Now Craford is running ballot measure campaigns with other peoples' money just to embarrass politicians he dislikes?

Kent's becoming the new Bill Sizemore.

Measure 26-156 will: Lead to decreased water quality in our streams and rivers; eliminate the city’s efforts to recover salmon in Johnson Creek, the Willamette River and other city waterways; eliminate fish and wildlife habitat protection and restoration; eliminate the city’s efforts to remove invasive species in Forest Park, Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge, Powell Butte, Smith and Bybee Lakes and other city natural areas; and eliminate the city’s tree planting programs

The measure’s language is misleading. BES is no longer a “sewer bureau.” Thanks to the public’s insistence that the city improve environmental quality in the Willamette River and its tributaries, the bureau has transitioned from its former role as the city's "sewer bureau" to become a broader human health, watershed health, and environmental bureau.

Kent Craford and his backers of Ballot Measure 26-156 have two goals in mind: 1). Reduce utility rates for some of the city's biggest corporate polluters and shift those costs to individual rate payers; and 2). Eliminate the city's environmental programs.

Those who care about the city's environment; support the city’s successful removal of raw sewage from the Willamette River and Columbia Slough; support significant improvements in water quality and flood reduction in Johnson Creek; agree with the city's efforts to restore salmon habitat in the Willamette and its tributaries; and support the city's efforts to respond to climate change will vote no and reject Measure 26-156’s attack on the city’s water quality, fish and wildlife habitat and healthy watersheds.

Mike Houck, Executive Director
Urban Greenspaces Institute

This initiative is simply a bad idea. They speak of lowering rates, but there is nothing in this initiative that requires that. They will decrease rates for large customers, and decrease the City of Portland's environmental programs. Few people even realize that the Bureau of Environmental Services is included in this effort. Their programs are essential to protecting clean water, and public health. Don't take the bait. The rhetoric from this campaign is right out of Fox news.