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Nurse Amanda has a fix for the City of Portland's budget problems: more bureaucracy. What a waste. All that's needed is not to have a jerk in charge of the finance office. We're getting rid of the one we have now; let's hope (against hope) that the next one is better.
Comments (10)
I was at the City Club debate between Fritz and Nolan. Neither a very inspiring. Nurse Amanda is hung up on this whole "equity" thing and Nolan is hung up on herself. Between the choice for mayor and the choice for commissioner, Portland can expect more of the same for the next four years.
Your Equity Bureau was already covered by three different City bureaucracies that addressed the somewhat trumped up equity issue. The County also has Equity bureaus and Initiatives.
Now you want to create another bureau already covered by Office of Management & Finance costing use half a $Billion per year. Fine tune and enforce the policies, statutes we have on the books. That's all it takes.
I thought you were the financial eyes for the Council. It's a oxymoron that you want to add costs to the taxpayers when we already have OMF that is suppose to oversee city budgets and performance and control costs. I'm totally confused about your proposal and what you stand for; and it's not a good political move.
I'll vote for Amanda, while clenching my fists in disgust. Nolan is an absolute horror, while Fritz is merely a clueless horror.
If I have to hear her "I too am an immigrant" speech one more time, I may change my mind and cast a write-in vote for Cesar Chavez Blvd. When you come here in a Pan Am first-class seat, with nineteen suitcases full of books, which "you still have not had time to unpack," please do not expect a room full of people who have immigrated as refugees to take very kindly to your speech. And yes, I find it sad that you must be told this, and that you are the only option for which to vote in your particular commissioner seat, but Portland is a sad little town when it comes to people aspiring to political office. In fact, I won't just be holding my nose when I vote for you, Commissioner Fritz: in order to pull that operation off, I will also need to hold at least nine other orifices. Voting as a choice between horrifying outcomes is the Portland way, however, so there it is (please cut out the immigrant shite, though).
On a day when Sen. McGovern has been assigned to hospice care at age 90, one should not even mention the name of one of the toilet logs running for local office, but that is what we get for living in Tacoma south.
Actually, truly independent budget staff with authority to budget only basic services, could probably cut 100 million dollars of fluff, scams and developer feedbag expenditures.
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
Comments (10)
I was at the City Club debate between Fritz and Nolan. Neither a very inspiring. Nurse Amanda is hung up on this whole "equity" thing and Nolan is hung up on herself. Between the choice for mayor and the choice for commissioner, Portland can expect more of the same for the next four years.
Does the streetcar stop at the bankruptcy court?
Posted by Garage Wine | October 19, 2012 3:37 PM
You like Amanda, Jack. I say vote against the incumbent just for principle.
Posted by John Benton | October 19, 2012 4:17 PM
Believe me, I don't like Amanda. But Nolan would be much, much worse. Please don't vote for her. Write in your dog if you have to.
Posted by Jack Bog | October 19, 2012 5:16 PM
Amanda, please don't create another bureaucracy.
Your Equity Bureau was already covered by three different City bureaucracies that addressed the somewhat trumped up equity issue. The County also has Equity bureaus and Initiatives.
Now you want to create another bureau already covered by Office of Management & Finance costing use half a $Billion per year. Fine tune and enforce the policies, statutes we have on the books. That's all it takes.
I thought you were the financial eyes for the Council. It's a oxymoron that you want to add costs to the taxpayers when we already have OMF that is suppose to oversee city budgets and performance and control costs. I'm totally confused about your proposal and what you stand for; and it's not a good political move.
Posted by Lee | October 19, 2012 5:57 PM
Why require a government bureau do it's job when you can just create a new one to do that same task ?
Posted by tankfixer | October 19, 2012 6:42 PM
I'll vote for Amanda, while clenching my fists in disgust. Nolan is an absolute horror, while Fritz is merely a clueless horror.
If I have to hear her "I too am an immigrant" speech one more time, I may change my mind and cast a write-in vote for Cesar Chavez Blvd. When you come here in a Pan Am first-class seat, with nineteen suitcases full of books, which "you still have not had time to unpack," please do not expect a room full of people who have immigrated as refugees to take very kindly to your speech. And yes, I find it sad that you must be told this, and that you are the only option for which to vote in your particular commissioner seat, but Portland is a sad little town when it comes to people aspiring to political office. In fact, I won't just be holding my nose when I vote for you, Commissioner Fritz: in order to pull that operation off, I will also need to hold at least nine other orifices. Voting as a choice between horrifying outcomes is the Portland way, however, so there it is (please cut out the immigrant shite, though).
On a day when Sen. McGovern has been assigned to hospice care at age 90, one should not even mention the name of one of the toilet logs running for local office, but that is what we get for living in Tacoma south.
Posted by Gen. Ambrose Burnside, Ret. | October 20, 2012 2:31 AM
Portland officials like to create bureaus so that they can bring more fellow associates on board the gravy train.
Posted by Mr. Grumpy | October 20, 2012 6:55 AM
Does the streetcar stop at the bankruptcy court?
No, but MAX does.
Ironically it's the third stop on the Transit Mall - the first two stops being PSU stops.
Posted by Erik H. | October 20, 2012 9:00 AM
Jersey endorses overturning citizens united
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/18-7
Posted by GA Seldes | October 20, 2012 9:21 AM
Actually, truly independent budget staff with authority to budget only basic services, could probably cut 100 million dollars of fluff, scams and developer feedbag expenditures.
Posted by umpire | October 20, 2012 4:41 PM