"We all started from nothing."

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Did they tell the neighborhood association that they were being recorded? Why do advocates have to be underhanded? I thought they were the "good guys."

@ Blabby, it's perfectly legal to OVERTLY audio record a neighborhood association meeting.

Usually, it's a Class A misdemeanor to audio record in-person without the knowledge of all parties. ORS 165.140. However:

(6) The prohibitions in subsection (1)(c) of this section do not apply to persons who intercept or attempt to intercept with an unconcealed recording device the oral communications that are part of any of the following proceedings:
(a) Public or semipublic meetings such as hearings before governmental or quasi-governmental bodies, trials, press conferences, public speeches, rallies and sporting or other events;
[...]
(c) Private meetings or conferences if all others involved knew or reasonably should have known that the recording was being made.

Didn't say it was illegal. Just wondering why advocates have to sneak around when the neighborhood association is being straight up, as I think this article attests.

It's of a piece of Fritz' hush-hush behavior on this whole R2D2 deal. From the Willamette Week:

“I don’t appreciate public involvement when it really doesn’t matter,” Fritz says. “People have been angry and say, ‘Even if we don’t want it, you’re still going to do it.’ Yeah, that’s true.”

Well these audio excerpts were disappointing. I was hoping for some juicy bias, "we've got to get these stinky stumblebums out of our elite environs." "yeah, especially the dark ones!" "This is step one in our effort to homogenize the city and make Portland normal." "And more like California!"

"I don’t appreciate public involvement when it really doesn’t matter"?

I guess that's the politician's equivalent of "Talk to the hand!"

I can't understand why neighbors would prefer not to have a giant homeless camp next door, maybe it has something to do with the way that the west side of the burnside bridge smells like someone is concentrating urine by boiling it over an open flame.