@mattyglesias Wouldn’t be *that* big a surprise to anyone living in Oregon. Kotek has been totally useless and Salem is crazy out of touch with everyday Portland voters who just want to see progress anywhere, with anything. Pick a problem and fix it. Any problem. Ffs 🤦♂️
@SeanTrende@BenjySarlin You’re right in the sense that they’re often varying degrees of competitive. But Drazan was *actually* competitive in ‘22. And there was considerable panic late among Elite D’s here that Kotek was suddenly having to campaign at all!
@mattyglesias@HBendaas And that’s not to even mention shutting up about “Abolish ICE” or “Defund the Police” type craziness. Or the godawful language policing that happens to this day even on this site.
@mattyglesias@HBendaas Gun control is an easy one — it’s a lost cause and codes anti-rural and anti-working class. And Platner obviously notwithstanding, digging through e.g. Harry Stinson’s dms for basically harmless flirting is another obvious candidate
@DannyMarang You’re hammering this argument lately so I’m genuinely curious if you think the organization has any obligation to the fan base with stuff like this? I don’t think RIP City is united on LA’s legacy or anything but clearly there’s a lot of us who hated how he went out.
@DannyMarang He also blew up the beat team he ever played on to leave as a FA and Blazers fans are right to keep him at a distance. 6’11” PF who didn’t bang for rebounds. Z-Bo was a better blazer.
@Derridazs@stevemur@danpfeiffer It does. It signals immediately that you’re out of touch with reality and should not be taken seriously. Which is exactly the claim my original post made.