February 18, 2004
Another Mayoral Campaign News Round-Up
Well, let's start with the news that Mayoral candidate James Posey has received the endorsement of the African-American Alliance. This comes a relevatively short time after Posey received the endorsement of the local chapter of the Pacific Green Party.
On the other hand, all evidence has been removed from the Posey website that there is a forthcoming press conference to release Posey's "City of Excellence" campaign platform. We'd tell you what's up with that, except none of the email addresses we've ever emailed at the Posey campaign about the platform ever resulted in a response.
Meanwhile, this week's Willamette Week profiles one of the other Mayoral candidates -- that being Jim Francesconi. The paper's cover intentionally neglects to identify the candidate's name, but does mention the office for which he's running.
And tomorrow's Portland Mercury continues its mini-interviews with Mayoral and City Council candidates. This week's installments: Jim Francesconi and "normal guy" Orin Scott Lutz.
Comments (4)
Jesse Cornett on 19 Feb 2004
Bix seems shocked when others don't return his emails.... I too am shocked when that doesn't happen. Bugs me almost as much as an unreturned phone call.
The One True b!X on 19 Feb 2004
That has the structure of a barb aimed at me, except I have no unreturned telephone calls, so I'm not sure what it's supposed to mean.
And I'm not so much shocked as annoyed. One would think that if a political campaign places email addresses on their site, they'd make use of them. I should also say for the record that I've also left at least one message via telephone at the Posey campaign and never heard back from that route either.
I guess they just don't want me to cover them.
Jesse Cornett on 19 Feb 2004
Annoyed, better term. You (only slightly) misunderstood my original email as I was referring to an email from long ago, though my less than serious attitude is harder to express in type.
On a seperate matter and in line with your comments, when I worked for a campaign and you sent emails, they were quickly responded to. I agree that no campaign should ignore emails (especially from the esteemed blogger community).
no one in particular on 22 Feb 2004
This entry is a little old now, but I just read the Francesconi interview in Wilamette Week... Wow, that was an incredibly antagonistic interview.
Every single picture they printed was of him looking pissed off and screaming. Maybe he just always looks that way? I sort of doubt it, though.
And the questions! First they ask him (these are direct quotes, for the record) "Doesn't it piss you off that Portlanders spend more time talking about the recent dog poisonings than the recent gang shootings?" And then the very next question is "So are you saying Portlanders have their priorities all out of wack?" so that he has to backpedal a bunch. What a set-up!
And then they say things like "There's this public perception, and I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but there's this perception that you're a total hypocrite. So, isn't it true that you're a total fucking hypocrite?"
I'm exagerrating a little bit, but not too much! I don't like Francesconi, but this interview was totally biased and harsh.