It started a couple of weeks ago when we talked of renaming a street after Ronald Reagan. Fine. A good conversation was had by all. But I wake up this morning and the Zero has a story about the Rainbow City Council now being in favor of renaming 4th Avenue after Cesar Chavez. This is less than 2 days after I proclaimed on the air 4th Ave would be my choice for renaming Ronald Reagan Way so that Mayor Moonbeam and the Rainbow City Councils HQ would have to be on RRW. The thought was it was a numbered street, no legacy, no miffed feelings. A plan was in the offing.
Well who could have been listening that day? Randy? Sam?
Randy wanted to rename Broadway for Cesar Chavez ("I could see us closing it down every year in celebration of his birthday!" paraphrase)
Poof! Today, out of nowhere, splayed in the "newspaper of record HA!" comes their choice for Cesar Chavez Blvd: SW 4th Avenue.
Sorry, I had no idea they'd move so quickly. We were just germinating plans for the street rename and we would have FOLLOWED THE RULES!
We're carrying today's "debate" [read: food fight] on the air KPAM 860 starting at 3. I'll be your play by play gal.
We'll look forward to the Rainbow City Council presenting the supporting signatures of the business owners along 4th Avenue along with their research on changing the name of 4th Avenue.
Randy Leonard, of the Rainbow City Council, said today on Bob Miller's show that he wanted a charter change to make sure councils of the future didn't blow off the rules in these name changes. He said it right after he said he'd back the effort to change 4th Avenue. Huh?
***Also bear in mind what Mayor Moonbeam said the other day. He said that backers of Cesar Chavez Blvd were collecting signatures and they'd have them by Thursday in time for the meeting of The Rainbow City Council. The 2500 signatures is required to change the name of the street. Of course the backers of this plan (including city officials and the committee) have ignored all the other rules the city has put in place for street name changes.
NOW WE FIND OUT the signatures are being gathered VIA THE INTERNET on the CAUSA website. Homie, please. Those are activists, not necessarily residents of the neighborhood. The three neighborhood associations impacted by the INTERSTATE name change are already on record as OPPOSING the change.
The spokeswoman for the Latino Network has it right when she says:
This is not a city council acting. It is a city circus."
Thursday, November 15, 2007
The Real Reason Rainbow City Council Changed Mind: We Wanted 4th Avenue to be Ronald Reagan Way ***WiTH DECISION DAY UPDATE***
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Here Is what I bet happens. Tom gets mad and in a short time submits resignation. Comm. Sam is installed as the interim and Interstate gets Hosed.
877 you could be right. Tommy the Irrelevant is in another of his pouts right now over being overruled on the Interstate Avenue business. And he is calling everyone who was against the name change "racists".
Whenever anyone starts using "racist" as an argument against the opposing points of view, it tells people that they, the "racist" users have no valid argument so they trot out this word more as a matter of desperation than anything else. In Pouter Potter's case, it shows how truly vapid he really is. I can't se him resigning when he has just a year left, but the people of Portland would be much better off for it.
If any street is named for Ronald Reagan, it should be a street with a lot of gentrification and displacement, since that is how I view Reagan's legacy.
I used to live in a town where the wealthiest neighborhood was separated from the poorest neighborhood by a four lane road. The wealthy property owners built a high wall so that they would not have to see the blight acroiss the street.
I wish Reagan would have come to our town, I would have done practically anything to say, Mr President, tear down this wall!
What has Tommy the irrelevant and the Toadies gotten themselves into? First the were all for changing the name of Interstate Ave. to Cesar Chavez Blvd. Then last week they decided they would not do that and decided they might change the name of 4th Ave. SW to Cesar Chavez Blvd.
But now the Asian business owners in and around Chinatown on $th Ave SW are up in arms and are going to protest the proposed change as vehemently as those business owners and residents along Interstate Ave. did.
I think that Potter the Irrelevant and his Toadies would be better off if they abandoned the name change idea for the streets and name one of the smaller parks or one of the bridges (Sellwood, maybe?) to Cesar Chavez bridge, park, whatever.
But if Potter doesn't get his way on 4th Ave, he will just go into another pout for a couple of days or so.
Hf flipper,
What did RR have to do with displacement and gentrification? examples please. Honestly, you people...yes...YOU PEOPLE, just make it up as you go along.
You THINK you know what he did. You simply believe the lies told by people who either too stupid to check or who purposely avoided actually doing homework on this stuff.
Homie, please.
oh, and i seem for some reason to be unable to sign in a second time, so i had to create a new account. and of course google offers no user support, so i have no idea why i can't sign in again, or how to make it work right.
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