Mitch Green

One last piece of Northwest election news I wanted to cover.

So in the Portland City Council races, because we had several people up for election there, Mitch Green is an economist who represents District 4.

And he got earlier this year, a right wing reporter dug up some old tweets from his Twitter in 2022.

I wouldn't call him a reporter, but...

Yeah.

I can bring some on the ground reporting too.

I went, I stopped by the DSA thing in Portland last night and they were, There's some speculation about them trying to run Mitch for mayor, Mitch Green for mayor, which is, who knows if that's even a good idea at all.

No, I think similarly in San Diego, who will we get if they were called Todd Gloria? This DSA local politics running on economic issues and local issues has been a positive pathway for them.

She passed the threshold on the first round.

Then Eric Zimmerman and then Mitch Green.

Eli Arnold is trailing behind Mitch Green with both Jeremy Beausoleil-Smith and Jamie Evan Stark getting only roughly 5% of the vote each.

I'm actually surprised Eli Arnold didn't have a stronger showing.

I wonder if the Mercury's piece about him had anything to do with it.

So we have three incumbents.

We have Mitch Green, a peacock and one of the DSA members.

We have and then we have Eric Zimmerman and Olivia Clark, who both are part of the moderate block.

I would say there are two potential challengers to keep in mind.

He's back.

He's kind of changed his platform up a little bit, but, you know, he's still the bike cop.

I think he would probably want to unseat Mitch Green, but just knowing that there's probably zero chance that any district will ever have three moderates or three progressives, he's probably more of a challenger to Eric Zimmerman, which, as you can imagine, business interests are not super happy about because they're like, oh, why are you taking all this energy up for... trying to unseat another moderate.

And then I would say the more progressive challenger who's definitely trying to unseat either Zimmerman or Olivia Clark is Jamie Evanstar.

He needs to be excluded from city council because we already know that he's messaging and sending garbage, hateful shit in the middle of council and saying shit like this.

And then he's on his Twitter and his sub stack and he just loses his mind about Mitch Green.

He loses his mind about Angelina Maria.

He loses his mind about me for some fucking reason.

prolific people on council.

people who actually worked in City Hall, so understood some of the mechanisms and procedures.

And then you get Mitch Green, who's a fucking doctorate in economics.

So we didn't just vote the cool guy who does a lot of slopes.

I'm worried about them saying no to the next housing bond.

Incumbent Mitch Green wants more council oversight on money to win back voter trust and the city's ability to manage taxpayer funds.

Challenger Eli Arnold tells our news partner, Coin6, there's been progress getting the homeless into shelters, but...

Step two should be connecting the shelters to

We're saying no to the supportive housing services tax in a few years.

I'm worried about them saying no to the next housing bond.

And incumbent Mitch Green wants more council oversight on money to win back voter trust and the city's ability to manage taxpayer funds.

Challenger Eli Arnold tells our news partner, Coin6, there's been progress getting homeless into shelters, but...

Guess who's the least obstructionist out there?

I would say Mitch Green and Angelita Maria.

Mitch Green, Tiffany, Jamie, and then Angelita.

There you go.

Samir and then Candace.