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Re: “Cop Union Running "No Confidence" Vote on Sizer And Saltzman”
Dear Scott Westerman - cram it. If you or your Blue Wall of Silence goons don't like it, you can go on stress disability and apply for SSDI.
Re: “"Do You See Anyone Here With Nutsacks On Their Face?"”
"Super Bowl of Freedom"? More like Toilet Bowl of Wingnuts.
Re: “Cop Union Boss: "Our Low Emotional Condition"”
Geraghty - one of the point-blank pepper-sprayers in 2002 and 2003 was then-Sgt. Mark Kruger.
He sprayed Channel 12 camerawoman Beth English point-blank in the face without provocation on 8/22/02 during a protest against President Bush fundraising for Gordon Smith.
During the 2003 anti-war protests, he pepper-sprayed Miranda May while she was covering up, and was laughing about it. In addition, Kruger shoved a handcuffed woman (arrested for the heinous crime of jaywalking) in the face, and was involved in an assault on a protester named Amber Hicks on 8/21/03 during a protest against another visit by then-President Bush.
Westerman is a mason in the Blue Wall of Silence. The reason there's no support from the public is because Humphreys and Nice killed someone due to their negligence and lack of self-control. Kruger has made poor decisions and has a history of assaulting women on duty. None of those three should be on the police force, and their DPSST certifications should be pulled, so they can't just go to another jurisdiction like Jason Sery, who killed James Jahar Perez, resigned from the Portland Police Bureau, then was hired by Beaverton.
Re: “Hall Monitor”
I've lived in Portland for 13 years, and I am well aware of the P-hole - it can be incapacitating both for people and civic involvement. Portland is one tough town.
But this city doesn't beat you up or "rip the bones from your back" - it lulls you to sleep in that it seems like paradise and you can do whatever you want. The flipside is that many people in Portland are lazy and passive, and that you'll get no help whatsoever.
If you can create with small numbers of people who are committed, you can get things done. Once you open it up, you run the risk of falling into the P-hole - you have to be on your toes to not be contaminated by the air of entropy and self-satisfiedness that envelops Portland.
Re: “David Wu's SUV”
Unfortunately for the Republicans and their Dear Leader Rush Limbaugh, there's absolutely no bench in much of Oregon.
Many of the Republicans in the state legislature in the metro area have lost their seats - and these are the people who could be a credible challenge to Wu.
Re: “Limbaugh on Obama's Peace Prize: "An Embarrassment!"”
Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are like quinine - white and bitter.
Re: “Mayor Adams Pushes PGE to Ditch Coal”
Sam - are you an engineer?
If there *is* a plan to replace Boardman with another source of electricity, I'm all for it. But methinks Sam's idea is to enslave a lot of buff teenagers on bikes to generate electricity for the Pearl while the East Side sits in the dark.
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