The scoundrels' new mouthpiece
Over the years, Portlanders grew to view with suspicion the public relations firm of Gard & Gerber. This outfit always seemed to be calling the media plays for the big money in the city's West Hills when they wanted to fleece the little guys down below. PGE, OHSU, Neil Goldschmidt, and many others called upon G&G to make the ugly truth go away as quickly as possible. State Sen. Ginny Burdick, a Goldschmidt lieutenant, worked there for a while, which made her candidacy for anything immediately unpalatable to us.
These days, Gard & Gerber is no more. Gard's still out there, but Gerber has gone the way of the husband in the Mattress World commercials.
If there was a void in the Portland villain flack ranks, however, it is being filled nicely by another outfit, Gallatin Public Affairs. This regional firm, which appears to be based in Boise, is currently fronting for Little Lord Paulson on his double-barreled stadiums boondoggle, and it's even got Vera Katz on the payroll to help grease the skids.
Now comes word that Gallatin's helping the Portland police union in its efforts to deny justice in the case of the two police officers who senselessly killed Jim Jim Chasse three years ago. You go, Gallatin. You're building up quite a base of goodwill here in Portlandia.
Comments (7)
Merritt Paulson and the police union's mouthpiece are two of the biggest a**holes in town, so it all makes sense.
Posted by none | November 9, 2009 12:06 AM
Gotta love this part: Update 2, 4:12, Westerman says he sent a fax invite. "I was wondering why there were so few people there," he says. "We're switching to email for these things, from now on."
Posted by Mojo | November 9, 2009 8:28 AM
What happened to the husband in the mattress commercial?
Posted by PJ | November 9, 2009 9:19 AM
I think when the gal got all glam'd up and in shape she decided he was dragging down the image...
Posted by notapottedplant | November 9, 2009 10:09 AM
I believe the mattress people got divorced.
Posted by none | November 9, 2009 10:49 AM
We've covered the Mattress World husband disappearance previously, e.g., here.
Posted by Jack Bog | November 9, 2009 11:21 AM
Read this awesome Monbiot and tell me it doesn't describe the propagandists (fed by folks like the ones mentioned above) at the Oregonian to a t:
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2009/11/09/champions-of-the-overdog/
Posted by George Anonymuncule Seldes | November 9, 2009 3:43 PM