnomah County Deputy Sheriffs
Association and Oregon Nurses
Association.
Meanwhile, Wheeler’s latest endorse­
ments come from Gresham City
Councilor Jacquenette McIntire and the
Joint Council of Teamsters No. 37.
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Multnomah County Commissioner Maria Rojo de Steffey
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Get Out the Weird Vote
Ted Wheeler pauses before the lively debate.
ment,” “dysfunctional” and “fractured.”
Linn defended her record of making tough cuts
to the county budget, avoiding a teacher strike and
using the Multnomah County income tax to fund
a full school year.
Her punches didn’t cut quire as deeply as her
opponent’s, hut the incumbent alluded to her
opponent’s lack of experience and failure to grasp
complex systems within the county such as mental
health services and reasons behind decisions she
made regarding same-sex marriage.
Linn got snappy by describing the book
Wheeler penned, Government That Works, as
“obscure” and assured voters that despite a local
lack of confidence, Multnomah County is viewed
as a national model in nearly every department.
The debate got so hot that the Governor
Hotel (coincidentally?) sounded the alarm for an
unscheduled emergency evacuation. Linn and
Wheeler returned for closing statements after the
drill was deemed a false alarm.
Three candidates for Portland City
Council faced off in a surreal late-night
debate March 15 featuring members of
the punk drag troupe Sissyboy.
Incumbent Dan Saltzman, who
failed to go glam for the occasion, joked
about his lack of charisma hut listed
“keeping Portland weird” among his
campaign promises. Opponent Amanda Fritz, look­
ing fabulous in a loud zebra print, proclaimed, “I
want to be the voice of all different kinds of people
in City Hall.”
Chris “Irie” Iverson, who came dressed in
Rasta drag, didn’t seem to connect with the crazy
crowd despite his pro-pot platform. He also blew
it during a segment called “Kiss It or Dis It?” when
asked for his opinion on barebacking. He said he
was in support of gay men having anal sex with­
out condoms.
In the evening’s most bizarre moment, modera­
tor Phil Busse tested Saltzman’s hipness by asking
him to define “teabagging,” but the politician
passed the buck: “I want to defer to Amanda
because she’s from England.” (For the record,
teahagging is defined as “a man dipping his testicles
into the mouth of his partner as a form of oral
sex.”) ©
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