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March 6, 2007
Playing Politics with Burnside
Yesterday the Oregonian, not content to take on the Burnside/Couch project on its merits, attempted to conflate it with the current electoral debate about Portland's form of government.
I've published my rebuttal over at Blue Oregon in the more political context over there.
Posted by Chris Smith at 7:12 AM
Comments
March 6, 2007 1:53 PM
Lenny Anderson Says:
Not sure in this case if it would really make much difference. If this proposal came from a "strong Mayor" it would still have to get 3 Yes votes. The "O" likes to think such a mayor would kill the BC project...I'm not so sure.
On the government re-org question, I think the non-mayor or "little mayor" commissioners would have more time and energy to develop policy, get input from constiuents, and have impact if they did not have to manage bureaus. It would free them up.
And they would be free to assign among themselves legislative oversight for each bureau, hold hearings, drive policy, and generally set the parameters for management.
Now we have management without focused oversight...i.e. its hard for the same person to do both.
Anyway, when you boil it down either way, you need 3 Yes votes.
