Sorry Denis and other Portland Mercury Staff. Street roots has just won my heart over with the funniest article ever about our precious Sam Adams.

http://streetroots.wordpress.com/2011/04/1…

Oh poor Sam Adams he is sorta the laughing stock right now and he started out so good. It's ok Mayor Adams you can bounce back in a new career. Maybe Tre at Voodoo Donuts would hire you. Then you can serve donuts to all yr cop friends. Maybe Voodoo could donation a portion of the proceeds to benefit the Portland Police so they can get the money that Chief Reese says they need.

More cops.
Even as local and state services face debilitating austerity cuts across the board, somehow we have millions of dollars for more cops. Bigger classrooms & less teachers, more cops. Thousands of public sector workers laid off across the state - more cops. Less for housing, mental health services, parks, & fire - more cops. Less for CHIERS, sobering stations, & police misconduct review boards - more cops. Cuts for [civilian] staff at the city level & furloughs/lay-offs for thousands of unioned workers state-wide - more cops. And more cops. And more money/pay hikes for all those cops.

You know, isn't it fucking funny how the city/Multnomah county refuses to fire - never mind prosecute, but FIRE - cops who've proven themselves to be a liability? Cop kills someone, and the city/county settles a multi-million dollar claim, and continues to pay this pig's salary. Yet, we don't have money for anything else. Teachers and other workers across the board face cuts, furloughs, and lay-offs, but we can't even get rid of the handful of cops who've proven to be dangerous and unfit for public service.

And isn't it something you know, how Chief Fürher Mike Reese can just walk into a budget workshop with his "posse" - his blue wall of thugs having his back, and demand $9 million [more] for the Police Bureau out of a $21.7 million surplus? Isn't that some mafia-type shit right there? Reese has some balls, i'll give him that. But then again, with a mayor/police commissioner who bitches up any time the Bureau/Gestapo as well as the Police Union/SS makes demands, i can't really blame him.