Eight days until the election and the Portland Public Schools bond campaign is taking its advertising up a major notch. PPS watchdog blogger Carrie Adams emailed media a link over the weekend to a Craiglist post (now removed) that the bond campaign posted advertising for canvassers.

“Earn $500 and Save our Schools. Canvassers Needed!" read the ad. "Work to help Turnout Voters. Be a part of a grassroots movement, you can make the difference! Support our public education by working to protect teacher jobs, build safe schools and keep class sizes low!” The campaign has raised over $1 million in cash to back the $548 million bond and $57 million levy.

In addition to a knock at your door, expect to see ads for the bond and levy blanketing media this week. The campaign just spent $73,000 with advertising company Media Analysis for a last-minute infusion of ads and the Trail Blazers kicked in a $50,000 in-kind donation of ad space in the Rose Garden.

One guy definitely not on PPS's payroll? Dave Porter, a lone protester I ran into last week as he sat in a lawn chair on corner on East Burnside staging a one-man anti-bond protest. Porter, who's retired, says he'll keep up the rogue campaign around the city until election day.

We say you should support the bond and levy, but the comments on our endorsement have been a solid back-and-forth between people voting yes and people voting no. A $400 property tax increase is a lot to swallow.