Signs aren’t allowed during council sessions, so Dan Saltzman (acting mayor, since Potter and council president Randy Leonard are both out of town) reclassified the signs as “large, square buttons.”

Let's see if he'd bend the rule this way if someone brings in a sign that reads, "Saltzman is a nimrod". My guess is "no", in which case hello, content-based restriction.

It wouldn't be a Portland protest without a spelling error.

Or "hello douchebag," more like.

I hope rontoms has some sort of deal earlier in the evening on Tuesday. I went in there yesterday night and the cheapest beer I saw was MHL for three bones.

The funny thing is that these are the same people pushing for "English-only" laws--yet their English is terrible.

My other favorite anti-immigrant sign:
"Illegals Cloud the Political Brain"
Clearly, this was an excuse for their poor behavior and shoddy political analysis--illegal drugs.

before we get all high and mighty, my trip to Tigard to watch the people watching Karl Rove's event for WashCo GOP revealed a prominent protestor who had made a sign to show drivers to get them to honk. It said:

Fuck You
Car Rov

The C had been fixed to a K, and she was explaining to me that others just pointed out there is an E at the end of Rov. I helpfully noted that there's also an L in Karl.

Political outrage does not require an IQ test on any issue, it appears...

Rontoms cheapest beer is Tecate in a can. $2.00

Thanks. That's a little more reasonable.

What Spackler said. I only found out about it last time I was there, when they ran out of High Life. It's not just Tecate--it's Tecate in a tall boy. With lime.

Sounds like "tater totter." Dericious.

Is anyone else just a little scared? White supremest activity is skyrocketing in tandem with our plummeting economy. You all can be pretty glib about misspellings and all, but at the end of the day, it's a nervous walk home for folks whose skin happens to be the wrong shade.

I just call them "facists" and see if they notice.

Supremist

One of the requirements for this "facist" (that was for you, b!x) is octogenarianism. Anyone else notice how there's a serious stash of blue hairs on the anti-immigration side?

What's up with that?

carla, it may have to do with the change in demographics that happened all over rural oregon in the past 60ish years. small farming towns in oregon used to almost 100% white and the vibe was very norman rockwell-y.

then people started going to college and moving out of those towns to the city and adjoining suburbs leaving those small towns kinda floundering economically.

then came the mexicans to work those farms for low-wages keeping them in business.

then came the mercados, mexican video stores, mexican restaurants, mexican bars, mexican fruit stands all covering those small towns.

nowadays, the younger population of those towns are used to going to school and milling about with a large mexican population. the older folks are not used it and want things back to the way they were in the 50's.

I think that's a fantastic explanation, merc reader #3001.