My message is simple - the time for decorum and process has ended. Federal agents of a fascist state patrol our streets, gas our neighbors, and terrorize our immigrant community. PPB illegally aids ICE and assaults protestors while city council and state government offer empty words accompanied by zero action. City and state government are absentee, consistently acting in their own self-interest while the world burns around us. It is time to end that.

Portland is one of the largest cities in the most powerful country this world has ever seen, and the inaction by the mayor and city council belies the importance of what is taking place here. The federal government is waging an illegal war while ICE operates with impunity, while the president threatens to illegally federalize our elections, and yet city government shuffles responsibility between departments to obscure inaction. Helping us is secondary to helping themselves. They let corporate interests destroy our streets and set tax policy based on outdated economic ideas, and then feed you shit. Portland government is performative. City council, Keith Wilson, and Tina Kotek are objective failures by every available metric, and they remain unbothered by this.

I’m not running for city council to be an effective team player. I’m running to personally escort ICE agents to the county line, bleed every billion dollar company operating in this city, be an unmovable wall between city council and Keith Wilson’s performative bullshit, and to call for Tina Kotek to finally resign. The era of political collaboration is over, because this is where it gets us. Now is the time for people to physically destroy the things that are keeping them oppressed and to take by force what they are owed.