April 24, 2004
(Updated) End-Of-Week Election Round-Up
Note: This post has been updated. Any and all updates appear at the end of the original post.
A representative of one of the local Commissioner No. 1 campaigns was wondering to where we had disappeared, what with the apparent two days without posts and all. We've been doing housework, rearranging our living room, getting our wireless network back up and running, and doing five -- count 'em: five -- loads of laundry.
That said, we can now get down to a quick round-up of some election news from the past few days.
On Tuesday, the Portland Tribune took a look at that Commissioner No. 1 race, with one article on the "major" candidates -- Sam Adams and Nick Fish, of course -- and another article on the main "second tier" candidate -- that being Jason Newell.
Yesterday, there was a pair of articles in The Oregonian about Mayoral candidate Jim Francesconi (whose website, for what it's worth, recently underwent a useful design overhaul). One article looks at his record as a commissioner, while the other article looks at complaints against him with he was an active attorney.
Also in yesterday's Oregonian, Henry Stern's "City Matters" column (which once again has failed to make it onto OregonLive) offered some highlights the Candidates Gone Wild! event held this past Monday.
That doesn't help you, since at the moment we can't link to it and let you see just what highlights he passes along. However, he does mention Fish's "Top 10" list of reasons to vote for him, which you can read for yourself on the candidate's website.
Meanwhile, turning to other websites, Mayoral candidate Tom Potter has posted his positions on various issues that have arisen in the course of the campaign, and invites people to send email with questions on other issues of interest.
And, finally, the News4Neighbors website has launched its election coverage, beginning with an initial round of Q&A with various candidates for the Commissioner No. 4 position. First question: "What experiences have prepared you to serve on the City Council? How have those experiences shaped your approach to city government?"
Thus far, Scott Stephens, Bonny McKnight, Mark Lakeman, Randy Leonard, and Frank Dixon have responded. To see their answers, check the news index on the News4Neighbors site.
Disclosure: PORTLAND COMMUNIQUE accepts political advertisements, and currently runs ads from the Francesconi campaign.
Update
One forgotten item. We continue to await the details from the Potter campaign (we've asked two different people there) on just what contributions they decided should be re-reported and why. As we've said before, we were having difficulty finding anything in the campaign finance manual to indicate what they might be violating, so wanted to get this nailed down. Unfortunately, we still have nothing to report on this front.
Update
We forgot one of the most unnerving developments: The television ads have begun. So far, we've seen a Francesconi ad something like four times in the last three days.
Update
Not sure how we missed it, but thanks to Jeff Alworth's endorsement item, we notice that the Busse campaign has begun posting its platform in piece, in addition to the previously-available pdf file of the entire thing. What's more: Readers can post to comments to each section that's available.
Disclosure: In the Mayoral race, we also endorsed Busse.
Comments (1)
Noah Brimhall on 26 Apr 2004
Since I have been out of town for the last few days, I hadn't seen the Francesconi ads until I visited his website. I was pretty distracted from the message by all of the steady-cam shots rotating quickly around Francesconi and his "constituents". In fact the second time, I had to close my eyes to hear what it said.
It was good to come back to Portland and read the Communique and feel pretty caught up on Portland politics.