Voted for fluoride. Let's take another look at that article showing each member of city council had met secretly and illegally with fluoride lobbyists, shall we? http://mobile.oregonlive.com/advorg/db_/co…

The choice of Fritz or Nolan is as bad as the choice of Hales or Smith.

Not a good City Hall election year for our fair city.

Nothing in Mary Nolan's impressive track record or progressive leadership has changed has changed.

Nolan led the effort to fund health care for 80,000+ low-income kids here in Oregon.

Nolan won
-Planned Parenthood's Pro-Choice Champion award because she led efforts to protect choice for 30 years.
-1000 Friends' Tom McCall Legacy award because she helped lead the effort to save our land use system and protect the Metolius forever.
-named BRO's Hero of the House because she was instrumental in passing civil unions and non-discrimination.

Nolan is endorsed by
-Portland Association of Teachers because she passed the largest ever K-12 budget in Oregon history.
-Oregon Council for Retired Citizens because she expanded programs to allow seniors to live independently and with dignity.
Nolan offers progressive leadership that actually gets things done.

I've voted for her despite the Mercury choosing to focus on non-issues. At the end of the day- Nolan is just way more effective and Portland will benefit from her leadership.

Nolan is slimy. Fritz is completely ineffective, but sadly the lesser of two bad candidates.

Neither of them think that Portlanders are competent enough to vote on what we want in our water. I'm voting for Kodos.

Jesus, anti-fluoride people, give it the fuck up.

I'll just add that if you have a Google Alert or anything similar for "fluoride," I invite you to take a hard look at your life and its current priorities.

Hey Colin, I come here to dick around and waste time like everyone else. I see's a fluoride post, I comment's.

@spindles: This was not a fluoride post. You made it a fluoride post.

Just so we're clear.

Yes, SEsam, because police accountability—the crux of our Fritz endorsement—is clearly a "non-issue."

DW, you're not going to like what I did in the morning news post.....

Did you give it cavities?

Theriault- this piece has nothing to do with that and my language is clear.

But to your point- Nolan has a 100% ACLU rating over the years she was Rep. She was instrumental in bringing training and culture change to Oregon sheriffs despite the resistance.

While Fritz's intentions are good, she's only managed to carve out (at last look) something like 3% of budget and staff management at city hall. She touts that her agenda items pass unanimously but that's generally because she only brings forward items she knows have the support. And many of these items are of the ceremonial, no teeth "vote no if you hate babies"-type. (ie- coal trains). Fritz is possible the most ineffectual commissioner in a generation.

Look, you made your endorsement on the right issue- you just picked the least effective person to get us there. Nolan will get the DOJ recommendations implemented, bring about culture-change in the PPD, and Frashour isn't going back on the streets.

There's going to have to be some coming together of the camps on this for anything to happen. Does anyone think cops in Portland, when they make the effort to start getting it right, are going to be lining up at Fritz's door?

That's a fantasy wrapped in glitter and zebra stripes.