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We mentioned this the other day, but it’s official now: Sarah Iannarone, who works with Mayor Charlie Hales’s wife, Nancy, at Portland State University, plans to announce her candidacy for mayor this morning.

According to a news release sent out last night, Iannarone will hold an event at Portland City Hall at 11 am laying out her reasons for running. News outlets in town have suggested it might be at the urging of Hales.

At PSU, Iannarone helps run a program that runs “study tours” of Portland for visiting delegations (much more info about this and her other pursuits is on her PSU bio). She’s also the co-owner of the Arleta Library Bakery and Café—a distinction which landed her some press in the Oregonian last year, after she used her baking prowess to help Nancy Hales win a cake contest.

Incidentally, Iannarone will want to make sure her campaign staff knows how to spell her name going forward. A notice sent out to media organizations last night didn’t get it right once, spelling it “Innarone.” We’ll post more once we’ve heard from Iannarone herself this morning.

Right now, nine people have signed up to run for mayor, all of them men.

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11 replies on “It’s Official: PSU Employee and Cafe Owner Sarah Iannarone’s Running For Mayor”

  1. “A notice sent out to media organizations last night didn’t get it right once, spelling it “Innarone.” We’ll post more once we’ve heard from Iannrone herself this morning.”

    And elsewhere in the story you spell it “Iannarone”. I can’t tell, are you trying for irony? It’s entertaining, regardless.

  2. I suspect that Iannarone (I will shorten her name to “Inane”) will peel some votes away from Bailey.

    With Inane and Bailey splitting the woo-woo vote, Wheeler wins.

    The anti-car, crapartment fanciers are excited because she is a PSU planner type.

    Cake gate will come back to haunt her. That was just one of those sleazy moments that will forever define Hales.

  3. Reverend, if it becomes a campaign issue that she baked a cake for Nancy Hales, then we deserve whatever shitty result we get out of this election. Dirk, seriously? This better be the last time you write about that. Who the fuck cares?

  4. PDXmil, there is a phrase “honesty in small things.” Nancy Hales and Iannarone cheated.
    It speaks to their characters.

    If you were playing poker with a public figure and you saw them cheat- how would you feel about their honesty in civic matters?

    Iannarone prob. won’t be a big factor, because she is being pushed by a very unpopular mayor as his replacement. And she made a dumb mistake that you should not make if you are planning to run for office. Cakegate will dog her throughout the campaign.

  5. Can we just talk about how weird and maybe-ugly her glass frames are? Seriously, they look like something a stoned costumer would have made for the tv show Andromeda starring Kevin Sorbo.

    And yeah, I know it’s a cliche to talk about what a woman is wearing rather than policy or whatever, but THOSE GODDAMNED GLASS FRAMES need to be discussed.

  8. Fuck me. “Cakegate.” Like that’s what we should be focusing on. It only dogs her if you want it to dog her. Please, let’s talk about cakes, and not homelessness. Or drug addiction. Or congestion. Or why the fuck we don’t have container ships calling on our Port anymore. By all means, let’s keep talking about cakes.

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