Portland may be the home of the "Percent for Art" program, but 27 percent of voters on yesterday'sSurvivor Portland City Hall: Bureaucracy Edition thought it was high time that Regional Arts and Culture Council Director Eloise Damrosch leave the island. Eloise received more votes against her than any of the other remaining municipal bureau chiefs did. And so leave she must, and immediately. She will receive a consolation prize, however: two season standing-room tickets to the Gerding Theater.
The tally was close. City Attorney Linda Meng (I still can't believe we can't get her photo -- must be attorney-client privilege) trailed Eloise by only a few votes. We'll see how she does today, Day 7, as we're down to the size of a football squad.
And that brings us to our next Tribal Council, in which you, our valued readers, will vote another one of the city bureau directors out of the picture. Do it for any reason, or for no reason, but do it just once a day, please. We'll keep at this, every city workday, until only one bureaucrat survives. The Ultimate Survivor will win our grand prizes: the right to buy a valuable piece of property from the city for a dollar; plus valuable tax credits originally intended for poor people.
None of the remaining players was mentioned by Nigel Jaquiss, Phil Stanford, or Randy Gragg in the media yesterday, and so no one has immunity today.
If you need a better picture of the players who are up for a vote, remember that photos of the entire original cast (except for Linda), and links to each of their bureaus, are here. Good luck to all the remaining players:
Comments (7)
Since I'm not voting on this, I was going to mention that I thought it interesting that one of the most powerful people --Ken Rust-- who would be the CAO under the "strong mayor (sic)" form of government...had gotten almost no votes to date. But then...he's got the ONLY vote at whatever this is...2:47am? Interesting.
Ken's an awesome administrator, as is Sue Klobertanz (OK, so I report to them, so consider me a suckup...though not really, I've known both of them a long time and have enormous respect for the actual work they've done.) But, as I said earlier, the problem with this contest is that the voting is really against programs, and less about the individuals, who are mostly obscure bureaucrats. (That you can't even find a picture of Linda Mang makes my point perfectly.) Administrators carry out the wishes of our electeds...that's the name of the bureaucrat game. Sorta unfair to unload on the troops for being good soldiers. But...it's all in fun, right?
Just for fun we could vote Dean Marriot off the island... something our strong mayor has been unable to do. Dean has civil service protection... and is probably the main reason measure 26-90 is on the ballot. We don't cotton to them directors who refuse to submit their resignations when asked.
Hmmm. I've been out of step herein the last few days.
Environental Dean has got to go.
Meng merely carries out Council and bureau director policy in taking litigation positions. Ciy Attorey doesn't set policy re lawsuits and settlements.
Neithe the culture maven or the Neighbrhood Czar cost much money.
But Dean is a piece of work. Look into the SW high pressure sewer line on Vermont and Multnomah. It stinks. (Puns intnded.)
BES agreed four years ago to substitute substandard plastic pipe for steel pipe, after a contract was signed requiring steel pipe guaranteed to last 50 years.
Contractor and "consultant" claimed that substitute pipe would last just as long and was just as good. Cith agreed to a two year guarantee on the plastic pipe that was supposed to be as good as the 50 year steel pipe.
Four years later, pipe has massively failed. Line will need full replacement, with streets dug up, again, and massive inconvenince not to mention the cost.
BES has been asked a lot of questions by itizens. No responses that are meaningful. And BES claims that it destroys all records after two years, and that there are no records of he substitution decision which can be reviewed.
Dean has civil service protection... and is probably the main reason measure 26-90 is on the ballot.
Actually all bureau directors now hired are already at will - Dean and several others were grandfathered in though.
Same with 26-90. Everybody currently in a position potentially made at will by Council will be grandfathered in. It's just the new hires to those positions.
Gee, everyone that I really had reason to vote off are gone - kinda takes some of the fun out of it. However, it is calming to know that I'm not the only one that thinks the folks who have been voted off need to be off - in the real world as in this game. So now I'll just look for the worst of the best (or something like that).
Charamba, Douro 2008
Horse Heaven Hills, Cabernet 2010
Lorelle, Horse Heaven Hills Pinot Grigio 2011
Avignonesi, Montepulciano 2004
Lorelle, Willamette Valley Pinot Noir 2011
Villa Antinori, Toscana 2007
Mercedes Eguren, Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
Lorelle, Columbia Valley Cabernet 2011
Purple Moon, Merlot 2011
Purple Moon, Chardonnnay 2011
Abacela, Vintner's Blend No. 12
Opula Red Blend 2010
Liberte, Pinot Noir 2010
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Indian Wells Red Blend 2010
Woodbridge, Chardonnay 2011
King Estate, Pinot Noir 2011
Famille Perrin, Cotes du Rhone Villages 2010
Columbia Crest, Les Chevaux Red 2010
14 Hands, Hot to Trot White Blend
Familia Bianchi, Malbec 2009
Terrapin Cellars, Pinot Gris 2011
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2009
Campo Viejo, Rioja, Termpranillo 2010
Ravenswood, Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
Quinta das Amoras, Vinho Tinto 2010
Waterbrook, Reserve Merlot 2009
Lorelle, Horse Heaven Hills, Pinot Grigio 2011
Tarantas, Rose
Chateau Lajarre, Bordeaux 2009
La Vielle Ferme, Rose 2011
Benvolio, Pinot Grigio 2011
Nobilo Icon, Pinot Noir 2009
Lello, Douro Tinto 2009
Quinson Fils, Cotes de Provence Rose 2011
Anindor, Pinot Gris 2010
Buenas Ondas, Syrah Rose 2010
Les Fiefs d'Anglars, Malbec 2009
14 Hands, Pinot Gris 2011
Conundrum 2012
Condes de Albarei, Albariño 2011
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2007
Penelope Sanchez, Garnacha Syrah 2010
Canoe Ridge, Merlot 2007
Atalaya do Mar, Godello 2010
Vega Montan, Mencia
Benvolio, Pinot Grigio
Nobilo Icon, Pinot Noir, Marlborough 2009
Portuga, Rose 2011
Revelation, Chardonnay, Pays d'Oc 2010
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 2005
Monte Alto, Tinto Reserva 2005
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Cabernet, Indian Wells 2009
Espiral, Vinho Rose
Vin-Koru, Pinot Gris 2011
14 Hands, Hot to Trot Red 2009
Rodney Strong, Cabernet, Sonoma 2009
Abacela, Vintner's Blend #11
Portuga, White 2010
La Bourgeoisie, Red 2009
Januik, Red 2009
Three Rivers, River's Red 2008
Kirkland, Alexander Valley Merlot 2008
Muga, Rioja Rose 2010
Quinta das Amoras, Vinho Tinto 2009
Mauro Molino, Barbera d'Alba 2009
Garda Chiaretto Rose
Columbia Crest, Two Vines Vineyard 10 White
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Pinot Gris, Columbia Valley 2009
L'Hortus, Rose de Saignee 2010
Maculan, Pino & Toi 2008
McKinley Springs, Bombing Range Red 2008
Trader Joe's Pinot Gris 2009
Montes Alpha, Cabernet 2007
Gran Sasso, Sangiovese, Terre di Chieti 2009
Garda, Classico Chiaretto Rose
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 1999
Picos del Montgo, Tempranillo 2008
Chateau de Montmirail, Vacqueyras 2008
La Granja 360, Syrah 2009
Montgras, Carmenere Reserva 2009
Lange, Pinot Gris 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Cabernet 2008
Kirkland, Pinot Grigio 2010
Trader Joe's Coastal Syrah 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Merlot 2008
Trader Joe's Coastal Chardonnay 2009
Vieux Papes Red
Domaine de l'Aujardiere, Chardonnay 2009
Santa Rita, Cabernet, Medalla Real 2007
Penfold's, Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabernet 2008
Guild, Red, Lot #02 2008
Dievole, Dievolino Sangiovese 2008
Laforet, Burgogne Chardonnay 2009
Columbia Winery, Merlot 2007
Bonterra, Cabernet 2008
Elk Cove, Pinot Gris 2009
Maquis Lien 2006
Scott Paul, Pinot Noir, Le Paulee 2007
The Occasional Book
Neil Young - Waging Heavy Peace
Mark Bego - Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul (2012 ed.)
Jenny Lawson - Let's Pretend This Never Happened
J.D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
Timothy Egan - The Big Burn
Deborah Eisenberg - Transactions in a Foreign Currency
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - Slaughterhouse Five
Kathryn Lance - Pandora's Genes
Cheryl Strayed - Wild
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Jack London - The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii
Jack Walker - The Extraordinary Rendition of Vincent Dellamaria
Colum McCann - Let the Great World Spin
Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus - The Nanny Diaries
Brian Selznick - The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons
Keith Richards - Life
F. Sionil Jose - Dusk
Natalie Babbitt - Tuck Everlasting
Justin Halpern - S#*t My Dad Says
Mark Herrmann - The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law
Barry Glassner - The Gospel of Food
Phil Stanford - The Peyton-Allan Files
Jesse Katz - The Opposite Field
Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
David Sedaris - Holidays on Ice
Donald Miller - A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Mitch Albom - Have a Little Faith
C.S. Lewis - The Magician's Nephew
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ivan Doig - Bucking the Sun
Penda Diakité - I Lost My Tooth in Africa
Grace Lin - The Year of the Rat
Oscar Hijuelos - Mr. Ives' Christmas
Madeline L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
Steven Hart - The Last Three Miles
David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
Karen Armstrong - The Spiral Staircase
Charles Larson - The Portland Murders
Adrian Wojnarowski - The Miracle of St. Anthony
William H. Colby - Long Goodbye
Steven D. Stark - Meet the Beatles
Phil Stanford - Portland Confidential
Rick Moody - Garden State
Jonathan Schwartz - All in Good Time
David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Anthony Holden - Big Deal
Robert J. Spitzer - The Spirit of Leadership
James McManus - Positively Fifth Street
Jeff Noon - Vurt
Road Work
Miles run year to date: 21
At this date last year: 52
Total run in 2012: 129
In 2011: 113
In 2010: 125
In 2009: 67
In 2008: 28
In 2007: 113
In 2006: 100
In 2005: 149
In 2004: 204
In 2003: 269
Portland may be the home of the "Percent for Art" program, but 27 percent of voters on yesterday's Survivor Portland City Hall: Bureaucracy Edition thought it was high time that Regional Arts and Culture Council Director Eloise Damrosch leave the island. Eloise received more votes against her than any of the other remaining municipal bureau chiefs did. And so leave she must, and immediately. She will receive a consolation prize, however: two season standing-room tickets to the Gerding Theater.
Comments (7)
Since I'm not voting on this, I was going to mention that I thought it interesting that one of the most powerful people --Ken Rust-- who would be the CAO under the "strong mayor (sic)" form of government...had gotten almost no votes to date. But then...he's got the ONLY vote at whatever this is...2:47am? Interesting.
Ken's an awesome administrator, as is Sue Klobertanz (OK, so I report to them, so consider me a suckup...though not really, I've known both of them a long time and have enormous respect for the actual work they've done.) But, as I said earlier, the problem with this contest is that the voting is really against programs, and less about the individuals, who are mostly obscure bureaucrats. (That you can't even find a picture of Linda Mang makes my point perfectly.) Administrators carry out the wishes of our electeds...that's the name of the bureaucrat game. Sorta unfair to unload on the troops for being good soldiers. But...it's all in fun, right?
Posted by Frank Dufay | May 9, 2007 2:50 AM
Try to have fun, Frank.
Posted by Jack Bog | May 9, 2007 3:03 AM
Thank you for the nice post.
Posted by John | May 9, 2007 3:46 AM
Just for fun we could vote Dean Marriot off the island... something our strong mayor has been unable to do. Dean has civil service protection... and is probably the main reason measure 26-90 is on the ballot. We don't cotton to them directors who refuse to submit their resignations when asked.
Posted by Dave Lister | May 9, 2007 8:42 AM
Hmmm. I've been out of step herein the last few days.
Environental Dean has got to go.
Meng merely carries out Council and bureau director policy in taking litigation positions. Ciy Attorey doesn't set policy re lawsuits and settlements.
Neithe the culture maven or the Neighbrhood Czar cost much money.
But Dean is a piece of work. Look into the SW high pressure sewer line on Vermont and Multnomah. It stinks. (Puns intnded.)
BES agreed four years ago to substitute substandard plastic pipe for steel pipe, after a contract was signed requiring steel pipe guaranteed to last 50 years.
Contractor and "consultant" claimed that substitute pipe would last just as long and was just as good. Cith agreed to a two year guarantee on the plastic pipe that was supposed to be as good as the 50 year steel pipe.
Four years later, pipe has massively failed. Line will need full replacement, with streets dug up, again, and massive inconvenince not to mention the cost.
BES has been asked a lot of questions by itizens. No responses that are meaningful. And BES claims that it destroys all records after two years, and that there are no records of he substitution decision which can be reviewed.
This stinks.
Sewer Dean has got to go.
Posted by Nonny Mouse | May 9, 2007 9:14 AM
Dean has civil service protection... and is probably the main reason measure 26-90 is on the ballot.
Actually all bureau directors now hired are already at will - Dean and several others were grandfathered in though.
Same with 26-90. Everybody currently in a position potentially made at will by Council will be grandfathered in. It's just the new hires to those positions.
Posted by LMNOP | May 9, 2007 4:21 PM
Gee, everyone that I really had reason to vote off are gone - kinda takes some of the fun out of it. However, it is calming to know that I'm not the only one that thinks the folks who have been voted off need to be off - in the real world as in this game. So now I'll just look for the worst of the best (or something like that).
Posted by native oregonian | May 9, 2007 6:09 PM