Ah, election time. We’re a little more than two months out from the May 17 primary that might reshape Portland City Council (or at least force run-offs that could) and establish a new mayor. And with the clock ticking, endorsements are rolling in.
We learned today that Commissioner Nick Fish is supporting state Treasurer Ted Wheeler’s bid for Portland mayor. The announcement makes Fish the only member of council to pick sides in the race. Not even outgoing Mayor Charlie Hales (whose wife is a big-time booster for mayoral candidate Sarah Iannarone) has taken a stance.
But Fish has his horse.
“Portland faces many challenges,” he said in a prepared statement released by the Wheeler campaign. “Ted is the best prepared candidate to address them…”
(As we noted in today’s Good Morning News, Wheeler’s chief rival, Jules Bailey, sewed up the rank-and-file police union’s endorsement yesterday.)
But WAIT. Fish isn’t the only one making a bold stance on the mayor’s race. The city’s Juggalos have now spoken, and their candidate is local activist Jessie Sponberg. At least, that’s the case according to this Facebook page, Juggalos for Jesse Sponberg, which we’d assume was a joke, if assuming anything about the juggalo community hadn’t proven unwise time and again. Beyond misspelling its purported candidate’s name, the page features a bunch of magnet jokes and clown-makeup photoshopping.
We asked Sponberg about the page. He hasn’t gotten back to us yet.
Update, 3:30 pm: Sponberg says he saw the Juggalos thing yesterday, and he’s not at all mad about it.
“Our campaign has never sought nor accepted endorsements,” he writes. “BUT if we did I would accept one from the Juggalos before I ever took one from someone currently on our City Council. I put a Nick Fish endorsement right up there with the police union endorsement.”
I’d be wary of anyone the PPB likes.
First off we wanna give a big Woop Woop! to the Portland Mercury 4 covering our boy Jessalo in there dope ass paper.
Our boy is down with the clown and stands up 4 juggalo issues. We mad proud that Jessalo accept our endorsement, and we honered he said our work was “some next level shit”. F’real motherf*cker.
We got alot of work to do 2 get this motherf*cker in the white house. We need a mayor that aint afraid to pull some dark carnival shit, who talk about chemtrails, and stand up to the Social Justice Warriors who hijak our struggle 4 social justice. We need a motherf*cker who’s ready to stab taxes in the throat and magnetize a movement. We need 2 get our ‘los and ‘lettes 2gether to get this ninja into the debates and get his a** like 10 faygos.
We struggalos in the struggle. And in the name of the faygo, the clown, and the dark carnival we approve this message. Abra-ca-stabra, hocus-chokus, amen.
Ok, now this election is getting truly stupid.