Let's see what the residents of Portland think of their progressive mayor... As Portland sees more than 100 nights of riots and protests, two-thirds of voters have a negative view of mayor https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/as-portland-sees-more-than-100-nights-of-riots-and-protests-two-thirds-of-voters-have-a-negative-view-of-mayor Residents of the City of Roses aren't looking at their mayor with rose-colored glasses. Sixty-three percent of Portland, Oregon, respondents to a poll have an unfavorable view of Mayor Ted Wheeler. Only 6% of respondents had a very favorable view of the mayor. The poll also found that Wheeler is more unpopular than the Portland Police Bureau and the city's police union. Fifty-nine percent of respondents thought Portland was "seriously on the wrong track." The percentage of voters that think the city is headed in the wrong direction has increased by 17% since May. The poll found that 73% of Portlanders support the creation of an independent police oversight board to investigate complaints and impose discipline on officers in Portland, and 23% of residents have participated in protests. The research found participants are "disproportionately progressives, men under 50, independent men" and those who have a family connection to law enforcement. Ninety-three percent of those surveyed thought that homelessness was a serious problem, while only 59% thought that police use of force against protesters was a serious problem. Eighty-seven percent of voters were concerned with the economic effects of COVID-19. FM3 Research surveyed 435 likely voters in Portland between Aug. 25 and Aug. 30. The margin of error is plus or minus 4.9%. Wheeler's unfavorable ratings two months before the mayoral election are likely to worry his campaign staff. A June poll showed him neck and neck with his opponent, Sarah Iannarone, with Wheeler holding a 1-point lead and 35% of voters still undecided. Forty-one percent of respondents to the June PPP poll disapproved of Wheeler's performance. The news comes after the city marked its 100th night of consecutive protests or riots over Labor Day weekend.
Look who is back-pedaling about "Defunding the Police" Minneapolis City Council members realize police are important, pull back efforts to abolish department https://www.theblaze.com/news/minneapolis-city-council-members-police-department The Minneapolis City Council's attempt to defund or abolish the city's police department appears to have lost momentum as the highly charged emotion after George Floyd's death in May gives way to the reality of how important a police department is to public safety, according to the Star Tribune. In the aftermath of Floyd's death while being restrained by Minneapolis Police, the city council voted in favor of a commitment to replace the police department with another form of public safety. That effort failed to get on the November ballot, however, mostly due to a lack of detail on what would replace the police. The obstacles have forced some city council members to face the fact that creating policy around the anti-police movement is more difficult than it may have appeared during the peak of protests and unrest in the city. "I think when you take a statement and then move into policy work, it gets more complicated," City Council President Lisa Bender told the Star Tribune. As it turns out, while there was significant anger toward Minneapolis police after an officer kneeled on Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes during an arrest, many residents of the city still want armed, trained police officers on call to respond to dangerous situations. Even some who want significant reform of the police department feel the idea of abolishing it altogether is extreme and unhelpful in solving the problem. The Star Tribune reported: Others wonder if the council already squandered the moment, by taking such a drastic stance that it alienated some who would otherwise support substantial reform. "They really did miss the opportunity to create actual change," said Michelle Gross, of Communities United Against Police Brutality. "It's almost as if changing the police is a bad word, and you're supposed to be talking instead about getting rid of police." In the days following Floyd's death, council members fielded a flood of messages from constituents, some demanding they abolish police and others wondering why their 911 calls were going unanswered. Efforts to defund the police in Seattle also stalled in the months after intense protests that included a literal occupation of nine city blocks and a police precinct. The city council voted to slash the police budget significantly, potentially resulting in the loss of 100 officers. However, Mayor Jenny Durkan vetoed that proposal. Durkan said she vetoed it due to a lack of planning for how to compensate for the loss of that much of the police force.
The Family that held the gender reveal party will be held liable for damages, obviously it will bankrupt them as damages are far beyond their ability to repay. Maybe protesters should be held liable as well?
Victor Davis Hanson predicts street violence will continue until 'we start indicting people' Rioters must be told 'you do that again and you're not going to like it,' Hanson tells Tucker Carlson https://www.foxnews.com/us/victor-davis-hanson-street-violence-rioting-us The far-left demonstrations seen in U.S. cities this summer are part of a “cultural Maoist” movement that has the approval of Democratic officials, Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson told “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Thursday. Hanson explained to host Tucker Carlson that protesters and rioters are acting out their personal angst and agendas against the U.S. and have “redefined traditional Marxism” into identity politics. “We saw it with Maxine Waters, who said, ‘Get in their face at gas stations and follow them into department stores.’ We saw them when they kicked Sarah Sanders [out] from a restaurant," Hanson said. "We saw it when they swarmed the house of Mitch McConnell. And no one said anything because they were saying to us, 'This isn't a political revolution and this is a cultural Maoist revolution.” With the unrest peaking during an election year, Hanson said, Democrats are using presidential nominee Joe Biden as a metaphorical “hot air balloon” to carry them over the finish line in November. “They pumped him up and he's just going to drift over to Election Day, collapse, and then they've got their carriage and the whole agenda where they want it,” he said. “And we didn't deter it. We didn't stop it. We didn't say, 'No more,' because we were afraid of being canceled out.” However, Hanson argued, the rioters will continue to cause disruptions until there are consequences for them -- until they are told, “you do that again and you’re not going to like it." “When we start talking like that and we start indicting people who break the law, you'll find that it's sort of like a glass menagerie,” he said. “It'll just collapse because it doesn't have popular support ... People are just scared. And I think if they raise up and they say, 'No more,’ it will dissipate.”