Quotation of the Month
“I think the council should just level with the people and say, 'We’ll listen to you when we want to, and we’ll ignore you the rest of the time.'"Whoop whoop.-- Former Portland Mayor Bud Clark, on current Mayor Tom Potter's strategic planning exercise, VisionPDX.
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Comments (9)
A $20,000 grant for a visioning play? Oh good God, please tell me this is a joke....
Posted by Larry | October 30, 2006 3:07 PM
And they want another $175K to analyze the results from the new budget surplus.
I've already suggested alternate uses0 for the money.
Posted by Betsy | October 30, 2006 4:23 PM
It is simple, I vision taking the tax surplus and fixing as many streets as we can; then pay me the $175T for my visioning.
Posted by Lee | October 30, 2006 8:50 PM
Gotta love Bud Clark. The type of liberal who actually is consistently real in their liberalism.
The type of liberal that might give it a good name.
Posted by DarePDX | October 30, 2006 9:39 PM
Potter is trying something useful but he is doing in his governmental style...poorly and at great expense.
Having said that, the more I look into it, the more I am convinced that portland's government sucks as bad as most others.
Posted by public citizen | October 31, 2006 1:51 AM
Gotta love Bud Clark.
You have no idea. That beat-up Schwinn --or whatever-- he rode. He said hello to us peons in City Hall. A decent, honorable guy doing the best he knew how without artifice.
A rare, unique time in Portland City government.
Posted by Frank Dufay | October 31, 2006 3:04 AM
$1.1 million to find out what only 12,000 people think about Portland. That's less than .025 percent of the population. What happened to the 100,000 people Potter claimed he wanted to hear from.
Survey experts will tell you that the results of Potter's vision questionnaire will be statistically meaningless.
Is no one else disturbed by Potter's wasting so much of our hard earned money on a charade in his hope he'll get credit 30 years from now for the city's natural evolution.
He'll get credit alright: As the "Most Incompetent mayor in Portland's history."
Bud Clark was fooled into helping Potter get elected in 2003. Let's hope he won't be made the fool twice.
Urge the rest of the City Council to end this Vision con game NOW. Randy, Erik, Sam, and Dan, please vote NO to $175,000 more in wasteful spending.
Posted by Shadow | October 31, 2006 8:02 AM
The committee overseeing the project includes neighborhood leaders, community organizations, social service providers, minorities and others.
Minorities?
Arent they represented by all of the others? Just like everyone else?
Posted by Jon | October 31, 2006 8:05 AM
Portland is learning, slowly. But the process still kills anyone who isn't pc, so you will never be able to elect anyone like Clark again, no matter how much you want to.
Posted by faceup | November 2, 2006 7:55 PM