As a whole, he's coddling to the masses and failing to get a grip on the city he has been elected to be leading. I know you really don't really want to read yet another article, but, awhile back, this guy summed up some of the issue(s) at hand. Ted Wheeler is in the square center of it all. Remember the old "Buck stops here" Truman quote? Well, it's true. https://catalyst.independent.org/2020/07/25/the-incompetence-of-mayor-ted-wheeler/
If the buck never stops with the President of this entire country, then it’s pretty hard to point the finger at a simple mayor of a medium sized city......you don’t get to pick and choose who the buck stops with. And neither does a president.....It comes with the job, regardless of who or what that individual oversees.....it’s why they were elected in the first place.
Gotta love all these conversations that end up resulting in, "Yeah, but guess what Trump does!!" BTW, in that RVAT, I had asked for a "Still Evaluating" button. Haven't seen one thus far.
So your whole argument is that he's coddling to the masses and failing to get a grip on the city? Is there a more generic and hollow answer you could provide me with? I wonder if you see the incredible amount of irony in the "coddling tot he masses" and "failing to get a grip on the city" stuff, considering that is 100% true of Trump. Yeah, and I addressed that saying it's weird how you're fine with the buck stopping with the mayor, but oblivious about it stopping with the President.
I was simply pointing out that your expectations of civic leaders are wildly inconsistent, depending on your narrative. That alone makes it virtually impossible to take you seriously on pretty much anything. You’re more about the bobbing and weaving than landing the punch. And all that’s gonna do is tire you out early......
Funny you say that right before I responded to your complaint (for lack of a better word) about the # of options in a poll, that I answered right after you asked it. But if you must know, I was on amazon looking for some air filters for my parents.
It can’t be okay for one local civic leader but not for the civic leader who represents us all. Wheeler has absolutely NO impact on YOUR life (despite how much you might “care” for your old home town). Trumps actions (or lack thereof) impact 330 million people, including ME. Your priorities are mind boggling. You’re sweating something irrelevant to the bigger picture while ignoring a guy who is doing his damndest to incite a second American Civil War. And you are as complicit as if you fired the first real bullet. But the one thing about having your head in the sand is that it keeps your ears warm........
Apparently, he has some new issues... https://www.opb.org/article/2020/09...mayor-ted-wheelers-campaign-manager-has-left/
I don't think Wheeler has a snowball's chance in hell getting elected again but I might point out that yesterday's front page news had a walk by shooting of a 31 year old female cop and 20 year old male cop sitting in a car in Los Angeles..one shot in the face....both rookies just graduated from the academy....I can read news from across the country too....this was a lone gunman..they have video of him shooting into the cop car....I'd say many cities have their share of abject failures....as a matter of fact....the cops all over the country are up against people who've had enough brutality and some are going to face violence with violence...which in any book is wrong but it's not what protests are for...it's a cancer that grows around them..always has. people get shot daily in South Side Chicago and have forever....became normality....Nashville has a horrible crime rate....Portland is no exception ..there is tension between cops and citizens...when cops stop making people feel safe....go ahead and blame the mayor but you might want to put the camera on the police commisioner first...people also infiltrate organized protests to have an excuse to be hooligans. That's not the responsibilty of those who protest peacefully...but cops are shooting journalists and mayors with rubber bullets...yeah...people have a lot of guns out there. I think guns are our biggest problem personally..they don't keep you safe...they keep others in danger
Are you talking about this? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...h-called-help-applied-tourniquet-partner.html That shooting of the two officers happened in Los Angeles.
thank you....I had another shooting mixed up with this one....in Nashville it was the cops shooting.....fixed my post..my mistake...I remember that was north of Compton now
