One picture is worth more than a thousand words....and $4.80.

This one is just too easy. I think it deserves a 'caption contest'.

$4.80? Thank you, Jack.

It was cheaper than the $12 on Tri-Met.

The fact that Saltzman is campaigning in a suit (on a weekend, no less) shows how clueless he truly is.

Must.... back..... away ..... from .... the ... keyboard...... It's not nice to take sucker shots (OK sometimes I am not nice but this too easy).

"I think it deserves a 'caption contest'"
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Kermit The Frog, while campaigning for Dan Saltzman, had the world's largest and most unusual BM.

If you had unexpired time on your meter, did you leave the sticky ticket on the smart machine for the next person?

No. That would be cheating Homer Williams and Joe Weston out of their streetcar money.

Too bad you didn't have some rotten produce to throw at that *******. He DESERVES IT!

Now, now. This isn't Ukraine.

$4.80 ??? what is this Paris in summer?!!! I was in LA in January, parking was less than a $1 per hour, Portland started charging $1.25 per hour few centuries ago...

For $4.80, I got 3 hours and 20 minutes.

He's the one with the frog on his head right?

Here's how Saltzman's staff responded on May 28, 2009, when I asked to meet with Saltzman to discuss the PGE Park deal.

This was more than three months before I discovered that Major League Soccer, Merritt Paulson, and the city were concealing from the public the fact that PGE Park would never be able to meet minimum MLS standards for spectator facilities.

So, basically, this makes it clear that Saltzman had already decided to go along with whatever Adams and Leonard told him to do, and eventually vote to approve a deal that everyone knew was fraudulent.

This is the complete text of the email that I received on May 28, 2009:

Mr. Apanel --

The Commissioner and his staff appreciate your input, but will not require a meeting at this time. Staff has been fully briefed on what you have sent in, but it's Mayor Adams' and Randy Leonard's office taking lead on this and you should follow-up with them.

Sincerely,

Stacy
Stacy Brewster
Public Advocate
Office of Commissioner Dan Saltzman
(503) 823-4151
stacy.brewster@ci.portland.or.us

To quote George Carlin:

"some crazy people shouldn’t be removed from society and put in mental sanitariums, but should be given their own shows instead for the entertainment value they provide."

Gosh, I missed so much by attending a house parrty where we hashed the real issues facing the city- business and real portlanders moving out because it's too expensive to stay here. Thanks dan, sam and Randy for voting a 300% increase in fees.

It was cheaper than the $12 on Tri-Met.

Actually, TriMet would have been cheaper...

After you include the per-mileage cost based upon the IRS regulations, then add the cost of YOUR home parking space and the tax subsidy given to your driveway, the cost of "free parking" on your street that is subsidized through all sorts of city taxes and fees, the cost of the Big Pipe and water treatment because your car leeches petroleum products, the carbon cost and the various impacts to women and children stretching from Cornelius to the Ukraine, the cost of the oil wars to help ensure your car has a supply of oil, the government subsidy to Big Oil and the transportation needed to get that oil back to the U.S., refined, and then to Oregon, the costs of policing idiot drivers like you from killing bicyclists and pedestrians, the costs of our court and jail systems, the costs to run the DMV system, all of the parking lots downtown, the Columbia River Crossing and the Sellwood Bridge, sprawl related planning, new roads everywhere and widening all the other roads.............Ay Carumba!

(This sarcastic message brought to you by Sam Adams. Who reminds you to Go By Streetcar!)

If you count the payroll tax operating subsidies alone, the Tri-Met tab probably would have been about $25.

Did Dan have a permit for that megaphone? It is required. The places for use must be mapped out as well, in the request.

If he had an audience of one then, under the wiggly rules for granting the permit, his request would have been denied. At least that is the gist of what I learned when inquiring about the matter when the police sought to protest in favor of Thumper from the steps of City Hall. The police obtained their permit.

Size matters, I was told. That is, the size of the group that is there to listen. If I ask for a permit to use a megaphone on the steps of City Hall, on a lark, to preach sense or nonsense to passers by, I would be DENIED.

I had objected to the potential arbitrariness of some staffer's application of any considerations about the size of the audience.

And it never ceases to amaze me how much people discount their own time when they are waiting for buses at transfers.

At 10 pm at night when you miss a bus, it's a half hour wait, minimum. Since I'm not at work, it's my time, which is more valuable to me. If it is cold and wet, my time increases in value, because I could have been warm and dry.

As a lifetime user of Rose City Transit/Tri-Met, I finally quit using it back three years ago because it could not provide adequate service. It has become chronically sub-par when it comes to actually delivering cross-town transit service, even by their own promised schedules. Between that and the close companionship of the metropolitan area's marginals...well,it just cost me too much, compared to driving my vehicle. So I drive.

The institution of parking fees and fines on Sunday is another example of how absolutely docile and disconnected Portland voters are from local governance. If it's true that politicians fear an involved and informed electorate, Adams, Leonard, Saltzman, et al. are perfectly justified in feeling that they don't have much to worry about. Hey, maybe City Hall can even get in on the lucrative patrol towing game as well!

Even after I paid my $4.80, I was just waiting for a ticket for some infraction -- "over space line" is one of my favorites.

I'm probably in the minority here. But $4.80 for three hours and 20 minutes is a bargain.

Dan was wearing a suit because it is his "Sunday Best", and the tie holds his head on his neck.
And he is a "legend"...after all.

The $4.80 was actually for three hours only. On Sunday the "parking clock" begins at 1:00 pm.