Does anyone even take you seriously anymore, Voluptuous? If you don't like what the Mercury is reporting, get out of here, no one cares for your trolling.
And while we're at it, you throwing around elitist is a little ironic.

Whoa. I was too busy to read the blog yesterday and I totally missed this. Fantastic!

WOW! This means I can sit outside your condo now and spange? You should petition the building owner to turn the vacant restaurant in your building to become a houseless feeding kitchen!!!
You should totally make the park block in front of your house a new "Dignity Village" It's being totally under utilized right now. I am sure that the Schnitzer family would donate lots of $$$ to your worthy causes. It is the "Cultural District" right? Why not celebrate ALL cultures!! AND the farmers market on Wednesdays would surely donate food! Better yet, open your living room to ALL!

anyone who sticks up for gutterpunks doesnt work downtown.

they have also never been too busy looking for their girlfriend to turn around and apologize that they didnt have free money for some little asshole in $120 hot topic pants and then had a knife pulled on them.

this was during sit-lie. sit-lie wasnt doing shit anyway.

fucking apologetic hippie attitudes towards scumbag teenage panhandlers is worst thing about portland.

spange sounds like a term for wanking it. heh heh.

The opposition to the sit/lie law was about civil rights, not about anyone's sob story about running into some scaaaary bums. Poor baaabies.

They aren't Scary, they are self entitled and have no social awareness or are waiting for someone to "Save" them, the only people that will do that will take advantage of them. Portland has a very high rate of trafficking people, I wonder why?

Why don't the conservative anti-tax type idiots complain when the City and its dumbass lawyers are so stupid they can't find a constitutional solution to this problem, costing the taxpayers tons of money? I guess taxes are only a problem when they are successful at solving social problems...

Way to go Mercury Staff! Wanna keep the good feelings going? Go after the Oregonian for being a lap dog of Randy Leonard.

Truth: Leonard is on record as being not in agreement with people like me who argued the sit/lie ordinance was unconstitutional. Fast forward to 143 and then 188 minutes into this video. April 29th, 2009
tinyurl.com/leonardmix2

Then read the Oregonian misinformation that Leonard has always opposed sit lie on the grounds it violates the constitution. June 23rd
tinyurl.com/leonardmix


Then email the managing editor of the Oregonian, who refused to correct their error.
theresebottomly@news.oregonian.com

There should be a pulitzer category for newspapers that catch other newspapers being the lapdogs of lying politicians. When a politician speaks, aren't reporters supposed to question them?

Linda Meng, the city Attorney needs to be fired for advising City Council that Sit/Lie was A-OK. Please file a FOA to get that memo.

? Why is it I feel like saying "I like people who have respect for other people"

Thanks for some good coverage all along on this issue and for posting the recent memo.