David Auker
Does he have skinny arms? 'Sgot my vote!
-D
avid
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Myers" <jonem-@lycos.com>
To: <ob-@topica.com>
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 2:06 PM
Subject: [OBRA Chat] Portland bicycle racer for city council
Attention Portland Cyclists!
One of you own is running for Portland City Council. If you are
registered to vote in the city of Portland, please vote Jon Myers city
commissioner. Ballots are being sent today. Spread the word to all
cyclist!
There are 16 candidates running for this position. This is a historic
opportunity for cyclists to have an impact on the election since votes
will be split so many ways. There is no candidate that puts in more
miles on a bike than Jon Myers.
He is a tireless neighborhood activist. He is an elected board member
of the Sunnyside neighborhood association. www.portvegas.com
A quick summary of positions:
1. Make Portland friendly to the small locally owned businesses that are
the core of our city. It is amazing how difficult the city can be to
deal with for small locally owned business. These businesses keep and
spend their profits locally. They are the ones that are quick to support
local events. They are also overburdened with fees and regulations.
2. Make the city of Portland a great place to live for children. That
means spending more money on Parks and Recreation programs that serve
children. It is the State's job to fund our schools, it is the city's
job to give our children safe and fun programs for after school.
3. Make Portland open to diversity. Portland needs to be a comfortable
place for everyone to live. This includes people from any racial
background or sexual orientation.
4. Make the City government accessible to the average citizen. Have you
ever tried to speak with an actual Commissioner? Maybe it is easier if
you give them a lot of money, but for the average citizen it is nearly
impossible. I would set aside open office hours in the evening where I
would be available to anyone.
5. Bring back real community policing. This means reopening the front
desks of the local precincts at night and weekends. This means bringing
traffic enforcement into the residential neighborhoods, not on the busy
streets like 99E. Our residential streets must be safe for pedestrians
and bikes.
5. Bring more decision making for community projects like the Sunnyside
Sunflower down to the Neighborhood Association level. My wife has spent
a lot of time working on this project far too much time has to be spent
at the city level to get permission for these community building
projects. It needs to get back to the grass roots level.
To respond to the whole group send to ob-@topica.com.
To respond to the list manager send to ob-@teleport.com
To unsubscribe send to obra-uns-@topica.com