News Sep 30, 2009 at 11:17 am

City Council Devotes Over An Hour To Single Payer Blah—It Will Make No Difference To Congress

Matt Davis
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The council does this crap all the time and it is nothing more than pandering to their local constitutents.

Resolution to support single payer health care.
Resolution to oppose the Iraq War.
etc.. etc..

The federal government doesn't give a lusty fart what the Portland City Council thinks. If they did, we wouldn't be having to spend a bazillion dollars on a water filtration system we don't need.

Stick to city business guys.
Robert Collins on September 30, 2009 at 11:51 AM Report this
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"Outside, city employees with the AFSCME union are waiting to march at noon in protest against the city's cuts to its Bureau of Development Services. BDS is going from 351 employees in July to 148 tomorrow. City Commissioner Randy Leonard, who has had to make those cuts and is traditionally a union supporter,"

I bet all those employees headed for the unemployment line are feeling warm fuzzies about Randy's pay raise, the one he & the rest of the council voted for.
on September 30, 2009 at 1:14 PM Report this
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When I was a kid my inner SE neighborhood association passed an anti-nuclear proliferation ordinance.
Ben Coleman on September 30, 2009 at 1:45 PM Report this
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And Commissioner Leonard's staff have put details of the resolution on his blog:

http://commissionerleonard.typepad.com/com…
Matt Davis on October 1, 2009 at 8:39 AM Report this
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Two posts featuring Ellmyer in 3 days? If I wanted to hear about him, I'd unblock him from my spam filter.
BobTheJanitor on October 1, 2009 at 10:05 AM Report this

Please wait...

and remember to be decent to everyone
all of the time.

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