“I care about, social housing, police accountability, ⁓ active transportation infrastructure, good kind of like left yimby things, the environment. And then there’s another side of me that just really cares about like good governance stuff. And that latter piece is necessary.”

In Episode 53 we welcome back Mitch Green, whom we endorsed for city council district 4, to discuss his first year in office representing D4, the CEI Hub and how fucking dangerous it is for Portland, social housing, shady dealings like the boondoggle the Blazers/Moda center deal appears to be, and so much more.

And of course, hot dogs.

City Council web page: https://www.portland.gov/council/districts/4/mitch-green

Campaign web site: https://www.mitch4portland.com/ Support him here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/m4pdx

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“Our Public Safety Budget is $560 million dollar and the violence prevention budget is $5 million, so I advocate for doubling that- it’s really only a drop in the bucket overall for something that is quite effective at saving lives”

Kip and Tim check in with Lisa Freeman via Zoom as the election comes down to the wire. Lisa shares her wisdom gained from the campaign trail and some insights into the mind of voters. 

Listen in, and vote Lisa Freeman in District 4! 

You can listen to her posts on Gun Violence reduction on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/p/DBj-A3hMkIY/ and here https://www.instagram.com/p/DBmWdvHgGq2/

Please support Lisa at https://www.lisaforportland.com/

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“The city does have budget woes, but it’s not going to be fixed by peeling money off the Portland Clean Energy Fund. It needs to be fixed by looking at it (the budget) very carefully and saying what does this document say about our priorities in the city of Portland?”

Kip and Tim are back with District 4 candidate Mitch Green. 

It’s looking like District 4 is where things get serious in the upcoming election. The more conservative candidates (and the big money) are focused on D4 because it encompasses downtown. Mitch Green is one of a handful of progressive candidates, and many of the other candidates told us we had to talk to him. He has a unique perspective as an economist and energy policy specialist, and we go deep into the weeds in this episode. We think you’ll enjoy. Please support Mitch at https://mitch4portland.com/

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“You can’t really understand a problem until you start to interact with it…In complex environments, your analysis will never be complete until you start doing something It’s better to be 80% right at the right time than 100% right too late.”

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“When you have more people living in a place, it has this huge lift. The small businesses downtown are struggling. It is so hard. And a lot of it is a perception issue. If you go to the Park Blocks District and it is empty except for six people who all look like they are probably suffering from addiction and probably don’t have a place to live. Now you think this is a city under distress. If those same six people are there, but also 600 people are gathered there for Art in the Park, then you see a thriving city. The same problem is there, same need to be addressed, but the perception is very different.”

Kip and Tim welcome Chad Lykins to the podcast, our first District 4 candidate.

Chad Lykins is big into chess – he’s the Founder of Rose City Chess, President of Oregon Scholastic Chess Federation, and Oregon’s Scholastic Coordinator and State Delegate to the United States Chess Federation. He also has a PhD in Leadership and Policy Studies from Vanderbilt University, so he knows a thing or two about how city government works. In this episode, Chad talks about being the “evidence-based candidate” and how arts and culture pay back big on small investments. 

Please listen and share.

You can find more about Chad Lykins at their website (https://www.lykinsforportland.com/)

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