Under fire for how he handled protests, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler says he won't “capitulate” to critics. “The middle ground is very elusive right now,” Wheeler said. “When it comes to solutions, compromise is seen as a dirty word.”
Portland is the only major U.S. city to retain a commission in which all five members of the city council, including the mayor, share legislative, administrative and quasi-judicial duties. The commissioners administer and oversee individual city bureaus, and ordinances are passed with a simple majority.
Oregon law enforcement agencies called the move “reckless and short-sighted.” Daryl Turner, president of the union representing Portland police, said the ban will “blow up in the mayor’s face.” Mondainé says both the mayor and the police department appear “desperate” to quash the violence that inevitably follows the nightly protests.
“It’s hard in one term to get your colleagues and your community moving in the same direction,” she said. “This year we’ve had four major crises that would try any mayor and any elected leader.” Iannarone also praised Wheeler’s pandemic response, saying he would probably be a “shoo-in” for re-election if Portland’s woes had stopped with the coronavirus. But Wheeler faltered with the police department and, more significantly, with people calling for police reform, she said.
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