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Pete Colt is a retired marketing professional who lives in the northwest Portland neighborhood known as Stadiumhood. Stadiumhood is located in the southeast corner of the Alphabet District, the northeast corner of Goose Hollow, and it shares a border with the Pearl District and downtown Portland. Pete talks about how Stadiumhood has been plagued by drugs and crime and how he and his neighbors have banded together to try to make Stadiumhood more safe and livable.
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I sat down with host of NW Fresh, Andy Chandler, and hairstylist and small business owner Erica Gustavson, to discuss local election outcomes in Portland, Oregon, including Multnomah County, mayor and city council. We also talk about Portland in the context of the presidential election.
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Sandeep Bali is running for Portland City Council in District 3. Sandeep is a first generation gay immigrant. He works as a pharmacist and specializes in HIV care. Prior to his work with HIV patients, he worked in geriatric care, including long-term, end-of-life, and hospice care. When Sandeep was a pharmacy student, he interned at Central City Concern, a Portland nonprofit clinic that does street medicine. Sandeep enjoys gardening, dissecting scientific and medical journals, and hanging out with his fraternal twin brother. We talked about his family's journey from India to the US; political strategy; how he would deal with Multnomah County and its Joint Office of Homeless Services; the serious issues that he sees as a health care worker in Portland; what he is hearing from his potential constituents as he canvasses and campaigns; and more.
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Noah Ernst is running for Portland City Council in District 1. He is a Superintendent and an in-house counsel lawyer for Radio Cab Co. Before he was a Superintendent, Noah drove a cab on the night shift for Radio Cab. Noah became a cab driver after he suffered a layoff from his litigator job at a law firm during the recession of 2008.
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Tiffani Penson is running for Portland City Council in District 2. She has been working for the City of Portland for 18 years, most recently as the People and Culture Manager.
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Dan Ryan has been a Portland City Commissioner since 2020, where he pioneered the city’s Safe Rest Villages to get homeless people off of the streets of Portland. His home was vandalized more than 7 times after he refused to defund the police. He is HIV-positive and in recovery from active addiction. Dan’s spouse is gender fluid and a first generation Mexican American. Dan’s priorities are public safety and homelessness. His endorsements include the Northwest Oregon Labor Council (AFL-CIO), AFSCME, the Portland Firefighters, and the Portland Police.
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Get your ballots out! Join me and Andy Chandler from NW Fresh as we go through the voter's pamphlet
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Kezia Wanner is a lifelong Democrat who is running for Portland City Council in District 3. Kezia’s experience in public service and public safety is extensive. She has served as the: grants coordinator for Portland Police Bureau; budget and policy analyst for the City of Portland; program manager for Portland Police Bureau; parking enforcement and transportation division manager for Portland Bureau of Transportation; deputy director for the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office; Assistant City Manager for the City of Newberg; deputy director for Portland Fire and Rescue; and business and compliance director for the Oregon Department of Emergency Management.
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Will Lathrop is a lawyer running for Attorney General of Oregon. The last time Oregon had a Republican attorney general was in 1993. Lathrop is focused on criminal law and sex trafficking. He was a Deputy District Attorney in Yamhill and Marion Counties and he also worked for the National District Attorneys Association. His most recent job was in Africa, where he moved to spend eight years working for a nonprofit doing criminal justice work on behalf of widows and children.
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Harrison Kass is a policy advisor for Portland City Commissioner Rene Gonzalez. He is also a lawyer, and received his JD from the University of Oregon School of Law. He also has an MA in International Relations and Global Journalism from New York University. Harrison also serves as a journalist for The National Interest, where he covers politics and national security. He has a Private Pilot License and was selected as a Pilot Trainee and Officer Candidate with the US Air Force before being medically discharged.
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Mariah Hudson is a solo parent, a Senior Communications Specialist for OHSU, and has a Master's Degree in Economics. She is running for Portland City Council in District 2.
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Mischa Webley is a Portland native and a writer, director, and filmmaker. He is the creator of the web series "Hasaan Hates Portland". He describes it as a "dark satirical web series about living while black in the whitest city in America."
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Eric Zimmerman is the Chief of Staff for Multnomah County Commissioner Julia Brim-Edwards. He previously served as the Central City Senior Advisor for Mayor Ted Wheeler. He is a gay man who has served for 17 years as a member of the Oregon Army National Guard, including under the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, and has served overseas. Eric has an MBA from the University of Portland in Government and Not-For-Profits.
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Bob Simril is running for Portland City Council in District 2. Bob grew up in Compton with a black father and a white mother. His family moved to Portland, and he graduated from Grant High School. Bob worked for Tony Robbins doing sales. He has a homeless family member who is addicted to drugs.
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Tony Morse is running for Portland City Council in District 4. He has been a lawyer, a realtor, and a recovery advocate.
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George Carrillo is the President of Progreso Latino, a Political Action Committee. George is a Democrat who ran for governor of Oregon in the 2022 election. Progreso Latino is hosting a mayoral debate on September 11, 2024, with candidates Rene Gonzalez, Carmen Rubio, and Keith Wilson. Tickets are sold out, but you can tune in on YouTube.
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Terrence Hayes is running for Portland City Council, District 1 in East Portland.. After serving 13 years in prison for attempted murder, Terrence works with the Portland Police Bureau to prevent gang and gun violence, is married with children, and runs a graffiti removal business.
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Aaron Schmautz is President of the Portland Police Association (PPA). The PPA is the union for Portland police officers below the rank of Lieutenant and members of the Bureau of Emergency Communications. Isaac McLennan is the President of the Portland Fire Fighters’ Association (the Portland fire fighters’ union, IAFF Local 43). They discuss public safety in Portland and Multnomah County, including crime, overdoses, 911 hold times, waits for ambulances, city council endorsements, and more.
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