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And everyone looks the other way.
City council guy from the 4th district (the well heeled district) decides to burn yard debris in his SW PDX backyard at the same time something on the order of a million acres is blazing away in the state, and when he gets popped by the fire department he says something to the effect of “Oh Gee I didn’t know!”
This counselor grew up in Portland, educated and taught at PSU and now pulls down north of $100k for sitting in city hall talking, and he claims he was unaware of an ordinance in place since the 90’s prohibiting backyard burning? Unaware that PF&R had banned backyard firepit romance fires because, you know, the whole fucking state is waiting to burn…? BULLSHIT.
The real story boys and girls isn’t a city politician getting special favors. The real story is Portland’s Press letting it quietly go away.—Anonymous