Join Portland’s Coalition.
Coalition to save Portland
Something is very wrong in our city. In your heart, you know it’s failed. In your heart, you know something must be done to save our city.
We are a coalition of citizens that is fed up. Fed up with the crime. Fed up with the arson. Fed up with the destruction. Fed up with the mismanagement. Fed up with not feeling safe on the streets of Portland.
We see it all around us. Smashed windows, boarded up businesses, closed shops, violence, arson, crime. It’s not just downtown. It’s showing up everywhere.
Arson is up 400% across the entire city of Portland. As of August 2020, there have been 116 shootings in Portland. There were 41 in all of 2019. In just July 2020 alone, there were 15 homicides in Portland. There were 31 in all of 2019. . And the leaders of Portland? Some are nowhere to be found. Others are surrendering to the lawlessness and violence.
Portland needs change
Portland needs leadership. Portland needs real solutions to the problems we face. The alternative is to watch Portland die. Our current choices for mayor simply represent a choice of how quick that death will be. And yet, we haven’t given up on Portland.
We haven’t given up on real solutions. We want to see the Portland that we all fell in love with, whether we were born here, or chose to live here because Portland was so cool, so hip, so lovable.
We will not accept more failure to uphold livability standards for all citizens of Portland by our elected leadership. If needed we will support bringing forth elected candidates for city and county leadership positions.
We don’t want platitudes or doublespeak. What Portland’s leaders are doing is inexcusable. We must discuss solutions, not concede to Portland’s downward slide.
