Oh Happy Day. Two candidates for the Multnomah County Commission, Ted Wheeler - County Chair, and Jeff Cogen - Commissioner District 2, have already sent requests for public housing data by neighborhood to HAP, the Housing Authority of Portland. They are ready to put the 3-6-9 Resolution on the county's public agenda to start the discussion of location policy of public housing clients. Jeff Cogen believes that every voter in Multnomah county should have they opportunity to vote for the person that appoints HAP commissioners who have control over placement of tens of thousands of public housing clients throughout Multnomah county. That means transferring the power from the mayor of Portland to the Multnomah County Chair. Ted Wheeler, candidate for Multnomah County Chair, isn't quite there yet. But he's open to the idea and I believe that he will be persuaded to see Cogen's view.

Cogen and Wheeler also support the Oregon Community Health Care Bill. This will bring attention to the need to seriously discuss and debate the moral and economic health care crisis in our state and the need to bring affordable health care to Oregonians and Oregon's Public Institutions, including Multnomah County.

Diane Linn has been on the wrong side of these issues for years. She had her chance and she failed. Diane Linn has not earned another term in office.

Those of you who oppose the concentration of public housing clients in a few select neighborhoods in Multnomah County, who want accountability from HAP and sunshine on its records, and who want to stop the decline in county services directly related to the skyrocketing and unstoppable county health care costs must vote for and support Ted Wheeler and Jeff Cogen.


Richard Ellmyer
3-6-9 Resolution author and project champion
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Writer/Publisher - HAP Watcher commentary - Published on the Internet and distributed to 12,000 readers interested in public housing policy in Multnomah County.
Portsmouth - formerly the 18%, currently the 10% and rising solution neighborhood, North Portland
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