Today, at 10:00am, mayoral candidate Sho Dozono sponsored a voter registration event at the Waterfront Park Amphitheater. The event, billed as nonpartisan, kicked off with a Native American drummer jam session, which was pretty much awesome.

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Sho wanted to:

encourage and engage scores of unregistered voters to register and to get committments from hundreds of voters who didn’t participate in previous primaries to vote May 20 to show that diverse communities DO count.

Because of your goddamn Portland weather, the event was moved across the street to the entryway of the World Trade Center building. There were around 10 speakers, lasting about 45 minutes. Afterward, Sho invited the group of 75 or so to march to the Japanese American Historical Plaza along the Naito Parkway.

The crowd, filled mostly with enthusiastic Sho supporters, was in good spirits despite the soggy weather.