Portland Mayor - Page 2

cab · #21 Posted: **Mar 21, 2012, 7:35 PM**

Smith and Hales are splitting the vote of more progressives voters. Lets hope brady doesnt get 50% and Hales and her can go at it. Hales is very smart and quick. Putting him next to just her I think he can close the gap and pull it out. Brady would be a bad mistake for PDX. She'll run the city like a suburban strip mall, she is the Portland Business Alliance. Hales is well traveled and educated on the core of city management, jobs, transportation, law. He really could be a great Mayor in the mold of Katz.

Shilo Rune 96 · #22 Posted: **Mar 22, 2012, 3:14 AM**

Vote in the latest Poll: http://ht.ly/9NUFc

MarkDaMan · #23 Posted: **Mar 22, 2012, 5:14 AM**

Wow, that's surprising. Jefferson Smith is winning in an unofficial PBJ poll? Is it his online supporters, he's been amazingly adept at using social networks. Considering the publication, and their audience, this doesn't make sense to me.

twofiftyfive · #24 Posted: **Mar 22, 2012, 2:33 PM**

Not only does Brady support the CRC, but she doesn't understand the concept of sunk cost:

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I know there’s a temptation to say, given all the mistakes to this point, that we should just throw out the whole thing and start over. But doing that would set us back years because we would have to start the whole federal permitting process over again from scratch. And don’t forget - we’re already into this for over $140 million.

Just what we need--a mayor who will throw good money after bad.

2oh1 · #25 Posted: **Apr 14, 2012, 12:24 AM**

Is Brady the only one doing any advertising? Her ads are the only ones I'm seeing. Not a good sign.

65MAX · #26 Posted: **Apr 14, 2012, 12:34 AM**

No, I've seen a lot of ads for Hales and saw one for Smith yesterday.

2oh1 · #27 Posted: **Apr 14, 2012, 3:41 AM**

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Originally Posted by 65MAX

No, I've seen a lot of ads for Hales and saw one for Smith yesterday.

That's good to hear! I'm pretty sure I'll vote for Hales, but I still need to learn more about Smith.

Some recent numbers from an April 2nd article in the Oregonian:

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An EMC Research survey of 403 likely voters showed Hales and Brady nearly tied at 25 percent and 23 percent with Smith trailing in a head-to-head comparison. However, 39 percent of respondents said they were undecided. "There was no pre-message," said Jessica Moskovitz, campaign manager for Hales, who commissioned the poll.

The field changed slightly after respondents heard positive messages about the three candidates taken from their campaign websites, a standard polling practice. Hales then got 32 percent of voters, compared with Brady's 21 percent and Smith's 19.

davehogan · #28 Posted: **Apr 15, 2012, 4:35 AM**

If you want to see a speech by him called "The Secret to Making Democracy Work" you can watch it at http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxC...tland-Jeffer-2. He's also against the CRC for from what I've heard some fairly intelligent reasons, and has some pretty great endorsements for being such a far-behind candidate.