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Thursday, January 3, 2008

Election 2008 Meet the Contenders: Constituents Respond

Posted by Amy J. Ruiz on Thu, Jan 3 at 4:02 PM

Earlier today, we asked city council candidates what Portland’s most pressing problem is—and we also turned Mercury videographer Travis Huntington loose on the streets, to ask people the same thing.

One guy noted “Erik Sten just quit” as Portland’s biggest problem. (My favorite: “All of the microbrews taste the same.”)

Speaking of Sten, Travis also asked people for their thoughts on yesterday’s announcement, that he’ll be leaving the council in April.

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Perhaps I'm a little slow on these things, but it just occured to me that while written responses get archived in the blog, video responses may not be. Are transcripts being made of video responses or are they apt to disappear when the poster removes them from You Tube?

Posted by Woo | January 3, 2008 4:42 PM

We don't intend to remove them from YouTube... but I'll look into that!

Posted by Amy J. Ruiz | January 3, 2008 4:49 PM

Cool.

Posted by Woo | January 3, 2008 5:07 PM

wow. no-one thinks that affordable housing is a problem in portland? what a bunch of useless, yuppie cunts.

Posted by Ed | January 3, 2008 8:55 PM

Yeah, those "yuppie cunts" often found at TRANSIT STATIONS.

Posted by Blog Junkie | January 3, 2008 9:01 PM

the working class is its own worst enemy.

Posted by Ed | January 3, 2008 9:21 PM

"They're taking too long to fix the roads in my neighborhood!"

OH MY GOD! That's TERRIBLE! I'd say it's the city's MOST PRESSING PROBLEM!!

Christ. Meanwhile, there's thousands of folks being squeezed by rising rent costs. Not to mention the hundreds with *no home*. But that damn road construction!

Posted by Sven | January 8, 2008 3:05 PM

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