"The Portland auditor’s office plans to take another look at whether Commissioner Rene Gonzalez, who is running for mayor, broke campaign finance rules when he used public funds to spruce up his Wikipedia page."
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Portland elections program hits council candidate Rene Gonzalez with $77,000 fine for discounted office space
"The $77,000 fine — the biggest ever issued by the city’s Small Donor Elections program — stems from an unreported in-kind contribution Gonzalez is accused of accepting from the company, which is owned by property magnate Jordan Schnitzer. Schnitzer personally donated $250 to Gonzalez in May.
Program director Susan Mottet sent Gonzalez a letter Tuesday notifying him of the fine. According to the letter, a normal tenant would have been asked to pay $6,900 per month for the over 3,000 square feet of downtown office space located at 1010 SW 11th Ave."
"911, what’s the emergency?” a dispatcher asks in the previously unreleased recording obtained by The Oregonian/OregonLive through a public records request.
“Light assault on the orange train just now,” responds Gonzalez,
who said he had just walked to his City Hall office from the Southwest Sixth Avenue and Montgomery Street MAX stop before making the report."
Gonzalez, who is running for mayor, took
to social media to claim
the incident had
forced him to stop taking public transit.
Surveillance footage later appeared to undercut his assertion that the woman
intentionally “bumped” him twice,
an account he provided to the 911 dispatcher and later to police.
"So her bumping you had nothing to do with like the general motion of the train?” the emergency dispatcher asks Gonzalez during the three-minute call.
“I don’t think so,” Gonzalez responds. “She bumped me twice.
I’m a public figure. She came up from behind."
"...the woman may have at most brushed Gonzalez’s arm as she moved to the front of the nearly empty train car.... "
"During the call, Gonzalez also mentions — unprompted — that the woman is Black before the dispatcher cuts him off...."
I’m a public figure
I’m a public figure
I’m a public figure
At the time of the 911 call,
Gonzalez was the head of Portland’s Bureau of Emergency Communications,
which for years has struggled
with perilous wait times
that are far longer
than
the national standard."
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" Tents are a false sense of security,” said Gonzalez,
who is running for mayor. “I’m not sure we should ever be distributing [them].”
The proposal, which would largely limit distribution to periods of severe weather,
track who received a tent
and where they set it up,
and label every tent
as being owned by the county,
was received coolly by county officials on the oversight board."
Gonzalez suggests all tents handed out by the county
be affixed with a large yellow label
with the words “County Funded Tent.”
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And Taxpayer Funded Vanity Wikipedia Edits be affixed with a large yellow label
And Non Essential 911 calls be affixed with a large yellow label
And Donations from Billionaires for free office space be affixed with a large yellow label
And Fraud be affixed with a large yellow label
And Scary Black Women be affixed with a large yellow label
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