November 14, 2018
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Oregon’s Nov. 6 General Election results saw Democrat Kate Brown (left) re-elected as governor, and
in Portland, activist Jo Ann Hardesty (right) was elected to the Portland City Council for a seat held by
retiring City Commissioner Dan Saltzman.
Brown, Hardesty Victorious
Progressive
candidates and
causes do well
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Results from Oregon’s Novem-
ber General Election brought big
wins for progressive causes and
candidates as Democratic Gov.
Kate Brown won re-election in a
hard fought race, and voters de-
feated statewide measures that
targeted immigrants by revoking
sanctuary laws and another that
would have placed limits on pub-
lic abortion funding.
In Portland, former Portland
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NAACP President and former
State Rep. Jo Ann Hardesty
soundly won election in a runoff
race from the May Primary for
Portland City Council, defeating
Multnomah County Commission-
er Loretta Smith, 62 percent to
37 percent. Hardesty becomes the
first black woman elected to the
five-member council.
“I’m proud to say this is the
Portland I thought it was,” Hard-
esty said, celebrating the decisive
result last week.
A historic ballot measure en-
dorsed by the Portland NAACP,
the Urban League of Portland and
other civil rights groups to fund
clean energy jobs in communities
of color, won at the ballot box, 64
percent to 36 percent. The mea-
sure, considered a first nationally
to fund climate justice and jobs is
expected to raise over $30 million
each year via a 1 percent business
license surcharge on billion-dollar
retailers.
“[I am] overwhelmingly proud
of our community for trying to get
it right, overwhelmingly proud
of the coalitions that came to-
gether to make this happen,” the
Rev. E.D. Mondainé, the current
NAACP President and chief pe-
titioner of the clean energy initia-
tive, told the Portland Observer.
“It was voice of the people that
spoke. And that’s the beauty of it
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Mayor’s Protest Curbs Draw Fire
Eudaly,
Hardesty oppose
new powers
Portland Mayor Ted Wheel-
er’s proposed ordinance to give
the city more power to curb po-
tentially violent protests ran into
opposition from incumbent City
Commissioner Chloe Eudaly and
City Commissioner-elect Jo Ann
Hardesty Thursday when the ordi-
nance saw its first hearing.
The regulation would grant the
mayor power to designate where
and when protestors can gather
under certain circumstances: If
the groups have a violent history;
when bystander or protestor safety
is at risk; or if there is otherwise
evidence of likelihood of violence
to take place.
Chloe Eudaly
Jo Ann Hardesty
Dan Saltzman, who is retir-
ing in January, was the only City
Commissioner to voice support
for the measure. The American
Civil Liberties Union of Oregon
and other civil rights advocates
argue the proposal has the poten-
tial to infringe on Constitutional-
ly-protected speech and assembly
rights and lacks meaningful over-
sight for abuse.
Police Chief Danielle Outlaw
spoke in favor of the measure, cit-
ing public safety needs. She said
added staffing for recent protests
that have grown violent have cost
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