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Denis has been saying for the last 3 weeks that he's running! That's like, the anti-scoop.
I wonder if this petition had anything to do with this decision? :)
While you're my BFFF, Merc, you're also something of a backwards political barometer - your candidates never win, your initiatives never pass, and the things that are big deals here simply aren't to the voting public at large.
As if the Adams' legacy isn't on the rocks enough already.
"...your candidates never win, your initiatives never pass, and the things that are big deals here simply aren't to the voting public at large."
While "never" is quite a stretch, I'm proud that our record runs counter to the herd. I sleep very easily thankyouverymuch.
I mean, I'll do it; he just won't be running for office anymore...
Occupy's clearly a big deal to the Mercury (and it's readers/obsessive commenters), but if anyone's suggesting Occupy/rape thing played a large role in Reese's decision not to run,* I'm just suggesting we step back from our own echo chamber for a moment and consider the wider community.
* (... for the election that takes place almost a full year from now)
(Though apparently I forget to mention that I knew it in my comments here. Sometimes I'm just a little too shy.)
If you've read my update, you'll notice I did some reporting and actually got a bead on some of Reese's real—non-Occupy—reasons for not running. Yes, he made a mistake, and it *did* resonate widely, based on my conversations with political types, not just here. But he helped himself tremendously with his apology.
So, no, that wouldn't have done him in. And it's not why he's not decided to take the plunge.
and at the time the poll was taken that included Reese, he'd been on every nightly newscast for a week, was getting tens of thousands of dollars worth of free media. the #1 story in Portland. and they ran the poll in the midst of that. nonetheless, Eileen was tied with him & ahead of the other two. and now she is the clear front-runner.
(i work part-time for Jon on the Eileen campaign, but i do have these facts right.)
I wonder if Channing Frye would consider a run at mayor.
Given that the only time you hear about the police is when they fuck something up, it seems to me (admittedly, a guy unlike yourself who breathes this stuff every day) that Top Cop resumes rarely age like wine.
Further, I would think that Reese's support would mean that the next mayor will rightly view the chief as a looming political threat and seek to marginalize/fire/push into retirement as soon as it was politically possible.
P.S. start you charity and learn Arabic NOW!
btw, RAIFORD FOR COMMISH!