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Comments (27)
Great Idea Jack, but we need more information about these folks to do our votes justice. Are there profiles posted anywhere or is there a history of accomplishments or scams we can work with as well as the time of thier tenure, who appointed them.
Posted by John Capradoe | April 30, 2007 7:07 AM
You forgot the auditor, Mr Blackmer, who has been around during all of these boon-doggles. Yes, I know he is elected, but you missed hiom during the commisars Survivor Island.
I am trying to figure out what the heck he is auditing when he's not giving out rubber stamps.
Posted by Steve | April 30, 2007 7:22 AM
Yeah, Zari!
Posted by Nonny Mouse | April 30, 2007 8:03 AM
Pardon my Non-understanding of this statement.."but we won't be daunted by the outcome of the proposed city charter changes on the civil service rules -- they don't apply here."
I thought civil service rules did not apply to managers and only to worker bees, in other word firing a worker was tough, managers was at will.
Posted by KISS | April 30, 2007 8:12 AM
Yeah Bruce!
Posted by Nonny Mouse | April 30, 2007 8:12 AM
Yeah Transportation Sue!
Posted by Nonny Mouse | April 30, 2007 8:12 AM
Yeah Gil!
Posted by Nonny Mouse | April 30, 2007 8:15 AM
Yeah Eloise (and the entire bureaucracy which reports to her)!
Posted by Nonny Mouse | April 30, 2007 8:16 AM
My vote is to off Gil Kelley. Hell, I wouldn't let him on in the first place.
Potter's been trying to get Dean Marriot off the island since he was elected, but Dean won't go softly into that good night.
Posted by Dave Lister | April 30, 2007 8:17 AM
just to plant a seed for the next Survivor series:
Survivor: Portland Developers and Those Who Love Them.
Posted by ecohuman.com | April 30, 2007 8:18 AM
This is just to good!. Now we can take some time and actually learn about the real movers and shake and bakers.
Posted by dman | April 30, 2007 9:28 AM
No contest.
Bruce Warner is, by far, running the biggest Program of Mass Dysfunction.
And with so little oversight not a single elected official knows where the money goes.
$100s of millions are routinely obscured in the sloppiest "bookkeeping" any shady operation has ever used. The City Club review revealed PDC books riddled with gaps and staff "estimates" substituting for the hard numbers hidden from official and public scrutiny. Wholesale deceit and gross incompetence makes this agency head Warner numero uno for removal.
Warner's PDC has become so brazen through years of zero accountability that they no longer exhibit ANY signs of fiduciary responsibility.
They have become the model for "we can do what ever we want" which other agencies mimmick.
Clean the PDC the rest will follow.
Posted by Howard | April 30, 2007 10:01 AM
Alas, is there any provision in the voting for a unanimous vote for Zari Santner on the first round?
Or, perhaps the good folks at Parks & the benevolent folks at Warner Pacific have arranged for her to possess an invisible Immunity Idol (tsk tsk).
Posted by oregbear | April 30, 2007 10:08 AM
So where's the orange eBallot? Let's get started. If you wait too long politics on the island (read: ballot box stuffing by their handmaidens) will erupt.
Posted by got logic? | April 30, 2007 10:22 AM
Okay, so who's setting the odds here?
Posted by Larry | April 30, 2007 10:41 AM
And I'll ask the obvious: why is the city attorney the only one whose face is not shown?
Not likely that an official or even unofficial photo doesn't exist so a little speculation would include (not necessarily in order of likelihood): a heretofore unknown ABA witness protection program; professional courtesy; friendship; a case of extreme comb-over; a babealicious who doesn't want to trade on her looks.
In the absence of facts The People must always speculate.
Posted by RonaldM | April 30, 2007 11:03 AM
we need more information about these folks to do our votes justice.
I've linked to each of their bureaus' web sites, at least. Start digging.
You forgot the auditor, Mr Blackmer
I didn't. He's elected, and so he's not in this group. You're right, perhaps he should have been in the last group.
why is the city attorney the only one whose face is not shown?
I couldn't find her photo (even an itty-bitty one) on the internet.
Posted by Jack Bog | April 30, 2007 1:29 PM
Gosh so MANY likely candidates, do you think we should off two at a time for the first couple rounds? There are SOOOO many of them that I dislike it will be REALLY hard to choose. Granted, Bruce is a HUGE favorite, but I can hardly wait to send sustainable Sue and Eloise off to swim with the sharks. You sure we can't do two-at-a-time for the first couple rounds?
Posted by Eager to start | April 30, 2007 2:11 PM
Relax, people. And be gentle. It's just a game.
Posted by Jack Bog | April 30, 2007 2:16 PM
Damn tough call.More difficult than choosing between Nadar Bush and Gore(I know, but hindsight is not very useful). I won't sleep tonight, GIL or ZARI or LINDA MENG, all useless unless you are a developer.
Posted by mroc | April 30, 2007 2:26 PM
If this time we give timely notification and allow for public comment ... it's ZARI FIRST (out that is) and banished to Mt. Tabor.
Posted by Parky | April 30, 2007 2:57 PM
Patience, patience, my woodsy little friend.
Posted by Jack Bog | April 30, 2007 3:01 PM
No matter what information you give me, I know how I'm voting.
I watched Zari do the "indignate abused public servant" routine at the Mt. Tabor mediation session, and I'm more convinced than ever that she is sociopathic. She needs to go in more than just a symbolic way.
Posted by godfry | April 30, 2007 5:53 PM
You forgot Paul Scarlett at the Bureau of Development Review.
Greg C
Posted by Greg C | April 30, 2007 6:13 PM
Maybe we can add him in later, to spice things up.
Posted by Jack Bog | April 30, 2007 6:35 PM
" ... it's ZARI FIRST (out that is) and banished to Mt. Tabor." Better yet banish her to Mills End Park where she can sing to the Lepracauns.
Posted by tom | May 1, 2007 6:15 AM
Let's do "first out" on the basis of who is paid the most. By golly - that would be David Shaff, the Water Guy. And what, pray tell, makes him the highest paid since he had no experience at water resource management or engineering prior to being made the highest paid Portland bureaucrat? Simple - he is an absolutely loyal lapdog to Commisioner Randy. You don't really have to know what you're doing to become Portland's highest paid, you only have to become a crony.
Posted by fast eddy | May 3, 2007 6:45 AM