Mayor Potter Is Still A Fucking Hypocrite
Earlier this month, I first called the Mayor Major a fucking hypocrite. After spending months trying to tie together the cost overruns of the tram and Portland’s commission form of government, he had the gall to announce that he didn’t want the tram to “become a question of whether the form of government was to blame”. If we was a fucking hypocrite then, what is he after today’s email from Citizens to Reform City Hall Team Potter?
In that email (pdf), Potter uses this argument in favor of changing the form of government: “Establish clear and transparent decision-making that holds managers accountable – and end the excuses that allow the price tag for the OHSU tram to quadruple, and no one knows why or is held accountable.”
Just to be clear, here’s the totality of what Major Potter said just fourteen days ago about why he wasn’t going to call for an investigation into the tram until after the special election on May 15:
Potter wants to wait until after the May 15 vote on proposed changes to the structure of city government, “so this doesn’t become a question of whether the form of government was to blame.”
“I didn’t want to do this until the thing was operational, until we knew nothing else could go wrong,” he said. “I also don’t want to do it while there’s any chance of it becoming a political fight.”
A mere fourteen says after saying he didn’t want the tram to become “a question of whether the form of government was to blame” or “a political fight” — which itself was after months of saying the form of government was to blame and making it a political fight — he’s back to saying the form of government was to blame and making it a political fight.
What is the level beyond “fucking hypocrite”?
Why does a man who has an uncontrollable and habitual pattern of raping the public discourse in this fashion have a 70% public approval rating?
And why the bloody Hell won’t the local press call him on this sort of bullshit once and for all?