Dieselboi at Metroblogging Portland uncovered something very interesting—Mayor Tom Potter posted a “Quick Link” to the César E. Chávez Boulevard petition on his website (which then went out over the PortlandOnline RSS feed… who knew the city had an RSS feed?).

The link heads straight to a generic web-based petition site, where you can add your support to the idea. There’s no way to voice opposition to it, though. (“If I get a No on Rename petition put together, will you host it in your sidebar Mayor Potter? It is only fair,” dieselboi points out.)

I’ve got a call in to the city’s Office of Transportation, to ask the staffer who heads up the official street renaming process whether the Chávez Boulevard committee has filed an application, signaling that they’d like to follow the official city process for changing a street name.

This link on Potter’s site makes it look like the Chávez Boulevard plans to follow in Rosa Parks Way’s footsteps: find a sympathetic politician to override city code, and push it through. What an honor.