And in fact, what I hear from talking to voters is, why do I not know where to go to help? - Iannarone campaign ad, released October 10, 2020, "How will you address the housing crisis?" The other one, I think, has to do with some of the issues -- it’s probably one of the least sexy parts of my platform, but it’s my good government plan. } Iannarone: "But the police were there and those things happened. So if I didn’t include that, then that doesn’t indicate my actual level of study and I have achieved that part.
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.image-candidate-thumbnail-wrapper .image-candidate-thumbnail { ABD is precisely and accurately the level of education I have achieved. I think that money would be better spent putting people into transitional villages, emergency shelters and things like that, as opposed to just sweeping indiscriminately. I mean, my area of expertise is studying how to make cities sustainable from the future. } width: 50%; Enforcing the gun legislation already on the books, which we haven’t seen Portland mayors really vocal or committed to doing in partnership with our friends at Multnomah County. What I'm focused on is ensuring police do not use violence and even lethal force against people who have done nothing wrong, as we have seen nightly, and for decades. Why are some people held accountable for violence, and what constitutes violence and why does it seem to be disproportionately enforced in our city?". let scrollHeight = jQuery('.results_table_container').get(index).scrollHeight; background-color: #f9f9f9; Four months of protests over police violence in Portland have boosted Mayor Ted Wheeler’s progressive challenger, Sarah Iannarone.
I think it was when they put the curfew in on us. I proposed those back in 2016 as an emergency solution to the homelessness crisis because that was a best practice that I had heard out of people in the community that they wanted to see more of. So I really want us to take this opportunity, even though, again, it’s coming from a very tragic situation of this intensified gun violence. .cc_header { } 4 race, however, required a runoff election on November 8, 2016. .race_header.democratic { margin-bottom:16px; I’ve gone it alone. The Oregonian: What’s your response to the election violation complaint recently filed by Jules Bailey, who finished second in the 2016 mayoral race? The primary election took place on May 17, 2016. overflow-y: hidden; font-size: 12px; Congressional delegation | .cc_office { They were calling for state and federal officials to really consider that. So I don’t know, again, that the answer is more law enforcement. margin-left: 1%; We as a community have failed to keep everyone safe here, and we need to acknowledge that. text-align: center; And I feel, again, if we had invested in that back then, look at where we’d be for COVID.
Are those initiatives that you agree with? I think anti displacement should apply to everyone in Portland as something that we need to prioritize, so that’s another thing. We have enough money to help everyone feel safe, and that money should be invested in better housing, transportation, education, health care, and social services that lead to real public safety.”. .widget-row.Independent, .widget-row.Nonpartisan, .widget-row.Constitution { #HolocaustMemorialDay #NeverForget. @media screen and (max-width: 350px) { The people of Portland need me to microwave them solutions on day one and in the first weeks of my administration. .non_result_row div { What would it mean for us to make downtown car free that day? Iannarone: "That first 100 days plan. jQuery( ".votebox" ).each(function( index ) { display: table; You can put this investment here or that investment there and say, I’ve created x number of jobs and prevented x number of people from being evicted. For all the criticism of Portland’s liberal Mayor Ted Wheeler, his opponent might have residents wishing he were still at the helm come November. And the Rockefeller Foundation was actually giving cities grants at the time to even hire a chief resiliency officer for the city. In an interview with a local television station on Thursday, Portland mayoral candidate Sarah Iannarone was asked if she denounced the violent anarchy that has overrun the city for more than 70 days. Iannarone’s campaign website stated the following: Iannarone provided the following statement for the Multnomah County primary election voters' pamphlet: As a sustainability expert, I advise cities how to finance infrastructure. - Iannarone campaign ad, released October 9, 2020, "Portland, This is Our Chance" - Iannarone campaign ad, released July 9, 2019. So if we’re not investing in those future oriented jobs where we’re crafting the just transition off the fossil fuel economy into the green economy, I just don’t know how we’re going to survive as a city, and COVID is laying that barrier too. We’re hammering it now with our steering committee and our advisers. Ultimately, that’s my biggest concern, because when you really when you think about who owns the rental properties in our city, you’ve got some of them are the mom and pop shops and then some of them are the larger brokerage firms and Wall Street interests who are posting record breaking profits for some reason, even in the middle of an economic crisis.
Because if you have healthy, connected communities, then a lot of the things that he espouses, they’re just irrelevant. } When I’m talking with young people, they feel their futures hang in the balance. font-weight: bold; Their outrage at the police is valid and the problem of police brutality and executing black lives in the streets is more important than vandalism, and we can’t forget that in this historic moment.”. And so when they came in that last budget cycle and talked about that $50 million dollars, I was pretty disappointed to see it dismissed somewhat out of hand as an unreasonable number or being pulled out of thin air. But it’s not part of a comprehensive solution. Click here to read our new election calling policy and vote total update schedule. Iannarone, who gained 24% of the vote in the primary, has engaged in an aggressive campaign to share her policy ideas, such as ending sweeps of homeless encampments around the city, requiring police officers to live in Portland as a condition of employment, implementing a gun buyback program, advocating for a publicly-owned city bank and creating a legal defense for low-income renters. .election_results_text { border-bottom-right-radius: 12px; }
I don’t smash windows. And what are things that you think the city needs to improve on that that you would improve on if you were elected as mayor? } The way that the right wing, the white nationalists, Patriot Prayer and Proud Boys have really set their sights on us. background-color: red; float: left; And I say, I would again listen to community organizations like that and actually convene them with intention and in a more participatory process to say, hey, let’s hammer out a plan for this budget cycle, certainly. width: 150px; Well, those big trucks that people are using as weapons that we’ve seen in demonstrations around the U.S. If we maintain the eviction moratorium, then we’re going to have to be careful about what happens to those folks who have to pay their mortgages. .cc-placeholder-img { .mw-body #mw-content-text th.votebox-results-cell--text { “We’ve seen it again and again and there are right-wing smears out there who try to make being anti-fascist something you should be against.
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font-weight: 200; position: relative; And the topic is urban planning, urban theory and sustainable cities. float: left; Iannarone spoke to The Oregonian/OregonLive in late September in a wide-ranging interview. What qualifies you to be our mayor if you haven’t held elective office before? It’s clearly an attempt by the opposition to undermine the legitimacy of my campaign and my trustworthiness. You haven’t held elective office before. .cc_header.Independent, .cc_header.Nonpartisan, .cc_header.Constitution, .cc_header.Other { } position: relative; "What is your background?" Iannarone: “Well, it took him long enough. Redistricting, List of Oregon ballot measures | What do you make of the complaint and why did you feel it was important to put that title in the voters' pamphlet?
} } } What are you talking about?’ We don’t use that functionality when we’re saying, hey, everybody let’s all get out, we all need to volunteer on Saturday to clean this up. Not because it’s the right thing to do, but because it’s the essential thing to do. And so if the community is telling us that they need something to feel safe, we need to hear that call. I’m worried about the economic deprivation that people are still going to be facing under COVID. And I would like to be more strategic on those fronts. clear: both; float: right; .votebox_legend .non_result_row { } } Sarah Iannarone on police, protests and campaign funding, Everton Bailey Jr. | The Oregonian/OregonLive, Four years since her last attempt at trying to beat Wheeler. The way you enforce a car free downtown is the same way you do a block party. } Sources: Do you feel like that is the right way to go or do you feel like the city should still go after trying to get rent and mortgage forgiveness? There’s this notion that that first 100 days really is those microwaveable solutions that are going to help us get people invested in the administration, building trust in the administration. “These right-wing types call me an ‘anarchist’ and a ‘communist’ and a ‘terrorist’ because they’re scared of progressives to stand up to bullies,” she said in the interview. So it’s not left on individuals or small groups of individuals to set up something like that. If I just put PhD, then that would have been imprecise and inaccurate. .key_messages {
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