Thread by @TheresaTiresias

I wonder if Iannarone would exert the power to stop the tear gas. I'm sure Tear Gas Ted wouldn't, because he hasn't. "Antifa Mayor?" I wish oregonlive.com/politics/2020/…

"I oppose antifascism?" whoops

"I get it from both sides" says the patrician from Timber Money, hoping for sympathy. Actually he's just waiting for the impulse for justice to fade away out of frustration

"How to rebuild morale" with the cops, says the corporate shiill. How about firing them all and creating a new paradigm? Not with Ted

Oh, but it is a condemnation of cop violence, Ted. The cops will never accept even your most obsequious appeasement

Sarah stands up against tear gas and for housing--that's encouraging. I get the impression KGW would like to see more tear gas...Ted's trying to say he banned tear gas already. Not effectively he didn't! Fire them Ted!

Tear Gas Ted sez Iannarone's $50 million cop cut is "irrational"--I suppose his dick allows him to detect that

No doubt it torques a bit to the right whenever he hears a hysterical woman talk thing

Sarah points out her research on gun violence--women do the work ya know. Good show grrl

Sarah mentions "small business" which in American politispeak is like "our troops"--talk a good game and leave 'em in the gutters

Oh Ted can say "small bizness" too. kapow! zing!

Ted dodges the universal basic income seemingly, then torpedoes it: "You're going to have a lot of people" moving in

Ted sez he remembers Fareless Square "as a person born in Portland" but it ended only a decade ago. He supports free fare for the poor but that's an easy call since it isn't his jurisdiction

Sarah call him out for inaction on TriMet transit, mentions Green New Deal for Portland

Houselessness: "I can't promise a specific number" sez Ted, "called for additional shelter space" sez Ted, etc. ad nauseam. Sarah also dodges the specific "number of people off the streets" question

She seems to imply something that would get people off the sidewalks, out of tents..."bring people together" zzzzzzz

Oh now Ted is pretending he knows more than Sarah, paints her as a ditz who didn't know TriMet is under its own authority after answering like he didn't know either. All this to dodge specific houselessness policy answers

How about dedicating City budget to housing you drones

Sarah calls him out on insulting her intelligence. Good call, that was pure sausage behavior, Ted

"End the nightly violence" says Ted who can't seem to fire the principal instigators of nightly violence in PDX (sighgh)

Now Ted's trying to say he has a plan to "end the violence" and open downtown--is he running against himself? Why hasn't he done that?

Iannarone calls Ted out on "violence" and says her "rich network of urban leaders" are going to visit PDX when it's all over WHAT tf

Ted sez friend died, mom died, Nick Fish died, who can blame him for ....um

Ted sez PDX has a $5.6 billion budget, it's a complex task to be mayor, what have you done (to overcome your lack of a penis imho)? Iannarone is not intimidated

tl;dr vote Iannarone @threadreaderapp unroll