Last call in Wheelerville
It's an important day in Portland history – the day Dud Wheeler's political career ended. For today city commissioner Mingus Mapps revealed that he'll be running for mayor next year.
Now, I've grown less fond of Mapps by the day ever since he showed up at City Hall two and a half years ago. The bureaucrat leeches have burrowed into his mind, and now he's regularly mouthing their nonsense. But he is a viable alternative to Wheeler, who although better than the opponent he faced in 2020, has truly failed as mayor.
I may not vote for either of those guys, and Mapps may not win, but with him in the race, Wheeler's a goner.
Ted needs to take his family's tens of millions or whatever it is, go find a nice villa somewhere far away, and never return. But if he wants to push it and be embarrassed the way his BFF Creepy Adams was, well, that's up to him. Either way, it's over. He never made it to the governorship, or to Congress, before time ran out.
Under charter "reform," the mayor has little more power than the Grand Poo-Bah of the Royal Rosarians...and s/he doesn't have that white suit and the snazzy skimmer either! True, the mayor DOES get to nominate/hire the new City Manager but only AFTER the new nut-jobs-for-the-ages City Council confirms the person. I'll give you better than 5-to-8 odds that anyone Mingus Mapps nominates for City Manager will NEVER get confirmed (3-to-8 if Joann is the majority leader of the nutjob caucus).
ReplyDeleteI agree, it's going to be a complete circus. But I do believe Ted will not be one of the acts.
DeleteOf course, there’s the scenario where Mapps keeps putting up bozos he KNOWS are unacceptable to the CC nut jobs knowing they’ll never get confirmed.
DeleteIn the absence of a City Manager, the Managers duties belong to the Mayor. The way I read the “reform” measure, there’s no way the CC can prevent the Mayor from doing this.
JoAnn, of course, will be the cheerleader for Mapps’ recall or sponsor of a resolution to “defund” the City to bring Mapps around. All Mapps has to to is let Joann & her fellow nut jobs fulminate…thus disgracing themselves forever. Shrewd, no?
You have to subscribe to the theory that Mapps is smarter than he looks/acts though…a doubtful proposition at best.
Ted will be off writing his book & rehabilitating his image for that (inevitable) run for Mahonia Hall in 2028.
Sorry... 2030. Brain fart.
DeleteThe One Little Trick in the new charter is that the mayor assumes all the city manager duties if council doesn’t approve one. The new mayor can slow walk the appointment or appoint a string of candidates that council can’t agree on.
ReplyDeleteJack’s right. The “big tent” is moving in.
DeleteCan the mayor fire the city manager unilaterally, or does it require a vote of the council?
DeleteI vote for anybody that never mentions the words EQUITY or INCLUSION...
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