Twitter! SOTC! Sam!
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darkemeraldsThe mayor of Stumptown is giving his first State of the City address right now. According to Twitter, he began by thanking "my boyfriend Peter Zuckerman," definitely a Portland first.
Sam: "We are being battered by a hundred-year economic storm... I am confident of this: we will recover. We will emerge from recession...smarter, less wasteful, stronger, and more nimble."
Education and green jobs are his constant mantra. Sometimes he mentions bikes, but I suspect he'll play that topic down after the local conservative daily paper grossly misrepresented the 2030 Bike Plan just yesterday and started a "high cost" meme that nobody can silence.
Oh, wait! Now he's talking about neighborhood development, and showing concept images of big fat green bike lanes next to new streetcar lines. Can't hate that.
And he just announced a Sustainable Development fund with half a million dollars in seed capital for sustainable/green business starts. Hey, as long as it doesn't involve cutting my job...
Hah! "We lead the nation in bicycling because that's how we roll." Go, Sam.
Wow, mouth meet money: he's promising free community college tuition to high school kids who go through Youth Connect, an outreach program, presumably for at-risk kids. The funding source he mentions won't be popular: water/sewer rates.
It's not all SamFans, though. Someone in the audience has asked the Recall Question (there's a second recall effort, based on sex and lies--the first one failed). "I appreciate the question, it's one that I've answered for over a year," says Adams. "My apologies were sincere." The end, move on.
And it sounds like he missed the boat entirely on a question about mental healthcare, a subject that hasn't been among his talking points, but figured pretty prominently in a police shooting incident that's going to trial soon.
Well, that's it. Standing ovation from a third to a half of the audience...now "most of the room".
Sometimes I still kind of enjoy politics.
Sam: "We are being battered by a hundred-year economic storm... I am confident of this: we will recover. We will emerge from recession...smarter, less wasteful, stronger, and more nimble."
Education and green jobs are his constant mantra. Sometimes he mentions bikes, but I suspect he'll play that topic down after the local conservative daily paper grossly misrepresented the 2030 Bike Plan just yesterday and started a "high cost" meme that nobody can silence.
Oh, wait! Now he's talking about neighborhood development, and showing concept images of big fat green bike lanes next to new streetcar lines. Can't hate that.
And he just announced a Sustainable Development fund with half a million dollars in seed capital for sustainable/green business starts. Hey, as long as it doesn't involve cutting my job...
Hah! "We lead the nation in bicycling because that's how we roll." Go, Sam.
Wow, mouth meet money: he's promising free community college tuition to high school kids who go through Youth Connect, an outreach program, presumably for at-risk kids. The funding source he mentions won't be popular: water/sewer rates.
It's not all SamFans, though. Someone in the audience has asked the Recall Question (there's a second recall effort, based on sex and lies--the first one failed). "I appreciate the question, it's one that I've answered for over a year," says Adams. "My apologies were sincere." The end, move on.
And it sounds like he missed the boat entirely on a question about mental healthcare, a subject that hasn't been among his talking points, but figured pretty prominently in a police shooting incident that's going to trial soon.
Well, that's it. Standing ovation from a third to a half of the audience...now "most of the room".
Sometimes I still kind of enjoy politics.
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6/2/10 22:36 (UTC)Too much of that goes on. These cases must have been pretty egregious.