So where the heck is the mayor of Portland?

July 1, 2019 By Monica Showalter

In the wake of a horrific Antifa attack that put a conservative journalist in the hospital with traumatic head injuries, Portland, Oregon's mayor has made himself scarce. Jammie-Wearing Fool puts out a harshly phrased, if perfectly reasonable, question on Twitter:............

It checks out. Portland mayor Ted Wheeler's website shows no acknowledgment of the awfulness of the violent incident. It doesn't even show any mayoral efforts to cover the matter up with, say, claims from the mayor that he never told the police to stand down, or perhaps claims that he never encouraged the thugcraft that now rules his city. Mayors always do this even in uncomfortable situations — South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg came out to show the flag when he came under fire for an uncomfortable police incident with racial overtones. For Wheeler, the press is in his tree, with someone named Kale Williams writing in The Oregonian that the injured man, Andy Ngo, was said by some leftist to have written something racist, quite an irrelevant thing to write about someone assaulted in a violent jail time–offense attack. So it's all OK, Kale?.............To Read More....