My Brief Encounter with P.N.M.
| May 21st, 2004So I was at my job, helping to set out the tables for tonight’s event, which was a benefit concert and dessert buffet for a scholarship fund. The fund helps law students who have agreed to work as lawyers towards equality for lesbians and gays.
Anyhow, one of the organizers asked me for a table and then told “Tom,” a middle-aged man who was busily laying out desserts, to help me. I’m fine, I told him, but he went with me anyway and helped me lug out a table. Later on, I needed help putting a table upright and rudely called out “Tom, grab the other end of this,” which Tom did cheerfully.
Later on, I noticed that one of the event organizers was wearing a “Tom Potter for Mayor” button. I said something nice about the button, and she said, “oh, haven’t you met Tom?” You can guess how the rest went. And that’s how I met Portland’s Next Mayor (or at least, the guy currently favored to win the election).
For what it’s worth, I like that Potter does a little volunteer work for a gay rights organization, and that he doesn’t think gruntwork is beneath him. I was going to vote for Tom Potter anyway (his opponent has tried to win by outspending ten to one, a tactic that I - and a lot of Portland - find insulting), but I’m a bit more enthusiastic about it now than I was yesterday.
May 22nd, 2004 at 3:18 pm
For what it’s worth, I like that Potter does a little volunteer work for a gay rights organization, and that he doesn’t think gruntwork is beneath him.
Sounds like he’ll make a great mayor!
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June 8th, 2004 at 1:05 pm
Too bad he isn’t any more in favor of police accountability via civilian review than Goldschmidt is. I’m kind of astounded that no one in the media, including the Mercury, seemed to take notice of that seemingly crucial fact before the primary.
Bah. :(
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