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City of Portland: Charlie Hales for Mayor, Amanda Fritz for City Council
The Skanner News: Charlie
Hales for Mayor, Amanda
Fritz for City Council
W
e can’t remember the
last time the race for
mayor of Portland was
so rocky. While both Jefferson
Smith and Charlie Hales – and
their primary race challenger
Eileen Brady – are all obviously
bright and committed to public
service, somehow the entire may-
oral campaign has been marked by
scandals, untruths and negativity.
This was especially heartbreaking
during our recent endorsement
interview with Smith, who has
evolved into an articulate and
knowledgeable leader with more
insight into the city’s options for
binding arbitration in the Police
Bureau than anyone else we’ve
spoken with. But the way Smith
handled revelations of his past –
repeated drivers license suspen-
sions and a short list of violent
encounters – by failing to simply
Charlie Hales
for Mayor
own up to them when they first
emerged in the news, showed that
the gifted young lawmaker is not
mature enough to handle the reins
of City Hall at this time.
We are endorsing Charlie Hales
because he has experience in Port-
land government, he represents
bedrock progressive values and
his priorities for the city – social
justice, job creation and sustain-
ability – are ones we can get
behind. He has worked in both the
public and private sectors, and to
us this means Hales understands
the needs of the business commu-
nity as well as the potential for
bureaucratic abuse of public
resources. We believe Hales
understands how to get things
done.
Similarly, we endorse Amanda
Fritz for City Commissioner. Fritz
spent years working her way up as
a community organizer even
though she already had a career in
health care; and she didn’t give up
when the going got tough. Fritz’
dedication to the City of Portland
shines through in the dogged way
she has weathered sexist insults
about her effectiveness in office –
criticisms we believe to be unfair
and unfounded. Fritz’ success in
bringing about the Office of Equi-
ty with a unanimous vote of her
peers despite a punishing round of
Amanda Fritz
for City Commissioner
media criticism rallies our own
faith in the power of a compelling
idea. We want Fritz to have anoth-
er four years in part to see what
more she might accomplish before
retiring from the Council, which
she has said she plans to do.
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