.votebox_bp_logo { .results_row.winner { .votebox-scroll-container { 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. 2. Hardestys words and deeds have made Portlanders more dangerous, and Gonzalez has a plan for restoring shared spaces and infrastructure, so hes getting my vote. }) Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated 4/4/2023), Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement, and Your Privacy Choices and Rights (updated 1/26/2023). Incumbents are bolded and underlined. } A longtime activist for racial justice and other progressive policy issues, she is well known as an advocate for police reform and defunding. background-color: #ccc; After years of turmoil and a lack of support, staffing at the PPB is lower per capita than any other comparable city. Are you happy? The United States has free movement and the free purchase of property. width: 100%; I believe Hardesty didnt win a single district east of 205. margin-bottom: 0px; McCreary was destroyed in the position 2 race. It seems like our best chance to reclaim our bike infrastructure in this city. State executives | https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/544860-436054-street-lives-portlandians-dopesick-blues- [Man could move back to Utah to live with family, but chooses to stay here due to lax drug laws], https://www.opb.org/article/2022/01/15/2021-was-a-record-year-for-homicides-in-portland/. Despondent? Its just absurd that we vote for Bureau heads but dont get to vote for what Bureau they head. She lost in the general election on November 8, 2022. background-color: #6db24f; This spring, Le Creuset has introduced an exciting new shade thats already selling fast: shallot, a soft lavender with pink and slight gray undertones. Thank goodnessI agree that 2nd and 3rd will coalesce to defeat Hardesty. Hardesty filed a lawsuit against Hunzeker, Ottoman, the Portland Police Association and the city of Portland on Dec. 13. float: right; [11] Hardesty suspended the show during her 2018 campaign to avoid violating the FCC's Equal-time rule, then resumed the show in March 2019. } Context matters, says the commenter who goes by a slur. I dont think Rene Gonzalez has much if a concrete policy platform laid out, but he seems to be broadly in favor of allocating more money to the PPB and keeping schools from enacting covid safety protocols. border: 1px solid #a2a9b1 !important; Hardesty, the first Black woman elected to citywide office in Portland, has found herself in an unexpectedly tight race for reelection against Rene Gonzalez, a centrist businessman with no prior. Democracy is hard is not a great response. Following a close race in the May primaries background-color: #dac113; Aw yes,,the race card and the homeless card all in One.. No one gives one rip about what color Hardesty is except her defenders.. For the last time. display: table; Those items that havnt been completed are not because she not working for them, its because wheeler and the others fight against progress. Click here to read more about her concession . (Unless a lot of people who did not vote in the primary turn out and vote for Gonzales in the general election.). text-align: center; padding-top: 3px; This place we call home is suffering.". word-wrap: break-word; display: inline-block; PBOT commissioner attended meeting with PBOTs cycling advocacy apparatus and admitted she had never even heard of the Big Plan to improve cycling in Portland. That measure, in itself, tells us nothing about whether the program is working or not. color:white; display: inline-block; Dont take my word for it. What does that mean, putting antifa in all caps? complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. width: 50%; } DWK. "Earlier today, I offered my congratulations to Mr. Rene Gonzalez," Hardesty said in a statement provided to KOIN by campaign manager Joseph Santos-Lyons. You cant. $('#candidate-connection-email-121613').on('click', () => { ga('send', 'event', 'surveycta', 'surveycta-click-email'); }); *And, when, as is inevitable sooner or later, a PSR staffer gets assaulted on the job, be prepared for them to start working much more closely with the cops. padding-left: 10px; Seventy-nine percent of Portlanders surveyed said they thought homeless people should be required to either sleep in overnight shelters or designated camping locations. Forty-six percent of those surveyed also named homelessness as the citys biggest issue. if (typeof $ != 'undefined') { [8][9] Oregon Public Broadcasting reported Hardesty and the NAACP chapter did not report her income to the IRS or pay taxes on it, which Hardesty then amended. I should probably say I have been picturing non-partisan races like those for city council. overflow-y: hidden; Mission accomplished. background-color: #f9d334; [13] The alternative newspaper Willamette Week endorsed Hardesty, stating she was the "best person for the job. Also, since when are we OK with the preferred practices of our police bureau. top: 2px; She previously served in the Oregon House of Representatives from 1995 until 2001. He handily overcame challenger AJ McCreary by a split of 58% to 25% and avoided a runoff. Hardesty was born as one of ten children on October 15, 1957 in Baltimore, Maryland where her father worked as a longshoreman while her mother stayed home. The results have been certified. There is real animosity between her and the police. Also, who knows what climate catastrophes await us this summer and fall; could massive wildfires, deadly heatwaves, some other severe natural (human-accelerated) event change a candidates fateI think yes! background-color: #f9f9f9; Really has nothing to do with cities. The election comments are truly entertaining. And I continue to feel deep shame for how much blame for issues like homelessness Portlanders place on the shoulders of commissioner Hardesty alone, given that she is the first black woman elected citywide in our citys history, and has no more power than any other council member (although she is the only effective one imo, the only other person whos effected change is Mingus Mapps and his have proved very bad). We are clearly doing worse at something, and it isnt the local economy. All rights reserved (About Us). [1], .votebox { } If you dont want to have to walk through tents and trash at your neighborhood parks, have graffiti and idiotic ANTIFA riots, Beaverton is much better. That makes some sense, as Hardesty has served on the Portland City Council longer than Ryan and has been a high-profile figure in news coverage surrounding police reform, as well as an attempt by the police unions president to sabotage her political prospects. She assumed office on January 1, 2019. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated 4/4/2023), Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement, and Your Privacy Choices and Rights (updated 1/26/2023). July 9th, 2020 - The pandemic kept cars away and gave us a taste of the Gorge's true potential. Bike use Down. Gonzalez, a 48-year-old manager for both a law firm and a software company, campaigned as a centrist supporting law and order and dedicated to restoring livability in the city his family has called home for five generations. Cities | Hardesty announced her concession in a statement sent to KOIN 6 News by her campaign manager Joseph Santos-Lyons on Wednesday. A list of accomplishments would be nice if you have any? Im not arguing for continuing with our current system, but rather looking for ways to incorporate runoffs with a STAR-like system. Hardesty was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland as one of 10 children born to her longshoreman father and stay-at-home mother. Do you also think like so called progressives Hardesty and Wheeler that human beings sleeping in garbage is progressive? .image-candidate-thumbnail-wrapper { More than half the primary voters rejected Hardesty, despite her leg up-and really questionable ethicsin using office resources to campaign. 5 full days of in-person learning with pre-pandemic instructional hours/schedules restored. .percentage_number { I like her because she supports bikes and is a champion for radical action to fight climate change. Transit use Down. padding-left: 0; .votebox-scroll-container { display: block; [37], Hardesty was married to Skip Elliot Bowman in 2001. [20][21] She is the first Black woman and first minority woman to serve on the council. While murder rates rose 30% nationally, plenty of cities saw larger increases in year-over-year murder rates in 2020. Though Ryans and Hardestys numbers appear dismal, many survey respondents said they were unsure of how they would vote come spring. width: 150px; Thats the crux of the problem with primaries, regardless of method used. St. Johns Village Opening (Wesley Lapointe). Denver deploys 74% more cops per capita than Portland, with one for every 475 residents. Should have said some progressives. Youre arguing to make it easier by moving choice from the larger electorate to a smaller one. [32], Having received less than 50% of the vote, she advanced to a runoff in the November 2022 general election. City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, the incumbent, and Rene Gonzalez, a lawyer and small businessman who's running for political office for the first time ever, have been taking incessant jabs. } .inner_percentage.Republican { Your third point isnt really an apples-to-apples comparison. Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty formally announced on Monday that she will run for re-election next year. .mw-body #mw-content-text .votebox .race_header h3.votebox-header-office-name { Im so relieved to learn that gun violence, pedestrian deaths, and the homeless crisis have all improved over the past four years. We have to reset relations. p.survey-response {margin-left:10px;} Jo Ann A. Hardesty (formely Bowman, [2] [3] born October 15, 1957) is an American Democratic politician in the U.S. state of Oregon who served as a Portland City commissioner from 2019 to 2022. Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty oversaw Portland Fire & Rescue, Portland Bureau of Transportation, and the Office of Community & Civic Life. I dont personally ascribe bureau accomplishments to the city council member who is the bureau head for any of them unless I can really tell they had something to do with it. Good riddance. display: inline; Its good to put pressure on to create change in practices and policies that are unjust or that result in more violence than required. OPB News. They both deal with the creation of the Portland Street Response, which has been successful and has been recommended for expansion. @media screen and (max-width: 350px) { } width: 100%; I ride year round and I am voting FOR Hardesty. font-weight: 100; In the other contested Portland city council race, incumbent Dan Ryan did what most people expected him to do. That program responded to 900 calls for service with none of them resulting in arrest. font-weight: bold; Id like STAR a lot better if we used it to narrow the field to 2 and then had a conventional runoff. $('.showResponses').hide(); Ive changed the headline. Being progressive doesnt mean you have to tolerate and enable a drug epidemic that is destroying our communities.

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Hardesty is progressive and walks the walk. I think there was some difference in their platforms and I think Hardesty will get some Mozyrsky votes it will be very close though! Again, youve not got rid of this problem with primaries youve simply moved it earlier, to a smaller group of people. I support local candidates who bring creativity, motivation AND financial integrity to Portlands political scene. You want diversity? I am however hopeful she will lose the the runoff. These all seem to be supported by the studies cited in the NYT article above. .votebox-results-cell--number { Last week, Hardesty, the first Black woman to serve on City Council, was the sole commissioner to vote against a resolution to create at least three large, designated campsites and ban the rest of the roughly 700 encampments currently scattered across the city. Do the other progressive accomplishments include diversifying housing, police, addressing livability issues for lower income people? color: #0645ad; Court records show Bank of America filed lawsuits against Hardesty in Multnomah County late last month, claiming she owes more than $16,000 on a pair of defaulted credit card accounts. Hardesty was picked up from Ilani Casino Resort, and was about to be unexpectedly dropped off at a closing filling station along I-5 when she called 911 to report safety concerns about being about to be left alone on the side of the road in the dark, telling the dispatcher, "Well, Ive got a Lyft driver that decided he would just drop me off at a filling station. font-weight: 300; } The debt was accumulated between two credit card accounts through the Bank of America. top: -1px; color: white; In the final weeks before the election, Portland Accountability PAC, an outside political group bankrolled by business and downtown property owners, spent six figures on bolstering Hardestys challenger. margin-top: 1em; Federal courts | Its not about pedestrians and folks on bikes. Unfortunately, people dont have to be racist morons to be swayed by messaging that ties candidates from racial backgrounds that are traditionally lower socioeconomic status to problems that involve people of low SES. The thing she has done thats had a great impact is to deliver the Portland Street Response. she is as Incompetent as Ryan and Wheeler are, and they are the whitest people I know. Hardestys longstanding criticism of the Portland Police Bureau began to be viewed as out of touch. You dont have to be shocked when Hardesty wins. Bison Coffeehouse owner Loretta Guzman joined 'Fox & Friends First' to discuss how the anti-police attack has impacted her business and the community's response to the attack. This page is not available in other languages. padding-bottom: 3px; color: white; So Im glad that 82nd ave transfer is complete, Im glad Better Naito is complete but PBOT works on a timeline of years. I wont argue that (to use your example of 20 candidates) mulling over 10% of the field is easier when 90% have already been decided on by some smaller subset of voters, but I do think that is ultimately harmful and tends to distort representation. border:1px solid #FFB81F; .mw-content-ltr td.votebox-results-cell--text, } Jo Ann Hardesty was a member of the Portland City Commission in Oregon, representing Position 3. If you did the STAR runoff and stopped when you had two candidates rather than one, would that really introduce much distortion, and would it really result in top candidates being filtered out? font-size: 0.9em; $('.showResponses').show(); } Can you share his views on school Covid protocols, because Im not finding them? Jo Ann Hardesty concedes, Rene Gonzalez announces victory in Portland City Council commissioner race. margin-bottom: 1px; The two items that deal with gun violence dont say it has improved. We do not make exceptions for this," announced her chief of staff of the move. U.S. President | Hes talking about arresting homeless folks. "[39][40][41] The event drew national attention. div.oneoff-scrollbox.short { height:250px; overflow:scroll; margin:20px; padding:10px; border:1px solid gray; } Hardesty and Ryan are the only two city commissioners up for reelection this spring. .widget-row.Republican { I dont remember her campaign being all that passionate about roads the first time. Does that mean folks are secretly happy about how things are going? Person who runs a website about transportation chooses to focus on race that the current head of PBOT is in, doesnt seem odd to me. Seattle, for example, staffs 29% more, with one officer for every 643 residents. How does that not relate to cycling and non-car transportation? Jo Ann A. Hardesty (formely Bowman,[2][3] born October 15, 1957) is an American Democratic politician in the U.S. state of Oregon who served as a Portland City commissioner from 2019 to 2022. Too bad about the baby, though. Do you do any research? width: 350px; We know that she has herself because the police union leaked faulty information about her to make her look bad. Shell be in a runoff with either Rene Gonzalez or Vadim Mozyrsky, who are currently separated by only 879 votes. 2005 - 2023 BikePortland - Independent and reader supported since 2005. .large-date { text-align: center; margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600;} letter-spacing: 0.03em; .indicate_scroll { The AR in STAR stands for automatic runoff. Fifty percent of likely voters said they'd cast their ballot for Gonzalez, a lawyer and technology business owner, compared to 26% for Hardesty, people briefed on the survey results told The. .votebox-results-cell--check { .widget-value { Do you think that the crew in neighborhood associations who lead the charge on fighting back rest villages were happy they werent delivered? color: #888; He mentions clearing and reclaiming MUPs and sidewalks multiple times. The survey gauged the opinions of 500 prospective voters. I will be shocked if very many Mozrysky voters go for Hardesty in the fall. (Photo: Jonathan Maus/BikePortland). One last note about the results, counts in Clackamas County are going very slowly so we dont have a good picture of how that part of the region voted. Jo Ann Hardesty, Rene Gonzalez in photos from their campaign websites, October 2022. The mayor eked out a victory against challenger Sarah Iannarone, winning 46% of the vote to Iannarone's 41%. 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