Blogtown, PDX

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Politics The Question Box

Posted by Amy J. Ruiz on Tue, Apr 3 at 3:46 PM

Hey Blogtown readers!

Now that this week’s news section is out the door, Scott Moore and I are hunkered down with the ballot measures, pro and con statements, and the Charter Review Commission’s January 18 report, entitled “A City Government for Portland’s Future.” (Jealous?)

We’re polishing off questions for tomorrow’s beer-sloshed and sexy debate at Acme (see Scott’s post, below, to check out the flyer). We’ll have panels on the proposals to move from a commissioner form of government to one headed by a strong mayor-chief administrative officer, to “increase oversight of Portland Development Commission,” and to require periodic review of the city charter.

Want to help us out? Leave questions for our panelists in the comments, and we’ll add them to our pile. Or, come to the forum tomorrow night, where you’ll have a chance to ask more questions, and hear the answers.

(Need info? The Multnomah County Elections site has all of the measures and pros and cons. Meanwhile, the campaign for these measures is here, and the campaign opposed to these measures is here.)

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Leave questions for our panelists in the comments, and we’ll add them to our pile.

Must. Avoid. Posting. Entire. Contents. Of. Portland's. Future. Charter.

Posted by b!X | April 3, 2007 4:18 PM

"Citizens to Reform City Hall, you argue that your proposal will advance the causes of transparency, accountability, and oversight.

"Since you agree that these are worthwhile values, why has your campaign been stalling until the last possible legally-allowable moment to file reports on your campaign contributions, and why haven't you posted online all of the public documents and videos of the Charter Review Commission, which most of you served on, so that the public can judge for themselves how your recommendations came about?"

Posted by b!X | April 3, 2007 4:22 PM

what do you mean b!x? they're up.

Posted by k | April 3, 2007 4:28 PM

Not unless they've gone up since late last night, they aren't.

Posted by b!X | April 3, 2007 4:34 PM

Actually, not even late last night. They weren't up a few hours ago either.

The campaign finance reports do apepar to be up now, however. I'm going to assume that "k" is Kyle Chisek, Team Potter's treasurer, trying to make it look like they haven't been playing sneaky with their finances until today.

Posted by b!X | April 3, 2007 4:38 PM

b!X, we'll be trolling PFC for question ideas, no doubt.

Posted by Amy Jenniges | April 3, 2007 4:45 PM

What will Bix do after charter reform fails?

Posted by Morgan | April 3, 2007 7:41 PM

Go back to my normal life. Maybe another Oregon teacher will push creationism in his science classroom or something.

Posted by b!X | April 3, 2007 8:53 PM

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