“We’re just about there, but at this point in time, we probably haven’t quite gotten over the bar,” said Sten, addressing a spokesman for the Portland Business Alliance. “I voted for it in May thinking we’d be a little bit further along by the time we are now, and we’re not.”

“We’re about to have an up-down vote here in a second, and if I’m reading things right, I might be the swing vote, and one side’s gonna win, and one side’s gonna lose.”

Drama!

The PBA spokesman says if they delay the ordinance, members of the PBA might lose trust. That’s got Sten angry.

“What I’m hearing the homeless advocates say very clearly is that they’d want to hold things up just a little bit, but that they don’t want to do that because they don’t want to offend the PBA and the police. You’re saying you might walk away losing trust, and those are the kinds of lines in the sand that are gonna push me away from your position.”